BS: Way down south in Canada....

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 01 Jul 02 - 05:56 PM

Thanks Gnu.

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From: Celtic Soul
Date: 01 Jul 02 - 05:40 PM

Thanks Pookah! Sometimes, I wonder if maybe a smiley might help. I am glad it came across at least to one soul. And you aint just whistling dixie on the celtic lack of melanin thing. If I were any paler, I'd be clear.

SlickerBill...very valid concerns! I share them, in fact. I wonder at why *anyone* would live on the San Andreas fault, as a fer instance. I *love* the Keys...but I canna imagine living there for the very reasons you list (not unless I owned a helicopter, my house were entirely made of concrete, and it was up on steel reinforced pilons driven into bedrock).

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jul 02 - 07:16 AM

Have a good Canada Day today eh !

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 11:21 PM

Toronto IS finished, as far as I'm concerned. Too much traffic, too many people, too much noise, too much dirt, too much hurrying and getting nowhere fast. I only go there when I absolutely have to.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: SlickerBill
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 07:14 PM

I've got mixed feelings about our weather to be honest. "Up here" in southern Manitoba (2-300 miles from Hibbing) ya sure got yer changes alright; friggin cold winters to wicked hot summer (39 celcius yesterday) . But then clouds of mosquitos that'll drag off the kids if you're not careful ;). The thing about the US climate that throws me is the friggin storms, man. I mean holy shit!!! Florida? Any place that has a "Hurricane" season where you're nailing plywood up ... I dunno how you cope. Then you got yer tornadoes further west. I mean, yeah it gets cold and it gets hot and all, but it's at least predictable. sb

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 02:23 PM

Thunder Bay is neither far away from America, or a fine place to live...

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: The Pooka
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 12:28 PM

Yer posts were *successfully* humorous, CS. Eye eee, Hee Hee! But beware that soulful celtic sunburn pattern. Lack of melanin y'know. :) / Speaking of celtic humours, the late lamented Brendan Behan is reported to have declared, "Toronto will be a fine town, once it is finished." Was he being tongue-in-cheek? Let us hope so.

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 11:54 AM

No one said Canada is baaaaaaaaaad. I only said that "much of our weather is a lot better". And if you consider the temps and weather in many of the northern to mid atlantic states as compared to the northern most parts of Canada (or Washington State, for that matter), I think many would choose the *weather* in the northern and mid atlantic states. Yup, 4 seasons and all.

My posts above were meant in humor. Really. Check out the "Caucasion pattern sunburn" thing. You don't really think I meant that I *like* that, did you? And trashy dining? Nope. Tongue in cheek. Unlike many, I don't take my country so seriously that I can't poke a little fun at her.

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Willie-O
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 10:38 AM

Excuse me...I like our version of Canadian weather. (Ottawa Valley). Four distinct seasons, warm to hot in summer, cold and crunchy in winter, wet and buggy in spring (OK I'm not a big late-spring person) and the fall is best of all.

I spent one winter of my life in the States (Oly WA) and it was no winter at all. Just drizzled ceaselessly and an occasional one-inch snowfall. Made no sense, I found it very disorienting. I've seen the scorching American summer weather too, and you can keep it.

That 90% within 100 miles figure is often cited but I have my doubts how accurate it is any more. Really, it's weighted by the population cluster of the Golden Horseshoe, in particular, and the rest of southern Ontario, Montreal, and Vancouver. There are plenty of fine places to live--even big cities-- which are nowhere near the States. Such as St Johns, Halifax, Thunder Bay, Calgary, Edmonton, and\, umm, Saskatoon?

Also I might remind you that that border is a political construct of little relevance to the point at hand. Nobody said "We're close enough to the Yew Ess Ay now, let's build Toronto here." The settlement pattern in Quebec and Ontario has everything to do with proximity to the Great Lakes. Just as it does on the other side of them. Whereas the prairie provinces are rather scarcely populated throughout, since the 49th parallel, unlike the border in Ontario, is a completely artificial surveyor's concept.

Matter of fact my hometown Ottawa was made the capital because it was far enough away from the U.S..

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 09:11 AM

The Florida Keys, where there's always a breeze, and the sun is always warm and shining. Get outta the freeze, always knocking your knees, find an Island with sand and trashy dining.

Aaaaahhhhh...really stupid mixed drinks in glass coconuts, an open tiki bar, a sunset with applause, and caucasian pattern sunburn. Paradise.

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 08:21 AM

I do business over the phone with some companies in Minnesota. There have been some references as to how the weather must be even worse than there's "up there". I haven't the heart to tell them to look at a map, Toronto is so far south of Minnesota.

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Hrothgar
Date: 30 Jun 02 - 05:15 AM

I come from Queensland. "Way down south" is the New South Wales border - all of 70 miles away.

The weather, by the way - another of our bitter winters - todays minimum 6 degrees Celsius (about 42 Fahrenheit), maximum 21C, (70F), clear and sunny. It's tough, but somebody has to do it!

:-)))

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 01:15 PM

Believe me Jack... I'd rather...

One day me and herself will move back to Canada proper... And leave this Southern Ontarian, "America-lite" far behind...

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 12:52 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada.... From: ClintonHammond Date: 29-Jun-02 - 12:36 PM

Weather??? The weather in Windsor SUCKS!!!!

yeah?? try St. John's! or Yellowknife.

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: The Pooka
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 12:39 PM

LH - hee hee, yes indeedy. Massa' Chusetts is a good place fer 'em. Jes' keep 'em outta Connecticut here, way down South in the land o' cotton. / Now me, I'm partial to ol' Jeb Stuart Magruder. But enough about the Watergate Anniversary. I get so nostalgic....ole times there are not fergotten...

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 12:36 PM

Weather??? The weather in Windsor SUCKS!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 10:17 AM

My honey says that 90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border...and he also says "Frankly can you blame them?" A lot farther north, and you'd need to grow fur to survive happily.

You may not like the USA for it's policies, but you have to admit, much of our weather is a lot better.

:::dreaming happily of trips to the Florida Keys....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh::::

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 09:36 AM

Right on, Pooka! I've always liked Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and "Jeb" Stuart too! Yeee-Haaaa! Let's drive them dang Yankees back to Boston!

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Jun 02 - 01:17 AM

I'm so far south, that to get to America, I have to go north...

Subject: RE: BS: Way down south in Canada....
From: The Pooka
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 10:41 PM

Why, yore jes' a suthrun-fried good ole boy, LH. A regler cracker, yessiree. Look a-waaay, Dixie land! How y'all doin' down there?

Subject: Way down south in Canada....
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Jun 02 - 10:01 PM

I was looking at a map of North America today, and realized that although I live in "The Great White North" (Canada) I am located in a part of Ontario that is as far south as Minneapolis/St.Paul!!! Bob Dylan grew up in Hibbing, Minnesota, which is far to the north of where I was born in Toronto, Canada.

This is neat, cos I like southerly climes and can't stand cold weather.

Who'd-a thunk it, eh? Thank God for the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes! If not for that natural barrier I could have been marooned in the trackless wastes of the frozen North.

- LH