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Post by Neil on Sept 22, 2013 14:05:40 GMT -8
The mass username changes happened again this year. I didn't change my username to "CompdudeA350;" I think you did. Thus, I have reason to believe that you changed everyone's usernames to Flugel Horn last year. Even then, one can still tell people apart by the fact that their avatars and signatures are different. I hope you don't have the power to change those. Wanna bet?  As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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Post by Mike C on Sept 22, 2013 15:26:35 GMT -8
Wanna bet? No, because it's an obvious fact that the moderators changed everyone's usernames. It doesn't surprise me that moderators have such an ability. I don't know about whether you have the ability to edit people's signatures and avatars, though, since you haven't exercised that ability. I'd rather not find out, though.
Sorry. Answer: yes, we do have that ability. We choose not to modify anything other than the username, to make it easier for the affected members.  |
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 22, 2013 20:38:09 GMT -8
Wanna bet? As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's like the rings of power. It gives power according to the measure of each possessor. This is a September tradition; the boys will be having fun, all fuelled up, somewhere in Satan's Castle  . JST currently on DOT's computer.There's that reference to Satan's Castle again. Sounds like an evil version of the local fun park near Chilliwack called 'Castle Fun Park'. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 3, 2013 19:12:26 GMT -8
I'd like to study this here photo a bit: We're going to get very familiar with the various characters in this photo, because it will be the most frequently displayed banner for October. I've already got a couple of favourites that I'm developing backstories for. 3rd-from-left, with black sweatshirt and ball cap: - Where the hand gesture seems like a geometric shape jutting out from the belly of his black shirt. I like the shape that his hand forms. Like a practicing Jedi of Port Townsend. The guy in the middle-left foreground has got a lot to appreciate. (not the red-shirt guy, but the guy to the right of the red-shirt guy) - the relaxed stride. - the rolled-up sleeves. - the cool eye-glasses - the red beard and matching locks flowing out from under that pink cap. And behind his right shoulder is a guy (I think) with those striped sleeves (with a t-shirt over top who's colour matches the other guy's cap), purple Nalgene bottle, and that wonderful bandana. - I'd like to think that those two colourful individuals are traveling together. And behind relaxed-stride man is the angry torn-jeans zombie walker of Jefferson County. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 8, 2013 14:48:15 GMT -8
I'd like to study this here photo a bit: Today's question: - How did John H's station-wagon get into this photo ? |
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Post by compdude787 on Oct 8, 2013 20:24:36 GMT -8
I'd like to study this here photo a bit: Today's question: - How did John H's station-wagon get into this photo ? It's probably not his, but instead one that looks like his. Well, he could've been taking a ferry trip at the time... That's my guess. |
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Post by Scott on Oct 8, 2013 20:40:38 GMT -8
I did notice that wagon in the picture Looks like it is in very nice shape. From what I can see, I can't tell what make or model it is - I'm not a car expert. It's not mine, though. I very rarely venture south of the border.. actually haven't done so for over 5 years. I do have a passport now, however, and would like to head down there in the next year when I start getting holidays again after switching jobs twice in the past year. I was also noticing the woman pushing the stroller. The lady looks nothing like my wife, but the kid in the stroller with his face hidden, but with the yellow jacket and bright red hair, looks just like my son right now. There must also be an interesting story with the guy a few feet behind them who has the big green backpack on his back and is carrying an overflowing laundry hamper. - John H |
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Post by Neil on Oct 16, 2013 21:49:15 GMT -8
In another thread this evening, Mr Horn referenced former Canuck Max Lapierre, and his recent transgression, in which he cowardly drove an opponent head first into the boards.
I read another story today, involving a junior hockey game in the United States League, where a player went into convulsions and is possibly suffering brain damage after hitting his head on the ice during a fight.
Hockey is disgusting. I've grown to despise the game, and the people who control it, and the idiots like Don Cherry who defend the brain killing violence.
You're not allowed to fight in soccer, or football, or basketball, or baseball. Even in a violent contact game like football, head shots are outlawed, period. Only ice hockey allows assaults that border on criminality, and the moronic fans stand up and cheer.
'We are all Canucks'? Nope. Not here. Not until the sport deals with the savagery.
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Post by Blue Bus Fan on Oct 25, 2013 17:38:51 GMT -8
Fun fact: October is the foggiest month in the year; I never knew this until this year. I have notice that in the mornings and it backs up the fact.
