Congratulations Canada!

The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.

Next stop, the peso. If it gets any worse, we'll be climbing the
fence over there looking for work.

(Note to Popeye: this is not a gun-thread, even if some gun loonie
ends up posting about loon hunting)

(Note to killfilers: if you find this truth offensive, go suck an egg)

On topic portion: This should make those Pacific destinations that
use U.S. currency, like Palau and Micronesia and Hawaii, more
affordable for our great white neighbors. I heard once from a Palau
DM that when they wanted to refer derogatorily to Japanese divers in
their presence (now who would ever want to do such a thing?), that
they would speak of "Canadian" divers instead, secure in their
substitution because of the fact that very few Canadians visited
Palau. Now they'll have to find another group to sub in. Polish
divers, perhaps? How many Polish divers could there possibly be?
With a reverse-polish regulator, you have to exhale to get a breath.

On Sep 20, 12:35 pm, Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> wrote:
> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.

Thank you. Yes, we're feeling pretty flush right now, at least those
who travel and aren't dependant on the industrial sector for pocket
change. I really lucked out when I let my American dollar account run
dry a while back. Now I can stock up on par currency for the next
round of holidays. Sure beats forking over 1,000 loonies for $700
worth of purchasing power.

JF

Greg Mossman wrote:

> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.
>
> Next stop, the peso. If it gets any worse, we'll be climbing the
> fence over there looking for work.
>
> (Note to Popeye: this is not a gun-thread, even if some gun loonie
> ends up posting about loon hunting)
>
> (Note to killfilers: if you find this truth offensive, go suck an egg)
>
> On topic portion: This should make those Pacific destinations that
> use U.S. currency, like Palau and Micronesia and Hawaii, more
> affordable for our great white neighbors. I heard once from a Palau
> DM that when they wanted to refer derogatorily to Japanese divers in
> their presence (now who would ever want to do such a thing?), that
> they would speak of "Canadian" divers instead, secure in their
> substitution because of the fact that very few Canadians visited
> Palau. Now they'll have to find another group to sub in. Polish
> divers, perhaps? How many Polish divers could there possibly be?
> With a reverse-polish regulator, you have to exhale to get a breath.
>
>
It also means our friends from the frozen north will find SoFla much
cheaper.

Which, I guess, means even more of those damn canucks this winter.

esg

Of course it happens right before I go to Niagara Falls ON for a long
weekend.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:53:17 -0700, JOF <jofrancis@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sep 20, 12:35 pm, Greg Mossman <moss...@qnet.com> wrote:
>> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.
>
>Thank you. Yes, we're feeling pretty flush right now, at least those
>who travel and aren't dependant on the industrial sector for pocket
>change. I really lucked out when I let my American dollar account run
>dry a while back. Now I can stock up on par currency for the next
>round of holidays. Sure beats forking over 1,000 loonies for $700
>worth of purchasing power.
>
>JF

On Sep 20, 2:19 pm, El Stroko Guapo <omg...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> It also means our friends from the frozen north will find SoFla much
> cheaper.
>
> Which, I guess, means even more of those damn canucks this winter.
>

Yup, and up here (in the great white frozen whatever) it means less
Merkans coming to Ottawa who wonder if they can take a bus to
Vancouver for a quick visit and be back in time for dinner.

El Stroko Guapo wrote:
> Greg Mossman wrote:
>
>> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.
>>
>> Next stop, the peso. If it gets any worse, we'll be climbing the
>> fence over there looking for work.
>>
>> (Note to Popeye: this is not a gun-thread, even if some gun loonie
>> ends up posting about loon hunting)
>>
>> (Note to killfilers: if you find this truth offensive, go suck an egg)
>>
>> On topic portion: This should make those Pacific destinations that
>> use U.S. currency, like Palau and Micronesia and Hawaii, more
>> affordable for our great white neighbors. I heard once from a Palau
>> DM that when they wanted to refer derogatorily to Japanese divers in
>> their presence (now who would ever want to do such a thing?), that
>> they would speak of "Canadian" divers instead, secure in their
>> substitution because of the fact that very few Canadians visited
>> Palau. Now they'll have to find another group to sub in. Polish
>> divers, perhaps? How many Polish divers could there possibly be?
>> With a reverse-polish regulator, you have to exhale to get a breath.
>>
>>
> It also means our friends from the frozen north will find SoFla much
> cheaper.
>
> Which, I guess, means even more of those damn canucks this winter.
>
> esg
>

Why wait for winter? I'll be there in November!

