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Merry Christmas from the Great White North

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#1

A very Merry Christmas to all my friends on LSC.

For those who received lumps of coal: find out who the live steamer in your neighbourhood is, he’ll know what to do with it. :wink: :slight_smile:

BTW if Santa didn’t show up at your place, ask Fr. Fred what happened! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Weather report for Christmas Day:
Temp 0,
Brilliant sunshine with the odd cloud in the sky (every one of them with a silver lining!)
Enough snow on the ground and on the roads to make it look very pretty and slow people down to a reasonable speed.

Yep, we’re going XC skiing today!

#2

Merry Christmas HJ. Sun…what’s that?? It’s the usual gray here. Richard says it’s raining on the coast…and we are looking to get it later today… Currently it’s 34f…with snow on the ground. Roads look slick as the dickens. Enjoy your skiing…I’m staying indoors…and play with trains :smiley: until I have to leave to go to a friends house for Christmas dinner.

#3
Warren Mumpower said:
Merry Christmas HJ. Sun....what's that?? It's the usual gray here. Richard says it's raining on the coast...and we are looking to get it later today... Currently it's 34f...with snow on the ground. Roads look slick as the dickens. Enjoy your skiing...I'm staying indoors....and play with trains :D until I have to leave to go to a friends house for Christmas dinner.
Green Christmas here, but they're promising wet snow for Boxing Day tomorrow. Grandchildren scored a barrelful of loot -- none of it 'borrowable' for large scale trains :( Santa unaccountably failed to bring grandpa any trains -- actually, it can be accounted for ... no money in the account :( But grandpa does have plans, heh heh ... (see Burns, R., on the subject of plans) Had Christmas dinner with the assembled family on Sunday, and leftovers today. No more turkey :) (can only take so much of the fatted fowl, though it was a good bird this year). No beans, Fred, until we can open the windows.
#4

I give up, what is Boxing Day? I should know this, but my education is sorely lacking on this point.

#5
Steve Featherkile said:
I give up, what is Boxing Day? I should know this, but my education is sorely lacking on this point.
Steve,

It’s a quaint custom - 'til you get to the stores - observed by the Brits and the “Colonials”. :wink: :slight_smile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

#6

Rubbish…History has been distorted…Boxing Day is the day that you beat the living stuffing out of the neighbor who has upset you the most during the year…it could be his rubbish was always in your yard, his animals continuely messed in your yard, etc…etc…This is the day set aside to get even with the dirty slime bag.

I find it a wholesome day to enjoy life!

#7

The Lone Railroader said:
Rubbish…History has been distorted…Boxing Day is the day that you beat the living stuffing out of the neighbor who has upset you the most during the year…it could be his rubbish was always in your yard, his animals continuely messed in your yard, etc…etc…This is the day set aside to get even with the dirty slime bag. I find it a wholesome day to enjoy life!

Hmmmmmmmmm… in that case, I guess, it really depends what kind of neighbourhood one lives in. (he says as he counts his blessings!)

#8

I really don’t know where this wilkepedia lot get their information from .

Boxing day is a contraction of a longer word with the letters ‘llo’ missing , and as the name implies , is the day when the Lord and Master of the house , hung over something dreadful , gave the servants the biggest bo—xing of the year for all past misdeeds , like not warming the bed up enough for the master , or not chewing his food properly for him (toothless old ratbag) , or not spelling the master’s name properly when writing insults in the snow , (hence the expression “I’ll teach you to P— about”) , or not staying long enough to watch the criminals rot in chains , and worst of all , not controlling their bowels properly when bowing low on leaving the Presence .

Wilkepedia ? Lonesome one is right , it’s rubbish .

