Subject: This isnt Snow's No Abuse board
Date: Mon Apr 8 08:28:06 2013
User: andaronjim
Message:http://realminuteboard.minuteboard.com/m/b/a/index.html
Date: Mon Apr 8 09:19:03 2013
User: LumberJack
Message:I see that you have a topic there that condemns taking a hard line with North Korea.
Great. So, yours is a site for members of Code Pink?
I'm still looking for a place to hang out with Real Americans.
Date: Mon Apr 8 09:45:57 2013
User: andaronjim
Message:Real Americans are gladly invited to Realminuteboard. Start a topic and lets see what happens.
Date: Mon Apr 8 10:40:02 2013
User: Snowguy
Message:Oh. I see. I thought you were saying there was such a thread on the No-Abuse P&R Board. I see you meant jim's new one. Carry on.
Date: Mon Apr 8 10:48:42 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:I'm not sure what's being said. According to LumberJack, he's Canadian. Which I guess is American, but still...
Date: Mon Apr 8 11:14:36 2013
User: beverley
Message:.gasp Buzz
.bonk Buzz
.e waves her VERY Canadian flag!
Date: Mon Apr 8 11:16:00 2013
User: Snowguy
Message:A Maple Leaf? What's up with that?
.e ducks, runs and hides.
Date: Mon Apr 8 11:35:29 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:"Real Americans are gladly invited to Realminuteboard. Start a topic and lets see what happens."
I think you need to do a deeper investigation of why Denny put hard freecell games in level 5, and easier ones in level 6 and up. We're all dying to get to the bottom of that.
(Although it's admittedly unclear as to whether or not you'd call me a "Real American".)
Date: Mon Apr 8 11:58:45 2013
User: anniealia
Message:Problem we have in the U.S. is we can't say real USn's so we end up calling ourselves Americans which actually includes Canadians, South Americans, Mexicans & the rest of the people in Central America. That's the problem down here--we don't know who the hell we are.
I was haggling over prices in Jordan when I visited there and realized quickly that if they knew I was from the states the price increased astronomically. So when they asked where I was from, I started telling them I was from Minnesota. "Where's that?" they'd ask and I'd tell them it was up by Canada and they'd nod and give me a lower price.
Date: Mon Apr 8 12:12:37 2013
User: mrbuck
Message:Canada...America's hat.
mrbuck
Date: Mon Apr 8 12:13:18 2013
User: xeena
Message:They're the top.
Date: Mon Apr 8 12:13:34 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:toque
Date: Mon Apr 8 13:38:58 2013
User: beverley
Message:Yeah yeah, you're all just Canadian-wanna-be's!
.e pulls her toque down tight and sticks out her tongue!
Date: Mon Apr 8 13:47:24 2013
User: Snowguy
Message:Sure you aren't puffing tight on your toke?
Date: Mon Apr 8 14:11:27 2013
User: Oink
Message:Oink!
Date: Mon Apr 8 17:34:16 2013
User: hotnurse
Message:I have a son who would *love* to have that shirt. Anyone know where it can be bought?
Date: Tue Apr 9 00:07:21 2013
User: xeena
Message:In Canada, they are more likely talking about their knit caps. A knit cap with or without a pompom, is called a toque up there (ay that is what it's aboat dude). And in Canada they might also spell it "tuque". And a fun fact for me is that I didn't know that a toque is also called a toboggan, like the sled, in some southern states, until someone told me that a couple years ago.
Date: Tue Apr 9 10:37:43 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Wasn't this discussed once before here?? Maybe not....
I grew up calling knit caps "toboggans", and really don't know another (single) word for them. I hadn't heard of the word "toque" until just a very few years ago, and then only in print. *Every* person I knew growing up called them toboggans. Curiously, only in the last decade or two has that word become infrequent around here. But I still *never* hear anyone say "toque", and would venture that 90+% of local residents wouldn't know what that is. (Well........they would know that 'other' thing it means if it was only verbalized, not written.)
Date: Tue Apr 9 11:21:20 2013
User: mrbuck
Message:I think most Americans became aware of the word during the SCTV skits The Great White North featuring Bob and Doug McKenzie played by Rich Moranis and Dave Thomas. TNmountainman can be excused from not learning the word in this fashion as there was only one television in the three county area he grew up in and that was in a basement bar below Pardner's BBQ and Steak house in Piney Flats. That set was only tuned into NASCAR as well as hunting and fishing shows such as The Southern Sportsman starring Franc White and his beloved Irish Setter, Fracas. Franc regularly cooked the game he shot or hooked in his tv set kitchen and then showed you just where in the great southern outdoors he caught or shot the animal. If you loved the great southern outdoors like TNmountain man you probably opened the windows to your house today as the weather outdoors is very pleasing. If you didn't you probably live somewhere where you are still wearing a tuque and wishing you were TNmountain man who is quite smart but does tend to run on a bit and stray off topic.
mrbuck
Link: you gotta ask wiki for heaven's sake
Date: Tue Apr 9 11:58:24 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:Ah, mrbuck -- you know me too well and reveal too much...
I wish all(?) that were the case, but....unfortunately I did have some exposure to SCTV, but don't recall hearing that word thereon. (Or maybe I heard it, but due to the language barrier between Canadian and Hillbilly, I didn't catch it.) And curiously(?), I was thinking of Pardner's just last night.
And yes, it appears real Spring has now FINALLY arrived, although we had snow just a very few days ago.
Date: Tue Apr 9 12:04:13 2013
User: ix
Message:teens and snowing here, we have the windows open also
Date: Tue Apr 9 12:11:52 2013
User: Royale.W.Cheese
Message:Someone on facebook was lamenting private schools v public. One commentator said: "There are no elite clicks in private school." Firstly, "click"?(sorry it's not a typo, it's a stupid) .... But what the heck do they think goes on among the kids in private school? Are they all too good to be in a CLICK?
What was the topic?
hey ajim!
Those who can speil might figure out how this post is on topic.
-Royale.W.Cheese
Date: Tue Apr 9 12:24:37 2013
User: TNmountainman
Message:I think mrbuck can lay out a pretty decent speil. Supposedly, Snowguy can, too.
Date: Tue Apr 9 12:38:23 2013
User: Royale.W.Cheese
Message:But.... I am peeked at them.
Date: Tue Apr 9 13:24:18 2013
User: BuzzClik
Message:They do have a point, Royale.W.Cheese. As far as I know, no one in my family has ever attended a private school.
By the way, do they have Subway sandwich shops in France? What do they call a footlong? In Canada, much to my dismay, they call them "footlongs".
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