The Canadian Thread

[Kid Rich]

Bare or bear?

No way to unsee that.

kR

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

use as needed

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

And here I was hoping I would have the ladies of SASS flocking north, just to get close to my hairless chest!!

Anyway, here's the Confederation Bridge that now links the Canadian mainland in New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island crossing the Northumberland Strait. It's about 13 Km long.

 

[Brazos John]

7 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

It's about 13 Km long.

That's about 8 miles, for us Yanks. 

My Wife would hate it.

But we love oysters from PEI!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

I recall a mess dinner where raw fresh oysters were being served., flown in from Baddeck N.S. 

I was told to squirt a little lemon juice on the opened fresh oyster; if it contracted/shriveled a bit, it was fresh and OK to eat. If it didn't react: Don't Eat It.

Also, drink soft drinks or beer- not liquor or you'll see them again, whole in a little hard, condensed ball.

I followed that Maritimes advice and was fine.

I heard some of the others, who didn't heed his advice, worshipping The Great White Goddess!

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

look at the bright side 

 

the BEER stays cold 

 

  CB 🤣

[Will Kane]

 

[Brazos John]

3 hours ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

look at the bright side 

 

the BEER stays cold 

 

  CB 🤣

Growing up in the Northeast (Pa, Del, NJ), we had to bring the Coke bottles in from the garage, or they would freeze and break!  Too young for beer at the time.     

Not now!!!!!!!!!!!!  

 

My Dad had a 100-year-old farm house (before the War) in the Poconos with a stream running beneath it. He and his friends would keep their beer in the flowing creek, and it always stayed cold.  

 

Man, I wonder how much that house would be worth today!  

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Brazos John]

Surely something funny has happened in Canada in the last month!  

 

If so, tell us, and I'll stop calling you Shirley.

[John Kloehr]

6 hours ago, Brazos John said:

Surely something funny has happened in Canada in the last month!  

 

If so, tell us, and I'll stop calling you Shirley.

They are voting today. All might be glued to the news feeds.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

"A member of the public was scared of a tarp on their neighbour’s property. The resident was so concerned they also called the police to report the frightening activity."

 

Back when Bill Shatner was doing "Rescue 911", he had a story about a young woman who called 911 about a burglar in her house. She was SO scared because she had cats. 

It turned out that it was a coat rack at the end of her hall with her OWN jacket and hat on it. But that's not the best part.

They were interviewing her for the show, and mind you this was at LEAST months after the incident, and she was CRYING, saying, "I was so scared. I didn't know if it was some cat murderer in my house".

 

 

Edited June 11, 2025 by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

So, ...... how did you guys fare in your recent election ?

 

    ... something different, ...... or more of the same ?

 

 

We have a federal election tomorrow  (sat.)

   Sunday is vote counting day  MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH UTH !

 

                                    ....... AND IT WATHN'T  🤥

Edited May 6, 2025 by Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062

[Alpo]

[Alpo]

[Michigan Slim]

I didn't know that Canadians spell Canada CND. New to me 

 

C, eh, N, eh, D, eh

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

On 4/28/2025 at 1:50 AM, Brazos John said:

Surely something funny has happened in Canada in the last month!  

 

If so, tell us, and I'll stop calling you Shirley.

 

Not actually funny. Brazos!

BUT it does confirm what I began to believe about the average Canadian voter.

After the abrupt turn around in voter preference, the ruling party won again.

This, despite it being pointed out that while the then "Dear Leader" had been ousted, (since it appeared the party was heading to annihilation at the polls) and a new Dear Leader crowned, while all the same minions who helped create the fiasco were still there! 

And they were re-elected.

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig!

Actions outside Canada created a tsunami of Canadian patriotism however, sponsored by the party whose former Dear Leader stated: "Canada is a Post National Country" and "Canada has no core values." and they all nodded and embraced the idea.

(Actually funny to watch if you have a memory capable of retaining anything longer than a month! 

A side effect of the results of the election has been a dramatic increase in a different kind of patriotism, albeit Provincial/local with a huge spike in Western alienation and membership in WEXIT.

Currently, 47+ % of Albertans are in favour of Independence and the numbers are rising.

(FYI: Canada has a formulae for calling an Independence Referendum, originally put in place to placate the Province of Quebec, but it looks like Alberta may be the first to actually use it and leave. It is actually being scheduled by the Premier of that landlocked province. Have a look at a map and guess what is likely to happen!)

[Alpo]

16 hours ago, Alpo said:

The more I look at that the more impressed I am. Not the "taking the header into the snow". It looks like that kid ran across a sheet of black ice. My two experiences with it were not fun.

[Sedalia Dave]

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

Fishing The Narrows, on the Montreal River, near Gowganda, Ontario

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

It will run two hours all electric and has a diesel extender engine that can recharge the batteries giving it eight hours of run time.

AND, they got the leak fixed that took it out of operation for a while!

Next up: Electric powered water bombers.

 

Edited August 27, 2025 by Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

[Alpo]

 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

FYI:

It's coming close to the breeding season for Canadians!

 

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

[Sedalia Dave]

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17quwpdx3m/?mibextid=wwXIfr

 

 

 

Edited October 9, 2025 by Sedalia Dave

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[John Kloehr]

[Eyesa Horg]

1 hour ago, John Kloehr said:

And those toothy bastiges can build a wall. 

[sassnetguy50]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

And those toothy bastiges can build a wall. 

Dam them.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

[Buckshot Bear]

Come to Canada they said, now I'm freezing me arse off.