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Or maybe it’s just me? I’m looking at a thread, and there, where it should be, isn’t a post where there should be. Are all these posts, most of them perfectly reasonable, being deleted by the authors, and if so, WHY? Young Bob, I saw one of yours deleted. WHY? plenty of others. WHY? I tell you, I’m spooked. Plus, where’s Blue? It’s not that I’m paranoid, sometimes they really are out to get you.
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Adrian, man, sky down. My deleted post over at Knots was one I deleted because I felt bad asking the guy directly what contact cement he was using that had to be "tacky".
One of the oldtimers asked sean why folks only had 30 minutes to edit, but could delete at anytime. He suggested at least a marker where, who and when about said deleted post. Sean thought this a grand idea and so it is.
It's ok. And if you would check in more than once a week, we'd all feel a lot better for it. - yb
*Good God! I'm an "oldtimer"! I've only been on this board since January!I had no idea that deleting posts was such a common event. My concern was when a post that is central to subsequent discussion is deleted and makes the following posts somewhat non sensical.I am amazed at how many markers are appearing. I have never deleted a post.Rich Beckman
*(just kidding)
*AndrewBleu is probably still in shock, and/or mourning after his beloved Red Wings got the boot from the Stanley Cup playoffs. That's HOCKEY for those of you who are i culturallydeprived. The Wings seemed assured of a third consecutive league title, but kinda fell apart, and lost out in the quater finals. . . too(o) many Russians not playing up to their $$$.-pm
*I hear that. If the Cubs ever win, I would glory in it til I die (since its not likely they would ever repeat).Rich Beckman
*Adrian, you're right. We are all out to get you. Since deleting my last post, I now hear voices through the metal plate in my head. I have started wearing ti foil pyramids to deflect the CIA spy satelites which monitor my thoughts. Most of us are buying new weapons and food for the Y2K breakdown. I suggest you do the same.
*Scooter, at last a voice(s) for reason!
*Yikes! Worse than I thought. Having a bad day; the wife left me and took the ammo. At least the dog's sticking by me, eh boy? Boy?
*AdrianShe's probably gone lookin fer that 9kg (that's 20+lbs) lobster that they just sent back your way from Ontario. They figure that sucker must be over 100 years old. The guy that got it just couldn't, er, delete it!!-pm
*As a former Upper Canadian, I always get a kick out of those lobster thingies. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I spent the first year combing the shore, looking in the water for bright red lobsters scurrying about until it kicked in; they don't turn red til you cook 'em. They get huge; I've seen some just in the regular grocery stores that go $75-80; they cut them up, one claw $25, a tail $32, etc. 18 pounds at a conservative price of $7 per pound is $126, no premium for size. We mostly eat 'canners' or 'shacks', too small to go to market. They go for about $4 a piece, you can them cooked at the corner store.people eat them by the dozen (literally: thats a 'feed' of lobster)Did I mention the crab?or the single malt distilled here on the Island? It's summer and I live in a really beautiful place.
*Hey! That sounds like a great place to live! I'm gonna be passin' this info around to everyone! Why hell, you should have plenty of new neighbors before you know it! Lots of folks here in THE GREAT NORTHWEST can't take the constant rain and drab environment and are packing up, leaving everything behind out of desperation. Cape Breton! Cape Breton I say! It's an unfound PARADISE! With lobster littering the beachs and crab scuttling across you portch! - yb
*hold on there, Young feller.We can also have literally months of driving rain, sleet, and constant fog in the winter. in fact, we make all the fog here, that is a little known fact, and export it. The winters can literally drive people mad (hence the single malt distillery, i figure). Summer seems extra special in relation.
*Not only that but it's full of friggin Canadian's who think they're Scottish (go figure. . . watch yer sheep)and the moneys so colourful it squeaks (just ask GWCarp.)Stay put Y.B., somebodies got to shovel all that rain!! Remember what ol Henry Stamper saidb Never give a inch!-pm
*It is because we don't want to be ripped for being negative! I mean all is well, Democrats are in the White House and Canadians are on the net. What more could make it perfect? You guys are the ones ripping incivility. Grow some skin and we won't have to worry about you girls bitching every time it gets rough. P.S. I'll leave this one for the free heat, it is still nippy at night around here.Thanks in Advance,J. D.
*J.D.Is this a cross thread? . . I just re-read this thread to try to figure out what the F*ck yer yappin about but I gotta admit you lost me completely. . .. been smokin some of Jacks river ???-pm
*I bet the mosquitoes are as big as moose too.
*Sure... lobster season starts and everybody's proud of the Maritimes! Hell, half the year you're trying to convince the State O' Maine that it's much bigger than the maps show. Fine with us... or as one fellow in Lunenburg said: "It's all one big moldy chunk of granite from the Connecticut river on up anyway." He was justifying the overland transport of electrical appliances from NH to NS at the time, without the... um, er... "benefit" of inspection at the border.
