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Just a note for all my Kanuckistanzi friends to celebrate tomorrow, the holiday that the old Queen gave us to celebrate her birthday, and here, in Southern Ontario the first normally safe day to plant stuff that won't freeze.
And, here, like every 5 years or so the temperature is warm enough to warrant a whole case of good cold beer, which is why we call it the May 24 weekend after all, beers come in 24's or 12 quarts. Hey you can still buy quarts in Ontario....a single person can't order more than that at one order for themselves eh? Government is in our face again eh? Oh well what you do is order a pitcher of beer and 2 glasses and your friend doesn't show up eh hoser? Yup fools em every time, 'He's in the bathroom eh? I wouldn't go in there eh? Go across the street and water the tires on the foreign cars eh? Wadda mean no 2nd pitcher of beer...this one was drunk by aliens...
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Happy Victoria Day, John. Don't get *too* drunk, I'm not sure what beer and the meds you're taking would be like together.
Please stick around to celebrate many, many more of these days.
Gary
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Yeah, beer, dark beer and lots of it. About 1/3 of a cup. Wow.
On the other hand let's celebrate real Canuck stuff like:
Beer that tastes like beer.
Butter Tarts.
Summer oil in the car. Take out the 5w20.
Summer oil in the Mounties guns. The stuff without kero in it.
Mosquitos and black flies.
Fries with gravy, ketchup and cheese curds.
Brown sauce on eggs (HP sauce).
The fact our bacon is thick enough to bbq.
Maple Syriop on anything..including bbq ribs.
Cleaning the mouse nests out of your canoe in the early summer.
The ice leaving the lake before June....
Below is a list of some guys and gals I'd invite to my next bbq, along with all the regular forum members. The people below are Kanckis....
Alex Trebek
Art Linkletter.
Catherine O`Hara
Dan Akroyd
Dave Thomas
Donald Sutherland
Keifer Sutherland
Eugene Levy
Evangeline Lilly
Howie Mandel
Jim Carrey
John Candy
Keanu Reeves
Kim Cattrall
Leslie Nielsen
Lorne Greene
Martin Short
Michael J. Fox
Mike Myers
Pamela Anderson
Paul Shaffer
Phil Hartman
Rachel McAdams
Raymond Burr
Rick Moranis
Thommy Chong
Thomas Chong
Tom Green
William Shatner
There has been a movement to have William Shatner named the next Governor General, who is the Queen's official representative in Canada and the head of the Canadian Forces, (acting for the Queen who really has the job). I supported he get the job for a long weekend, host a big party, name some Order of Canada recipients, inspect the guard, and retire on Tuesday. I don't think they listened to me, it's not the first time.
As for musicians to invite over well there's too many.
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Same to you, John. Good Queen Vickie - you know she picked the spot here for yer Parliament Buildings and yer House of Commoners and Senatesnores. She saw a painting done in yer 1858 from the Kebec side of Out-a-way riviere and said "Stick it there "reefering to the hill "or bend over, and I'll put that clock tower where it hurts." Queen Vickie knew her mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Hill And there they be today, 'cept that block burned down in 1916 and was replaced by the present one. No frost tomorrow John - heading for 30C - that be 86 American. Probably hotter in London since yer closer to the California border latitudinally. Did enjoy LOST tonight.
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As for musicians to invite over well there's too many.
What no hockey players 
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up.
Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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Hi John, good to see your upbeat spirit. That's quite an impressive guest list of famous Canadians that you're inviting to your next BBQ. I kinda doubt though that Lorne Green and Raymond Burr will be able to make it, due to prior commitments.  Keep Looking Up! Don S.
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I think they are looking up. Lorne Greene, when I was a kid was Mom's god. Bonanza and anything else he did. He was a Canadian news anchor for a number of years on our main news network. I never knew the two of them were Canadian until a public school teacher talked about Canadians who were famous and in the public eye.
Although there are a lot of cons and $cons against the CBC radio/Tv I can tell you emphatically that it put our people in a unique position, experience, direction, and a nationalistic approach lead many Canadians to polish their trade here and move south.
The requirement for radio stations to have Canadian and local content on their stations might seem very socialist, but local bands and artist owe a lot to that nurturing and push they got. Even someone like Gordon Lightfoot might have toiled in obscurity, but he got air time here, and then got noticed there. I would never have guessed that he spent a few of his formative years studying jazz in California. So a guy starts out with a 12 sting and long hair in our hippy district (I lived there at the time, but studying theololgy) and Gordo was strummin his 12 string.
Gordo goes to Hollywood (well California) and takes the 12 string and does jazz.
Gordo comes home, does a few albums gets lots of playing time. So where did the stuff show up. Well some of you now whay more than me, but Mixolodian, Lydian, and other stuff into folk music. Bless my soul.
Of course we have always had the other difference, we have almost no accent. Until recently if you watched Detroit TV you got a Canadian sounding crew. Now you have all out Michigan nasal weather girls and such. Not saying it's right or wrong, but we look askance at each other here when we hear that. So you get many of your main US newscasters on the big networks doing the news because the voice is 'generic'.
And for those who didn't yet look up the word I throw around, I'm ethnocentric. No apologies. To be honest, at numerous Shirner's BBQ's over the border I found we were sort of including those guys and their wives, we seemed so much the same, unless you talk about the first encounter when they asked if it was necessary to bring Vern, my roommate on the road. Vern is black you see. They didn't get it. We all left one year before the parade because they made a deal out of it.
Of course I sided up to one guy who seemed sympathetic and mentioned that I was the youngest and Vern picked me as a roomie. "Might be 88 I said,but he's got a big benefit!" The guy choked on his light light Miller Lite water can. That kidding never stops, get a new guy in the band and tell him Vern is taken, he's John's sugar daddy. LOL.....
They sent us a card for the next year and they find out Vern did US miltary service, Canadian Military Service, and is a refrigeration tech (on ships), and he was the king of the crowd, due to wit I'm sure he got from being a minority.
In Canada white ordinary folk are the minority in 12 years. Might be a good thing.
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John, I'll come to your BBQ, but I'd like you to see if you can add Diana Krall to the list...I really want to hear her and Paul jam together, that should be good. Maybe you can get that little girl, Nikky Yanofsky to come, too, but no beer for her, she's too young. Gary
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Well Nikki comes from Quebec where the drinking age is a suggestion.
I can attest to being one of the youngest looking 14 year old on the face of the earth, short, freckled, and in Hull across the river from Toronto thinking forget this bus ticket, cash it in and hitchhike. At the bus station the guy behind the counter was serving a draft beer to another guy and holds up a glass and asks, in French, "A Beer Sir?" Wow, of course. I spent the summer with another 14 year old in the bush, his father had a logging crew and my buddy drove the truck Wed to Friday. I went too, learned to drive a truck with 2 gear shifts, while holding a beer Pierre's father brought us the first Friday at lunch. A dozen, darn near put that truck right into the bush a dozen times. According to Pierre that was expected and you got laughed at.
Pierre had 4 sisters older than us, then at dinner on Sunday the father up and asks how many of his daughters I'd slept with so far....I didn't consider that being an option. I learned a lot in 2 months, he was supposed to come to London for the next summer and we ended up working for 4 weeks logging then going to Montreal an being crazy...OH OH, I dozed off, Morphine fog....
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Uh Huh...morphine fog, huh? Or just reducing your inhibitions to talk about your past? Gary
I'm blessed watching God do what He does best. I've had a few rough years, and I'm still not back to where I want to be, but I'm on the way and things are looking far better now than what they were!
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