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Frogman's FTB Answers
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A big brother. Not in the 1984 kind of way (I'm not that paranoid), more like in real life. Much bigger than me, capable of protecting me if need be, yet letting me do my own thing, at least most of the time. There are things he wants or does that I don't like, but there's not much I can do about it, and there are things I do that he doesn't care about.  Quote:
(about if I want it to happen) Not. I'm someone with a fairly strong aversion to risk. We got something that works now, why not work on trying to make it better instead of throwing it all away and starting from scratch. (about if I think it will happen) Not either. People are tired of hearing about it. I'd guess it would take a whole lot laying low (and not stirring things every six months) by the separatists for the idea to regain popularity with the people and I don't see them being able to sit still... Quote:
While I love practicing kenpo, pure martial arts movies are not always my thing. I’m a big fan of action movies incorporating martial arts action, à la Matrix and such. I have Jet Li’s Hero and Fearless in DVD and still have not found the time to watch them. It’s a shame, I know, but my wife isn’t as into martial arts as I am, so finding some time to watch them is not easy. Quote:
I may be biased, since this is my hometown, but I would say Quebec City in general and the Old Quebec in particular. Within the old fortifications, you can park your car and tour the city on feet for a couple of days easy, going from historical site to historical site, (La Citadelle de Québec makes for a great start with a stop to be done at La Place Royale, in the Old Québec) and maybe taking a taxi to get to the Plains of Abraham, another site you don’t want to miss if you’re even just a little bit into historical stuff. Quebec City was founded in 1608 and will celebrate 400 years in 2008. That's plenty of history. Even though there is the winter carnival happening in the Winter, I'd highly recommend doing this kind of sightseeing tour during the summertime. Much more fun walking in sandals and shorts than in heavy parka and big boots. Quote:
sir, sir, sir, it's poutine, although you live sorta close by, so you probably went by ear  Given the right cheese curds and the right kind of gravy, it's very hot. The gravy is what makes it works... For anybody wondering what poutine is, the recipe is fairly basic: french fries topped with cheese curds on which you pour gravy. For those wanting to know more, wikipedia has a good article about the poutine. Quote:
Back in December 2003, I was looking for real rosters for the 4th edition of FOF and some net searching got me to the frontpage on gamespy and eventually to the forum. Despite being online for the ten years prior to that, I'd never been part of any online message board, at least not in a very active way. Because of that, I lurked until I started reading about this Hattrick game. I signed up for it and have been around this place here since then. Quote:
Simply put, you don't. Quote:
Nordiques, always and forever. I've told this a couple times in the past, but I have stopped following the NHL when they moved out of town. I grew up with them. I have memories of going to see them when I was maybe 7 and they were in the WHA. I remember clearly my sister and I getting all excited to go see "papy Howe" whenever the New England Whalers were coming to town. From Hockeydb.com, I deduct that this must have been 1977 or 1978, as I remember that he was playing with his two sons, Mark and Marty, at the time. Remember clearly being at the Colisée early enough for the games to see the warmup sessions and even once we were seated low enough that Gordie Howe flipped us a puck over the board. Silly me, I used it to play street hockey and have no clue where it is now. Then there were the Stastny brother coming to town, then all the dark years, the Lindros saga and the building up of the club that won the Stanley Cup in Colorado the very next season after moving. Many, many years of my youth have been as a Nords fan... Furthermore, regarding the Habs, maybe this was not as clearcut to outsiders, but the rivalry they had with the Nords was very, VERY intense for a few years after the Nords entered the NHL. The Habs were an institution in the province and the Nords came as a bunch of bums. The Habs were owned and managed by mostly English speaking people while the Nords were sporting the Fleur de Lys and were owned by local people. Families were torn apart because of it, and I mean people not talking to each other for years. Some people had been rooting for the Habs since they were very young because, you know, the Habs were the Habs, one of the most successful hockey franchise in the history of the league while others went with the local team. Quote:
French Canadian cussing (swearing/profanity) is mostly based on church/catholic words, i.e. christ, tabernacle, chalice, hostie (which is what the bread is called in French). I differentiate French Canadian from simply French because there is a difference, especially in cussing. It's indeed one of the bad words because of its catholic implications and it's got three resounding syllables to it, making it pound three times as much as a simple "fuck". Just so you know, French Canadians will pronounce it "tah-bahr-nak". It's probably seen as more of a bad word than the others because of those three resounding syllables. You can't really miss when someone says it.. Quote:
