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    Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    I still say the sexual inuendo takes the cake.


    Or maybe I'm just really immature.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    Curling is retarded and you think it's the stupidest sport ever and one day you tune in to say "look at those goddamn imbeciles sliding stones down the ice" and then after the first end you think "well, there's nothing better on tee vee, and that last shot was kind of cool" and then two hours later you're leaning forward on your couch watching a crucial three stone takeout/block get pulled off and you feel totally triumphant and then holy shit you're watching curling.
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    12/12/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: Also pareene's right. Where I am it's about -16 Celcius.
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    12/12/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: You're a Canadian??!!?1? Excellent. So glad to have you on our team. It's only -12 here on Queen west, and this awesome pizza place just opened up next door. I'm going to fight the cold with a hot bath, a big glass (mug) of whisky and later a nice, hot pizza. The only thing curling will be my toes, in ecstasy.
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    12/12/08

    @punkthis: Tornto eh? You should order from Vesuvio's pizza. I love their stuff. I'm trying to find a good wood oven pizza place that delivers for when I'm in TO next. Any suggestions?
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/12/08

    @Pope John Peeps II: A little part of me becomes gleeful when I discover other Canadians on here, even if you live thousands of kilometers away.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    Someone please clarify: Is curling the "sport" that uses the Swiffers on the ice as the coffee pot slides along at a river of molasses pace, or is it the one where the ceramic cookie jar with a handle is spirited down the pike by some red-faced person whose lips are mere inches from the ice in a Flick from Christmas Story temptation of raw-skin-stuck-to-ice waterdance of potential hilarity and cheering? Or is this all one and the same? Either way...Hey Canada! Keep your lameness up north, a'iight, we got Dressage.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/12/08

    @Spirit Fingers: But you get to yell "Harder, harder!" and it's perfectly normal!
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    My hair is naturally curly. WHAT DO I WIN??
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    12/12/08

    @oyvehisyou:


    Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    it would probably cost less to feed said elephant than to pay for parking and insurance, would it not?
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    BTW, everyone in NY go to that exhibition!! It will be lots of fun, and being Canadian, will probably include alcohol.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    If asked nicely, will they agree to give the winner a cash prize in lieu of the hotel stay, car and gas card?
    A pet elephant would be less trouble than a car in New York.
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    12/12/08

    @City_Dater: Ah, yes. 2nd Prize: two trips to Canada!


    Haha, just uh - kidding.

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    Never ask New Yorkers to expose themselves to anything during this time of year. It'll freeze! (Insert stuck to a pole joke here)
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    If you show promising technique, Brad might just let you try to get his rocks off.
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    Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy
    12/12/08

    @west ham sandwich: As far as curling goes, Gushue is kind of a hunk. I'm not insinuating that he's a 90s era Brad Pitt, but in Canada we're kind of desperate.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    And yes, it has been FUCKING COLD in Toronto the last several days, 10 or 11 below 0 Celsius at night. Low tonight will be 14 Fahrenheit.

    But Monday will be a balmy 48 F with some rain. C'mon up!!! :D
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    Image of DeikaD DeikaD
    12/12/08

    Nigga plz, it's like -30 with windchill in Ottawa. And, wha??!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/12/08

    @DeikaD:


    It's close to 60 degrees in socal right now and freezing my giblettes off.

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    Image of PimpMyCouch PimpMyCouch
    12/12/08

    @Xylo: It snowed this morning in Vancouver. We're supposed to get 10-15cm.


    Whaaaat? We're wimps! Leave us be!

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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/12/08

    @DeikaD: I've been there. :D


    @PimpMyCouch: I lived there for several years, moved from TO. Hahaha, they used to run home at 3 shrieking about tires with no chains if the roads got greasy from a few errant flakes, I'd stand in the window and go "wtf??"

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    Image of Bitter Poor Bitter Poor
    12/12/08

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: It's funny how temperature is relative like that.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/12/08

    @Bitter Poor: I was told once by a wise old hvac man that the skinny people usually complain about the cold and the plumpers about the heat. Well here at least it's a dry cold. Nyuckers.
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    Image of Bitter Poor Bitter Poor
    12/12/08

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Ironic that, because I suppose I'd be considered "plump" (which is to say I'm not a size 2, but in NYC, anything larger than a broom handle is considered "plus size"), but I die in the cold. Winter every year is like a Chekhovian trilogy of misery, here in NYC.


    This may be, of course, because I grew up in a rather warmer client.

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    12/12/08

    @Bitter Poor: Err, climate, not CLIENT. Can you tell what I do for a living, boys and girls?
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    we did curling in gym class. every year. I know all the rules. minnesota: more like canada than america.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    12/12/08

    @arguablythemostfamous: and yet tragically not.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    What they don't tell you is $500 will get you about 17 litres of gas in Canada.
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    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    I read "Details Blow", then thought oh I got that wrong, no wait, I had it right.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    Do you have to drive the new car to Canada?
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/12/08

    In reply to Press Release of the Day: Win the Chance to Drive to Canada in the Dead of Winter
    That streets looks a helluva lot like my old neighborhood in Providence. Canadian cities tend to have way more wrought iron and less clapboard. Google Image shenanigans?
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/12/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: If there's big old brick houses in the background of that pic, wood siding is a pretty familiar sight in southern Ontario (Toronto outskirts). Otherwise, could be any Down East town in the Canadian Maritime region.
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    12/12/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: It looks like Buffalo in October.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/12/08

    @Xylo:


    My wife is from Toronto and took me to Mississauga once, and I know this sounds odd, but I found it to be pretty much the most charming suburb I've ever seen. Yeah, it's incredibly "planned," but it's well planned.

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    Image of SpiceMustFlow SpiceMustFlow
    12/12/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: The wrought iron proliferation is mostly in Quebec. This pic could be from almost anywhere else, though the Atlantic provinces would be my guess.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    12/12/08

    @uninspired: It looks like Buffalo in May.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/12/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Well, I'm not sure what areas you saw, but I don't remember many clapboard houses my last trip over there, lots of brick ranch with manicured lawns. This is more small town mise en scene.
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    Image of DeltaGuy DeltaGuy
    12/12/08

    @fluffybudgie: I concur. It looks very much like St. John's, Newfoundland.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/12/08

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Ugh. Really? Mississauga is awful. Boring people. Boring things to do. Boring buildings. Sure there a Go Train to Toronto, but it still takes like... 40 minutes to get anywhere interesting.
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