coastie99
Enlightened Member
Whoops, but hold on !!!!!!
Time spent as a CAMP cowboy ?????????
Time spent as a CAMP cowboy ?????????
TV show on NZ
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coastie99
Enlightened Member
Whoops, but hold on !!!!!!
Time spent as a CAMP cowboy ?????????
Time spent as a CAMP cowboy ?????????
Darryl Hattenhauer
Venerated Member
As in "colour by technicolor." I used to see that on the telly when foreign programmes were on.
Darryl Hattenhauer
Venerated Member
As in "colour by technicolor." I used to see that on the telly when foreign programmes were on.
coastie99
Enlightened Member
Ya gotta watch out for those mountain people, Darryl.
But then, in the little hamlet that we live in, you've gotta watch out for the village people ! They're even freakier !!
But then, in the little hamlet that we live in, you've gotta watch out for the village people ! They're even freakier !!
coastie99
Enlightened Member
Ya gotta watch out for those mountain people, Darryl.
But then, in the little hamlet that we live in, you've gotta watch out for the village people ! They're even freakier !!
But then, in the little hamlet that we live in, you've gotta watch out for the village people ! They're even freakier !!
My older daughter, who is multilingual, was an exchange student in Norway where she, as Coastie says, spelled words like "colour" correctly. Whe she got back to the states, her teachers told her she was in America and those spellings would not be acceptable.
My older daughter, who is multilingual, was an exchange student in Norway where she, as Coastie says, spelled words like "colour" correctly. Whe she got back to the states, her teachers told her she was in America and those spellings would not be acceptable.
HoboKen
Member
Let me see now......
Winnipeg.........Hey, if you get lucky, you might win the whole cribbage board! I remember being in Winnipeg on a very cold January Morning.
So cold that even the DieHard Batteries would not start a car. Every time I think of Winnipeg, I herar Ian & Sylvia's "January Morning" in my head.....and think of a VW that just would not start along with thousands of other cars that cold clear morning.
And I remember Calisbel and Cutbank......Wild Montania Skies where we "Jumped in" on a few Smoke Jumpers Summer Picnics and join them. "Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end"....
And I still think Ian and Sylvia's "Song For Canada" has the most beautiful interlude I've ever heard. For those who not yet heard it, it's a song about the English - French split of Spirit in Quebec. "Lonely Northern Rivers always flowing to the sea....rolling in eternity...two nations in a land that lays along its shores, but just one river you and me."
NYC.....been there and done that and I guess it has an energy all of its own, but its not for me as regular diet.
Don't get me started on the "Dumbing-Down of American Schools! I did my Masters Paper on that topic and all I've reported in that paper 30 some years ago has come to pass...or not pass as the case may be. You know something's not right when post-secondary institutes that specialize in training like ITT Technical Inst. have to use the TABE and Wonderlic tests to determine if a high school graduate in Philadelphia can read at the 10th grade level which is the grade level the program reading materials are written for. Some folks look down on a GED, but I have to tell you, 35 to 40% of last year's public high school graduates nation-wide could not pass this year's GED test. It's normed that way.
Yep this is certainly a "miscellaneous" rambling.........and I'm about as "Missed On The Lane E. of Us" as it gets here I guess!
Guilld.....Guitars.......strings...etc. Now I remember! Whoever said if you remember the 60's you were not there, didn't speak for all of us.
Sad to say there were times back then in our generation when some of us wished we were not there, where "there" was. Dion said it best, "Didn't they try to find the good in you and me, I just looked around and they're gone." ....."There's nearly 60,000 fallen names still waiting at the Wall."
So much for the ramblings of an old Air Hobo's frame of mind.
HoboKen
Winnipeg.........Hey, if you get lucky, you might win the whole cribbage board! I remember being in Winnipeg on a very cold January Morning.
So cold that even the DieHard Batteries would not start a car. Every time I think of Winnipeg, I herar Ian & Sylvia's "January Morning" in my head.....and think of a VW that just would not start along with thousands of other cars that cold clear morning.
And I remember Calisbel and Cutbank......Wild Montania Skies where we "Jumped in" on a few Smoke Jumpers Summer Picnics and join them. "Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end"....
And I still think Ian and Sylvia's "Song For Canada" has the most beautiful interlude I've ever heard. For those who not yet heard it, it's a song about the English - French split of Spirit in Quebec. "Lonely Northern Rivers always flowing to the sea....rolling in eternity...two nations in a land that lays along its shores, but just one river you and me."
NYC.....been there and done that and I guess it has an energy all of its own, but its not for me as regular diet.
Don't get me started on the "Dumbing-Down of American Schools! I did my Masters Paper on that topic and all I've reported in that paper 30 some years ago has come to pass...or not pass as the case may be. You know something's not right when post-secondary institutes that specialize in training like ITT Technical Inst. have to use the TABE and Wonderlic tests to determine if a high school graduate in Philadelphia can read at the 10th grade level which is the grade level the program reading materials are written for. Some folks look down on a GED, but I have to tell you, 35 to 40% of last year's public high school graduates nation-wide could not pass this year's GED test. It's normed that way.
Yep this is certainly a "miscellaneous" rambling.........and I'm about as "Missed On The Lane E. of Us" as it gets here I guess!
Guilld.....Guitars.......strings...etc. Now I remember! Whoever said if you remember the 60's you were not there, didn't speak for all of us.
Sad to say there were times back then in our generation when some of us wished we were not there, where "there" was. Dion said it best, "Didn't they try to find the good in you and me, I just looked around and they're gone." ....."There's nearly 60,000 fallen names still waiting at the Wall."