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Post by compdude787 on Oct 25, 2013 20:06:12 GMT -8
Fun fact: October is the foggiest month in the year; I never knew this until this year. I have notice that in the mornings and it backs up the fact. Oh yeah, I remember reading that in a book I have about Pacific NW weather. It just hasn't been so evident as it has been this year. |
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Post by Neil on Oct 29, 2013 21:42:45 GMT -8
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Post by Luke on Oct 31, 2013 18:34:41 GMT -8
Happy Halloween! Or should I say TERRIFYING Halloween! HAHAHA!!!! Also, 2 years today since I first joined the forum! |
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Post by Neil on Nov 1, 2013 22:34:21 GMT -8
Absolutely monsooning here on Hornby right now... thumping against my tin roof in a way that defies the notion of rain 'drops'. Environment Canada has a rainfall warning up, but still the Comox conditions report 'light rain'. I've noticed this before- it always says 'light rain'.
If Environment Canada was around back when the animals were lining up two by two to get on the ark, the current conditions would have said 'light rain'. Must have something to do with the Canadian predilection to make the best of the weather we have.
Even the mushrooms are getting a beating.
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Post by compdude787 on Nov 1, 2013 23:08:48 GMT -8
Absolutely monsooning here on Hornby right now... thumping against my tin roof in a way that defies the notion of rain 'drops'. Environment Canada has a rainfall warning up, but still the Comox conditions report 'light rain'. I've noticed this before- it always says 'light rain'. If Environment Canada was around back when the animals were lining up two by two to get on the ark, the current conditions would have said 'light rain'. Must have something to do with the Canadian predilection to make the best of the weather we have. Even the mushrooms are getting a beating. Well, here in Seattle it actually is just light rain. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 21, 2013 20:43:49 GMT -8
We occasionally discuss photographer rights and restrictions, as it pertains to ferries and other transportation systems.
But can any of us imagine what it must have been like for Mr. Abraham Zapruder, 50 years ago.
Here's a drama clip that I found on YouTube.
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Post by Neil on Nov 21, 2013 22:21:06 GMT -8
Relating to Mr Horn's post, above...
Funny what you remember. I was seven years old, in grade two. I recall school being dismissed early that day, and the principal, Mr Muir, standing looking very sombre at the top of the staircase as we filed out around him. Coming home, my mother had KVOS Bellingham on the TV, which carried CBS news back then. I remember thinking it was strange that Walter Cronkite was on so early. I was a weird little kid in that I did pay attention to the news, and I knew that the death of the President of the United States was a very big, awful story.
Kennedy had his flaws, but he was a visionary, and his assassination has never ceased to appal people everywhere, and has been a source of debate ever since, with regard to how it happened, who did it, and the lasting effect. And aside from the shooting, the Kennedy family are the Americans' House of Windsor, an endless source of admiration, loathing, and fascination.
I've often wondered if the cold war might have ended earlier, had Kennedy lived and won a second term. I think he was a transformational politician, struck down horribly early.
November 22nd, 1963, fifty years ago. We'll never know how much Lee Harvey Oswald changed history. |
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 21, 2013 23:13:47 GMT -8
Relating to Mr Horn's post, above...
Funny what you remember. I was seven years old, in grade two.
So I must be two years older than you, Neil. I was in Mrs. Armstrong's grade four class at Gordon Head Elementary, and we too were dismissed early. I can remember the Principal Mr. Mooney's PA announcement in the morning, about the President being shot & killed. As a nine year old it did not then have the impact that it had later as I grew older. A few weeks earlier my family had suffered a tragedy of our own when my oldest brother Harold, aged 19, drowned in an accident on the west coast of Vancouver Island. My brother David (Mr. DOT) was the second oldest. November 1963 was a bad month. A few months later, however, the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show & thus began the British Invasion. More Queens were a-building at VMD, too. |
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Post by northwesterner on Nov 22, 2013 0:06:58 GMT -8
So I must be two years older than you, Neil. I was in Mrs. Armstrong's grade four class at Gordon Head Elementary, and we too were dismissed early. I can remember the Principal Mr. Mooney's PA announcement in the morning, about the President being shot & killed. As a nine year old it did not then have the impact that it had later as I grew older. A few weeks earlier my family had suffered a tragedy of our own when my oldest brother Harold, aged 19, drowned in an accident on the west coast of Vancouver Island. My brother David (Mr. DOT) was the second oldest. November 1963 was a bad month. A few months later, however, the Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show & thus began the British Invasion. More Queens were a-building at VMD, too. They let you out of school early for the assassination of president Kennedy? Down here in the US, we certainly didn't get out of school early on 9/11. |
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Post by mrdot on Nov 22, 2013 0:52:50 GMT -8
:)as my brother Jim-aka wettcoast, has pointed out that November was a bad one in our family as well as the outher world events, I still remember my Vic. high teacher announcing the tragic events down south, and shortly after giving me his condolences of my older brother's tragedy, as we both were Vic High students of his! As for the biting remarks of the loss of my senior's ferry pass, I can live with that loss as gov't attempts to trim it's losses, but it only underlines our personel look at gov't perks, and our self needs of where gov't can do my own personel bidding, but who needs the other stuff that I am not in need of [at the moment at least] mrdot. |
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Post by BreannaF on Nov 28, 2013 21:56:26 GMT -8
Relating to Mr Horn's post, above...
