Mallet, you're CANADIAN???!!!!

What do people actually give thanks for when it is thanksgiving?

Well I give thanks for family on Thanksgiving Day, I always go to my aunt's and visit with the rest of my dad's family on the Sunday of the long weekend (we would visit my mom's side, but they live all over Saskatchewan which is 2 days of driving). I believe the original thanks was for a bountiful harvest.


And for Black:

You've never seen me mention my Canadianism before? Doesn't my location under my avatar mention I'm in Canada? I'm gonna have to double-check but I think it is. Ohwell, surprise surprise! I'm Canadian!!!

Well have a very great Thanksgiving weekend, Metal Mallet. It makes sense that it would be earlier in Canada due to the colder weather, because above all else it is a harvest feast and is meant to give thanks for the bounty of the harvested crops that will get the community through the winter until next Spring's planting time again.

We here in the US give thanks (besides all the great food) for football and for the best shopping days of the year before Christmas. lol But really our family gathers together and gives thanks for each other and our good health and fortune, similart to Metal Mallet's family.

oh come one... no one really looks over there and cares about what they see

On Canadians :

They can't be all bad. Rush is canadian!

On Thanksgiving :

I just give thanks for the enormous feast that is placed before me.

That's your argument?

Anyway, here in Germany, we have a harvest thing, too. It's called "Erntedankfest". Only very few people actually celebrate it, my guess is mostly in rural areas where that kind of thing still has an actual meaning. At any rate, it's not a big thing at all over here. Definitely not as big as thanksgiving in the US.

Checkin' in, college is really busy, spending the week studying and having fun and barely coming back to the dorms on weekends.

Rush is good enough to spread coolness over their entire nationality.

Rush is certainly really cool. But I would also like to add maple syrup and hockey to what makes Canada sweet, that and health care.

Bah, we have good hockey over here in NC.

Go 'Canes.

Haha, too bad Buffalo ruined their home opener by beating them.

I personally cheer for the Alberta teams, Calgary and Edmonton. I don't see what's so special about Toronto, like, they haven't won the cup in like 50 years...

Yeah, I was disappointed. I watched bits and pieces on the TV displays at work. Can't talk about it in-depth though. Stupid customers bothering me all the time. (That was a joke. I love customers. Kind of.)

My day was simply disaster until some hour ago... It started with a spasm in my left leg, which [as always, when my muscles are in question] came out of nowhere :\ then, I ate a gigantic slice of pizza with mayo & ketchup, which caused me to have diarrhea some few hours later, in PC tech class; I pulled trough it, though, as well as the entire lecture... but, in the meantime, a buddy from that class brought me a DDR400 256megs ram module from a hardware scrap pile; it appeared in-tacked on surface and I hid it, so I could bring it home. Once I got back I rammed the poor thing into my PC's free memory slot... and guess what ??
768 MEGS OF RAM, WOOOHOOO !! I am so happy now, diarrhea or not.

Nice to hear a nice ending to a bothersome day, Mil.

As for me, I guess I enjoyed the Thanksgiving food a little too much because I had a killer tummyache that kept me awake for the whole night. I think I only slept in fits until 6AM. The disappointing thing about it was that I was planning to go to the parade that started at 8:30AM with a friend I haven't seen for a few months, but due to the stupid tummyache, I decided I needed rest instead of going to that.

So now I'm going have to email her and explain why I didn't show up . I really wanted to go too...

Hey peeps, whats up? Sorry I haven't really been around lately.. Busy with college stuff.. And I've found this awesome girl (think I said that before in another coffee shop )

But shes like completely different from me.. I'm a pretty moderate conservative, and she is a flamboyant socialist, a hilary clinton supporter and believes that everyone should be judged by their karma... It makes me giggle just thinking about it. We argue all the time (fun arguements) but shes not a floozy like the normal girls I dig. You know the blonde cheerleader ones? And I'm happy too. Shes smart, and tries to be searious and all, shes so clumsy and what not, and sometimes raises an eyebrow amongst people. Its lovely.

But yea.. Anyoen play 2142 yet? And btw, I'm mad at the Hurricanes.. don't even get me started.

