BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:22 AM

You should consult your pharmacist about that, there, amigo. Switch brands of Viagara or somethin'.



A

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rowan
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:30 AM

Well, if Charley moved to the other New England he could leave his snow shovel/blower behind; we do get a few cm every three years or so, though. Currently I don't even have to have Amos' sweater; its warm and sunny.

Sorry for y'all, but I do remember serious ice blink and blizzes at Mawson, where if it got above zero (Celsius) and there was no wind (Average for the year was 30 knots) you'd break out sweating.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Richard Bridge elsewhere on the network
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 03:29 AM

The weatherpersons are telling us that in North Kent, today will be "spring-like" and I'm planning to cut the grass.

If you all move over here, and bid for houses, it will cure the mild threat we see of a house price crash.

I suppose there must be something to be said for the very mildly left-ish but alas stil capitalist government we have.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: eddie1
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 04:48 AM

Little Hawk
Dachshunds are well-known for their love of climbing ladders. The important thing is to ensure he is in no way "excited". This makes climbing ladders physically impossible!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 05:51 AM

Wow, Metchosin... I did not know. Every time I talk to my cousins, they are complaining about the rain.

Kendall, I have a twelve as well, but with only five forward speeds.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 09:17 AM

You people don't know what snow is! I'm watching my neighbor; he's out poking around with a pole trying to find his chimmney.

Amos, I'd smack you if my arm was 3000 miles long!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:00 AM

Last Monday I woke up to darkness, Kendall. The snow was over the house, but I was lucky because I still had food. But after a few hours I noticed that the house was cooling off and I realized that the gas for the furnace had plumb froze up in the lines. I opened one of the sliding doors in the basement and started tunneling out, figuring that it was just a snowdrift. Well, it wasn't.

I must have gone a couple hundred yard when I bumped into a big ol' tree. So I tunneled upwards, climbing the tree as I went. I tunneled up about a hundred feet when I broke through to daylight and what I saw astounded me.

As far as the eye could see was a flat, white blanket of snow. The only indication of the mountains was the top of Chinese Peak, looking like a tiny bump in the snow.

Howard Mountain, Kinport Peak, Scout Mountain -- all of them were buried. The only sound was the traffic on the Interstate moving through the tunnel they'd created. I dropped the shovel and climbed down to get my camera because I knew that without a photo there wasn't anyone who didn't live here who'd believe it. But as I walked back to the house there was a "crunch" and the tunnel was caving in behind me! The snow as too dry to support the tunnel! Well, I ran and made it back okay, didn't even lose the shovel, but the collapse of the tunnel roof did take the heel of my boot of just as I got into the house.

Digging the tunnel had let in enough sunshine so that the gas line thawed and I had heat again. And you won't believe this, but that snow had so little water content that it pretty much dried up completely so that just before noon I was able to drive to work on the surface of the street.

You might not believe this, you might think I'm stretching the blanket or pulling the long bow a might. But I've still got both the shovel and the car, and I can show you the tree I climbed and that oughta be enough proof for anybody.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 11:01 AM

Kendall:

If your arm was three thousand miles long, I'd let you!! Then I'd haul you in for spaghetti and vino.

A

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:15 PM

He makes okay spaghetti, Kendall. I've had some and I somehow managed to choke it down and make it stay down.

His wine's okay, too.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:18 PM

(And his was re-heated!! For you, fresh-made!).

A

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:23 PM

Raparie, FLURRIES, FLURRIES I say!
If you ever get more than a dusting, tell us about it.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:32 PM

You should come to the Liar's Festival in Blind River, Ontario, Rapaire. Every August 15-23rd. I think you could win the top prize there, the famous Liar's Cup. If so, Don and Shane McBride would both be your fans for life, follow you around and beg for your autograph, give you free beers, and hook you up with local skanks most likely too. Who could resist that, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:49 PM

What is a "local skank", exactly, in your parlance, Little Hawk?



A

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:59 PM

It's Shane and Don's lingo, Amos, not mine. It can mean 2 things:

1. When uttered contemptuously or in a hostile way "skank" means:

- an unattractive, sluttish, slatternly girl/woman who is low class, foul-mouthed, and undesirable. ("I would not flippin' waste my time on her, eh?")

however....what it REALLY means in that case is...

