BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 25 Feb 14 - 03:03 PM

raparee, Are you thinking of American "Cheeze"?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 25 Feb 14 - 01:33 PM

Austro Prussion Invasion? Sounds like a lot of bull.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Feb 14 - 01:23 PM

Well what about the Austro Prussion Invasion???

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 11:21 PM

Why would you cut mustard? It just kinda scoops out of the container.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 04:06 PM

Francois Thurot, born in Dijon, but could he cut the mustard?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 01:28 PM

Oops, not forgotten:)

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 01:25 PM

Francois Thurot, Privateer and French naval officer who invaded Britain


Not forgotton 

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 02:33 PM

Mulrooney Baloney?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,ed T
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 12:12 PM

Sorrry about all my meloney-baloney.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 12:08 PM

Parliament of Cantaloupia in the meloncolony of corporate capitalism :)

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 11:58 AM

Parliament of Cantaloupia?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 11:10 AM

Ya mean from outer space er yer Parliament of Canatopia? There's a shitload of em, nicknamed 'Conservatives'. Why I will never know. Funny nickname for cruel heartless ruthless greedy maniacal toady pricks.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 09:27 AM

The US has been struck by great cities burning before - Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, DC all come to mind immediately - but now we must add Schenectady to that list. Burned by savages from the North, the town, like all other American cities that burned, arose phoenix-like from its own ashes to make the US the Great Nation it is today, an example for the world and for all humanity. Indeed, an example even for space aliens.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 09:16 AM

British and southern colony folks seemed to have been up to some northern
Flambéing of their own during the period. Possibly, with the aid of some "corn likker".

Did the french teach the indians to Flambé or was it verse visa? That is a good flamber question.








cirque de flambe 

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 14 - 07:51 AM

Well, shit happens when you invade and steal. It's all about attitude.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 11:36 PM

Research has shown that Schenectady was burned because the French and Indians were cold. They invited the locals, but the locals decided to hide in the woods instead of warming themselves at the fires of their homes.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 10:26 AM

Its so cold they changed the anthem to
"Oh F*** its cold
Its very f***ing cold
Merde! Merde!      Merde! Merde!
Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde! Merde!

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:48 AM

It was so cold, the folks in the senate had their hands in their own pockets.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 14 - 05:32 AM

Rap... that is serious cold!

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 10:23 PM

It was so cold the hot air from Ottawa died before it got to Saskatoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 09:54 PM

It was so cold there was a line up of polar bears buying kerosene heaters at Crapadian Tire.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Feb 14 - 08:29 PM

How cold was it, Rap?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 09:06 PM

Having been in Churchill, Manitoba for a week or so I can't comment on the cold. My words still hang frozen in the air up there.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 08:07 AM

"It was so cold last night that the hookers were charging ten bucks to blow on your hands"

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 14 - 05:23 AM

"It was so cold, he had to jump start the cat."

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 08:18 PM

Or you have your balls on brass monkeys.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,gnu on laptop
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 07:48 PM

-22C... no need to check on the WC temp if you intend to stay inside, Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,ED T
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 02:11 PM

Is that the real temp. In Monkeytown, gnu, or is it the one with the wind chill one factored in? Regardless,it may spell the time to cover up the plumbers crack when one shovels:)

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 12:04 PM

Have a great show John Roberts!

Please report back on how well the town has survived the incursion by the dread French Indian Canadians? Did they leave their cultural mark? Can you by Pemmican or poutine there? Do they have a Timmies?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 11:59 AM

Real pond hockey is not played by adults wearing pads. There are no real pond hockey tournaments. IMHO.

In real pond hockey all the skaters are Keon or Richard all the Goalies are Bower or Plante.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 08:25 AM

Real hockey.

Starts just about the time the storm is supposed to start... says only a foot of fluffies for them. No matter as the ice should hold the quip... it's now -22C (9AM).

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 07:18 AM

ice hockey 
lacrosse

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Anglo
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 12:40 AM

(Oops I lost my cookie)

So come visit!

