Freaky Friday again. Any rants or raves?
Nov 28th, 2003, 12:36 PM
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Freaky Friday again. Any rants or raves?
here's mine. the national media reported that president Bush departed from texas at 8:30 eastern time on his way to iraq. he departed at 7:30. eastern time was irrelevant to the event. we all don't run on east coast time. comments?
Nov 28th, 2003, 01:07 PM
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Here's mine: Many of my family members post on fodors. Toward the end of Thanksgiving dinner, we were commenting on the many ignorant, misinformed posts regarding "Live in Hawaii" and "Locals don't want us there." It's so bad on those threads that we can't even go back to dignify the threads with a response!
Nov 28th, 2003, 04:26 PM
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jor, they probably just want to give a frame of reference and timetable. Obsessives like me can then figure out how long it took and what time he'd get back to Crawford (and whether that bit of I-35 they showed on TV looked familiar to me.) Now THAT is really irrelevant. How about the fact that Hillary R. Clinton visited the troops today?
Nov 28th, 2003, 07:26 PM
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I've talked with a few Americans visiting Toronto, doing their shopping.
Two somewhat giggly but very polite teenage girls were on the subway today, moving from the neighborhood with the mid-level prices up to Yorkville, with the high-level prices. They already had about eight different bags with them.
They were off on an adventure, riding the subway in a foreign country, looking for things to buy, and all in all, seemed to be having a good time.
Somewhere there should be proud parents; they raised their daughters well.
It's been raining for two solid days, but Toronto's got a maze of tunnels to keep shoppers dry, and I managed to direct three grown-up couples to the passageways. All were from the USA.
Plus there were two French people I saw today. They had on long raincoats, waterproof hats, and had only one day to see the whole city, so were staying above ground, rain or not.
And my friend Joanne, who works in the middle of the Yorkville shopping area, was off to Buffalo today to join Americans in your own shopping extravaganas.
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Two somewhat giggly but very polite teenage girls were on the subway today, moving from the neighborhood with the mid-level prices up to Yorkville, with the high-level prices. They already had about eight different bags with them.
They were off on an adventure, riding the subway in a foreign country, looking for things to buy, and all in all, seemed to be having a good time.
Somewhere there should be proud parents; they raised their daughters well.
It's been raining for two solid days, but Toronto's got a maze of tunnels to keep shoppers dry, and I managed to direct three grown-up couples to the passageways. All were from the USA.
Plus there were two French people I saw today. They had on long raincoats, waterproof hats, and had only one day to see the whole city, so were staying above ground, rain or not.
And my friend Joanne, who works in the middle of the Yorkville shopping area, was off to Buffalo today to join Americans in your own shopping extravaganas.
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Nov 29th, 2003, 12:35 PM
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Here's mine- Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday- laid back, little commercialism- just family get togethers and eating! Much more enjoyable than Xmas which has gotten way out of hand- getting to be one giant tinsel laden commercial, all about $$$$ !!
Nov 29th, 2003, 12:53 PM
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Here's a rave, for Kal, for organizing a post-Thanksgiving Friday GTG in Yountville. And another rave for PamSF, Peg, KirRoyale and "Mr. Kir", razzledazzlers, and the delightful Mrs. Kal (who is shorter than I am, just in case anyone is interested), for showing up in the rain to drink a lot of red wine and eat enough Italian deli to put our nitrite levels off the charts. A good time was had by all!!
Nov 29th, 2003, 01:56 PM
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Here's a second rave for the Yountvillers GTG! Kal, for organizing that which should be an annual event, and the marvelous company of Mrs. Kal, Marilyn,Phil Flash,Peg,PamsSF and the Kir Royals. And yes I think Mrs. Kal may be shorter than Marilyn and we'll soon have photo documentation to prove it! It was raining?
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Nov 30th, 2003, 01:07 PM
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HiMelissa -- I resemble that remark too, even though I made it. It was a bit of a joke at the end of the evening, and a photo was taken of Mrs. Kal and yours truly standing, in time-honored fashion, back to back. So we shall see. I just put it in my post to tease the charming Mrs. K.