"She flippin' turned me down, man!"

2. When uttered in a good-humoured way on the other hand, it means:

- "A local babe who I figger is pretty easy, eh? So maybe she turn me down..."

3. The equivalent British term is "slag".

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:00 PM

OOPS! I made a typo in that last post. Number 2 should read...

2. When uttered in a good-humoured way on the other hand, it means:

- "A local babe who I figger is pretty easy, eh? So maybe she WON'T turn me down..."

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Neil D
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:41 PM

Right now in NE Ohio it is 42 F and raining. In 12 hours it will be -3 F with a wind chill of -26 F. With heavy snow on top of the all the ice from all the flood water freezing. They're calling it an Alberta Clipper and I wish you damn Albertans would just, for God's sake, stop it already! What'd we do to you guys, anyhow?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:44 PM

Hee hee - thread name game: This thread appeared directly below the one on slang terms for female masturbation...

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:53 PM

Yessiree, Neil, I know them there Alberta Clippers all too well! Driving to work I used to pass through eleven (11) snow bands, one of which was all of about 100 yards wide (heading north towards Hiram, north of Ravenna and just south of the Turnpike). Drove through three blizzards (so defined by the weather service) in one winter.

Ya wanna see Lake Erie? Look out the window!

Y'all have fun there now, ya hear?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 03:16 PM

I did a storytellers workshop with Glen Orlin down in ElPaso TX back in ,1988. I told the biggest whopper I could dredge up, (I call it Beginner's Luck" and he looked me right in the face and eyes and he said, "WHare in the hell did you come from"?

Did another one with Art Thieme at the Hartford folk festival that I will never forget. What fun! I declare, if I owed the devil 1000 liars and he wouldn't take Art Thieme as a down payment, I'd call him a tough one to deal with.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:12 PM

Well, I'd like participate. But I've been banned from Ontario because I tell the too much of the truth. Ya see, Ontarians like their truth with a bit hidden away to be discovered later, sorta like finding a little pearl in a bushel of oysters. I'd go for the whole thing, oysters, shells, pearl, slime, and all. And that's why I got banned in Ontario -- the OPP said something about "slimy" and so I can't enter Ontario until the year 2000.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:41 PM

Are you implying that Ontario is still living back in the 20th Century? ;-) Or is it you?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 08:07 PM

Yes.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 06:35 AM

Hehehe.... got this from ranger1 this morning...


GOT SNOW?

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM

Oops... that didn't work... oh well, you get the idea, I am sure.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 08:49 AM

Right. A lovely way to start March. 300mm down and at least another 100mm on the way with a wind and blowing snow warning issued within the past hour. And the radar shows the storm just sitting over us, swirling...

Oh well, in like a Lion, out like a lamb. Of course, the lamb could be rather wooly.

It's Maeve's fault.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 09:09 AM

Just a skiff. And that is JUST fine, thank you very much.

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 09:29 AM

We just got leftovers this time around, another 10 inches followed by rain, freezing, and another little dusting just to keep it interesting.

We were planning a major benefit auction for our annual town festival at the local watering place. We were really worried in the early afternoon when it was still snowing hard but it eased up, and we were able to bring in a critical mass of the cabin fever crowd. We raised $3500, and had a great time doing it. Of course, we're really exhausted now and the cash box doesn't really balance but we got rid of a lot of great stuff for our goodly cause.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 10:53 AM

Still a hell of a lot of snow here, and the dachshunds are still mounting a campaign to avoid their outdoorsly duties...filthy little brutes!

Subject: RE: BS: 16 INCHES!!!!!!!!!
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 08 - 03:12 PM

THE SUN!!! was out for about ten minutes.

I just delivered supper to me mum. I didn't take my reading glasses off the bridge of my nose. It wasn't wasn't bad when I began my journey of about twenty steps (she lives next door). At about step ten, the wind gusted and the last three or four steps shoulda been videoed. It was like someone turned out the lights. I was clutching the cloth covered plate of grub against my chest with one hand and had my other hand at full extenson, feeling for the house. Of course, I had my keys in that hand and dropped them when I contacted the house... yup, in the f***in snow!

Hey the sun is... well, it was.