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</TAZZ>

On Sep 20, 3:39 pm, Lembo <Lemb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yup, and up here (in the great white frozen whatever) it means less
> Merkans coming to Ottawa who wonder if they can take a bus to
> Vancouver for a quick visit and be back in time for dinner.

A bus? I thought you had to take a dogsled. When did y'all get buses?

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:39:28 -0700, Lembo <Lembo27@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sep 20, 2:19 pm, El Stroko Guapo <omg...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> It also means our friends from the frozen north will find SoFla much
>> cheaper.
>>
>> Which, I guess, means even more of those damn canucks this winter.
>>
>
>Yup, and up here (in the great white frozen whatever) it means less
>Merkans coming to Ottawa who wonder if they can take a bus to
>Vancouver for a quick visit and be back in time for dinner.

Sounds like the progeny of the 60's surfer boys who used to come up
from Michigan to Grand Bend - with their surf boards. I never figgered
out why they thought the surf was up on our side of the pond. Perhaps
it was the hair bleach had finally soaked thru their skulls and
frazzled their GTO brains.

JF

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
news:1190306159.147399.179450@v23g2000prn.googlegr oups.com...
> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.

I couldn't be more pleased and excited!! It was only a few years ago I was
paying $1.60 Cdn to buy $1 US for my Belize trips. This next trip to Belize
may cost less than a trip to Banff.

> Next stop, the peso. If it gets any worse, we'll be climbing the
> fence over there looking for work.

You guys aren't going to have to worry about your illegal alien problem much
longer. Apparently word is out that there's a good thing going on up here
and illegal Mexicans are swamping Windsor, Ontario.

> (Note to Popeye: this is not a gun-thread, even if some gun loonie
> ends up posting about loon hunting)
>
> (Note to killfilers: if you find this truth offensive, go suck an egg)
>
> On topic portion: This should make those Pacific destinations that
> use U.S. currency, like Palau and Micronesia and Hawaii, more
> affordable for our great white neighbors.

Woohoo!!! Maybe I should put Hawaii back on my list. And yeah, if I buy US
dollars now and sock them away, I can use them for the Palau and Micronesia
trips when I have the time. I'm excited, yes I am.

> I heard once from a Palau
> DM that when they wanted to refer derogatorily to Japanese divers in
> their presence (now who would ever want to do such a thing?), that
> they would speak of "Canadian" divers instead, secure in their
> substitution because of the fact that very few Canadians visited
> Palau. Now they'll have to find another group to sub in. Polish
> divers, perhaps? How many Polish divers could there possibly be?
> With a reverse-polish regulator, you have to exhale to get a breath.

Hmpf. I haven't ever seen any Canadian divers treating the undersea like I
have seen some Japanese divers do.

Greg Mossman wrote:
> The loonie is finally at parity with the George Washington.
>
> Next stop, the peso. If it gets any worse, we'll be climbing the
> fence over there looking for work.
>

It's not all shits and giggles here in the frozen north. SWMBO dad and
brother work in a car parts plant. We just found out that it's going to
be closed (or, if we're lucky, its sister plant). Not too bad for her
dad (he's retiring soon, so he may just have to retire early, the poor
bugger). But her brother is just 30, so he's screwed big-time.


> (Note to Popeye: this is not a gun-thread, even if some gun loonie
> ends up posting about loon hunting)

Maybe I'll start this one off then (does that qualify me as a loonie,
although I'm not sure how to take that, as up here a "looney" is a
dollar coin).

Anyways, with the high dollar US manufactured guns should be a little
cheaper up here...


> (Note to killfilers: if you find this truth offensive, go suck an egg)
>
> On topic portion: This should make those Pacific destinations that
> use U.S. currency, like Palau and Micronesia and Hawaii, more
> affordable for


In my experience Hawaii was, and long has been, one of the cheapest. It
was even the cheapest when I traveled there back when the Cnd$ was 0.64
US.

>our great white neighbors

I'm sure that's a typo. I think the word "north" should be in there
somewhere

Bryan