I’m French Canadian and knew that outside our friendly areas, we sometime get called Frogs, so I went ahead and instead of “fearing” of being called it, I decided to make fun of the term. I’ve had a fantasy football team called the “Quebec Mighty Frogs” for a long time, thus making the term FrogMan a simply natural choice. Quote:
I had to do a quick search to find when the term was coined. Funny enough, it’s my predecessor in this FTB, WSUCougar that invented the term in the FM2006 thread. Seems we’ve not been into it as much in the FM2007 thread. Probably goes with how my interest for the game has gone. I have not really started a real career with FM2007 yet. Someday, we’ll get together again, and we’ll rule another first impressions thread, muahahahah.  Quote:
What? they don't? Ours accept loonies and toonies, but they only had to beat a battered Lawrence Phillips to do so, so...  Quote:
Funny, you'd expect me to say "frog all the way" given my nick but ever since he was born, we've been calling Andrew, our oldest son, "notre petit crapaud" (i.e. "our little toad"). Because of that, and seeing how mean he can be with his bo, I’d have to say toad... Quote:
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My favorite "mainstream" beer is Labbat's Blue, the one they brew and distribute in Canada, not the watered down version we send south of the border. My favorite microbrew is Unibroue's Eau Bénite (translates to Holy Water). Quote:
If we're talking about the run of the mill Bud, Coors and such, not really. Taste seems watered down. Fwiw, I have tasted both american and canadian versions of Budweiser but it was a few years ago, so I’m not only basing this on hearsay. Quote:
Matthew just turned three a few days ago and there's not much I can think of that makes me proud of him, at least in terms of realization, it's more like an overall sentiment. The kid is a talker, really explains everything he sees or he does, and he repeats about anything we say. And by a talker, I mean, complete sentences and all, in fact, he speaks better than many of my coworkers. A couple of things make me real proud of Andrew. First off, his improvement with the bo. I’m always in awe whenever I watch the clip of first ever bo kata in a competition (February 2006) and I compare it to the performance he gave at our school’s Christmas show last December. The other thing is seeing him not only be admitted to a special English intensive program starting next Fall but showing a great interest in it. May not seems like a big deal to most people on FOFC, but being French Canadians first, from parents who barely speak English (I mean my parents, not his parents ), it is very important that my children learn English, for their future. To see that he has an interest in it just meant a whole lot to me.Quote:
I was born in Ste-Foy, a suburbanite city of Quebec City that has been since merged with the main city. I have one sister who’s two years and a half younger than me. We moved a couple times before settling in a smallish city called L’Ancienne-Lorette, in a house that my parents still inhabit and where I lived until I was 22. I went on to go to college at the Université Laval right here in Quebec City (btw, home of the reigning Canadian College football champions, the Rouge et Or ) and even started an MBA that I never finished because I started working for a paper recycling company located nearby Montreal as an Operations Supervisor for one of their sorting centers. I had been there only for six months when they acquired a bankrupt paper recycler in Pittsfield, MA. They wanted to have a Quebecer down there to manage the place back into business so I was sent down there at the ripe age of 25. My wife, then 6 months pregnant with Andrew, came with me. She gave birth while we were down there. After the sorting center had been stabilized, the company brought me back to Canada. It was sort of an understood thing that I was going to come back to their sorting center in Quebec City and be allowed to remain at that place for at least a couple of years. Only 3 months after I’d been back, they decided that the Quebec center was not profitable enough and they were going to shut it down. Seeing how other managers and staff people seemed to be moving once every year on average, with my hatred of moving, and seeing how much joy seeing my son brought to my parents, I decided to leave the company and embarked on a try with a lady who wanted to start an online fragrance store. The thing folded a couple weeks before Christmas 1998 and left me unemployed for 5 months, until I found the job I occupy now which is Senior Production Planner for a coach manufacturer. We moved to Pintendre after a couple months of me getting that job back in 1999 and moved again a couple of years later, still in Pintendre but into our current house.This leads me to the couple of EaglesFan27 questions regarding where I’d like to live… Quote:
As I said, I did the move back because I wanted my parents to be able to see my son (now sons) as much as they could. I would never have been able to live in the same town as them, but they are some 20 minutes away and can come and see my sons anytime they want. To see how they (both my sons and my parents) are happy when seeing each other, it’s just priceless. So because of that, even if I could pick any place in the world, I’d still pick where we are now. The weather is sometimes cold and all, but I’ve been living with it all my life. Quote:
