Canadians Have True Class

sseelhoff · Nov 27, 2014

IslandTractor said:
I rest my case. Texans are our crazy relatives.

Nothing wrong with a little crazy. Some of the greatest minds in history were "a little off" in one way or another.

How's that turkey coming?

TomSeller · Nov 27, 2014

sseelhoff said:
Nothing wrong with a little crazy. Some of the greatest minds in history were "a little off" in one way or another.

How's that turkey coming?

There are crazy people and then there are Texans.

sseelhoff · Nov 27, 2014

TomSeller said:
There are crazy people and then there are Texans.

Yep. Everything's bigger and better here.

To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel, we go to 11.

IslandTractor · Nov 27, 2014

sseelhoff said:
Nothing wrong with a little crazy. Some of the greatest minds in history were "a little off" in one way or another. How's that turkey coming?

I agree.

Turkey was excellent. Finished smoking to 157 in four hours flat though (14.5lbs, 225F, no stuffing, only 17min/lb) which was earlier than anticipated. Not as smoky flavored as I hoped but very moist and delish. Will use more apple chips next time. Only filled chip drawer twice.

sseelhoff · Nov 27, 2014

IslandTractor said:
I agree.

Turkey was excellent. Finished smoking to 157 in four hours flat though (14.5lbs, 225F, no stuffing, only 17min/lb) which was earlier than anticipated. Not as smoky flavored as I hoped but very moist and delish. Will use more apple chips next time. Only filled chip drawer twice.

Or lower the temp and smoke it slower. The longer it's in the smoke the more flavor you get.

Egon · Nov 27, 2014

sseelhoff said:
Yep. Everything's bigger and better here.

To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel, we go to 11.

Ahh - you take a sock off!

Looking4new · Nov 27, 2014

In all my years (50) of trucking, touring and going to car races in the U.S., I have only met one person that was ignorant to me and I wrote that off as he was having a bad day.
I'd rather have you 'mericans as friends than enemies.

Looking4new · Nov 30, 2014

Here is a little something that kinda explains our differences quite well.
This is a Canadian Beer commercial! and it is Great!

MAN IN BLACK · Nov 30, 2014

Looking4new said:
Here is a little something that kinda explains our differences quite well.
This is a Canadian Beer commercial! and it is Great!

:laughing::laughing::thumbsup:
Real good one !!

dmccarty · Dec 1, 2014

Garandman said:
OK, how about these factoids?
- The Christmas tree on Boston Common is donated each year by the people of Halifax, Nova Scotia to the residents of Boston in appreciation of their response to the Halifax Explosion of 1917. 2018 will mark the 100th year of this tradition.

I did not know that factoid. That is pretty cool.

For those who have not heard of the Halifax explosion, during WW I, a ship bound for FranceIwith explosives on board caught fire and exploded in the harbor:

While the exact number killed by the disaster is unknown, a common estimate is 2,000. The Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book, an official database compiled in 2002 by the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management identified 1,950 victims.[66] As many as 1,600 people died immediately in the blast, the tsunami, and collapse of buildings. The last body, a caretaker killed at the Exhibition Grounds, was not recovered until the summer of 1919.[67] An additional 9,000 were injured, 6,000 of them seriously; 1,630 homes were destroyed in the explosion and fires, with 12,000 more houses damaged. This disaster left roughly 6,000 people homeless and without shelter and 25,000 without adequate housing. The city's industrial sector was in large part gone, with many workers among the casualties and the dockyard heavily damaged.

I have seen documentaries and read the history of the explosion which was horrific. I seem to remember that a part of the ship was blown 5? miles onto land and that part of the ship still rests were in fell?

The Halifax explosion is kinda like the Texas City incident after WWII.

Later,
Dan

forestcreature1 · Dec 1, 2014

The other night, at the start of the Saint Louis Blues hockey game [vs Edmonton if I remember right] - the singer in a tribute to our cousins up 'nort - killed the mike [or stopped singing, hard to see on the radio...] during the anthem. After a quick chuckle, the crowd bellowed out the rest. The singer did join back in over the mike. I thought it was a nice salute to the hockey fans in Canada.

[no, I am not going to learn grammar at this late age]

Looking4new · Dec 10, 2014

dmccarty said:
I did not know that factoid. That is pretty cool.

For those who have not heard of the Halifax explosion, during WW I, a ship bound for FranceIwith explosives on board caught fire and exploded in the harbor:

I have seen documentaries and read the history of the explosion which was horrific. I seem to remember that a part of the ship was blown 5? miles onto land and that part of the ship still rests were in fell?

The Halifax explosion is kinda like the Texas City incident after WWII.

Later,
Dan

A couple of links for your reading.
Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

CBC - Halifax Explosion - City of Promise

1 meter = 39 inches

1 kilometer = 3250 feet or about .625 miles

buickanddeere · Dec 11, 2014

TomSeller said:
I heard someone say French Canadian. I should have known Canada was in France, not in America.

Quebec is it's own nation State inside Canada.

buickanddeere · Dec 11, 2014

kiotiken said:
He said great actors

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer. Played a Klingon very well.

buickanddeere · Dec 11, 2014

Can't drive to Alaska without the assistance of your Northern Neighbours.
We ship a lot of oil to the US as well.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search...r+humor&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

MAN IN BLACK · Dec 11, 2014

There is French speaking Canadians in every province, not only in Québec.
Even though there is a majority of francophone living in Québec.
Canada is officially a bilingual country...English speaking majority and French speaking minority which I am.
Proudly Franco-Ontarian !

TomSeller · Dec 11, 2014

MAN IN BLACK said:
There is French speaking Canadians in every province, not only in Québec.
Even though there is a majority of francophone living in Québec.
Canada is officially a bilingual country...English speaking majority and French speaking minority which I am.
Proudly Franco-Ontarian !

Francophone?

MAN IN BLACK · Dec 12, 2014

FRANCOPHONE....meaning French speaking people

CanadianBeaverS370 · Dec 12, 2014

Garandman said:
OK, how about these factoids?

- If you go to Montreal or Quebec City, be sure and tell them you are American. It's OK for dumb Americans not to speak French, but if you don't tell them and they think you are Anglo-Canadian, it doesn't go so well....

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Garandman, This works both ways. As an Anglo Quebecer, when traveling into America. I say im from "Montreal" or Canada and not form the Province of Quebec. It makes a world of a difference how well I get treated as a Canadian or Montrealer VS a Quebecois. I notice this about 6 or 7 years ago on vacation in North Carolina. The staff at the camp ground treated me like royalty the first few days I was there until I rented something an had to show my drivers license. Once they realize I was from the "Belle Province" I was treated like a 2nd class citizen. Since then I have tested the theory, ant it worked in NY,PA,VA. I experimented with French as I am fluent in it and again as long as I was "not" from Quebec, All would be fine, What did the French Speaking Quebecers do to you guys down there to generate so much Hate ???