The driveway won't shovel itself...
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Topic: The driveway won't shovel itself...
Posted By: Peter
Subject: The driveway won't shovel itself...
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:25
So who's going to help me? 
There's a tasty beer or two in it for you!
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 No minors -- though miners are free to apply.)C'mon, get off yer lazy duffs -- it builds character!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:28
Um... ....yeah, I've got this thing, and....y'know....it's cold out and I have this condition....so, yeah....
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:31
Sigh -- just as I expected: fair-weather friends! 
Oh well -- more beer for me then!
 Talk at ya later.
Now, where are those longjohns?  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:33
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:38
I thought it was a law that all Canadiens have to own snowblowers.
 Or haven't you heard of them yet?
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Peter wrote:Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:41
I have to study for finals....  Why did I take Calculus III....  |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:42
oh come on, Maryland gets like 8 inches of snow a YEAR, do you really need a snowblower?  I wish my stepdad would finally get one  -------------
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 15:42
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Those snowblowers might be too much "heavy metal" for him. Besides he probably prefers the classic shovels from the 70's. ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 16:14
I don't have one.
I have two....my daughter and my son.When it snows I hand them shovels and say....."go shovel the drive and the sidewalks".
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 16:18
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I hung my washing on the line this morning and forgot about it, and now they're frozen stiff. I used to dread the days i'd worry about these things and seeing those frosted garments filled me with a paralyzing terror and I'll never be the same the grass was a little icedusted too which relates my post to peter's ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 16:45
Don't you have children? |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 18:01
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ah....the joys of winter. Nothing like breaking out the 35 year old snow shovel and pulling several muscles in my back (it's good fun, really) followed by an intense session of chopping wood as if my life depends on it.
Chop chop Peter....down in the States we're workin' on a solution to your cold Canadian winters (in the form of CO2...), and you may not have the joy of shoveling snow in the future... ------------- Signature Writers Guild on strike |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 18:35
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Personally, I like shoveling snow. I enjoy being out in snow, even if it's shoveling I don't mind. In fact, I remember once during a blizzard a neighbor said he'd lend my father his snowblower, to which my dad replied "nah I already have 2, one is still sleeping" EDIT: I just read all the posts. Apparently Jody and my dad think alike. But Canada is pretty far away.....so I'm gunna need a few 6 packs to go up there. Wait, what's the drinking age in Canada? |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 20:35
The amount of snow we get here in the deep south of England can usually be cleared with a half-decent sneeze (yay! for the Gulf Stream!  )------------- What? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 20:41
calling for snow and ice in the DC area tomorrow into Sunday.... would be nice... no snow shovel... not even an ice scraper. No work Monday then hahhaha. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 14 2007 at 20:41
Don't forget the "Go ahead, stop crying!" ! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 02:32
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We're getting a good amount of the stuff this weekend in America's heartland. After last week's ice storms, snow is very welcomed. Personally, I love the stuff. Don't care for shoveling it, though. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 02:43
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I'd help, Peter, but Canada is so far, far way. Besides, I normally don't have to shovel any driveway at all, since I live in an building apartment. Which is kinda good, but also kinda sad. I'd love a house! It just so happens it snowed "decently" for the first time in about three years here. Nothing wonderful, yet relaxing...  ------------- 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:17
Because you wanted to learn the joys of directional derivatives, triple integrals, line integrals, and vector calculus?
 As for you Peter, you really should install some heat lamps underneath...melts that snow right away. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:25
Excuses, excuses! If it's not studying, it's distance or bad backs.
Lazy, skinny, shackled-to-the-computer, natural-light shunning prognerds!
 Well, gotta go do some more now. -20 C outside but a nice day -- & still lots of BEER left!
For ME. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:39
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Well, I can have beer too. And only for doing a bit of cleaning up in the house.  -------------
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:40
^^^ Peter, what are you doing with Raff's cat in a basket?? 
I think you'll find 'Chicken in a basket' would be far more satisfying, washed down with a few beers after a long, hard shovel....
