Re: (rshsdepot) Edgewood now cooperating on East Busway

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

obviously this nonsense went to the wrong recipients, sorry...you do realize
it is al joking I hope,,,I hope I was right about the CN, or else you will
all make fun of me
- -----Original Message-----
From: Paul S. Luchter <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Edgewood now cooperating on East Busway


>Things to thank Canadians for:
>=95ice hockey and =95curling (I find it interesting)
>=95oka cheese
>=95Toronto
>=95Montreal
>=95Labrador
>=95Any of the Atlantic provinces
>=95polar bears (lol)
>=95Carling (Black label)'s daughter, a very cute blonde tennis cutie
>before Anna Kournakova, she also never lived up to her (court)
>potential)
>=95 a closer than Ireland or Israel example of racial strife between the
>frogs and the white guys, even more we can see how absurd those things
>are
>=95All those comedians with which we might never have had SCTV or SNL
>(and also a lot of bad movies by Woopie Goldberg and Robin Williams, but
>how would we know the good ones without the dross?)
>=95Benedict Arnold's treason
>Remind me sometime to tell of two local historical conflicts, the over
>20 year border dispute that at times got violence, had "terrorism",
>between Bushwick and Newtown (Brooklyn and Queens) and the even more
>obscure one between Connecticut colony and New York,,,once the eastern
>part of Long Island was part of Connecticut, the element in New England
>was always more rural, there was a compromise, LI went to NY and
>Connecticut got their SE peninsula, New York got their lower eastern
>border with Connecticut, that side is on the western side of a mountain
>ridge...
>
>Both of these were originally Dutch v English disputes that carried over
>
>I realize I am avoiding the Canada good stuff list, maybe because I
>monetarily can't think of anything else...
>=95The CN, Canadian National, the first (maybe second but CP, Canadian
>pacific was the other one) transcontinental RR, and actually the first
>public;y run and very successful RR in North America
>=95Annie Lennox
>=95a refuge for draft dodgers in the 80s
>=95Canadian bacon which probably originated in Minnesota or Vermont or
>the Idaho peninsula, but they have the credit now
>=95Canadian Club (some might say Canadian whiskey, but it gives me a
>headache)
>=9554-40 and fight, making our border straighter and safer for security
>checks, except that little peninsula butting into Canada
>
>[This is a peninsula heavy message]
>
>[Alaska has a peninsula into the Yukon; Ontario has a peninsula, at its
>apex is Hamilton, Detroit's Oakland (unless it is the other way around)]
>
>=95Robert Goulet
>=95Canadian football (which actually is American football field and
>rules pre-1911, though the rouge goes back much earlier)
>=95a country about 150 years old but the national song is only about 40
>=95Quebec uses accent marks I think it may even be Qu=E9b=E8c  though in
>this boring plain text, the second accent mark looks like a box
>
>=95Qu=E9b=E8c
>
>
>

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