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 12:31 AM

No, gnu, not "Sha-" - Sch as in the American schedule, not as in the English schedule.

JR in Schenectady, where I will be doing a concert two blocks from home with Debra Cowan on Feb 21, hosted by A Place For Folk.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 10:33 PM

Did the Indians play that strange version of hockey where it's done on ice? Surely lacrosse was the big game among them, but played for keeps?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 10:05 PM

Mom & Dad lived in Schenectady when they were first married -- Dad was an engineer at GE during the war (WWII, that is).

There was a fire in their apartment... Mom blamed the landlady. Suspected that her (Mom's) subscription to The Daily Worker might have been the excuse. Not Canada.

(Mom was not a card carrier, but believed in hearing from all sides.)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 04:42 PM

JennieG... the Cleverleys are the most talented entertainers I have seen in a long time. Their YT playlist does not include all the vids available. I have over 50 in my Cleverleys folder.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 04:17 PM

I thought it had to do with his main character in Slaughter House Five being teleported constantly back and forth between as cage in an alien zoo on another planet and a basement in Dresden.

Silly me. Though its been 30 years or more since I have read Vonnegut. Maybe it was a jail cell en Dresden. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 04:15 PM

Thanks, Gnu - love it - even though they barely touch on "In the pines"!

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 08:36 AM

JennieG... my fav version of In The Pines.

Second place.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 06:04 AM

Oops, last post was from me:)

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 06:02 AM

""I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided that it was because I wrote about technology, and most fine American writers know nothing about technology. I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady, New York. My first book, Player Piano, was about Schenectady. There are huge factories in Schenectady and nothing else. I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. And when I wrote about the General Electric Company and Schenectady, it seemed a fantasy of the future to critics who had never seen the place." "
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 12:53 AM

Thank you, Becky......that confirms what I had guessed.

Gnu, that's the one! The longest train I ever knew, was on that Georgia line......

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 14 - 08:17 PM

Sha-neck-ta-dee. Each syllable pronounced separately and slowly. Europeons talk so fast compared to First Nations peoples that meaning is sometimes lost. Modern dictionaries don't cut the grass when I talk with my Native or French or German or Irish friends.

Yes, that is a derogatory typo. It is lost on many. It may offend some and it may gather disgust from some... Sha-nahk-a-day.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 09 Feb 14 - 06:56 PM

skǐ-NEK-tə-dē, in the style of notation I grew up with

skɨˈnɛktədi, in the modern (Wikipedia) style

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 14 - 07:16 AM

In the pines
In the pines
Where the sun
Never shines
And you shiver
When the cold wind blooooowwwws.

That one?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: JennieG
Date: 09 Feb 14 - 01:27 AM

How does one pronounce the name of the aforementioned town? I can pronounce - indeed, have visited - Penetanguishine, but have never tried to say or visit Schenectady.

Upon looking it up (because I am a curious person who likes to improve my knowledge) I find the name is derived loosely from a Mohawk work meaning "near the pines" or "place beyond the pines". I know of a song called "In the pines", so does that mean this is actually a musical thread which should be above the line?

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 14 - 11:17 PM

Ahhh, but Les Canuckuois blaze the fastest game.

Wait a minute... how did this turn into a hockey thread? Wasn't this about war and destruction? Oh, yeah, right... kinda the same deal.

Sorry. It's just that winter has my boo-boo froze shut tighter than a nun's

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 08 Feb 14 - 10:02 PM

Winter Cricket! Ha! Crazy flippin Bluenosers!


The French, Hockey?
The French? The French French? From France?

I don't think so. They might play at playing hockey but no more than the English.

Subject: RE: BS: Schenectady Burns! Blame Canada!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 08 Feb 14 - 09:56 PM

"Thusly, The Big Smoke is safe on Hockey Night in Canada."

LOL indeed they are!

Safe from a Raptors riot as well!