*Hey Adrian, do you think you could post a "link" to your chamber of commerce? Seriously man, there are a whole bunch of...just a sec...what honey?...yeh, he's gonna put one of those blue things...yeh..yes honey, I think he'll do it....ok, where was I? You just wouldn't BELIEVE the number of folks that have called today wanting to hear more about your little slice of heaven! So, I was hoping you could post that link, and folks could get all the info...road maps and what not. And, oh yeh, some of the guys (quite a few actually) are wanting to know if you use the same type electricity up there, you know so if they have to get different motors for all their cabinetmaking equipment, they can do it here before they head out. OK, well, we'll all be looking for that link, and thanks a lot! Man, that phone has been ringing... - yb
*Adrian, whatever you do... don't tell Bob The Younger about the great opportunities available in the mines!Not to mention the total lack of competition for woodworking and carpentry jobs! Oh, and the fortunes being made fishing or processing, why that building down in Lunenburg alone could make him a bundle! Shhhh! I think he's coming back.
*Now GWC, you don't really think I would leave THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Heck, the moss between my toes is just starting to get bushy! I am just thinkin' about all these folks who don't like the 361 days of rain we get here. They are packing up left and right, and I can't blame them. Then Adrian tells of a paradise, with gentle climes...lobster as bis as a cow (that reminds me...) it just seems a perfect match. And I know he'll enjoy some company! - yb
*Adrian,As I read your post about the lobster, crab, whisky, and beauty of our neck of the woods, I noticed you forgot to mention another delight.....the little black flies that suck blood. Aaaah! God's country.BTW, is that whisky in bottles yet or still resting snugly in oak?
*If you want to look at a couple of photos, go to http://www.cbisland.com/queries/cbmasterpieces . Yes, there are bugs. maybe that explains why I had a distinct lack of architects about the place on the weekend, working on a certain canoe. Eh Gerry? Architects are chicken when it comes to bugs? I'll have to start a new thread. First lobster feed for us Sat. night at a friends place. Whales in the harbour apparently!
*Are you up by the New Sydney Mines?Dennis
*I'm not afraid of large green bugs that turn red when you boil them. In fact we're having crustaceans delivered tomorrow night. Dennis, I live in metro Louisbourg, Adrian lives in the sticks somewhere near the Mira River.
*If that is the old city that was built after WWII? I was there three years ago after returning from a trip to St. Anthony's Haven in Newfoundland. Dennis
*Now right there. There's a perfect example of what can happen when a feller starts wearin' a tie everyday! Chokes off the blood and you forget where you are, and what everybody's talkin' about in the first place! - yb
*GerryHow were the little black boogers *(flies) this year. . . ours came and went in a matter of days. Been like that for the last several years. . . praise be to ****.-pm
*Dennis, there is Sydney Mines ( also Sydney, Sydney River, Sydney Forks).never heard of New Sydney Mines. If you took the ferry to Newfoundland, the terminal is in North Sydney. None of those towns are new; mid to late eighteenth century under the Brits. the French were here long before though, like 1500's I think, definitely 1600's.Lot's of spooky little fishing ports where people have been living for 350 years. Where I live, the area was farmed to supply Fortress Louisbourg, which fell to the British in 1750. My across the road neighbor has an eighteenth century apple orchard in her yard. Gerry, from above, works in the architectural dept. at Fortress Louisbourg, the largest reconstruction in North America, and I've made some furniture used on site. I'm just about to start a few cigar humidors based on 18th century French boxes. My wife makes all the costumes; very cool place.Hey, this has turned into Adrian's travel thread. Our first lobster feed sat. night. So excited, I want to pee.Gotta buy a boat...
*Is that where Columbus landed? I think I heard a Disneyworld is going in there?
*Ha ha. Seriously, it is where John Cabot (Giovanni Cabotto) landed. Unless it was Newfoundland. Parks Canada has a plaque commemorating the landing in both places. I know, don't start.
*PatrickNo, they tend to linger here until deerfly season, late July. At least the deerflies and horseflies are so heavy that you know when they've landed as your shoulder deflects with the point load. You don't get real blackflies in Upper Canada until you pass Sudbury heading for Gogama do you?
*CAPE BRETON OR BUST!
*GerryIf our b/flies aren't real I don't wanna meet the i realthing. Bug season here goes like this: b/flies overlap into mosquitoes, with a side order of deer/horse flies who hang out together into late August, with the mosquitoes hangin into Sept, when perrenially angry wasps and hornets get obnoxious when ever you need to do siding, soffitt, or roofing.Life in paradise. . . ain't it grand.-pm
*How did all these canadians get in here?Doesn't the USA still rule the world?Good luck,Stephen
*Gerry's right about the Sudbury blackflies and mosquitos thing. Last year almost 50 moose while trying to escape the insects ran half blind onto the highway creaming a number of cars. Has anyone ever followed a moose up the road to have him turn around and give you a dirty look. A humbling experience. I turned my lights out and let him go at his own pace.