So much for the ramblings of an old Air Hobo's frame of mind.
HoboKen
john_kidder
Senior Member
coastie99 said:
Coastie: I missed that one, and the truly scurillous implications. Oh my, oh my.
I meant, as a cowboy who lived in cabins called "cow camps" - at the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, where I spent most of my time, we rotated around four camps over the course of a year, calving (February/March/April at the low-elevation ranges, then to a camp where we turned young stock out onto summer range in the high country,(April/May/June) then a second mid-level camp to turn out cows and calves onto higher meadow and forest range (June/July), then to our summer camp from August to October till the whole cycle turned around and we brought all the stock down in the fall. Then, for three months, we lived in the cowboy bunkhouse (now, now, restrain yourself) in the actual honest-to-god company of other people.
But - a few years ago I escorted some politicians in Vancouver's annual Gay Pride Parade - a large and noisy event it is too. I found myself standing next to a young man who was wearing a beautiful pair of snakeskin boots (cowboys notice such things). He had on jeans and a sort of work shirt, looked just like many old friends of mine in fact. And, being a bottomless fount of naivete, I asked him where he'd gotten his boots, and whether he'd actually cowboyed and where? He looked a little nonplussed, and than said "No - this is the same costume I wore when I won Mr. Gay Vancouver last year". An honest-to-god camp cowboy, he was. I was just a little embarrassed, not at his being gay, but at my amazing ignorance of yet another bit of information which I now understand to have been known to everyone in the world except me.
Darryl Hattenhauer
Venerated Member
Hobo,
Were you in Lose a peg in '85? I was there in 1/85 with a Japanese number who had a little trouble speaking Engrish. I told her that the town got its name from the frontier days when the best marksman would win a pig. She believed it, wrote that story on a post card, and sent it home.
Don't even get me going on American edification. Turn it over to the nuns, I say.
Were you in Lose a peg in '85? I was there in 1/85 with a Japanese number who had a little trouble speaking Engrish. I told her that the town got its name from the frontier days when the best marksman would win a pig. She believed it, wrote that story on a post card, and sent it home.
Don't even get me going on American edification. Turn it over to the nuns, I say.
Graham
Venerated Member
I shall actually be in Winterpeg in two weeks for a niece's wedding. I like The Peg and as I'm finding out, I like most places in this great Country called Canada.
I've travelled a little, I guess the most southerly was Trinidad and Tobago. That was cool
. Picture this, I was walking down one of the main streets in Port of Spain with a couple of friends and I saw this poor guy with a flat tire. Now I'm a big guy, so they say, 6' 3" and I can carry 270 lbs and look ok, I'm carrying a bit more than that now so it's back to the gym soon, however I see this guy with a flat on his Mercedes. He's in a suit, so I think what the hell, I'm on vacation, I can go shower and change and he can stay clean. I offer to change his tire for him. So I'm on the ground putting the jack under the car and a crowd starts to gather. I'm thinking it's just a flat tire folks, carry on, but they just stand around. Anyway it took me 15 minutes or so to get the old tire off and into the trunk, the spare on and the car back on the ground, no big deal. The guy offers me some money, but I don't want it, like I said I'm on vacation so I'm just in a good mood anyway. He hands me his card and says to call him if I get over to Tobago, which we were heading in two days.
He goes on his way and the crowd is just staring at me. Then I realized that my friends and I were about the only white people in the area and here I was changing the tire of this well dressed coloured man. They must have though he was filthy rich.
I didn't call him when we were in Tobago as we were only there for a few hours, but turns out he owned one of the golf resorts there.
Hm, how did I get to Trinidad from Winnipeg?
Nevermind, carry on.
Graham
I've travelled a little, I guess the most southerly was Trinidad and Tobago. That was cool
. Picture this, I was walking down one of the main streets in Port of Spain with a couple of friends and I saw this poor guy with a flat tire. Now I'm a big guy, so they say, 6' 3" and I can carry 270 lbs and look ok, I'm carrying a bit more than that now so it's back to the gym soon, however I see this guy with a flat on his Mercedes. He's in a suit, so I think what the hell, I'm on vacation, I can go shower and change and he can stay clean. I offer to change his tire for him. So I'm on the ground putting the jack under the car and a crowd starts to gather. I'm thinking it's just a flat tire folks, carry on, but they just stand around. Anyway it took me 15 minutes or so to get the old tire off and into the trunk, the spare on and the car back on the ground, no big deal. The guy offers me some money, but I don't want it, like I said I'm on vacation so I'm just in a good mood anyway. He hands me his card and says to call him if I get over to Tobago, which we were heading in two days.He goes on his way and the crowd is just staring at me. Then I realized that my friends and I were about the only white people in the area and here I was changing the tire of this well dressed coloured man. They must have though he was filthy rich.
I didn't call him when we were in Tobago as we were only there for a few hours, but turns out he owned one of the golf resorts there.
Hm, how did I get to Trinidad from Winnipeg?
Nevermind, carry on.
Graham
Darryl Hattenhauer
Venerated Member
If I had changed that tire, it would have turned out that the guy standing there didn't own it. In fact, it would have been a mafioso's car that blew up as soon as I touched it.
2 choices; the Polar route, In Canadian it would be spelled North.
Or South down thru Oklahoma, Southern route is more direct but If I was you I'd consider the northern route. Oklahoma is a strange place, not at all like Texas.