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11 years ago
Very unusual this thread. I know almost none of these comics that you Americans mention. George Carlin and Robin Williams are the only two that I consider to be funny of those names that I recognize.
I guess that the comedy of American culture does not travel well to Canada. British comedy travels very well to Canada however. The Quebecois stand up artists are more irreverent than our Anglo comedians but my French vocabulary does not include all the new words invented since about 1975 so I miss much of the bite of current Quebecois comedians.
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11 years ago
Watching porn is just as satisfying for me as is watching someone eating a honking huge steak for a starving man.
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11 years ago
First off, in English the word is spelled whisky, English being one of the two languages of Canada.
The dirty little secret of Canadian whisky is that it is mostly corn liquor with only a small portion of liquor distilled from rye. Personally, I find almost all Canadian 'Rye' to be undrinkable swill - Canadian Club, Crown Royal, Seagram's 7, etc. Weiser and Gibson have aged blends that are passable (only if someone gives you a bottle not if you have to buy the bottle).
There is one outstanding exception to these corn liquor abominations that are passed off as rye whiskys. That exception is Alberta Distillers. All products from Alberta Distillers are 100% rye whisky. If you can find it, Alberta Distillers Special Reserve 30 is most drinkable. It was released just before Christmas, 2011. I bought a case @ $55/bottle, a very reasonable price for a premium whisky. Unhappily it is no longer available in my area of Canada. The 25 year might still be available but it is not as smooth and mellow as the 30 year. Alberta Distillers is owned by Jim Beam so you might be able to find the stuff in USA.
My personal preference in whisky is a single malt. In my opinion, malt barley is the best grain for making a whisky and the Scots (particularly along the River Spey) have the fermentation, distillation, and aging process down perfectly.
Umm......how do you tell that whisky is one of my great interests?
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11 years ago
zipman68,
I consider myself suitably chastised by your cutting words. In future, this old white dude will cease his pathetic attempts to adopt the idiom of any society other than his own - the western Canadian redneck hillbilly rig pig.
You fuck with me, you fuck with my pipe wrench.:)
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11 years ago
Well, silky, I shall try, but if there is no change from my previous visits it is unlikely that I shall do so. I have serious business to deal with in Toronto and after finishing that business I am off to Corsica for a short holiday. My plans are to visit Million Dollar in Mississauga and Club Pro in Vaughan.
Million Dollar is fairly sleazy and down market but ultra high mileage. Club Pro is much more up market but also ultra high mileage. Food isn't bad at Club Pro. Don't you dare eat anything you can buy at Million Dollar - food wise. I have been known to take my chances with other 'consumables' available in the upstairs VIP.
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11 years ago
I'll take the Monty Python crew and John Cleese in Fawlty Towers 30 years ago was classic. That crew even had a radio show before forming Monty Python. It was called 'I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again' - those boys were even edgier and blacker on radio than they were on TV.
The Royal Canadian Air Farce ranks right up there with me also. Dave Broadfoot's character, Sergeant Preston of the RCMP was absolutely classic.....'When I regained consciousness.........'
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11 years ago
Hah! In Alberta?......not in my wildest fantasies.
Never happened to me even in the hardcore Detroit and Toronto clubs on my review list.
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11 years ago
Living and working where I do I see so much roadkill that I no longer really take note of it.
Year round #1 - Porcupines
" " #2 - Mule Deer
Summertime - Gophers
The mulies seem to be particularly stupid. Don't see any where near as many whitetails and I have never seen a pronghorn even though there is a large pronghorn population in Alberta.
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11 years ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Occasionally I will throw a big bash at my farm featuring a whole pig or a couple of lambs turning slowly on a spit over charcoal and maple chips. I fill the pig's cavity with extra tenderloins or the lamb's cavity with extra racks.
That is a righteous afternoon and evening with a bunch of buddies. Warm, sunny afternoon. Big tubs of beer on ice. Lots of guy bullshit as the carcasses are basted periodically during the afternoon. Potato salad and grilled asparagus.
The meat that comes off the spit is superb, especially the extras packed in the carcasses' cavities; that stuff is self-basted as the fat oozes out of the carcass during the cooking process. Combine that with the charcoal and maple flavour and you have unbeatable farmerart barbecue.
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11 years ago
My high school was so small that there were not enough guys to make up a football team - barely enough for hockey (6) or curling (4).
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11 years ago
@TortillaChip & motorhead,
Could be that I am a bit testy after four and a half months of isolation in the exploration camp (two brief forays to civilization for business emergencies).
