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1st February 09, 05:01 PM
#1
Feb 1st - Canada day
Today's a special day for me, 33 years ago today I arrived in Canada. I recall on the plane flight over I was looking so forward to play in mounds of fluffy white snow (we didn't see much snow in southern England). So disapointed was I that the only snow I saw was the black stuff on the side of the roads  . I always take the time to be thankful of my new home. So the first Happy Canada day to me for this year.
The Grant.
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1st February 09, 05:29 PM
#2
Congratulations Grant!
But I am reminded of that great George Best quote about his decision to play for the Vancouver Whitecaps... When asked why he said...
"Because I saw an advert on the side of a London bus inviting me to Drink Canada Dry."
Phil in Idaho
"Walk Tall, Walk Straight, and Look the World Right in the Eye."
That Great Celtic Philosopher Val Doonican
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1st February 09, 05:47 PM
#3
Happy Canada Day Grant and all the Ladies and Gentlemen of X Marks the Scot who call the great Northern land home
Cheers
Jamie
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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1st February 09, 05:56 PM
#4
FWIW "Canada Day" is July 1st for the rest of the nation.
Carry On.
Phil in Idaho
"Walk Tall, Walk Straight, and Look the World Right in the Eye."
That Great Celtic Philosopher Val Doonican
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1st February 09, 05:58 PM
#5
 Originally Posted by pdcorlis
FWIW "Canada Day" is July 1st for the rest of the nation.
Carry On.
sigh
Grant,
I'm sure the people of Southern England also have a special place in their hearts for February 1st as well 
Cheers
Jamie
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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1st February 09, 06:38 PM
#6
Originally Posted by pdcorlis
FWIW "Canada Day" is July 1st for the rest of the nation.
Carry On.
Congratulations on your Canada Day.
Past President, St. Andrew's Society of the Inland Northwest
Member, Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Founding Member, Celtic Music Spokane
Member, Royal Photographic Society
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1st February 09, 07:16 PM
#7
Originally Posted by Panache
sigh
Grant,
I'm sure the people of Southern England also have a special place in their hearts for February 1st as well
Cheers
Jamie
I don't think so, I've never been asked to come back, not even for a visit.
The Grant.
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1st February 09, 08:43 PM
#8
Happy anniversary!
So why did the chicken cross the road?
It didn't want to be a mask sporran for Grant!?
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1st February 09, 08:46 PM
#9
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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1st February 09, 10:29 PM
#10
Happy Canada Day, Grant.
I will now present you with the one chicken salute:
Bring out the chicken!
*Bwak-bwak-bwak*
Present chicken!
*BWAK!*
Ready!
*Cluck*
Aim!
*CLUCK*
Fire!
*SPROOOIING!!*
Thank you, Corporal. You may retrieve your chicken.
I am easily moved for sympathy for dogs, far more so than for humans, because dogs do not understand. There is no way to explain that you will return, that the vet will make it all better, that they cannot go shooting today because that is not what today is about. They cannot work out that their misery is finite and will some time end, and so their misery is magnified.
Gerald Hammond
Mad Dogs and Scotsmen
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