*HEY ADRIAN!!! - how was the "lobster-feast"? - yb
*In a word, beautiful. Two dozen lobsters right off the dock (little 300 year old village called Gabarus), Brie and bread to start, microbrews plus champagne (it was sort of a birthday bash for two of our party of five)with Lagavulin single malt after, three types of cheesecake for those so inclined. I could only polish off four, which makes me a piker by Cape Breton standards. Gorgeous summer day, me and one of the others spent the day at a seminar on the Bras d'Or Lakes in some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Ah, bliss. Now I have to go paint the basement, and cut the lawn.Reality. Continuing the travelogue, Cape breton is a mixture of Celtic, Acadian, and Mic Mac cultures. We still have native Gaelic speakers and lots of folks from 'the country' have a really distinctive lilt to their voice. The place is a Mecca for Scottish and Irish fiddlers, cause the music here is recognised as the purest tradition, and lots of people come to study with our masters. I'll shut up now, must still be a little lobster happy.
*One of the things so great about your posts is the phrases that creep in from time to time "...from aways..." and "...no word of a lie, right hand to God..." spring to mind. Language is a beautiful thing. - yb
*StephenGonna break this to you as nicely as possible, got to have due respect when popin other peoples bubbles. . .. "the U.S. as master" is just another of those myths your government spin doctors have been feedin y'all with yer morning cornflakes.i Keepin the lies alive.Don't feel bad, about 200 million of your countrymen have swallowed it also. . .the rest of the world has adopted a i let sleeping dogs lieattitude, it's easier than listening to all the whining. ;}b The truth is out there!-pm
*I admit I didn't have time to read the thread and responded on the fact that I have pulled items the next day based on the fact that I didn't want the Canadians getting on my case for having a differing opinion, or being a bit cranky at times. I apologize, the tie is tight.
*Cranky? CRANKY? I'LL SHOW YOU CRANKY, BY GOD! Patrick, Gerry, you hold him while I prepare the patented lobster slap...
*YBHere's one for ya, though a little out of season."Da ponds took last night" meaning the ice on the ponds is frozen and probably thick enough for skating.BTW I'm a "come from away" too.
*Sean,We need to be able to subtitle threads!!!Like this one..."Canadian Yak fest...lobsters, bugs, scenery and more..."Near the stream,J
*Now,now Patrick,calm down. Easy does it. Relaaaaax.My offending post was an attempt at irony and sarcasm,as I am well aware how lucky I am to live here and yet realize my government is wrong about 90% of the time.I think however you may have revealed a "2nd City" complex on a national scale.In the intrest of furthering cultural diversity and clogging some holes in my geographic knowledge.....Is it possible to grow decent sweet corn up there in the great white north?Why do Y'all keep talking about lobster?I believe that to be some kind of sea food. Since it eats,sleeps,breathes and reproduces in its own urine it can't possibly be edible can it? Why do Y'all keep sending your bad weather down across Lake Erie?Why do people in the michigan U.P. sound like Canadians,Eh?Why do you give us your best hockey players and yet we keep our best baseball players?Do Y'all have as much problems with americans crossing the border looking for jobs as some parts of our country have with Mexicans?( By the way the mexicans are welcome to those jobs for the most part,since we can't seem to fill them with home grown americans and the work does need done)Good Luck,Best wishes and at least neither of us is being "ethnically cleansed" or U.N. Bombed in Albania, Stephen
*Lord thunderin' Jesus! We're onto the cape breton lingo, now, what? Some good, says I.Gerry, how's she goin' where you're at? Stay where you're at, I'll come where you're to. Oh, my nerves, I'm after trying to think of a couple more, bye. Thinks I'll be sailing with da Captain tonight (Captain Morgan, that is). If I don't take a stroke first.
*Hey SteveI never thought you were serious, hence the i light hearted slap.Yes we grow great sweet corn here in southern Ontario, which is on about the same latitude as northern Vermont & Maine, and south of Wisconsin and the U.S. North West. We refer to thei Great White northas the Edmonton and north area, don't know what they grow there except thick skins, cattle and Oil.The Lobster thing is strictly East Coast, and as you might have read elsewhere in this thread not only do they talki some strange,but they are. . . something do with Scot(t)'s ancestry. . . (not to be confused with insestry. . . a story for another day)We like to share our weather in repayment for y'all sending us your #@*## air pollution. Like this past weekend for example. . . a smog alert in God's countryb Thank you Ohio.Are there "people" in U.P. Michigan.?The hockey players we share, we just rent your baseball types (and Dominica's) so we can win a couple of back-to-backWorld Series' to put the "world" back into the name.The Viet Nam war produced a huge number of "border hoppers" who decided to stay, but mostly Americans seem quite happy to stay home,(strange as we think that is) and only visit during the summer to catch all the fish, and complain about prices with their $1.50 per dollar money. . . go figure, we can't!!Actually it's NATO that's doing the bombing in Serbia, and we're right in there too, unfortunately. What a totally stunned idea. They're too chiken sh*t to take on the Serbs face to face, so they scorch the place, one target at a time, while Milosevic continues to "cleanse" Kosovo. Brilliant strategy. . .. aren't "we" good???-pm
*Sorry about the "new". It was North Sydney. Wonderful trip, loved the fort.Dennis