vancouver islander - Feb 1, 2008 1:15 pm - Voted 10/10
Submarines. Don't forget.......the 3 we bought from the Brits 5 or 6 years ago. One day, and several more $millions in repairs, and they may even put to sea.
AJones - Feb 1, 2008 11:03 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Submarines. Don't forget...Yes, that's right - the one burned up on the way back from England; I wonder where those are (over in Comox?). How we digress..
GCutforth - Jan 29, 2008 10:59 pm - Voted 10/10
Well Played...Great read once again Mr.Jones. Too funny and I actually laughed out loud when our man Bill cut the rope. A classic end to a very funny read. A small part of me was hoping you could find a way to work Bill's sexy blonde side kick with the distorted knowledge of Canadian history into the story, but life goes on :)
AJones - Jan 30, 2008 7:28 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Well Played...I was thinking I could have gotten Micheal Moore to pay for my hospital bill, but that's about the only extra creativity I could muster.
telsonboy - Feb 9, 2008 11:09 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Well Played...Now how do you suppose Michael Moore would pay for the medical bill? He's for universal health care, he'd rather I pay for it with my taxes. =) But at least you got treated quicker than you would back home, eh?
AJones - Feb 10, 2008 2:28 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Well Played...That's a reference to his movie "Sicko", where he pays somebody's hospital bill (someone's who runs a "I hate Micheal Moore" website).
You seem to be taking this story more seriously than it was meant - it was a light hearted response to a couple of SP articles about finding religion and science in the mountains. You're not Bill O'Reilly are you?
AJones - Jan 31, 2008 12:36 am - Hasn't voted
Re: pricelessThanks for the compliment! I'm one of those foresters that never goes to the bush. I'm do public affairs/communication stuff for the company I work for - so I actually do a lot of writing. I wish they'd pay me millions, but not yet...
Diveria - Feb 1, 2008 6:39 am - Voted 10/10
Amusing..the truth is that over the mountains one can find just rocks, grass, snow and so on... and that's the real good of mountains!!
Arthur Digbee - Feb 1, 2008 9:06 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Amusing..Now you've given them an idea....."Finding Rocks in the Mountains."
AJones - Feb 2, 2008 1:05 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Amusing..Yes, but I wasn't trying to be truthful, I was trying to be ridiculous..
kamil - Feb 2, 2008 8:14 am - Voted 10/10
wicked!That's hilarious, Aaron, laughed my arse off reading it :)
Got the one with Bachar and Hilti but had to look up some other names... great read anyway, hope it'll help some folks get the right distance!
cheers,
kamil
AJones - Feb 2, 2008 8:44 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: wicked!Thanks - that's cool you got the Bachar reference, but wouldn't expect Europeans to know Al Sharpton and Bill O'Rielly, which you might probably be thankful (that you don't know them) for anyway.
DrJonnie - Feb 5, 2008 10:04 am - Voted 10/10
HumourIt's good to get some cross fertilisation of humour going. Across the pond we tend to be a bit obscure as mentioned above, but we do read the papers occasionally so we have heard of Sharpton although the only O'Reilly that comes to mind is the one in the Fawlty Towers episode "are you orily men?"
I was in Rockford Illinois some years ago and someone asked me where Europe was. I thought that was quite funny.
cheers Johnnie
AJones - Feb 5, 2008 10:45 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: HumourThanks for the comments. By the way, Bill O'Reilly is a right wing news show host (very right wing) - he's also been quite vocal at times about his dislike of Canada (apparently, we're far too left wing).
DrJonnie - Feb 6, 2008 6:03 am - Voted 10/10
Re: Humourah! thanks for the info, well I guess I'm slightly to the right of Chairman mao, so I guess if I was a yankee I'd be voting for Obama, although he appears a bit plastic to me on TV.
cheers Johnnie
mattnoland - Feb 5, 2008 1:26 pm - Hasn't voted
Could you?
"We could do with a lot less submarines and a lot more parkland and wilderness."
Can you write up something on the relationship between submarines and wilderness areas in the United States?
Indiana Mad-Man - Feb 5, 2008 2:43 pm - Hasn't voted
Nooooo!No, not again! Make it stop!
telsonboy - Feb 9, 2008 11:06 pm - Hasn't voted
RIGHTEOUS!Oh this post is too much! Love it! Now you know why I voted for Georgy TWICE (and Shiner Bock beer from Texas is better than any Canadian Beer I've had, no offense, just informational, TRY IT!).
I just discovered SummitPost today. Hats off to y'all everywhere. Y'all must really be from Texas, because, as Supertramp said, "everyone's a millionaire." And yes, Texans can be self-deprecating, too, but we don't let everyone know it.
shanrickv - Feb 10, 2008 9:53 am - Voted 10/10
10!As the founding author of the "Finding" series I give you a much deserved 10. Great read.
Climb On!
Patrick
PS There are days when Bill O'Reilly needs to have his rope cut!
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