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:40
if you save me from having to endure 'he who hath no name* being in Xover' I'll buy you a whole six pack and deal with the hell from your mother later ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 15:59
sweeeeet!  -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 16:02
just don't tell Dean I'll make it a 12 pack... Busch LIte .. ahhh.. ..good stuff Rico ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 17:19
And really, who wouldn't? If you're planning to do any physics in your life, this semester contains essential concepts - Maxwell's equations, in particular, make use of divergence and curl, and manipulations of said equations from differential to integral forms require the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem. Geek lesson over - back to shoveling (and drinking)!  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 20:43
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 15 2007 at 20:46
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damnit... got found out hahahhahahha
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 09:54
Hey Peter. How is your schedule looking today??? We are expecting 8 - 12 inches of snow here in Michigan today. Is your shovel handy? There are probably some beers in it for you.   -------------
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 13:23
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We got a good bit of snow here too. Not the possible 15 inches we were warned about (ridiculous, we've probably never had that much in one snowfall), but a good 5 inches I'd say. The wet, sticky kind of snow too, it crunches under yer feet.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 13:37
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After all was said and done we got less than 4 inches, and it seems that is all that we are supposed to get. Pretty ticked that the weathermen were so off from actual again, but can't complain too much because that is so much less to have to shovel. -------------
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 14:31
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^Stop trusting weathermen.... About two years ago, the Dutch weather organisation KNMI became familiar with (or made up) the concept of 'weather alerts'. Hilarious, they had to withdraw an alert twice last year, and this week they send out an alert for a storm two days in a row which they obviously didn't dare withdraw. Warned us about heavy winds, blinding rain and huge traffic jams. Nothing happened of course..... Wish we had some snow here though... ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 01 2008 at 14:40
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I am actually reading a book called The Weather Man by Steve Thayer. It is about a Minnesota Weather Man who has an uncanny ability to predict the weather accurately, and once each season there is a severe weather occurrence. On each of these days there is a woman who gets murdered. I haven't gotten in to the book far enough to know if he is the killer or not. It has a blurb on the cover from Stephen King promoting the book, so I suppose it is from the horror genre. Definitely a work of fiction though: a weatherman who can actually predict the weather. -------------
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 13:05
^ Some still predict the weather via the examination of a pig's spleen -- and reportedly attain greater accuracy than the learned meteorologists with their science & satellite images:
 http://www.almanac.com/weathercenter/pigspleen.php - http://www.almanac.com/weathercenter/pigspleen.php  Here's another interesting article about using other natural, traditional means to forecast weather: http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/essays/2006fa_weather.html - http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/essays/2006fa_weather.html
Well, rushfan4, it's just as well your great snowfall didn't materialize, because when I got to the aerodrome to wing my way down to your aid -- and to avail myself of your ale
-- they wouldn't let me check my snow scoop in with my carry-on luggage. (I guess they feared I might brandish it to wrest control of the aeroplane.)Unwilling to let "Scoopy" be consigned to confinement in some common cargo-hold, discouraged and disheartened, I trudged torpidly across the tarmac (albeit, all the while admiring my awesome alliterative abilities), to wend my lonely way home to my own spartanly-shoveled driveway, there to seek some sodden solace from my own splendid stock of snow-chilled ale.
 Ah well, the thought was there....
Yes, forget your piddling, back-breaking little shovels -- this is the proper tool for the snow-relocating job, as employed by wise & manly-muscled Canadians with much snow to shift, but a mind for maintaining the health of heart and back:
 Mine is heavy-duty plastic, but these things are a MUST! (
Sorry Progtologist -- snowblowers are for lazy, limp-wristed, crippled- up, air polluting girly men! ) My "acoustic" scoop is just as fast or faster, silent (I play motivating music via a portable tape-deck in my garage), free to operate, keeps me warm, and gives me EXERCISE! Get real -- go green -- go natural!