If I had to pick an American city, I’d probably pick a close, northeastern mid size city, maybe in New Hampshire or Massachusetts. Despite what some people might say about Pittsfield (it's a bit of Northeast redneck country), we loved our time down there. Quote:
A couple things that have happened to me that most people don't know. First, as you must know, free medical care in Quebec has not always been that way. November 1st, 1970 is the day it was set to start. October 31st that year was a Saturday. My mom and dad were watching the Habs on TV when my mom went into labor for her first child, i.e. me. They got to the hospital around 10pm where they only talked to her doctor who, knowing how my dad was still in college, told her to go sit down and relax int he waiting area. He told her he knew she wasn't ready yet and wouldn't admit her until the midnight mark had passed so they wouldn't have to pay for the birth. She sat down and relaxed all right and yours truly was born around 1:30am on November 1st, in fact being the first baby in that hospital to be born under the free medical care program that is still the norm in Quebec. The other is a bit scarier and happened again in an hospital, this time when I was 18. I was set to have a surgical procedure called a maxilo facial surgery, as part of an orthodontic program. Basically, they were going to saw the top jaw in three and expand it. The day of surgery came and as they were giving me stuff to relax me through the IV and all, they also gave me some medications that was supposed to keep the afterward swelling to a minimum. I don't even remember the name of the medication, but I went into some allergy shock. I couldn't breath for some scary moments and started to black out. People realized around me that it wasn't going right and while my eyes were blacked out, I could hear the moving around. It was kind of surreal, just like one of those TV shows, I heard them talk about my pulse and such, stuff like "BP getting low, we're losing him!". I clearly remember one nurse saying that, "we're losing him". As you guess, since I'm able to type this, they never lost me and I was able to come back. I never saw the proverbial white light and they never needed to shock me back to life, but it was indeed a bit of a freaking out experience. About me, as I am now, you might not realize it, and I know this sounds stupid with me spilling out my guts here, but I'm a fairly shy, borderline antisocial person. I don't open up to many people and am often afraid of being either laughed at or put down by others. I started practicing kenpo when I was 32 and let's say that some of the moves are not really natural for me and I often fear of looking stupid. It's irrational, but it's there. My entering competitions and presenting my kata in a show have helped me deal with this in a big way. There's something to be said about the group of people we have here on FOFC. This board has been kinda therapeutic for me in many regards. Quote:
Laws can vary from province to province (as they do from state to state) so I’ll go with a couple of idiotic ones from Quebec that were changed recently. Up until a just a few years ago, it was illegal to make a right turn on a red light (after making a stop). In 2000, after many years of studying if Quebecer were not going to simply bowl over pedestrians, the legislators decided to allow the right turns on a red light. Saying they allowed it is a bit misleading though, as they put up a ton and a half of signs on may streets where the right turns were still illegal, sometimes between some hours of the day, sometimes during the week. They have revised and taken down many of these signs but the whole Montreal city area remains one where it is still illegal to make a right turn on a red light. Beware if you go visit there. Then, the regular opening hours of grocery stores are from 8am to 9pm from Monday to Friday and 8 to 5 on Saturday and Sunday. Grocery stores can be open outside of these hours, but they have to do so with only 4 employees on the floor. They COULD NOT have more than 4 employees outside these hours at any time, or else they could get tagged with hefty fines. I say could because a new law was passed right before the holiday break that now allows a bit more time, I think until 9pm on the weekends although I’m unsure about what happens during the week. That law was first passed to protect the small grocery stores (basically the seven-elevens of the province) since apparently there was a very high number of these in the province, more in proportion than anywhere else in the world... While it's not a law per se, there's another thing I'm not sure most people know about Quebec, it's how the school system works. We go through 6 years of primary school, then 5 years of high school. After that, people go to what is called a CEGEP around here, which stands for College d'Enseignement Général Et Professionel (loosely translates to "College of general and professional teaching"), for either a two year preparatory program for college, or a three techical class that would allow you to go straight to work. Despite the name, it's not college at all. After that, most undergrad program of college level are of three years, except engeeniring which is four years and medecine which is... long. Quote:
