I am not a poster. I am a crispy critter.

[The Zontron 7000]

I am an internet java script sent to infiltrate your site and transform you from political neanderthals into a modern 21st Century progressive mode.

This is your first warning.

Do not try and resist.

It is useless.

Accept your fate.

You will be assimilated.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks for that!! BTW, 10,000 is approaching - those evil zeros.....

[sionnsar]

Are you going to the Puget Sound FReeper Party on Saturday?

I am undecided. The company party is the same evening and politically it might be better to go. But it starts late, will end even later, and we are busy at church early in the morning. I am considering bagging it and going to the FReeper party instead.

[Not A Snowbird]

You're welcome!

The Sound used to be bigger until 10,000 years ago, when Mt. Rainier let loose with a major lahar and created the valley I now live in.

[Not A Snowbird]

I'm undecided also. My husband has to fly that day, so I don't know.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

You must be quite a landscaper - you know your stuff!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The dreaded triple six!

Relax, have a glass of poteen!!

[fanfan]

Hey!

Lookie what I found.....

This,

and this!

[sionnsar]

I've missed quite a number of company Christmas parties due to travel...

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Any poutine links?

[fanfan]

Poutine

[Not A Snowbird]

I just made it a point to read up on Mt. Rainier and the destruction it will one day rain down upon my head.

I live fairly close to it, so it seemed prudent to do a little research. Here's a very interesting article on things that have been and things to come:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0542/051019_news_mountrainier.php

[Monkey Face]

They have them in AZ, but not in the places I can go...the Cost Plus store is members only, if I recall.

[fanfan]

Check this one too

[Monkey Face]

I saw a documentary on that about a year ago. Scary stuff. Been having any quakes?

[fanfan]

Some things that are really cool and unique in or about Canada:

Canadian Food like:
- Timbits (we will not tell you what they are, if you don't know!).
- Scrunchins (ditto) (eh?)
- Bokkepootjes (ditto) ('borrowed' from the Dutch)(eh, again?)
- Bugger-in-a-bag (one more eh?)(ditto)
- Quebec yellow pea soup
- Montreal smoked meat and real Montreal bagels
- Maple syrup pie
- Nanaimo bars (we made 'em first)
- Butter tarts
- Date squares
- Pablum
- Crispy Crunch bars
- Smarties
- McIntosh toffee bars
- Red Rose tea (Only in Canada ....Pity!)
- Newfie screech ..!
- and of course, Poutine (see below)

Lacrosse is Canadian.
Hockey is Canadian.
Basketball is Canadian.
The size of Canadian footballs and football fields and, one less down.
Ogopogo is Canadian (Ogopogo, a distant and less-famous relative of the Loch Ness Monster, is said to sill live in Lake Okanagan, B.C.)
Molson's (beer) is Canadian. Stronger too!
The biggest flags ever seen at the Olympic closing ceremonies were Canadian (twice...and the second one was smuggled in against a rule that was made because of the first one).
Way better beer commercials here.
Much Music kicks MTV's butt.
Tim Horton's kicks Dunkin Donut's butt.
Maple Syrup kicks Mrs. Butterworth's butt (I don't know about Aunt Jemima).
In the war of 1812 we burned the White house and most of Washington.
Our "Civil war" was led by a drunken, and possibly insane William Lyon McKenzie.
Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little less than an hour.
The only person arrested and hanged after our civil war was an American mercenary who slept in and missed the whole fight, showing up just in time to get caught.
The Hudson Bay company once owned 1/11th of the Earth's surface.
The average dog sled team can kill and devour a grown human in less than three minutes.
We don't have much of a taste for powdered bear testicles, but we know who does, and we're willing to sell them.
We wear socks (black ones, if possible) with our sandals.
We knew plaid flannel was cool way before Seattle did.
We can out-drink most Americans.
We don't often marry our kinfolk.
The light bulb was actually invented by a Canadian. (Henry Woodward patented it in 1874). The patent was bought by some obscure American named Edison who improved upon the design and took credit for inventing it.
Other Canadian inventions include: the jolly jumper, duct tape, insulin, walkie talkies, roller skates, Superman, air-conditioned vehicles, acrylics, standard time (and daylight saving time), the paint-roller, the radio compass, snowmobiles, jet skis, improved zippers, and the handles on cardboard beer cases, etc.,etc., etc. (there are thousands more!)

[fanfan]

Don't worry.

You 'know' someone in Canada who can feed your new habit!

;-D

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks for that - I've bookmarked it. So they think Seattle could be a modern day Pompei? (bearing in mind it's a mudflow, not volcanic ash)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Thanks for that!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

And thanks for that!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

You evil zeros!!!!