Wild Turkeys and Dancing Banana Heads Cruise 11/25/06

[DutchsMommy]

Like Steve said, I think you can thank Bob and Doug McKenzie for that! But the greatest thing Canada ever gave the world? Easy! Geddy, Alex and Neil ... Rush, the greatest rock band ever!

Oh Shell....Shell....Shell.
Unfortunately Rush for the most part are a bit of a Canadian joke. Now, they do have their fans, but they also are the butt of many jokes about Canadian stereotypes - like when about 10 kids, complete with lumber jackets and mullets pulled into the quarry swimming hole we had occupied this summer and were hanging out by their truck, drinking Blue (kinda low-brow CDN beer) and crankin' the Rush - just sad buncha hicks.

If you want to hear some pretty funny 'downhome' Canadian music try searching for Stompin' Tom Connors on soulseek or kazaa or whatever - Tom is definately Canadiana (and pretty funny).

 

[DutchsMommy]

Oh - one more thing - Canadian beer is like 10 times stronger than American. We used to laugh when friends would come up and have a few beer and be 3 sheets to the wind before they knew what was happening. I am sorry to say I am definately partial to Canadian beer over American (eh!).

 

[Dixielady908]

evening all.....boy I always have so much readin to do to catch up on all this chat-in.....

For dinner tonight I had soup and pop....which I brought all the ingrediants home in bags that while shoppin I had put in my cart. Even though I had pop at dinner I also like tea....unsweetened please. I was thinking of making sub sandwiches for dinner tomorrow nite. There was a dead skunk on the median goin to work today, I have also noticed that lightingbugs are not as common as when I was a kid.

Kathy: Your story was great... Do we have something to fear when we meet you and Pat????

Later
Denise

 

[woogal]

Oh Shell....Shell....Shell.
Unfortunately Rush for the most part are a bit of a Canadian joke.

Say it ain't true! You know how much money those 3 have made off of us alone?!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Denise,
No worries when you meet Pat and myself.
We are perfect Angels, just like grandma's are suppose to be.
If you dont believe me, just ask us and we will tell you!!

Just dont ask people whom I have cruised with before.
I swear all those stories are NOT true!! Well maybe a little true, but honestly I am not as as they say I am.

Well I am off to bed, will check back in the morning,

Kathy

 

[cruisemutt]

Oh Shell....Shell....Shell.
Unfortunately Rush for the most part are a bit of a Canadian joke. Now, they do have their fans, but they also are the butt of many jokes about Canadian stereotypes - like when about 10 kids, complete with lumber jackets and mullets pulled into the quarry swimming hole we had occupied this summer and were hanging out by their truck, drinking Blue (kinda low-brow CDN beer) and crankin' the Rush - just sad buncha hicks.

If you want to hear some pretty funny 'downhome' Canadian music try searching for Stompin' Tom Connors on soulseek or kazaa or whatever - Tom is definately Canadiana (and pretty funny).

Gee, Sarah...for a joke, it seems like Canada took them pretty seriously...

November- Rush wins Group Of The Decade in Canada. They were voted the group who has made the most significant contributions to the Canadian music industry both domestically and internationally in the period 1980- to 1989.

December- Rush wins Mayor's Award at the Toronto Music Awards. This award is the most revered of all the Toronto Music Awards

October- Rush was honoured with the "Harold Moon Award" by the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). It is the most prestigious songwriter's award in Canada.

I'm willing to learn...are these bogus awards? Its not gonna change my mind, I still love their music...but I am curious.

 

[JanDave]

Good Evening Nanaheads!!!

You know you're from/in Michigan ...

You bake with SODA and drink POP.

You show people where you're from by pointing to a spot on the back
of your left hand.

The only place in the world can you experience all four seasons in one day.

You know what a 'party store' is.

"Vacation" means going to Cedar Point.

At least one member of your family disowns you the week of the
Michigan / Michigan State game.

Your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.

Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh?

You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.

It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge
sauce, and Faygo pop.

You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.

The movie "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" wasn't funny. You consider it
a documentary.

Your little league game was snowed out.

The word "thumb" has geographical rather than anatomical significance.

When owning a Japanese car was a hangin' offense in your hometown.

You believe that "down south" means Toledo.

Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt.

You know that Big Mac is something that you drive over.

You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.

You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.

Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of
Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.

You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.

You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.

Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.

Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.

The "Big Three" means either Ford, Chrysler and GM.

You think alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.

Your definition of a small Michigan town is one that doesn't have a lake.

You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.

You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

The orange barrel is considered Michigan's 'other' lighthouse.

Good Night!

Jan

 

[J&C's Mom]

As for potted meat, it is a canned luncheon meat made by Hormel. The best way to describe it is a spreadable version of SPAM. It is normally eaten on crackers.

I have to comment on the potted meat-I grew up eating this mixed with mayo on bread. When I took it to school all the kids would laugh at me and ask me if I was eating cat food on bread-It kinda looks like that

Being from PA too...I have to agree with Jaimie on all of her observations!!

Have a great night...worked 12 hours today with 2 more days to go!!!

Okie

 

[disneediva]

Good night all

 

[pgfour]

Oh - one more thing - Canadian beer is like 10 times stronger than American. We used to laugh when friends would come up and have a few beer and be 3 sheets to the wind before they knew what was happening. I am sorry to say I am definately partial to Canadian beer over American (eh!).

Is Elsinore the best beer, eh?

 

[pgfour]

evening all.....boy I always have so much readin to do to catch up on all this chat-in.....

For dinner tonight I had soup and pop....which I brought all the ingrediants home in bags that while shoppin I had put in my cart. Even though I had pop at dinner I also like tea....unsweetened please. I was thinking of making sub sandwiches for dinner tomorrow nite. There was a dead skunk on the median goin to work today, I have also noticed that lightingbugs are not as common as when I was a kid.

OMG! This whole thing got a loud snort out of me! Luckily I'm all alone downstairs!

 

[pgfour]

Good Evening Nanaheads!!!

You know you're from/in Michigan ...

You bake with SODA and drink POP.

The only place in the world can you experience all four seasons in one day.

You know what a 'party store' is.

You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.

It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge
sauce, and Faygo pop.

You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.

Your little league game was snowed out.

Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt.

You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.

You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.

Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of
Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.

Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.

Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.

You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

Jan

LOL! We live 3 miles from the Illinois/Wisconsin stateline so some of these things apply to our area as well!!!

Cheri

 

[pgfour]

Good night Nanas!

What did you guys & gals think of DWtS tonight? Some were pretty good and some were just so-so. Jerry was definitely "entertaining"!!

Not much else happening here tonight.

Our meeting in the Promenade Lounge could get pretty interesting!! Especially if we've had some dacquiri's at Signals already!

Y'all have a great evening, eh!

Cheri

 

[disneediva]

Following Jan's lead, Bob hope you can back me up on these.
You know you are from New Orleans/ The South

Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside

You reinforce your attic to store Mardi Gras beads

Your ancestors are buried above the ground.

You walk on the "banquet" (sidewalk) and stand in the "neutral ground" (area of ground between a two sided street) "by ya mommas" (by your mother's house

Watching "Wild Kingdom" inspires you to write a cookbook.

You take a bite of five-alarm chili and reach for the Tabasco

You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says, "Don't eat the dead ones," and you know what he means.

You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.

No matter where else you go in the world, you are always disappointed in the food.

Your accent sounds nothing like Harry Connick, Jr's

Nothing shocks you. Period. Ever.

Your idea of health food is a baked potato instead of fries with your seafood platter.

You call tomato sauce "red gravy."

You "boo" the mayor on national television.

You cringe every time you hear an actor with a Southern or Cajun accent in a "New Orleans-based" movie or TV show.

You're walking in the French Quarter with a plastic cup of beer. When it starts to rain, you cover your beer instead of your head.

Hope ya'll get a laugh out of these
Wendy

 

[Dixielady908]

hmmmm this is going to be a very interesting trip.....very interesting. I sure hope we can all understand what each other is talkin about..


good night...till tomorrow
Denise

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Good monring to all,

Jan and Wendy, loved the lists you posted

Unfortunately a few of those things applied to where I grew up too!!

We had a "working outhouse" in our backyard until I was school age, so did our next door neighbor. We were the "Hillbillies" of the neighborhood.

Kathy

 

[JanDave]

Our meeting in the Promenade Lounge could get pretty interesting!! Especially if we've had some dacquiri's at Signals already!

My favorite drink on the ship is a BBC which does have a blended banana in it!

And, I agree, our Promenade Lounge meeting will be interesting.

Jan

 

[JanDave]

Good Morning Everyone!

Several pages back, there were some posts about Spam. Dave likes to eat Spam (I say nasty). We were at the grocery store on Sunday and saw new Spam packaging. The container is now encased in a plastic container. Maybe to keep the smell from being detected???

Heading to w___k soon.

Have a great day.

Jan

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

my DH loves Spam too. Fried with eggs!! I often cooked it when we went camping. It is very popular in Oregon. They sell lots of it!!!
I like it too



Kathy

 

[TiggerKing]

Okay, just a little taste of "You Know You're From Georgia If..."

Sweet tea is THE drink. No questions.
You can identify Richard Petty Blue and John Deere Green in the paint store.
You can count from 1 to 88 by using NASCAR driver's names based on the car number.
You actually know what a "chigger" is and how to avoid it.
You refer to the Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression".
You know that when someone says the "Redneck Riviera" that they are referring to Panama City Beach, FL.
When a waitress asks what you want to drink and you say Coke, she asks "What kind?"
"Ya'll" is a word.
Atlanta is known as "The City."
You know the difference between a hillbilly, a redneck, and a Southerner.
The one way to be killed in .5 seconds is to talk about somebody's mama or talk bad to somebody's mama.
Krispy Kreme dounuts are the only kind of dounuts you eat.
Fried chicken is a major part of your diet.
When the Goverment started telling people to stock up on duck tape, you were waaaaaaaaaay ahead of them.
On one side of the road there's Wal-Mart and on the other is a cotton field
You greet people with"Howdy, Whachu doin?"
You know what a 'dawg' is. (And you despise it!)
You know people who consider a six pack and a bug zapper quality entertainment.
The directions to your house include "turn off the paved road."
Your dog and your wallet are both on chains.
You still call the refrigerator the "icebox".
You call it a cold Christmas if you don't break out in a sweat in your new sweater.
Your whole town completely shuts down for 1 inch of snow or just the threat of snow
You know at least three streets named "Peachtree"
You don't know anyone who drinks Pepsi.
The last thing you want to do is give another driver the finger... unless your car is armored, your trigger finger is itchy and your AK-47 has a full clip.
It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.