Funny what you remember. I was seven years old, in grade two. I recall school being dismissed early that day, and the principal, Mr Muir, standing looking very sombre at the top of the staircase as we filed out around him. Coming home, my mother had KVOS Bellingham on the TV, which carried CBS news back then. I remember thinking it was strange that Walter Cronkite was on so early. I was a weird little kid in that I did pay attention to the news, and I knew that the death of the President of the United States was a very big, awful story.
Kennedy had his flaws, but he was a visionary, and his assassination has never ceased to appall people everywhere, and has been a source of debate ever since, with regard to how it happened, who did it, and the lasting effect. And aside from the shooting, the Kennedy family are the Americans' House of Windsor, an endless source of admiration, loathing, and fascination.
I've often wondered if the cold war might have ended earlier, had Kennedy lived and won a second term. I think he was a transformational politician, struck down horribly early.
November 22nd, 1963, fifty years ago. We'll never know how much Lee Harvey Oswald changed history. Actually, thank you for that description -- a bit of education there for me. I had never, until now, considered the Canadian reaction to the Kennedy event at the time. It was obviously a sad event, certainly there were a lot of people worldwide watching the news. But it never occurred to me that they would have been dismissing school early North of the border. Very interesting. |
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Post by Luke on Nov 30, 2013 19:05:06 GMT -8
I will say, Retrovision, that this thread was a great idea. Such a great idea that I've started a why the sky is blue thread on the Skilifts forum.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jan 9, 2014 20:48:51 GMT -8
For a good few laughs, watch this video, about rail travel in the "State of British Columbia."
- best part might be starting at 3:15 mark, about the bridges...
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Post by Starsteward on Jan 10, 2014 7:46:30 GMT -8
Thanks for the great posting Mr. Flugel It's a shame that a pretty decent video was chock full of misinformation eh? Loved the references to the many bridges to Vancouver Island. (although I have run into tourists in Vancouver that do believe that) I gather they switched lead engines after Kamloops as there was a different one by the time the train pulled into Banff. Loved how the venerable Banff Springs Hotel was referred to as a Health Spa and Bathhouse. Did anyone pick up on the 'metric' reference when desribing the elevation the train reached between Kamloops and Banff? Now, where's the coffee pot...need a refill. |
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Post by WettCoast on Jan 10, 2014 9:36:42 GMT -8
For a good few laughs, watch this video, about rail travel in the "State of British Columbia." Yes, the video is entertaining & funny with so many geographical errors. It is more than 15 years old; in fact it was shot before directional running was started in the Fraser/Thompson corridor. It made it sound as if the Lions Gate Bridge crosses over to Vancouver Island  . |
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Post by compdude787 on Jan 10, 2014 14:58:49 GMT -8
For a good few laughs, watch this video, about rail travel in the "State of British Columbia." - best part might be starting at 3:15 mark, about the bridges... Wow, how can people be that bad with geography knowledge? Being someone who is a big map nerd, I just don't understand how people are that clueless about geography. I get that some people aren't really that good or interested in maps, but you'd think that everyone would know that (1) Canada has provinces, not states, and (2) Vancouver Island is far away from the city of Vancouver. It is not "across the Vancouver harbor," either. Did these people even look at a map before they made this video? Even though this must have been a low-budget video, they could have bought a road map of BC for less than $10. |
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