"Riding the Stang" would make a great album title.
You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
Jon B. - Jun 30, 2004 6:51:21 am PDT #6412 of 6793
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
JohnSweden - Jun 30, 2004 6:59:14 am PDT #6413 of 6793
I can't even.
Kings and Hants are the counties that the riding covers.
Hants is the shortform for Hampshire in England. It would be kind of humourous if the NS county adopted it whole-cloth, so to speak.
Scugog is one of the best names ever. It totally reminds me of an old Kazar comic, or Savage Sword of Conan or something. People driving through Scugog with me tend to get subjected to a complete riff of me enjoying the sound of Scugog. That whole stretch of Highway 7 has some good slightly odd names.
Sue - Jun 30, 2004 7:03:49 am PDT #6414 of 6793
hip deep in pie
Hants is the shortform for Hampshire in England.
I never knew this.
It would be kind of humourous if the NS county adopted it whole-cloth, so to speak.
I'm sure they did. Yep:
Ultimately getting its name from the County of South Hampton in England, popularly called Hampshire, and abbrieviated to Hants, Hants County was established in 1781 out of part of what had been Kings County.
Dani - Jun 30, 2004 7:09:36 am PDT #6415 of 6793
I believe vampires are the world's greatest golfers
I posted this bit of news in Natter already, but it deserves to be double (har) posted.
"Double double" has finally made the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
JohnSweden - Jun 30, 2004 7:13:26 am PDT #6416 of 6793
I can't even.
I never knew this.
My uncle Jack and his family live in Southampton (in the New Forest, even), thus the fact trapped in my useless brain forever.
Ultimately getting its name from the County of South Hampton in England, popularly called Hampshire, and abbrieviated to Hants, Hants County was established in 1781 out of part of what had been Kings County.
That's fantastic, really. I'm wondering if we can look forward to new counties one day being named "Nfld" or "Alta" someplace.
brenda m - Jul 01, 2004 3:10:47 am PDT #6417 of 6793
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Happy Canada Day, all!
Nilly - Jul 01, 2004 3:19:46 am PDT #6418 of 6793
Swouncing
t poking head
Happy Canada day!
[Edit: and x-posted with brenda, no less]
sj - Jul 01, 2004 7:14:18 am PDT #6419 of 6793
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Happy Canada Day!
Sue - Jul 01, 2004 7:37:43 am PDT #6420 of 6793
hip deep in pie
Thanks! And Happy Canada Day to all!
Ouise - Jul 02, 2004 5:47:49 am PDT #6421 of 6793
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Drat! I'm too late. t jumps in time machine, travels back twelve hours Happy Canada Day!
True story: I was watching an american channel the other day, and they said something about "the upcoming holiday weekend." I thought "Oh, it's a holiday weekend there too? I wonder what the holiday is," and then forgot about it. Today there was a mention in a newspaper. Oh right. Independence Day. It's only the national holiday, coming, as always, three days after ours. No reason I should remember that.
I think maybe I left my brain somewhere else.