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Guy Courchesne
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Location: Mexico City
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| I did a Greyhound run from Ottawa to Kelowna, BC once. Never again. I'd rather walk it. Short trips are ok, such as Ottawa-Montreal, but I think I've been spoiled now by much nicer Mexican buses. |
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Oreen Scott
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
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| I thought Canada was a U.S. territory. Can someone clue me in on the truth- |
Easy really. We won the war in 1812 and ever since we've controlled the US through Hollywood implants, namely Pamela Anderson and Alex Trebec. |
And William Shatner, Michael J. Fox, Jim Carey, Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Mary Pickford . . the list is endless.
Then there's the late Peter Jennings.
I could go on but I won't, discussing nationality is tawdry. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| discussing nationality is tawdry. |
T'is, indeed. However, gearonson and I re-enact the war of 1812 about once a month, with the more gentlemanly choice of the pool hall as the battlefield.
After last night, I believe I'm up many games on you now, Yankee G.  |
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Oreen Scott
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
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Oh, I see.
With the weather we've been having up here in the great white north I'm not wanting to go anywhere or do anything.
My last winter in this frozen land.
I ask, in gest, would you consider a Laura Secord type to join in your enactment? |
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MO39
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Posts: 1970
Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
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| I thought Canada was a U.S. territory. Can someone clue me in on the truth- |
Easy really. We won the war in 1812 and ever since we've controlled the US through Hollywood implants, namely Pamela Anderson and Alex Trebec. |
And William Shatner, Michael J. Fox, Jim Carey, Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Mary Pickford . . the list is endless.
Then there's the late Peter Jennings.
I could go on but I won't, discussing nationality is tawdry. |
And don't forget Gordon Lightfoot, whose melancholy ballads I sang to this morning to get over a (momentarily) broken heart and Joni Mitchell and Buffy St. Marie and ... |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: The Mexican Hinterland
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought Canada was a U.S. territory. Can someone clue me in on the truth- |
Easy really. We won the war in 1812 and ever since we've controlled the US through Hollywood implants, namely Pamela Anderson and Alex Trebec. |
I heard a rumor that Micheal J. Fox and Vicente Fox are half-brothers, and part of some Canadian plot to make curling the national sport of the future Mega country called Mexanada. |
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