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If I managed to make it to Vancouver, somehow, do you think I would not look up friends like you or check out the PG home?
Sam - having "been there, and NOT done that" - I feel truly chastised and humbled. 
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Well, more fool you, Ian!
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After reading parts of this thread, I noticed in our local newspaper, Come to B.C. Whistler, (about a 2 hour drive on the Sea to Sky highway north east of Vancouver), had 17 feet of snow in November. I used to golf with my uncle on a par 3 course in Vancouver when he had his lunch break, and you'd see people with skis on top of the cars going up the mountains to ski. But 17 feet of snow? We used to get that in a year north of Superior, and I'd have to shovel the snow off the roof, UP! The street was like a tunnel without a roof, 10 to 12 feet of snow, carved out by a big snowblower,shoot it into a dump truck, drive out on the lake and dump it.
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I moved from Victoria to Southern Ontario in April of this year. Victoria is a truly beautiful city. Completely unlike Vancouver. If you want to visit there from Vancouver, you need to have lots of time on your hands; as its a 2 hour ferry ride, an hours driving, and 1 to 2 hours waiting at the ferry each way. living in Victoria, most residents don't visit Vancouver more than once or twice a year, as compared to the Island, there's not much you're missing. Island life is a lot slower, and more relaxed, even slower if you're lucky enough to visit the gulf islands or the Sunshine Coast. The PG Music headquarters is very unassuming, 99% of Victoria's population would never suspect it was there, including most local musicians. If you love outdoor life, the Islands have a lifetime of wonderful places to visit and enjoy. Including the West Coast trail, Cape Scott trail, incredible Long Beach, Strathcona Park, Hornby Island and all the other Islands. The Victoria Bluegrass Association has wonderful Tuesday night jam sessions. all kinds of amazing musicians live around the area, including Valdi, Sheri Ulrich, Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman, it truly is an amazing area. My 2 cents worth, Andrew 
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... most residents don't visit Vancouver more than once or twice a year, as compared to the Island, there's not much you're missing. Island life is a lot slower, and more relaxed, even slower if you're lucky enough to visit the gulf islands or the Sunshine Coast. The PG Music headquarters is very unassuming, 99% of Victoria's population would never suspect it was there, including most local musicians.
If you love outdoor life, the Islands have a lifetime of wonderful places to visit and enjoy. Including the West Coast trail, Cape Scott trail, incredible Long Beach, Strathcona Park, Hornby Island and all the other Islands.
The Victoria Bluegrass Association has wonderful Tuesday night jam sessions. all kinds of amazing musicians live around the area, including Valdi, Sheri Ulrich, Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman, it truly is an amazing area...
Working at the local international hostel provides me with an unique perspective on Victoria. There are two versions of the town experienced by visitors: the one that tourists see, and the one that travelers experience.
Tourists see the Royal B.C. Museum, the big hotels, the shopping, the legislative buildings, and the whale-watching tours. Tourist attractions.
Travelers tend to enjoy the more subtle pleasures of our little city: wooden boat restoration, massive blackberry brambles bearing fruit in late summer, long hiking trails through old-growth temperate rainforest, alternative life-style communities experimenting with solar/wind/tidal power and cob building construction, our peacefully militant "take back the night" folks marching through town in little groups late at night forcing junkies and drunks off the sidewalks, farmer's markets featuring in-season local organic produce... you get the picture.
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Oren, When we were there, we saw about 100 nude bicyclists protesting one thing or the other. Most of them were a sight for sore eyes.  Don S.
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Don, Sounds breezy! I like to ride with a lot of clothes on.... The naked bicycling thing happens in cities across the country once a year... I can't remember the occasion. You want to participate next summer, I have a nice bicycle. And a camera. 
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Sounds breezy! I like to ride with a lot of clothes on....
The naked bicycling thing happens in cities across the country once a year... I can't remember the occasion. You want to participate next summer, I have a nice bicycle. And a camera.
Thanks but, no thanks. I'm staying off of bikes as I have bit of a balance problem.
Plus, I'd be a bigger sight for sore eyes.
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Bigger eh? Bragger. LOL
After I posted that, I was thinking that I should have phrased it differently.
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I at a stage where I find humour in everything. Almost.
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don't you mean HUMOR john. giggle
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don't you mean HUMOR john. giggle
Actually no, we use the English language and that's how humour is spelled. 
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i am apprised, aware and cognizant at the same time glenn, but i love to tease john. no offense intended. actually, my parents were canadian and that's how mom spelled it too. i argued with my school teachers about it. another point was the omission of the article 'the' in phrases like "going to hospital." i can go on... just having a little innocent fun with john. now, how about that pic of pg headquarters?
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No offense here Don. Theory is we find something funny because of the horror of it actually coming true. In that spirit here is another spelling humor/humour, humorose. The spellchecker tells me that I am wrong, maybe I should add a "u" before the "r".  Ian
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Let's see... favourite comes up as a spelling error in both Windows and Linux. Rhubarb, doughnut, and beer still work, but for how long?
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I find the beer wears off after a few hours. Unless it's purchased in some states, and then you spend more time in the can that drinking. LOL. And remember I did give 'em props on Sam Adams beer. It always amazes me when people think we are so similar, and yet I feel so much different than the Americans I know.
I wish Corner Gas was sticking around to do the Grey Cup thing. Actually Sask. won, the 13th man made no difference to the outcome, except for the fact the the bone heads sent in a guy to do nothing in the end zone. Let's not try and explain Canuck football to Americans. 12 men, 25 yard endzones, 3 downs, wider field, 55 yard line, 10 seconds less in the huddle, single points...hm...
I think they should have Hank from Corner Gas yelling at the guy to get in there....and Oscar stomping on his hat....and Lacie as a cheerleader. Oh well...
Next we can share curling stories...hurry hard!
John, Past President of the White Otter Curling Club, north of Manitouwadge and south of Longlac, on the flats above the river. Where on Grey Cup day the bear broke into the house and I shot it in the kitchen.
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where, exactly, is a bear's 'kitchen', john? lets talk aboot how to pronounce 'been' and 'about.' is it 'bean' and 'aboot?'
truly, the us, uk, and canada are three great nations divided by a common language. but i always enjoy your posts.
oklahomans have a language all their own.
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The bear was the only one would eat the ex wife's meat loaf. My kids came into the living room telling me about a 50 foot bear in the kitchen. The Lee Enfield came in handy.
We lived with 2 kids in one of 10 houses in a lumber camp. The men mostly lived in the bunkhouses, 400 of them. I was weekend supervisor, foreman, and eventually Fire Marshal. 400 miles of private gravel roads, 2 million acres of timber, and 500 million black flies, who were outnumbered by the sand files and mosquitoes. But we had our own curling club, and one month of bad snowshoeing in the summer.
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You greatly underestimate the number of flies .. unless it was winter!
Make your sound your own!
.. I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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The lady that coined that expression is just about at saint status in Saskatchewan (where I come from). It was a sad day for us when Sandra Schmirler succumbed to cancer.
http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/schmirler.html
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