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 13:21
Don't your weathergirls wear skimpy clothes and do strip teases, or is that my imagination?  -------------   
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:17
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^ Not as far as I know, James. I do know there's a station called Naked News on the web - but it's Canadian. Suppose Peter can help you out there..... @Rushfan4: I think the guy in the book has changed from pig's spleen to woman's spleen - but I haven't read the book, so I can't be sure. @Peter: Nice picture - my kids would love to stay with you over winter holidays. We had 2 cm of snow overnight earlier this week, and it melted away by 10AM.... ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:44
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The reason it melted, was due to Alex Lifeson's guitar solos, Angelo.
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 14:51
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Alex was in our village in the Netherlands? You're kidding, right? ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 15:36
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Peter, Thank you for making the effort. I am not sure about the pig spleen, but I am hoping that the "pigskin" today will foretell the coming of warm weather. (For those not familiar, pigskin is a term used to refer to the football in American football). I made up my own groundhog folklore today in my review of the Tiles concert in the concert review section, and oddly enough there were no responses, but I could probably tell the temperature from the sound of the crickets on that thread.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 15:46
I was referring to you having your stereo volume too loud, thus melting the snow with Lifeson's face-melting solos. -------------
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Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: February 03 2008 at 16:30
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Then you were way off - as you can see in my sig I was admiring Anneke van Giersbergens voice...
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 07:07
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PETER.....
if you pay for my return air fare, put me up in a 5 star hotel and the hire of a Limo I'll shovel your driveway FOR FREE !!
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 07:20
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MF - are you sure?
This is what constitutes a 5* hotel in Peter's neck of the woods: 
And that's after it was renovated last year... Hardy lot, these Ontarians. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 09:06
^ I see the Hilton Ontario staff have been using photoshop to glamorise their hotel, I've managed to find an unaltered version of the same photo:
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 13:55
your Stretch Limo, Sir......
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 14:17
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I guess I should be more thankful for living in the southeast US. Here the driveway does actually shovel itself sort of. Well, when the snow happens it doesn't hang around too long. Of course we get the fun of ice storms, which you in the snowier climates don't get the joy of...
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Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: February 04 2008 at 14:24
Peter...I'll help you if you will help me these images are 5 minutes old. it has not stopped snowing for about 5 days now... All I have done is shovel... shovel... shovel... with my bear hands... Since I'm already a "character" it hasn't improved my character...   . |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 05 2008 at 11:58
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I live far away from any snowy point of my country... the closest I've been to snow was this one time when it was raining. I left my aunt's house after a visit with only a sweater. Suddenly, it stars raining while I was walking to the bus stop. The air became really cold and before I realized, a "stone" hit me in the head. I don't know the name for that, but the rain became solid and there was nothing around that I could use as shelter. I just start runnig for it. Those things hit really hard. Ah... the memories of a whole neighborhood with damn too short roofs... ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: February 05 2008 at 12:07
FYI, the word for hard rain is "hail". It is both a blessing and a curse living in an area with 4 seasons. The snow is beautiful, but it can be a real pain to shovel, and when it is cold outside and the wind is blowing the cold can be extremely painful. Definitely a time to be glad to have a roof over one's head and a furnace to keep the house warm. -------------
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Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 07 2008 at 09:55
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Well, then, I got "hailed" for a good 15 minutes. My aunt's house is somehow away from any bus stop, given that people who lives in that area doesn't need public transportation. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 11:44
Is "bear" hands a Canadian in-joke? -------------
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Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: February 08 2008 at 11:47
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Just don't type bear into Google! ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 07:23
Could it be...?
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 07:27
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Ewww! I was just about to get some lunch... now I'm not hungry. It's the wings that are the problem for me. -------------
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Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: February 19 2008 at 11:57
Actually, I am Papa Bear, my wife...Mama Bear. We caught Goldilocks in our home doing you know what... so we forced her to shovel all the snow off the driveway... then we ate her... MMMmmmm...yummie . |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 08:57
! Poor Goldilox! Where's a heroic woodcutter when you need one? Well, I guess that if one lacks thumbs -- and consequently the ability to grip a shovel -- having the upper extremities of a large ursid would aid immensely in the shifting of snow....
(As for me, I clear my driveway with my BEER hands!)