I watched a bunch of french kids shows, mostly stuff either made in Quebec or translated stuff (and probably some stuff imported from France as well). I remember vividly an anime show called Goldorak. I also remember watching quite a bit translated american shows (ChiPs, Love Boat, Fantasy Island among others). Price is right is among the first show in English that I remember watching, back when I was 10 or so. For us, that was on cable. Friends is the first real English language show that I followed and that was in the middle of their first season. From that point on, my watching of french TV has dwindled down every year until we left for Pittfield. Now, whatever little TV I watch is American TV with a little bit of local news in French. This makes me an odd person around here, believe it or not. Not that many people from around here watch too much American TV. Again, this makes FOFC that much more important to me. Quote:
Yeah, I do read quite a bit, enough so that back in 2000, I decided to keep track of my books, read and unread, in an excel spreadsheet. Been doing that, going back to books I had read starting in 1998. On that list, I see that I have read 108 books since 1998 so about a book a month. I mostly read mystery/suspense novels but more specifically courtroom dramas and lawyerish novels (like Grisham or Richard North Patterson), high finance mysteries (Stephen Frey for one) or novels set in the business world, and novels centered around the White House, the President, and/or the Supreme Court and the Justices (Brad Meltzer had a couple of very good novels in that regards). I'm a bargain shopper (www.bookcloseouts.com anyone? ) so I more often than not shop for genre more than a specific author.Quote:
As I said, it has helped me feeling better with myself but it also has forced me to focus, stay concentrated on what I do. Martial arts, as opposed to many other sports, has to be practiced and thought of over a long period of time and can’t really be stopped. You can’t really look at it like a hockey season, from say September to March and stop and say, okay, I’l pick my skates back up in September. You have to keep thinking about it, even if only a little or else whatever you've worked on, you will simply lose it. Quote:
It didn't affect me really. Yeah, sometimes I felt bad for the guy sometimes, but I also think he had it coming with his big mouth and the lack of quality his program was showing through screenshot after screenshot. I could not for the life of me program anything that would even remotely entertain someone, let alone a football game. But you don't hear me claim high and low that I can... Quote:
In both our final year of college bachelor's degree (me my third in business school and her fourth year of her Mechanical Engineering degree), we ended up taking a class together, a class called "Operations and productivity". The class, while techically one in the business school curriculum, appealed to some Mechanical Engineering students for it's applications in plant management. I saw that little blond cutie the very first day when we all introduced ouselves and I remember thinking "wow, SHE is from engineering???" Took us until the very last day, actually the very last final exam to finally get to know each other over a beer. That was 14 years ago and we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary last Thrusday. Quote:
A few years ago, after maybe a couple of years in my current job, I was offered a staff position as a logistics coordinator, within the company. My position at the time (and the same one I occupy nowadays) was a unionized one, without any human resources management. The staff position was an advancement indeed and I was proud to have been offered it. I initially took it and then things got a bit ugly, not at all because of me, just the situation. I was doing decently but the pressure was mounting because of backorders and such, which were all under my responsibility. I had been a manager prior to that job, and I knew I was able to do the job, but the pressure was hitting me, hard. Everything began to look like a mountain. I had 90 days to decide if I was staying in that new position, or if I wanted to back down. I kept seeing the backing down option as a failure, as admitting that I was not up to the task. I eventually decided to go back to my old job, where I still am today. Maybe this has cost me in terms of advancement through the company, and maybe I would be earning a bigger wage today, if not for that move backward, but I certainly wouldn’t be as happy. I love my job. Quote:
If anything, I probably would have partied a bit more while I was in college. LOL I was not a geek by any stretch, but I also was not a party animal... Then again, not finishing my MBA is something I also regret, but it had come to a point where I had no interest in the field of study I was in. Quote:
That would be putting that sorting center back into operations in Pittsfield. Following a big snowstorm, their roof had collapsed so there was only a conveyor belt leading to a baler right to the side of the building. I was in charge of arranging the flow of material through the facility, thinking up the floor plan and managing the personnel, and all that in a language that was not my native one. Quote:
I think we're doing okay, as a team. My wife and I are pretty even in our views of how we want to raise our sons, especially as to what behavior is and is not acceptable. This goes a long way. I'm a pretty strict parent but I also give a lot. Quote:
