BS: Blind River bombs!

Subject: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Clayton Cuddings
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:17 PM

In a survey of 2017 different communities across Ontario, Canada, Blind River came in last as a place where anyone would want to live or bring up their children. Competition was fierce for the final spot with places in the running such as...

Timmins - "A little piece of hell."
Elliot Lake - "Been there? Don't bother."
Sudbury - "A pretty big piece of hell."
North Bay - "A great place to get drunk in, cos there's really nothing else to do."
Windsor - "It's always been terrible here, but it got way worse after Clinton Hammond arrived, and he won't leave."
Toronto - "A simply gigantic piece of hell! But the restaurants are great."
Spanish - "Almost as bad as Blind River."
Massey - "Almost as bad as Spanish."
Sault Sainte Marie - "Worse than Massey. Worse than Sudbury. Worse than North Bay. But...not quite as bad as Blind River."
Wawa - "It sounds godawful, and it is!"
Capuscasing - "Even the mosquitos want to leave!"


Yup. There are a lot of places in Ontario that are less than perfect. There are some that are so damn awful that it's hard to describe. But there are NONE that can match Blind River for sheer, gut-wrenching mediocrity, ugliness, pointlessness, vacuity, and stupidity that will freeze your blood in your veins, knock your socks off, and leave you for dead.

Blind River. The worst.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:19 PM

Capuscasing (sp?)

Kapuskasing. It's not a bad little town.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:20 PM

Holy shit! I, like, don't know whether to get really mad or be proud, eh?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:21 PM

Stanford in the Vale?
Film set for Deliverance 2?
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:22 PM

The dipwad didn't spell Kapuskasing right! He can't be Canadian, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:31 PM

I haven't been to Eliot Lake. The rest, yes.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Jake Coutrell
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:33 PM

How come Udney didn't make the bottom ten?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM

The list wasn't in alphabetical order . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Jake Coutrell
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:45 PM

Figure I'm stupid, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:26 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:39 PM

I bet Udney is a flippin' hole! Blind River rates bigtime and I am gonna tell you why. We got the Iron Horse Tavern. I drink there regular when I got the money. We got wet T-shirt contests. We got more snowmobiles stolen per year than most places. We got the basic ameenities is what I'm sayin'. We might not have the CN-flippin'-Tower but we still rate. We put places like Wawa and Udney totally to shame!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:44 PM

This is a hole . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 08:05 PM

Holy flip. You ain't kiddin', brother.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: GUEST,Clayton Cuddings
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM

My apologies for misspelling Kapuskasing! I am really embarrassed about that. Hey, Shane, buddy...how does it feel to be living in the worst place in Ontario? LOL! If I was you, I would not tell anyone where I was from. They might laugh, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:49 PM

There's nothing quite like watching Canadians try to insult one another...

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:47 PM

Is it OK for us to do that, LH?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:49 PM

I don't know if it's okay, but it happens, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:55 PM

Oh. Well then, if you don't mind, I'll insult you first. OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:59 PM

I'm, like, ready, eh? Gimme yer best shot!

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:00 PM

OK. Your hair is MESSY.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:16 PM

Ouch! That hurt. Okay...umm...

Your socks are drooping.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:18 PM

Oh yea? Well if yer gonna be like that, you tie doesn't match your shirt!

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:34 PM

Yeah? Your beer is flat!

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:38 PM

Ha. Like, that shows what YOU know. It's American beer. It
s supPOSED to be that way. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyAH.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:03 AM

The ministers at the two Wichita Kansas congregations that led the recent campaign for the amendment of the Kansas State Constitution to ban gay marriage BOTH HAVE RESIGNED. (i.e. are available)

Should they be both dispatched to elevate the status of Blind River, or will one be enough? Either quite likely could "get down to Fundamentals" with the populace wherever they might land.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:55 AM

Did they resign together? Where are they now? How far is Wichita from Reno?

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:05 AM

Ah... but is BR as bad as Wool in Dorset. They have a level crossing and a pub... and is the centre of the Universe because nothing ever happens there.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: *daylia*
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 08:41 AM

No mention of Niagara Falls? Hmph! How 'bout a place like that, where the people- watching competes with the nature-watching, neck'n'neck?

On the walkway overlooking the Falls, one can immerse oneself in the multi-colored diversely-garbed human swarm and water-gaze for hours, without hearing one word of English. East Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German etc etc etc ... after a while, it becomes like music to your ears.

Easy listening, kinda.

I stood looking across the Horseshoe Falls to the USA for a long, long time yesterday. As those famous mists billowed up, showering the onlookers like a steady gentle rain, a big double rainbow kept appearing and disappearing against the setting sun. Arching over the raging emerald/whitewater, from the 'American side' to the 'Canadian side'. A Rainbow bridge, a promise of peace. Even with one 'foot' on each side of the border, no one suspected it of terrorism, or asked to see it's ID.

That was a comforting thought, somehow.

And the fact that the white inhabitants of North America were actually able to divvy that incredible Power Place up between them so long ago, while avoiding doing each other in over it (although they did give it their best shot for awhile!) is amazing indeed. To me, anyway.

May it always be so.

But if you fo visit Niagara, be sure to bring a cooler full of bottled water and lots of snacks as well as your camera. It's pretty ironic that in a park which draws millions of people from around the world and is home to a sizeable portion of the entire continent's fresh water, there's not one drinking fountain in working order. Not ONE, that I saw anyway!   And a bottle of drinking water costs $3.50 Cdn, or $2.50 US. BUt don't sweat it - there's even vending machines specially made for American one-dollar bills.

It's also the only place in the world I ever saw $15 forked out for a cheeseburger    8~)   Hey, wonder what a burger and a bottle of water costs in Blind River these days ...

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Lady Hillary
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 09:38 AM

Sorry, but that's a well. Wells are a subset of holes with linings to maintain the surface of the hole in a stable mode.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:29 AM

Well I never.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 08:44 PM

Burger and water in Blind River? $1.29, but if you want the burger cooked it's $1.89.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:01 PM

But, if it's not over the due date, why do yo want it cooked? Oh, yeah, water is free. Beer will cost ya. $1.45 until closing. Then ask Shane.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:02 PM

Shane'll let you have the beer after closing time at $20/bottle.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:04 PM

That's how he's saving up for that college course.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:22 PM

Ah, I thought he was saving for a college nurse.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:22 PM

The course is about what to do with the nurse . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:27 PM

At $20 a bottle, one should nurse it.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:30 PM

AND save the urine. It might be valuable one day.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:40 PM

No, Molson Canadian is $1.45 a bottle, every day.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:55 PM

They are gonna put a picture of a horse on the label to show the factory it comes from.

Subject: RE: BS: Blind River bombs!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 01:55 AM

Shane's brain might be valuable one day too. You never know.