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oldgoat
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posted 04 July 2002 09:55 PM

...Near Millarville, south of Calgary. Well, driving mostways across the country with two kids, a dog and a spouse can be a test of a relationship, but it was actually pretty good. Especially once we got out of Ontario.

Got to my sisters last night. What a great place! Surrounded by pines and trembling aspens. Saw a deer grazing in her front yard. Up the hill behind her place, you can see miles of foothill country with the mountains in the distance.

Today we went for a picnic in the Kananasis to a place called Sheep Falls. We took a really scenic but somewhat hairy trail to get there. It was like being able to enter into a postcard and wander around. Perfect weather, no bugs, and wildlife everywhere. This is nothing like Scarborough!

My internet access is limited. I trust you are all behaving yourselves.

Plantagenet P. Oldgoat

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skdadl
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Babbler # 478

posted 05 July 2002 10:35 AM

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It was like being able to enter into a postcard and wander around. Perfect weather, no bugs, and wildlife everywhere. This is nothing like Scarborough!

Hi, PPO! Yeah -- it takes a looong time to get out of Ontario, don't it?

Fang is reading over my shoulder and dictating this reply. We're both so glad to hear you're having a good time; wish we were there. The only mountains in view here right now are the piles of green garbage bags. Enjoy, enjoy -- and we'll raise a glass to you this aft.

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oldgoat
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Babbler # 1130

posted 15 July 2002 02:36 PM

They have the internet at both the McDonalds and the Wendy's in Banffff. What a decadent town. I'm hitting the road for back home tomorrow. I figure having met 'lance in person, anything further would be anti-climactic.

We'll be taking a fast route through the States, and will miss Mount Rushmore. Too bad, I was looking forward to asking in a loud voice which one was Shemp.

See ya soon

XOXOXO

Plantagenet P. Oldgoat.

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Little Jimmy Flaherty
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Babbler # 1722

posted 15 July 2002 02:44 PM

Golly Oldgoat, words can't express how much you've been missed around here. Things just aren't the same without your sagacious wit and insightful observations. The board is falling apart without you. For Gods sake hurry back!

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GOD
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posted 15 July 2002 02:48 PM

Yeah, for My sake hurry back! I've always depended on your input for major policy decisions.

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oldgoat
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Babbler # 1130

posted 15 July 2002 02:50 PM

Golly Gee guys, I never knew

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skdadl
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Babbler # 478

posted 15 July 2002 02:54 PM

Hi, guy. Uh, guys. Where are you now?

So everything after 'lance is anti-climactic? Somehow, I can believe that. Anti-climatic, even.

Miss you. Come home now. All is forgiven.

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skdadl
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Babbler # 478

posted 15 July 2002 02:57 PM

PS: Did 'lance happen to mention to you the Blinky problem? Don't mention this to Li'l Jimmy, but ... 1. We can't find him; and 2. A "Blinky" has registered on babble, about a week ago. No posts yet.

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'lance
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posted 15 July 2002 02:58 PM

I would blush if I could get the instant smilies to work... maybe it's my new "secure" settings. (Meanwhile, don't believe the hype, y'all!)

Wonderful to see you, PPO, and have a great trip back!

Edited to add: That's better!

[ July 15, 2002: Message edited by: 'lance ]

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oldgoat
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posted 15 July 2002 03:04 PM

I'm currently in Millerville Alta. Tomorrow night Estevan Sask., Then Brainerd Somewhere-or-other, Mackinac for a brief respit, Flint Mich., through Windsor, to a family reunion in Leamington, then home and back to work.

We've travelled over 6000 k's together so far, and were still having fun. I must have a nice family.

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oldgoat
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posted 15 July 2002 03:11 PM

Hi 'lance!

Don't worry about Blinky Skdadl. I ran into him sipping Singapore Slings at the Chateau Lake Louise. He's got a penthouse suite there. He's planning on writing an expose of all the inside info he picked up while working with Flaherty. I hope he starts posting soon.

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skdadl
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posted 15 July 2002 03:15 PM

I figured. Annex wasn't good enough for 'im. Had to go find a penthouse in Alberta. That's the thanks I get for all the tastefully shabby Scottish baronial elkhead perches we offered him.

Breeding tells, eh?

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'lance
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Babbler # 1064

posted 15 July 2002 03:16 PM

That'd be Brainerd, Minnesota, oldgoat, 'cording to my shiny new Rand McNally wall map.

These names! Pity Walla Walla, Wash., is out of your way. On the other hand, Kalamazoo, Mich., might not be.

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skdadl
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posted 15 July 2002 03:21 PM

Memories of driving through the northern Michigan woods at night, beating it non-stop from Winnipeg to Stratford, Ont.: every few hundred yards, neon lights blink out from among the evergreens: EATS! DRINKS! EATS! DRINKS!

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'lance
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posted 15 July 2002 07:07 PM

Not to turn this into another o-those-wacky-americans thread, but...

A fellow I used to know slightly, friend of a friend, hailed from Missouri. He swore up and down he once saw a neon sign in a roadside store -- in what state I don't recall, except that it was Southern -- reading:

BEER
LIQUOR
GUNS & AMMO

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flotsom
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posted 15 July 2002 09:17 PM

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BEER
LIQUOR
GUNS & AMMO

That is in Calgary.

There's a little strip mall oh, I guess if you walk to the far side of the library or maybe a few blocks past it(east) and then downhill maybe six or seven blocks (south) where in the same plaza you'll git yer guns and hooch, plus enough bullets ta spare.

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Michelle
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posted 15 July 2002 10:46 PM

haha! I've been wondering who GOD is!

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oldgoat
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Babbler # 1130

posted 22 July 2002 12:35 AM

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haha! I've been wondering who GOD is!

You and six billion other people kiddo! Isn't it strange how pedestrian the truth can be sometimes??

Walking on water ain't that big a deal. I used to impress people by changing water into wine, but now the liquer industry is making millions by changing wine into water and calling them coolers. I've given up!!

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clockwork
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posted 22 July 2002 12:46 AM

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Saw a deer grazing in her front yard.

Whoop-dee-doo. People hit deer and drag them home to skin and cook 'em around here. When I was staying in Grande Cache (a prison town in Alberta... and no, I wasn't actually staying at the prison), I saw black bears grazing amongst the garbage piles. I even got a picture of a black bear leading it's cubs across the main street.

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oldgoat
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posted 22 July 2002 01:03 AM

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Saw a deer grazing in her front yard.

Whoop-dee-doo. People hit deer and drag them home to skin and cook 'em around here.

Golly Clock., I didn't know you had gotten so feral up there in Brampton. In the foothills, seeing deer in your yard is still kind of cool. Actually, deer elk and bears are pretty common, and people who shoot them for no good reason are not too well regarded locally.

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clockwork
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posted 22 July 2002 01:17 AM

Well, to be honest, my comment:

quote:
People hit deer and drag them home to skin and cook 'em around here

was a bit sarcastic, but something predicated on a real story. When I was younger, I was over at a friend's place when his father and a few buddies came back from a trip up north. They had hit a deer on the drive back and I had the wonderful opportunity to watch them bleed and skin the deer.

Even then, the father told us to respect the animals, but it was kinda creepy listening to that sermon while they were rummaging around for a bowl because the blood wasn't being contained on the mat.

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skdadl
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Babbler # 478

posted 22 July 2002 10:01 AM

Spring Chicken! Does this mean you're back? Or have you found an internet cafe in the woods of Michigan?

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oldgoat
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posted 23 July 2002 01:30 PM

I am indeed back, and posting from my desk at work as we speak!

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