In a sense, it has brought out traits that I never thought I had, namely patience and a capability to give myself to others. Before having kids, I would snap easily. I'm not saying I'm a saint now, but trying to be the best example possible for your kids is a good incentive to keep yourself in check. In other ways, having kids, and taking good care of them, has probably caused me to shut myself off to the outside world, so to speak. I rarely plan big nights of activities, probably cherishing more a couple of hours of computer gaming or of TV watching with my wife than most other activities we could do socially with another couple. Quote:
Honestly, these "could you take this dude?" questions are tough for me (except the Chuck Norris one, that one was easy). This may sound weird, but I don't do martial arts in order to actually fight someone and I so don't see myself fighting that I have a hard time thinking if I could or could not take someone down, especially someone actually really well versed in martial arts. I mean, I visualise what I would do in case of an attack, like weak points, pressure points, takedowns I could do and I'm pretty sure I could take down your regular joe, the petty robber, or at least surprise him enough to leave me alone, but most black belts would probably kick my butt. I've only been doing kenpo for 4 years now and I feel like I have just started, so much to learn... Quote:
Compared to many people around here, my following of the NFL is a fairly recent thing. I really started paying attention to it around 1993. For a few years, I didn't a favorite, until we moved to Pittsfield in January 1997, just a week before the Pats were to play the Packers in SB XXXI. Been one of the annoying Pats fans ever since. The last few years have been great to say the least. Quote:
Welcome to our McDojo. Quote:
Yeah, it would be the bo, basically because it was my first and the one I've played with it the most, as you pointed out. I like the versatility of it. It's got reach, yet it can block blows. I also like how it flows, how it moves, how some people can make such a long staff appear to move so fast just mesmerizes me. Finally, a bo is just a long stick. You can find one just about anywhere, really. A broomstick can do the trick. Quote:
I'm intrigued by many weapons to be honest. The sai is probably one that I would like to try, if only because it looks deadly and Jennifer Garner was just too cool handling them (despite the suckiness of the movies in which she appeared as Elektra). While technically, the escrima sticks (that we also call kali) are a weapon I've already tried, I'd really like to learn to work with them more. Quote:
I would really to learn more about aither aikido or jiu-jitsu at some point, mostly close range takedowns and locks. Whenever we brush with those in our classes, I find myself very interested by them. The flow of aikido makes it look so effortless. Quote:
As of now, it's still slated for February in the very broad sense of the word, so it should happen in 2 to 6 weeks from now. Hopefully more like 3 or 4 weeks left to prepare, as some of my curriculum stuff needs refining. Thanks for the good luck. For those wondering, I'll be testing not really for a new belt but for an extra black stripe on my brown belt. I'm currently a 3rd you and that new level is called 2nd kyu. Then, at least 6 months after that test would come a test for 1st kyu, also called the black belt pretest. Once a 1st kyu, I could be called to test for my black belt as early as a month after that. Quote:
Even cooler than you'd think, our new bills now have holograms on them and some see through numbers. Quote:
ahh, newfies, growing up thought they were dumb as doorknobs, from hattrick, most are cool people, may be biased because of setting in which I get to meet them (on a computer online kind of game. I don't really have a comparison for them only to say that all the newfie jokes I knew as a kid are now being repeated as blond jokes... Quote:
As I answered to WSUCougar's question regarding these movies, traditional martial arts have not yet grown on me. They do intrigue me though and I just learned a new term, wuxia. Thanks for that. Quote:
Celine Dion, Celine Dion, Celine Dion? Quote:
You know what, my generation is kinda stuck in the middle on the two systems. I was fed the metric system at school, but my parents never really learned it properly and people of their generation more often than not will refer to things in the imperial system. Meanwhile, my sons have absolutely no clue what an inch, a foot, or a mile is. Because of that, I have learned many conversions like 2.54 cm to an inch, 1.6 km to a mile, 454 grams to a pound (or 2.2 pounds to a kilogram). Strangely though, we still refer to people weights in pounds and most construction sites still give out their measurements in inches and feet while most recipes will still give you both imperial and metric measures. Quote:
Thanks for caring. She's doing wonderfully well, getting rave reviews and all. She received some very good "grades" at her six months evaluation, along with a nice raise in wage. Even better, she's been involved more and more in project management, was even given some projects of her own. I think I mentioned in that other thread that her doctor had put her on anti depressant medications. After starting that new job, her doctor had slowly started dropping the dosage and as of just a couple weeks ago, she is now completely off of them. She feels good about herself, has regained her self confidence. She often refers to her job as "the one thing I've always wanted to do in plastic transformation". It's been a bit tougher on me, as with bigger job responsibilities for her come some longer work hours and despite her boss giving her a job laptop, she often comes home at 7pm or so, meaning I'm in charge of dinner for both kids and doing the homeworks with the oldest. Add to that the fact that I have to drive them around to and from school/daycare in the morning and the afternoon and my days are quite full. I'm not complaining though, seeing her happy and loving her job sure beats the hell out of a depressed woman in the house. That's it. I hope I didn't bore you all to death. It was a lot of fun, and very therapeutic, thank you very much. FM |