This is called 'cabin fever' or being 'bushed'.
I will admit to being HORNY.
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11 years ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Oh, motorhead, I have been known to have a fast food burger from time to time. In Canada if I need calories I will stop at A&W for one of their newer style burgers - the Grandma Burger or the Uncle Sirloin Burger and, as everyone knows, A&W onion rings are unsurpassed.
I like the trend to food trucks in large cities. There are some real winners in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. When I am in my Calgary office I always go to a food court for a quick lunch - Thai noodles, Indian basmati rice, Vietnamese banh mi subs, savoury French crepes, Japanese tempura - quick, tasty, cheap.
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11 years ago
No place in Canada. Felons are not admissable to Canada at the border.
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11 years ago
I ate cockroaches and mealy worms when I was working in Borneo. The roaches were roasted and spiced nicely and were actually kind of tasty. The mealy worms not so much. I had to work hard to control the gag reflex as those things slid down my gullet.
As an aside about durian, a Chinese employee once told me that the literal translation of the Chinese characters for durian was 'cat shit melon' - lao ling qua (apologies if I butchered the anglicization of the Chinese characters).
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11 years ago
Pepsi for me; but be careful with the word 'Pepsi' in Quebec. Pepsi is also an Anglo slur for French-speakers in Canada.
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11 years ago
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motorheadFat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life
Thanks, Ms. Austen.
I share your sense of touch delights and I say that with neither pride nor prejudice.
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11 years ago
Chicken and waffles? Ya gotta be kiddin' me. Never heard of such a combo before.
Forget about it, juice. You will be 600 lbs before you are 200 lbs if you keep eating shit like this.
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11 years ago
@tumblingdice,
I have been using fracing for 25+ years. The industry has been using the technique since just after WWII. In all my years, the fracing crew has fucked up the formation just one single time.
As an aside, the industry spells the word 'fracing' not 'fracking'. Two Montana oilmen had a horse running in the Kentucky Derby yesterday. Those guys named their horse Frac Daddy.
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11 years ago
juice, if you want to lose 200lbs say sayonara to Coke.
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11 years ago
NO fast food.....no sodas.....no booze.....no bread.....no butter....no gravy.....no pasta......no fruit juices.....no fried foods of any kind......no mayo, salad dressing, etc. Get the idea?
Do eat all the raw, steamed, roasted, broiled, or grilled fruit and vegetables that you want (boiling loses too much nutrient value). Eat as much vegetable protein as you want - beans, lentils, any other legumes. Eat lots of protein - grilled, roasted, steamed, poached, broiled. Concentrate on fresh fish, turkey, and chicken but lean cuts of pork and beef will work as well (duck, goose, and lamb are too fat). Enhance flavours using spices and herbs. All those cucumbers you stick up dancers' asses?.......eat the damn things. Drink hectolitres of water - until you slosh when you walk.
A special trick that I like - use lemon zest and juice on everything. That stuff punches up flavour like you wouldn't believe!
It would be OK to exercise as well. Start with walking.
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11 years ago
Derby is in about 90 min. Heading back to camp for more trucks to drive out to dry ground, I discover that there is a horse called Frac Daddy running in the Derby. Gotta love that name! Horse is owned by a couple of Montana oilmen.
Also discover that good ol' Edmonton boy, Chuck Fipke, has two horses in the Derby - Java's War and Golden Soul. Chuck is a player up here in the far north. He discovered Canada's biggest diamond mine (Ekati) back in the 1990s. He kept 10% of the mine when he sold out to BHP.
@motorhead,
Notice how two other oilmen spell the word 'frac'?
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11 years ago
The muskeg is turning quickly to swamp up here in the north. Four of us will be driving the trucks out to dry ground at Fort Simpson today. My young partner can't drive the big trucks so I will have to wrestle one of the monsters over the bush trail for each trip that we make. 17 hours of daylight means we should be able to make three trips.
No strip clubs in Fort Simpson.
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11 years ago
Sloppy track in Louisville today?.......You want a speed horse on the front end, most horses spit out the bit when getting plastered in the face with mud from the frontrunners.
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11 years ago
@zipman68,
Tu parles francais? (Mon ordinateur n'est pas bilingue - pas d'accents.)
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11 years ago
Pimp as mentor? Pimp as life coach?
I wonder how my life would have turned out if I had been so lucky 50 years ago?.......maybe dead 30 years ago?