Mike

#9

Americans don’t celebrate Boxing Day. It’s back to the grind for those of us that are not retired. My Canadian friends’ unofficial definition for Boxing Day is it’s the day you box up all the unwanted gifts and return them to the store for something that you need…such as trains…:smiley:

#10
Warren Mumpower said:
My Canadian friends' unofficial definition for Boxing Day is it's the day you box up all the unwanted gifts and return them to the store for something that you need...such as trains...:D
And as I drove my wife to work this morning at dawn's early light, there was a determined (desperate?) lineup of people outside Canadian Tire waiting for the doors to open. The Wal-mart lot looked pretty crowded, too, when we dropped into Tim Horton's for a warming java. I get the day off because our contract says they'd have to pay me triple time to work on a statutory holiday, and that would cut into the funds for executive bonuses, eh. I've worked no few Christmas Days over the years, and I'm quite happy if the bean-counters would rather I stayed home.
#11

Chris…

You mean “Crappy Tire”…all the guys on this forum only know of it as “Crappy Tire”

I've been known to send out Crappy Tire money as gifts to these guys....
#12
Fred Mills said:
Chris.....

You mean “Crappy Tire”…all the guys on this forum only know of it as “Crappy Tire”

I've been known to send out Crappy Tire money as gifts to these guys....</blockquote>

Fr.Fred,

That comes in handy, especially of you live in Calgary. There’s one liquor store that accepts CrappyTire Money at par. According to the write-up the intake on a good day is in the hundreds of dollars.

OK, let’s see how this works:

You’re home drinking beer contemplating the job you’re about to start, when you notice that you need one more tool - from RippyTire, of course -, buy the tool, exit the store, count the funny money. WOW just enough for another six-pack to get you through the job.

<<I’m telling you, it is perfect marketing! >>

Add to that the fact the job on hand is a bit of a bitch, getting worse as the beer supply gets lower. Before you know you screw up the most expensive and important part. Needs a replacement from Rippy Tire, but since your car is half apart, you now need to send the kid or the wife in his/her car to get a replacement and make sure they hand you the funny money when they get back. In the meantime you go have a snooze and promptly don’t wake up 'til supper.

Another perfect day that included Rippy Tire, plenty of beer, a good snooze and very little accomplished.

<<It’s worse than sitting in the fora!>>

:wink: :slight_smile:

BTW I don’t tangle/tinker with my car (I detest jobs that call for a big hammer and a cutting torch!), at CTC I pay with a credit card (in that case one gets no funny money) and I’m not all that crazy about beer either. Mind you that doesn’t mean that the “Honey Do” list is taken care of in more speedy fashion. :slight_smile: :smiley:

#13
Fred Mills said:
Chris.....

You mean “Crappy Tire”…all the guys on this forum only know of it as “Crappy Tire”

I've been known to send out Crappy Tire money as gifts to these guys....</blockquote>

Nowt wrong with their tires, in my experience (I’ve had better luck with CT tires than the rubbish installed by the carmakers), but I’m leery of some of their other parts and I won’t go near their mechanics, who belong the lets-try-to-net-another-sucker-with-expensive-repairs school.
As for CT money, time was when it had a better exchange rate than the Canadian dollar. (OK, I jest. A little.)
Don’t think it was ever accepted at the bheer store in good dry Ontario, was it?

#14

Hans;

I wouldn’t care for bheer if all I tasted was that common “Canadian” or “Blue”, or even “Export” or “CoorsLite”. But there are some great bheers on the market, and by tasting a wide variety, you are sure to find a few that please.

 Then of course, there are the Belgian Bheers......great stuff.
#15
Fred Mills said:
Hans;

I wouldn’t care for bheer if all I tasted was that common “Canadian” or “Blue”, or even “Export” or “CoorsLite”. But there are some great bheers on the market, and by tasting a wide variety, you are sure to find a few that please.

 Then of course, there are the Belgian Bheers......great stuff.</blockquote>

Fred,

When I drink beer, occasionally, I make sure to stick to the local stuff. Brewed by Okanagan Springs it is quite nice on a hot summer day.
From “Honey Blonde” to “1516” it tastes “not half bad”. :wink: :slight_smile: That other stuff you listed, the closest we get to that is collecting the tossed-out empties in the adjacent park. Amazing how easy it is to carry in the full stuff and how much work to carry out the empties.

#16
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Amazing how easy it is to carry in the full stuff and how much work to carry out the empties.
Pity we can't "recycle" the non-carriers. Oh dear, that's not in the spirit of peace and good will. Back under my rock!