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Hahahahaha :faint: Bravo, Carlene!

Yep, maybe you can change your tickets in order to arrive a few days earlier. There is a lot to see and do in this part of Canada. The Falls are amazing and the city core is fun. The Museum is very interesting and the area around it has interesting stores for window shopping and there are restaurants.

Omigawd, Wheezy! That is one of those stories that seems kinda funny in retrospect but awful at the time. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting, in the land of Oz you call it Dim Sims and up here in the Great White North we call it Dim Sum.... You are so lucky that you can get them in any take away. (Speaking of the Great White North (which is what we sometimes call Canada), thanks to global warming or whatever it is still very green where I live. No snow, eh.) And yep, pot stickers are dim sum, Argon. As for the chow mein biz, I have had both dishes passed off to me as chow mein but I think that one is actually lo mein. Cloe: your chopsticks idea is brilliant! I went to the Chinese buffet restaurant last night with my husband and the Chinese family. I ate slowly and I did not PB! This was a relief. My hostess was concerned that I was not eating enough and thus didn't like the food. I had to reassure her that I did and I went back for seconds. It was a good thing that the plates were normal size and not the huge platters that are now the fashion in many Toronto restaurants. The dessert thing was made easier because they served a lot of different fruits along with the usual cakes, etc.

Good ole shoot 'em Dick Cheney.... LOL

That's a fine bunch o NSVs ya got there, grrl! Congratulations from Green.

I dug deep into the archives to resurrect this thread. I did this because I noticed today that the jeans that I had managed to get into a couple of months ago are now loosey-goosey in the waist! This is the place where I take the longest to lose weight because I have always been thick-waisted even when I was thin. I think that it may finally be time for me to go shopping, eh. It's funny but I am feeling kind of nervous about this.

Ugh! The editor of another site that I frequent will ban members who send abusive PMs to other members once the member who has been harrassed complains. I don't know what the policy is on this site. I am pleased that you provided the content of this idiot's PM and his name. All boneheads deserve to be outed, eh. Darrell, huh? Mistah Incoherency! Hahahaha

The Fords were a class act.

Oh, I know about those kitties. They are the ones with the sharp claws. I've worked with them from time to time....

I believe that there are many wise, tolerant, and thoughtful Christians, ones who have made a point of learning about their faith and who have studied the Bible. Some of them post here and certainly Carlene, TOM, and Jack, to name a few, fall into this category. It is impossible to do other than to respect and admire such Christians as these. No one can deny that there are responsible Christians just as there are responsible Jews, Muslims, and atheists. And then there are the fanatics: these are those individuals who do not respect the rights and beliefs of others but who only seek to judge and to impose their own beliefs. These folk are merely moral bullies and they are either ill-educated in the study of the very Book that they seek to use in order to attain control over the lives of others or they are cherrypicking their material. As I have mentioned before in these threads the Bible is a complicated, often violent, and often contradictory set of documents. It is my opinion that the quotes expressed in the site which I have listed above are disgraceful and as hate-filled as anything issued by members of the intifada. That these individuals are, with the exception of Phelps, prominent, mainstream members of America is dismaying. It is this type of Christian and this manifestation of Christianity that I believe that we are attacking here. And why shouldn't we attack these folk?

I was also going to suggest going to one of the Mexican surgeons for a defill. Good luck, girl.

Dim sum is served at only some Chinese restaurants in Toronto and only at lunch time on the weekends. Some dim sum are little meat, seafood, and or vegetable filled dumplings. Some of these are deep fried and some are boiled/steamed. They are kind of like the Chinese version of pirogi or ravioli. Some of them have minced pork or beef with maybe a little garlic and ginger and these might be either steamed or fried. The seafood ones are very delicate. The dough is made of rice flour and is very thin. The seafood - usually shrimp - is chopped and these dumplings are steamed. The dough is very white and you can see the contents of the dumpling through it. Another thing they call dim sum is quite different from the dumplings: they wrap sticky rice around bean paste and tie this up in banana leaves and steam it. They also serve custard tarts and a white sweet pudding. They serve other things too but because these involve fish and your more exotic kinds of seafood (Like octopus) I stay away. Growing up in Toronto I never did learn to love fish! Going out for dim sum is a very strange experience for the first timer. You will not receive a menu. Instead there will be women slowly pushing carts with little dishes by your table. On each dish there will be two or three dumplings. You must stop them by pointing to what you want as they walk by. Often they don't seem to even make a note of what you have just bought. At the end of the experience you will be presented with a bill. This will likely be a list of all the dim sum available and they will be listed in Chinese only; ones that you have consumed will be ticked off. If I remember correctly, a bill for 3 might run you to $35-40 max. And you are always welcome to visit me, Cloe.

This is a tragic story.

I wanted to understand the mindset behind the Rapturists and also figure out what the Rapture was all about. As I said in my earlier post, I found it strange that these folks were both pleased and excited about the possible mass destruction of the Middle East. It seems that this accords with a prophecy that signifies the second coming and the end of the world as we know it. Of course when one's eyes are so firmly focussed on the end of the world there is likely to be little interest in the state of this one. I suspect that few of these individuals are environmentalists....

Bravo, Mookie!!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Nope, I went on a sort of Blonde Ambition Farewell Foodcourt Tour for the last week before my operation.

Yep, we have dim sum over here. :hungry: There is a huge Asian population - mostly from the subcontinent of India and from China but also from Thailand and Vietnam - in Canada. Our climate isn't the best but the eating is good. Cloe, I think your chopsticks idea is brilliant. :clap2: Eating with chopsticks slows me down. When I eat with chopsticks I like to wear dark clothes. The food splatters don't show up as much.

My next big challenge comes tomorrow night. :help: We have been invited to a Chinese buffet restaurant by a Chinese family. :hungry: I've only met the father and the seven year old daughter. I will be so mortified if I have a PB incident in front of them that I don't think I will ever recover from the embarassment! :embarassed: Of course they don't know that I have hardware inside....:speechles

Fantastic!!!!!

Wow, girl! I've never got up close and personal with one of those guys! Did he cover you with spit when he was preaching?

Great NSV!:clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

As for Clinton and his Oval Office extra-curricular activities, aren't these people tired of flogging that dead, dead horse? Maybe Dobson should experience a little bit of earthly rapture and ask his wife (or his secret boyfriend) for a Lewinsky.

The Rapture believers are very weird folk. I used to lurk occasionally on a site called, I believe, Rapture Ready. A lot of those folks were really thrilled by all the bad things happening in the Middle East. They figured it was one big step closer to the Rapture! One woman wrote in to say that she was concerned that the Rapture might come while her daughter was away at camp, a distance of 200 miles. And a guy wrote in to say that he had discovered that his American TV didn't work in the UK - he had recently been transferred there - and he was afraid that he was gonna miss the news on Fox leading up to his Rapture. *much giggling from Green, a cynical atheist, at this point* When they weren't getting excited about the prospect of the wholesale destruction of the Middle East they were exchanging cleaning tips and investment advice. Man, I loved that site.... It was a good place to hang out while drinking a glass of wine or a scotch-rocks.

Sounds like you are having a very good Christmas.:clap2: