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  1. Al in Canada

    Broken pipe, loss of a Canadian pioneer

    Don't we all, at least all Canadian pipe smokers. they may not be the most expensive pipes in our collection, but everyone i know has at least one, and most several, and all agree they are dependable pipes and generally good smokers. i find it doesn't matter what number of dots they have...
  2. Al in Canada

    Broken pipe, loss of a Canadian pioneer

    Broken Pipe- Herb Brigham died September 30th at the age of 94. Herb was the son of Roy Brigham founder of Brigham Enterprizes, the manufacturers of Canada's favourite pipe. Herb joined the firm at an early age and eventually took his father's place as head of the firm. Note the Brigham...
  3. Al in Canada

    Happy Thanksgiving ! Eh.

    Dear fellow brethren of the briar, This is Thanksgiving in Canada. Much the same celebrations as in the US, only earlier as fitting a harvest festival, and before the snow flies in a serious manner in the majority of the populated areas. The actual holiday is on Monday, which makes for a very...
  4. Al in Canada

    Musicians???

    I have attempted to learn a number of instruments, and have amazed people with my playing, like the time during a concert when I nearly knocked myself out by hitting myself in the forehead with a cymbol. there i stood with a dazed look and the red mark coming out on my brow. :oops: My bouts...
  5. Al in Canada

    admit you read comics

    I no longer buy anything on paper, unless I just have to have a physical copy, or if it is a reprint of something like "The Spirit" (great comic, lousy film), Little Abner, or Carl Barks stories from the great days of the Disney comics. I read regularly among the a selection of the web comics...
  6. Al in Canada

    Post

    I think this one be tossed out of court as a frivolous suit, ex post facto.
  7. Al in Canada

    Post

    I suppose if you miss the deadline to mark the cut-off for future missives on this subject, could you be said to "post-tu-late?" :cheers:
  8. Al in Canada

    You might be a bad tobacco reviewer if:

    Yeah I read that review (as posted on another nameless board "SF(UK) ) and they edited out my comment that the reviewer would have renamed the blend "Oriental Wet Dream". I wasn't surprised and they actually sent me notification that it was being edited. :D One of the posters there...
  9. Al in Canada

    Post

    And I was intent on the pun of pie-irons, I pheel obviously subideal thinking. [gosh that was awkward, what?]
  10. Al in Canada

    Post

    Does that translate pi-orions-s tangent or pie-irons tangent? I love pie-irons. I am assuming the stars are the belt of Orion, Beetlejuice,etc. (prop. Betelgeuse) Al ps. > def. Post script :cheers:
  11. Al in Canada

    Post

    Just a sine of our times, since I quoted you would that be a cosine,, Errr, sorry I just went off on a tangent. Reminds me very little of a book i saw the other day "German Philosophers for Children". Pretty dry stuff I thought so I picked it up and flipped through the pages and read: " See...
  12. Al in Canada

    Post

    Naw Piet, Just treat them the same way you do food scraps and the yard clipplings, put them in a pile and compost them, I am sure that there is a fair share of fertilizer in some of them. :bounce:
  13. Al in Canada

    Post

    well I posted, than I came back with a reposte, then we had a post mortem, now I postulate we will continue until the Angel Gariel blasts out the final trump, and we hear God over the loudspeaker as the souls of the dead line up at Pearly Gates... "and they're at the post...! :cheers:
  14. Al in Canada

    Post

    Mind your manners Hermit. Aren't sure what to do in a socil situation just ask "Emily". For further details visit :http://www.emilypost.com/ Well done Gandalf. :bounce: While everyone else was battering down the main gate you eased through the postern so subtly.:cheers: Al (in Canada)
  15. Al in Canada

    Post

    Grandalfpc- So what are you reading? A biography of Wylie Post? (Since your picto-entries were such "wily" posts. :bounce: )
  16. Al in Canada

    Post

    Is this still going on? Dang, I wonder if you guys are going to get like the fellow who woke up after chewing on his pillow during a dream, and be all "down in the mouth" and sad when it ends? you know sort of suffering from a... wait for it... "postpartum depression"? :lol!: :lol...
  17. Al in Canada

    Prepare to have your mind blown

    Also watch her audition entry on the site and one of her a couple of years ago, she is not a one trick artist. You can see her talent blooming and she is frabulousistic! And thanks for pointing this out dude. Al
  18. Al in Canada

    Post

    Is it time to turn it over to CSI???? and have a post mortem? :cheers:
  19. Al in Canada

    Slang Words

    AMEN brother. How true that rings. I can see it in my minds eye. :lol!: :lol!: At a UK football game at the time the band would play the National Anthem and My Old Kentucky Home, with the latter bringing tears to the eyes, and then play "Dixie" . And regardless of your opinion of the...
  20. Al in Canada

    Slang Words

    Yes, but I was referring to the "public" description, like you see on the plaque at the base of the statue the was inevitably in every town square. Being more neutral in Kentucky it was usually described as "The Civil War", and they commemorated both Union and Rebel heroes, It was a shock to...
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