Independence Day!
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For the Americans on the board, our Independence Day is next week. What are your favorite things to do on the holiday? What do you plan on doing this year? For those of you non-Yanks, when is Indepence Day in your country (if you have one) and what are some of the customs?
leckey wrote:
For the Americans on the board, our Independence Day is next week.
I have to work. :(( What makes it worse is the “Taste of Minnesota” isn’t to far away from where I work. So I get to deal with all of the crowds while en-route to work. Perhaps this will be the year where people realize that roughly almost $7 dollars for a bottle of water is too expensive and $5 bucks for mini donuts just inst worth it. X|
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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I've been vegetarian for about 6 months now. I don't really miss it that much, but a good ham sandwich is a divine pleasure. As far as being a carnivore sushi is where it's at. Mmmmmmmm raw meat. Though everytime I think about it I just have to remember colesterol, my gut and my goal to have a 6 pack by the end of the year, plus the mushroom risotto that my wife made last night and those urges pass.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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I see you are off that wonder bread crack. I hope you had some mustard on that. A sandwich on rye without mustard is a real shame.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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leckey wrote:
our Independence Day is next week
Drive around with a bullhorn shrieking: "Independence from foreign oil" "Independence from taxation without representation" "Independence from 21st century slave labor" "Independence from private health insurance fiasco" "Independence from the social security boondogle" :-D Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Marc Clifton wrote:
"Independence from private health insurance fiasco"
As if Public health care would be any better, see your next point.
Marc Clifton wrote:
"Independence from the social security boondogle"
:~
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Maximilien wrote:
and in Quebec, also known as "Moving Day" when most of the appartment leases end
Ummm... Sorry about that.... (If you didn't know - I saw a documentary a wee while ago that explained it was based on a Scots law thing centuries ago. The Scots and French were very close allies for many centuries and imported a lot of things from each other - And it then got imported into Quebec. I don't know if France still has this law, but we got rid of a long long time ago.)
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For the Americans on the board, our Independence Day is next week. What are your favorite things to do on the holiday? What do you plan on doing this year? For those of you non-Yanks, when is Indepence Day in your country (if you have one) and what are some of the customs?
We get together and kill aliens with software off our macs. Have to live up to all that mac hype you know... Defending the world, heck even the universe... It's BSD after all.:rolleyes:
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leckey wrote:
What do you plan on doing this year?
This will prolly come as no surprise to anyone, but I'll be spending the long weekend writing code. Oh, and I actually bought some ham again - first time in several months! :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
First time in several months?!?! :wtf: Are you feeling okay?:-D The ham drawer should never be empty.
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Yes, I see on my calendar tomorrow is Canada Day and observed on Monday. Is it always "observed" on Monday like our Presidents' Day? And what is the significance of July 1st? (if you know...)
No. it's just because this year it falls on a saturday. The celebration remains on July 1st, but the day off is given on the next business day --- except in Quebec of course, which is the day before. But since I'm a fed public servant, I've got monday off instead of the rest of Quebecers. > And what is the significance of July 1st? signature of the British North America Act, which creates officially the Dominion of Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America_Act[^]), made of 4 founding provinces (Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Other provinces gradually been added until the last one in 1949 (Newfoundland). The last change to political map was 1999 with the creation of Nunavut. Denevers
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leckey wrote:
What do you plan on doing this year?
This will prolly come as no surprise to anyone, but I'll be spending the long weekend writing code. Oh, and I actually bought some ham again - first time in several months! :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
I had ham salad for lunch. Mmmm. One of the best pigs I've ever had. :)
-- 100% natural. No superstitious additives.
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I see you are off that wonder bread crack. I hope you had some mustard on that. A sandwich on rye without mustard is a real shame.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
Andy Brummer wrote:
I see you are off that wonder bread crack.
Heh, yes. :-D Unfortunately, I never developed a taste for mustard and never add it to sandwiches or dogs. Also, I only just started eating ketchup (sparingly, with fries and potato chips). /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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I had ham salad for lunch. Mmmm. One of the best pigs I've ever had. :)
-- 100% natural. No superstitious additives.
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First time in several months?!?! :wtf: Are you feeling okay?:-D The ham drawer should never be empty.
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Andy Brummer wrote:
I see you are off that wonder bread crack.
Heh, yes. :-D Unfortunately, I never developed a taste for mustard and never add it to sandwiches or dogs. Also, I only just started eating ketchup (sparingly, with fries and potato chips). /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I only just started eating ketchup (sparingly, with fries and potato chips).
As I was reading along the thought oh my god he isn't putting ketchup on ham popped into my mind. I got to fries and it was all better, but then I hit potato chips, WTF? Ketchup is for burgers, fries and hot dogs.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I only just started eating ketchup (sparingly, with fries and potato chips).
As I was reading along the thought oh my god he isn't putting ketchup on ham popped into my mind. I got to fries and it was all better, but then I hit potato chips, WTF? Ketchup is for burgers, fries and hot dogs.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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For the Americans on the board, our Independence Day is next week. What are your favorite things to do on the holiday? What do you plan on doing this year? For those of you non-Yanks, when is Indepence Day in your country (if you have one) and what are some of the customs?
leckey wrote:
What do you plan on doing this year?
My boss scheduled a demonstration the day following the 4th... so I will be working the weekend to catch up to the list of features he wants. If I get it all done, I will be resting... if I can't get it all done, I will be working. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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For the Americans on the board, our Independence Day is next week. What are your favorite things to do on the holiday? What do you plan on doing this year? For those of you non-Yanks, when is Indepence Day in your country (if you have one) and what are some of the customs?
I tend to sit crying into my beer:((. It was a bad day when my British government decided to allow the USA own rule:-D, it was a bad day the British Government gave any country own rule. Steve Jowett British Imperialist - We will rule the world again (maybe)