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01-17-2007, 11:15 AM
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Thanks a lot, FM. I really enjoyed learning more about you, your family, and your home.
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01-17-2007, 11:29 AM
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Location: New Jersey
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That is wonderful news about your wife, and I wasn't bored at all. Very interesting read. I really enjoyed learning more about you. Thanks for the thoughtful answers.
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01-17-2007, 11:35 AM
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Quite enjoyed reading that, FM. Thanks!
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Another good one, I love this feature!
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01-17-2007, 12:06 PM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Thanks for sharing!
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01-17-2007, 12:13 PM
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Great stuff, bud. I was glad to see this didn't go by without a Unibroue mention...
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01-17-2007, 01:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue
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Excellent read sir. Before reading this, I would have sworn you were quite possibly a transplant from the United States, is an only child, was an average reader and was more of the partying type, and never thought that you almost lost your life.
Great job with this FTB. There were a number of things I knew nothing about you and thanks for the bookclousts link. Good nice read.
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01-17-2007, 01:11 PM
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We read almost the exact same authors and styles of books...must be a Canadian thing
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01-17-2007, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sweden
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Good to hear about your wife's job and how well it turned out to be for both of you.
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01-17-2007, 02:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burlington, VT USA
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Splendid stuff
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01-17-2007, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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This whole series has been great, thanks for participating Frogman, the story of you being born right after free medical care went into effect is fascinating.
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01-17-2007, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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I wasn't bored Frogman thanks for the details, it was a very good read
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01-17-2007, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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that's funny about the grocery stores - until now, I'd forgotten the weird laws up there regarding stores. Similar to the number of employee thing, when I lived in Ontario it was a size thing - only stores under a certain square footage could open on Sundays. I can remember some bigger stores getting around this by roping off a number of aisles. or at least that's my recollection.
great write up. You know, there's room on the Avalanche bandwagon now that they aren't an elite team any more. They even have a Stastny again!
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Excellent idea, Barkeep. Looking forward to the next one!
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01-17-2007, 06:28 PM
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I think I talk to you too much off the board, cuz I knew most of these answers...still a great read, though.
I love this feature!!! /tk
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01-17-2007, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Good stuff, Froggie!
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01-17-2007, 07:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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thanks a lot to all of you for the kind words, very much appreciated.
Special thanks to WSUCougar for picking me to do it. As Barkeep49 could testify, I was kinda nervous about going along with it but it turned out to be quite a fun thing to do. I can't wait to read what my successor will have for answers to your questions. I'm sure it will be a dandy. FM
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01-17-2007, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Frogman was indeed nervous, but certainly pulled through. I also agree that his choice is one of the people I've been most interested in doing this.
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