We had quite the dump of snow on Sunday night & Monday -- about a foot and a half, to you backward, non-metric Yanks & Brits. Man, I was out there for hours, and with only two beer left (Monday was a new holiday here in Ontario -- "Family Day" -- so the beer stores were closed.) Did you know that shoveling snow & hauling wood without beer is just (retch) WORK???
 As it is now, my front yard is a veritable mountain. When I stand atop my snow pile (built by hand, in the ancient Egyptian manner -- though I lack the droves of slaves... send me some teen-aged metalhead striplings from the VR. I'll whip 'em into line!), I can almost reach the overhead power lines! Quite the view from up there, but the lack of oxygen soon forces me down to more human-friendly altitudes....
I simply cannot get the snow up there anymore -- the hill is too steep & lofty -- so now all snow from the drive has to be shifted to the back yard! I've had enough!
On top of that, we've had about three-four weeks of very cold temperatures (-20 to -30C), and my woodpile is in imminent danger of disappearing. I need a break soon!
On the plus side, though, apparently all of this unseasonable extreme cold has been good for Arctic ice conditions -- the sea ice has been coming back where it should, houses in the far north are not falling into melting permafrost, and the polar bears will be able to reach the seals via the ice. (Heck, they may soon just stroll down and reach me -- might be a good place for you to pick up a date, Utah!
Well, that's all I can BEAR to write now -- I'm off to walk to work. (brrrrrr!)
Dreamed I was an Eskimo.....
I leave you with a picture of a city bus here, and one of my new neighbours:
  Awwww! He wants a hug, Utah! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 10:49
 There's Mr. Bear for you. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:22
I don't know Peter - this time last year you were complaining it was too mild, now you're moaning it's too cold; some people, eh... As Judas Priest would say you're "never satisfied" (but if you play it backwards, the lyrics are "kill yourself, dude - it's really cool")
So therefore, hopefully really good for a couple of Brits to go all teary eyed & say "wow" a lot when watching the icebergs from a vantage point on The Rock in summer... ...with the obligatory beer, of course  -------------
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Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:38
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"Help Me. I've fallen and I can't get up... ...a great big Grizzly visiting from the States pushed me over..." . |
Posted By: Utah Man
Date Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:47
 "OK Guys...you keep 'em busy while I puncture their tires" . |
Posted By: kiwi
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 13:53
I heard the theory that the Gulf Stream is switching off - so maybe you should get a snow blower while they are cheap. ------------- We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high.. (Baha'u'llah) music |
Posted By: Wallium
Date Posted: February 21 2008 at 19:12
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I have to shovel every time it snows....... A large driveway worth (at least). 2-5 hours.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 15:47
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Luckilly, I don't have a driveway to shovel right now. But I do need to dig my car out, but hey at least it's another snow day. |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 15:52
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I haven't got a driveway, a car or a shovel. And there's hardly any snow either.
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 16:39
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I just got in from shoveling myself.
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Posted By: Scapler
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 16:54
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Snow, on the driveway? Where??
Oh, that's right, I live in Florida! ------------- Bassists are deadly 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 17:21
| A light shovel day today...just had to push the snow really, wasn't too strenuous. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 22 2008 at 19:14
| ^^Where in PA are you? |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 08:43
| Eastern Montgomery County, about 20 min. NW of Philadelphia. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 13:04
^ Hey guys, this ain't no chat room! There's a twenty-five word minimum to post in this thread! Ante up!
Wait! How many words was that? < Oh, I'm okay now, I see... Whew!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 13:17
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I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very sorry, Peter.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 15:15
Ah, I'm in Middletown (Lower Dauphin County) 9 miles outside of Harrisburg.
I must admit so far it's been a very light winter for snow.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 23:27
Ah, so you're at PSU Harrisburg. Always thought you were out at State College. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: February 23 2008 at 23:49
Yea...I was going up there after my 2nd year, (like many do) but I....grew to like it here?? and have made so many friends I don't want to leave.
And not to get off topic..the snow has been dissapointng but the ice has been a pain to keep cleaning
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