Just thought I would let everyone know that it is all ready snowing here in Canada, and it's only OCTOBER!!!

It caught me totally unexpected, like it was a snowstorm amount of snow blowing heavily around me while I was walking home from school. My entire hoody basically turned white from it.

Then suddenly, the snow just disappeared. And now it comes in fits, moments where you can't even see anything from all the snow, then the sun starts shining again.

It's always weird weather here. I remember one time in the span of one week, the school was closed on Monday due to so much snowfall that buses had to be cancelled but by Friday people were in shorts and t-shirts.

I'm moving to Canada. It still gets hot during the day here. (It cools off pretty well at night though)

Hasn't snowed here in Missoula quite yet but we do have snow above 7000 feet, in the surrounding mountains. It's great; when I leave for work/school in the morning the grass is bathed in frost, but by afternoon it is usually 60-70 degrees with a brilliant blue sky. It's a wonderful time of year.

Football time, too. I'm thrilled that my Bears (I'm originally from Illinois) have finally figured out that the offense is allowed to score, too, in addition to the awesome defense.

Yo propples, has the slozzles been clozzles to yozzles?

I'm still in college, which is cool, keeping up with my classes for the most part. I hear stories, but I had no idea it was this chill. Everyone in here who has not, I'm telling you, go to college, it's the best, it's like 10 times better than highschool. Events are blurring together for me, like I can remember things that have happened but not what day or with who. I laugh all the time, too. There are also some hot girls here, too bad most of them have boyfriends.

Well, down here in Texas, we don't usually get snow. BUT it was pretty chilly these last two days in the mornings, the afternoons have been in the seventies though. I'm not in college or middle school yet, and I don't have tech ed........ or lectures (lucky me).

Just dropping in to say that this stuff is great



Can't get enough of that wonderful Duff

Just letting you all know Rainer is still alive

Sadly, Rainer seems to be neglecting forums outside the official Fourms, and he apologises for his absence

BUT he is getting closer to geting Oblivion! (finnaly!)

I just got the strangest tip I've ever gotten before. I rarely ever get tipped at my work but every once in awile I do.

This time my tip was a retro hockey cap that you can currently get in a case of beer. And he actually gave me a choice, I could pick a KC cap or a Winnipeg Jets cap. Obviously, I choose the Canadian team

If I remember correctly though, the Winnipeg team was the one that moved to North Carolina and became the 'Canes. Don't hold me to that though.

Still, it's pretty sweet for a tip

Hey all! I´m back home now, from the "trip of my life" These last three weeks have been filled with great things and utterly nice meetings with wonderful people.....so beware America!!! I´ll come back!

Welcome Backsies !! *hugs Minkey* Now, you will tell us stories 'bout you trip, will you ?

*gives milanius a great big HUG* Well of course I will tell y´all about it! Just wait ´til ya hear about the finale! hehe

We'll make sure to close our borders.

I kid, I kid.

Glad you had a nice trip, and that you don't think all Americans are jerks.

I'm so glad that your American vacation went so well for you Minque! Still it muct be great to get home again. We will look forward to hearing your "stories" about your time with us Americans. Telling the stories is half the fun of traveling and coming home again. It's all good.

So let's see ... we have Channler fallen in love in college. I love it! She sounds like a great and very real girl, Channler. You are smart not to just fall for the "cheerleader" types. I'm afraid too many of those types are really 'followers' rather than 'leaders' or thinking for themselves.

Now we just need to see Doomed One falling in love with some lovely girl at college. He certainly sounds in love with the whole college scene. You are right Doomie, everyone should go to college and experience the fun and constructive atmosphere there. It is liberating to be around so much learning and experimentation. Not substances, new ways of thinking, I mean. You have to be open-minded at college and yet establish your own personal borders of what is best for you. Gotta learn to organize your own time and activities.

I'd go back to college again even though I'm an old fart. Might be doing that next Spring for computer animation classes. Although I'd commute and not have the totally immersive experience of living on cmapus, it'd be alot of fun I think.

good to hear that you had fun. And just so ya know, i'm waiting for those stories

Glad you enjoyed it. You came to Michigan right? Did you catch any of the snow we had last week?

