Did you know that labour day (you spell it wrong) , is the only national holiday shared by Canada and the U.S. ?
Funny observation from this "labour day". Most of our down town was closed Saturday. I had some quad tires in being mounted at the one man tire shop down the street and knew he was going to be closed Friday. I called Thursday ---yes they were ready ---but he wanted to sneak out at 4:00. He left them outside for me and i dropped my money in the mail slot---all good. We have a car show on one of the main thoroughfares on the first Thursday of the month during summer and one of the auto parts places ( next block) we deal with held a customer appreciation BBQ just before it so Winnie and I walked over had our free burger and took in the car show. Many of the small shops and boutique kinda places stayed open. WE didn't have time to "check them out"*so decided we'd walk back down yesterday. Every stinking one of them, including the one chair in the corner barber shop I told I'd be coming to Sat., were closed. I suggest we change the name to Labour-less day. LOL
*I'm on first, the car show is two blocks south from 6th to 13th st. , the BBQ was a block south of that. [Mansoff's garage is on 3 rd.---don't start that joke! grin]. As it was it was 9:00 o'clock and coming dusk by the time we got home.
We share Thanksgiving Day with you folks up north, it's just that you folks use the wrong day. :)
I also have noticed that you put an extra 'L' in the word 'pummeled'.
Typical government tactic for labor day: call it something it isn't and the peoples won't notice as long as their cable rates don't go up.
I love the 5.1% unemployment rate here in the USA. We've got 200 million adults capable of working and 90 million out of work. Yep, 90 divided by 200 equals 5.1%. It looks like that "new math" is working.
gene
So do the British/Canadian versions of the Scrabble game have extra "U" tiles?
I'll bet we share First of January and Christmas, too. Must be national holidays since the mail does not get delivered then.
The unemployment number only counts people who are looking for a job. Those who are not looking for a job, quit looking for a job, or now have one or more part-time jobs (Welcome to Wal*mart, Welcome to Wal*mart. Did you want fries with that?)
Quote from: gene on September 06, 2015, 10:32:49 am
I love the 5.1% unemployment rate here in the USA. We've got 200 million adults capable of working and 90 million out of work. Yep, 90 divided by 200 equals 5.1%. It looks like that "new math" is working.
gene
I called my helper this morning to see if he could help me on a delivery. Labor Day is a great day for deliveries, because it's the one day I can catch people at home.
He informed me that he doesn't work on Labor Day. So I reluctantly told him that we would try to do the delivery tomorrow.
THEN he called me back an hour later, asking if he could have a $20 advance on tomorrow's delivery.
Sorry, it would violate my patriotic beliefs to loan money on a national holiday.
So do the British/Canadian versions of the Scrabble game have extra "U" tiles?
Yes, and the letter has to appear in french on the backside. grin.
For those who have never shopped north of the 49 th---our packaging must be in both official languages.
No offence, but I always thought the extra U in words like colour, labour, humour, flavour,* and neighbour were superfluous. :-)
And don't get me started on the hoity-toity attitude in upscale towns and establishments that use words like Centre, Towne, and Theatre here.
And did you know that in order to sell a product in Lowe's it has to have bi-lingual labeling in English and Spanish? ¡Sí!
As Sarah Palin says, "... speak American!" http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/07/sarah-palin-says-immigrants-to-the-us-should-speak-american
* note the Oxford comma
Quote from: Darren Henry on September 07, 2015, 08:47:22 am
So do the British/Canadian versions of the Scrabble game have extra "U" tiles?
Yes, and the letter has to appear in french on the backside. grin.
For those who have never shopped north of the 49 th---our packaging must be in both official languages.
Quote from: byhammerandhand on September 07, 2015, 09:23:45 am
No offence
Yet another word that the British and Canadians spell wrong.
Glad you caught that bit of satire.
"No right and wrong, just different." I've also become tolerant of "dialects" as opposed to "accents."
Quote from: sofadoc on September 07, 2015, 09:44:36 am
Quote from: byhammerandhand on September 07, 2015, 09:23:45 am
No offence
Yet another word that the British and Canadians spell wrong.
I worked a sweat up all week when through 4 tshirts a day installing a hot tub Saturday and sunday Darren ,
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then I washed my boat today
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Darren:
Why the hell you Cannucks have not given Quebec to France is beyond me. Your tax rates would be cut in half and you could then revert back to the English language.
The reason we spell things differently by the way is because kicked the King and his language out of the country and back to England. :)
BTW, is your town called Mayberry ? :)
Chris
I believe they spell it Mayburry.
gene
and everyone picks on my thumb spelling typos
Mike--If it's that hot and muggy there why are you putting in a hot tub ? You could put one heck of an ice maker on the boat for that kinda coin.
QuoteWhy the hell you Cannucks have not given Quebec to France is beyond me. Your tax rates would be cut in half
France wants nothing to do with them. I don't know about taxes---but our dollar might actually be worth something internationally if we got rid of a few hyphens and got back to being Canadians.
Three guys were traveling from Cincinnati to Louisville, KY when one of them said they were approaching and should stop for lunch.
One guy say, well, you mis-pronounced the name, it's Loo-is-ville.
The second said, "Sorry, but you guys should know, it's called Loo-a-vull. That's the way the locals say it."
The third say, "You're both wrong, it's French, so it's Loo-ey-ville"
The debate went on and finally one said, "Well, let's stop for lunch and ask a local. Whoever got it right gets lunch from the other two."
They agree and when they stopped, one of them says, "My friends and I are having a disagreement. Just how do you pronounce this place? Please be slow and clear because we have lunch bet on it.
The guy looks puzzled, but slowly says, "Bur-ger King."
Quote from: gene on September 09, 2015, 06:08:41 pm
I believe they spell it Mayburry.
gene
I hrdaly nootic nay fo theso tipo's.
I have exceptionally large hands and thumbs and would never be able to successfully use one of those little screens to type. Besides, I'm a "touch typist" and having to look at the keyboard and find the keys is hard for me to do. I do much better with full hand home row typing. I've been using keyboards on computers (and before that, keypunches) daily for the last 45 years.
Quote from: Mike on September 09, 2015, 08:32:37 pm
and everyone picks on my thumb spelling typos
Is Quebec still thinking of succession? I hired a guy from north of Montreal 20 years ago. He and his wife were both native French speakers, but were fluent enough in English to get along. When I visited Belgium, they told me that in order to work for the government, you had to be fluent in both French and Flemish (both official languages). The problem was, most native Flemish speakers knew French, but most native French speakers didn't know Flemish, so they were upset they could not get any gov't jobs.
Quote from: Darren Henry on September 10, 2015, 04:43:04 am
Mike--If it's that hot and muggy there why are you putting in a hot tub ?
wont be long till mid 40s f at night