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Very impressive Newt,one thing my "ex colonial"

Erm chum has the big lake got a famous MONSTER in?

Erm newt the lakes are they in Texas, EVERYTHING IN TEXAS is supposed to be bigger and better than anywhere else :D:D

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Sorry Jangar - Great lakes are sorta northern. US and into Canada.

 

I gotta say they are almost too huge to understand though. I was on a US Coast Guard Icebreaker that wintered on Lake Michigan so we could keep the water open for US Steel to run ore barges all year. Spring would find us going down the St. Lawrence river to the Atlantic to open water into Greenland. Then north for some real fun.

 

To look around, you would swear the lake was an ocean except for the fresh water. Huge thing.

 

Speaking of huge things and monsters - not sure what but one trip I did see something that looked large enough to maybe swollow the icebreaker if it was hungry. Looked like an overgrown pike to me. Might have been a submarine though.

 

RE: this thread - I love it. Lots of badinage and no one upset. That is a rare happening. :D

 

[ 15 March 2002, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

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Newt, got to agree with you there, them there lakes are way huge. I was on HMS Ulster, close escort to the Royal yacht when the Seaway was opened in June 1959 and we traveled through all the great lakes as far as Fort William and Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) 2342 miles inland and we were out of sight of land for days. Great trip though. Called at many places in canada and your home country.

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misama - I ain't touching that one there bud. Nope.

 

Umber - pretty country up there isn't it? If you stopped many places along the St. Lawrence, you may have an idea why the motto of the Chief Petty Officer's Mess when we were going bar-hopping (pub crawling?) was "Go Ugly Early".

 

Had to do with the overall appearance of most of the ladies we would see there - and a decision not to wait until the drink had made them all beautiful. :D

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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Now, now, Newt! We won't have any of that if you please. I'm sure Canadian women are beautiful once they've shaved in the morning....

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Whoa Newt! The Great Lakes with no real monster, other than the one you just reported? America is behind in the lake monster race and we must close the gap! May I suggest Lake Erie as an appropriate body of water? :D

 

"The Patriot": Perhaps a compliation of incidents from thoughout the Revolution, using someone like Francis Marion as a central character? Of course, I defer to the Carolinas on this 'un and the Swamp Fox. My ancestors were a little busy up in York State at the time what with shooting at each other and the British!

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Dragonbat:

Well Southern Jessies our Queen has seen fit to grant the Title of City to 5 of her towns in the United Kingdom.

Oh what a suprise all in the North.

:D

Aaaaaaand, after that patronising gesture - she chooses to live in the South and take her vacations in Scotland!

 

Votes wiv 'er feet does Liz. Suvvern girl, see? :)

 

Sorted.

 

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phonebush:

I hate UK beer.  Good ole Budwiser from St. Louis Mo. - now that beer.

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OK. We can take the tea party stuff, the 'our lakes are bigger 'n' your lakes' brag and we'll even refrain from laughing hysterically at the degree of padding your 'footballers' insist on wearing before they'll set a pampered little piggy on the pitch - but there's NO WAY that fortified gripe-water you lot serve up over there can EVER be dignified with the term 'beer'.

 

We'll allow you 'beerade', as a gesture for you being kind enough to keep Rod Stewart, George Michael and most of Elton John, but calling that sub-zero, alcho-pop 'beer' - nah, can't allow that, sorry. Gotta draw the line somewhere, folks. :rolleyes:

 

Get over here and neck a few pints of real ale, lads. I reckon you could become acclimatised to proper beer in a year or two - and in the meantime, you wouldn't need that tarts armour to play a game of footy, either!

 

Now then, let's have no more talk of your teenagers' tipple and 'beer' in the same category, ay? :)

 

Terry (Who loves 'em, really )

 

P.S. And I haven't even MENTIONED that WWF abomination, of which you lot should be deeply ashamed. :D

 

P.P.S. I'll also refrain from exhuming the topic of Dick Van Bloody Dyke's appalling accent in 'Murry Pawpins'. Out of respect, like.

 

[ 16 March 2002, 07:29 AM: Message edited by: Wordbender ]

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Actually Wordbender, as in most cases, the mass produced stuff as you say is the triumph of marketing over quality, but some of the U.S. microbreweries are superb. Try Samuel Adams products, Pete's Wicked beers and I reckon there are plenty other good ones.

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