Did you get a very heavy snowfall there in Michigan, Sir Radont? I saw on the news where Bullalo, New York got blizzard type snow ammounts. Pretty awesome for the first snowfall of the year so early in October. Wonder if it's going to be a super cold winter?

I just wanted to comment also that I love Milanius' new Siggy. Very chic and cool, Mil! Did you design it yourself? It's nice to look at.

Ibis, I didn't made my new signature myself - but, you can read my "Thank You" note to the artist who did it beneath the signature... it'll give you clues...

Anyhow, today is really a wasteful, dull day. I am feeling dizzyness and apathy.

Heh..I got away from Michigan before the snow, in fact it was more like summer when I was there.....

Cheer up Milanius! We could go for a drink huh?

yay, Alcohol ! Unless we get completely & properly wasted, dear Minkey, it's not a night out UZDRAVLJE !!

Oh how nice, Milanius. Zarr made your signature. It's awesome. Was that thank you there all along and I totally didn't see it? Or did you add it?

You were lucky you missed the snows in Michigan, Minque.

Nah, we only got about an inch of the powder, its all gone now and the temperatures are up in the 60's again.

Jesus is coming!!
















look busy. (stolen off a birthday card)

hahaha ... glad to see you back posting my friend. I hope this means that your computer finally got fixed the right way. The photographs are just breathtaking and make me wish I could win an all expense paid trip to New Zealand for two ... me & Cain. (and then we could jump ship while we were there and become natives ...lolol.)

My computer is indeed fixed finally, you could probably search the internet for trip to NZ and find random things to enter.

I know I might be a little bit early in asking this, but since I know what I'm doing, I was wondering if anyone is dressing up for Hallowe'en? If so, what are you dressing up as?

For me, there's the Hallowe'en dance and Hallowe'en day people can dressup at school. I'm dressing as a Bandit Cowboy . I all ready have a cowboy hat and the plastic gun with holster, the bandana across the face, and the boots. All I need is spurs, an appropriate looking shirt, and possible one of those broomstick with a horsehead at the end for that nice cheesy look

Is it proper to put an apostrophe in the word 'halloween' in Canada?

Anyway, I'm thinking of being George W. Bush for Haloween. What could be scarier than that??

That's how I've seen it, of course, we get a lot of American media in Canada, so I've seen in both ways.

I do it that way since Hallowe'en is a short form of Hallowed Evening. Also, your costume idea is great Dantrag. I would be petrified if I saw you!

hmm, if I do anything for halloween, it will be dressing up as a mobster, with the Fedora, suit, and the whole shibang. prolly wont, becuase i'd have to get alot of the stuff still, and i'm lazy

I was going to dress up as Ibis, but usually I don't take any notice of helloweeny. Perhaps I'll do something this year, but it would have to be something great and great ideas don't come along on demand, most likely I'll forget about it and dress up as something scary for Easter, last year I gave away candy canes for Easter.

I'm giving away little yellow gummy goldfish with feline teethbites in them for Halloween this year. I'll keep them in a goldfish bowl with cat ears on it by the front door.

(I'm also sending a barrel full of pirahna fish to Pisces that is labeled 'Finest New Zealand Beer" with a tap that is actually an escape shute for the pirahnas. muhawhahaha!!!)

*Note to self* Make sure to kill off all pirahnas.

I better get my Ibis custom sorted soon, I'm going to skin it myself.

son of a umbrella seller
I have nearly screamed here just minutes ago, staring in disbelief at the empty folder where my lastest model was supposed to be saved... naturally, it was not there and the 3dmax model I did and can be seen in "Comedy" thread is somehow unusable, I have no idea why. Thank goodness I've managed to track down ACAD file and now I am about to back the damn things up on all partitions & disk. If this doesen't teach me a lesson, nothing will.

Milanius, I'm glad you retextured the model of Reaver with a leather thonged handle. Sounds great. That must have been an awful shock to you.

Pisces, why don't you just kill a down pillow and paste all the little white feathers all over your body? For the Ibis look. ps-don't forget that tar makes the absolutely best glue

Yes yes Ibis, I have watched enough cartoons to know you should only use tar. But I have already bought my ticket to florida so I can skin an Ibis.