Comments by farmerart (page 2)

128 days on a boat elbow to elbow with 490 passengers? For me, that is a perfect description of hell on earth (or water, rather).

In USA?..........nowhere.

I guess that I should have been a bit more serious. I have kept my dynamite licence current for all these years and my company is an approved purchaser. There are many legitimate uses for TNT in the oil patch. I have all the necessary brass implements. Everything will be legal and safe. Still and all, it will be fun for me.

You guys are playing with Semtex. gawker escaped a conflagration and was just barely singed.

You Americans have this all figured out, it seems. It is not so easy in Canada. Like you we have liberals and conservatives in Canada. But we also have Liberals and Conservatives, as in the Liberal Party of Canada and the Conservative Party of Canada. To make it more confusing there can be liberals in the Conservative Party and there can be conservatives in the Liberal Party. On some matters I am a conservative and on other matters I am a liberal. In my lifetime I have voted for candidates of both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. There are several other political parties in Canada as well but if I tried to explain all the nuances of politics in Canada I would explode the heads of you Americans.

Someone once said that 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel'. I would amend that statement to this: Religion is the first refuge of the hypocrite.

Damn interesting story and I can identify with it intimately. Not the SC part of the story but the part dealing with the old wood. My house is over 100 years old. When I was working on the restoration I discovered similar outsized joists and beams as were discovered in Jilly's. I tried to buy more such stock and like the guy in the video said: you just can't buy stock in those old outsized dimensions. I had to go with the new engineered composite joists to satisfy my requirements.

Fuck, I wish we could put this subject to rest. Let me put it this way: Does the shark wait for the prey to swim into its jaws?

Sheesh! I almost retch every morning when I look in the mirror as I come out of the shower. And I want to watch that monstrosity pounding away on a hot stripper? No thank you.

Don't US docs hand out freebies? Pharmaceutical sales reps seem to throw samples at Canadian docs. I have seen Doc Joanne's cupboard of freebies - it is like a mini drug store.

This could be the one single thing that makes the lame Alberta SCs seem worthwhile. 'No Smoking' rules are rigourously enforced. All levels of government take the 'No Smoking' regs very seriously in Canada. Plainclothes inspectors make unannounced visits and offending establishments always lose liquor licences for a short (or lengthy for repeat offenders) period of time.

Gotta agree with Papi here. Grow a sack and learn how to say 'NO' in a strong forceful voice.

Like georgmicrodong says..........no fuckin' ID scan for me. I am usually able to bullshit my way past the scanners but if not, that club sees no business from me.

Like Papi I have been leery of using generics. My doc, whom I hold in very high regard, has assured me that I can trust the products produced by a Canadian generic drug manufacturer called Apotex. A pharmacist at University Hospital in Edmonton has told me the same thing about Apotex. With my current heath problems I am now taking cocktails of pharmaceuticals morning and night. Sadly for me, most of these drugs are not available in generic form and the two most expensive items are not approved for payment by my two insurance providers. I have never had a prescription for Cialis or Viagra. Doc Joanne has been generous to me with manufacturer's free samples.

Cool video, shadowcat. It will be interesting to see if the rocket launch capability is perfected. I would love to see it take off and land. I once saw the current largest plane in the world, Antonov 225 at Edmonton Int'l. It was delivering 2 monster pressure vessels for an oil sands operation at Fort Mac. That was an impressive sight.

The body part that is guaranteed to perk Mr. Wood's interest is NOT the face.

My bad. My memory let me down. It just dawned on me that Rod's dad was not a horseman. He was a railroad bull (CNR). The beef was whether I could run seismic cable and geophones through a culvert under a CN track in northern Alberta. Toombs Sr. didn't have the heft to stop me and my boys so we just ignored his bluster. The asshole did call the horsemen but by the time that the horsemen showed up we were 5km down the road and there was nothing for the horsemen to see. In fairness this minor incident happened in the 1970s and I am now pushing 67 years old. My memory is exhibiting its age just like Mr. Wood is doing.

^^^^^^ Yeah, seems that the horny old bugger started going to clubs when he was about 12. My first strip club visit didn't come until I was 61.

In my part of the world anything under $300 is a screaming bargain.

If the Beeb says so, it must be true, londonguy. I have no experience to say, one way or the other. There are seriously hot dancers across the river in the SCs of Gatineau, Quebec. Le Pigale is always worth a visit whenever I am in Ottawa.

@minnow, I was up in the air for about 15-20 min; balloon was tethered for about half the time so my 'free flowing' ride was barely 10 min. And, I have been in an open cockpit biplane before. Balloon ride was much more fun. @jackslash & motorhead, Fear of heights? A few days working on the monkey board would cure you of that.

There will be a federal election in Canada this October. It will be one of the more interesting elections of my lifetime. There is a perceptible shift leftwards in Canadian public opinion these days. A cataclysmic political even happened in my province of Alberta just last May. The 45 year old Conservative government was ignominiously turfed and replaced by the hard left New Democratic Party. There is now just a single provincial Conservative government in Canada. I suspect that Harpo's days as Prime Minister are numbered. Back to the days of the Hudson's Bay peso if that happens although we are well down that road already with the current 76 penny dollar.

So, Rod Toombs from Winnipeg has kicked the bucket. I had a minor run-in with his old man many, many years ago. His old man was a fuckin' horseman.

1. Honey's - Everett, WA..........April, 2010 2. Same as above, though I never had a return visit to Honey's. The possibilities presented by Honey's turned me into a monger.

I have been to many nude beaches in Europe, mainly in southern France but also in Normandy and in Sweden. If you want to know the truth there are very few pearls of beauty in the masses of nude bodies that you will see. The nude beach with the most hotties that I have ever visited is right here in my own country, Canada. If you ever visit Vancouver go to Wreck Beach. It is at the base of the cliff beneath University of British Columbia. Getting a boner here is considered very bad manners. On my visits to Wreck Beach I seem to spend most of my time laying on my stomach:)