Sipadan/Mabul

Wow!! Wow!! Wow!!

Sipadan . . . Hammerheads, manta rays, leopard sharks, schools of bumphead
parrots, a plethora of fishies. And on shore living under and then stepping
out for a sunbath in front of my acco . . . monitor lizzards!

Mabul . . . Mandarins, crocodile fish, ribbon eels, mating nudis, seahorses,
so many kinds of fishies I still don't know what they were, and some showing
the strangest behavior.

I have ever so much more to tell but need to get the report together. Stay
tuned. :^)

chilly wrote:
>
> Wow!! Wow!! Wow!!
>
> Sipadan . . . Hammerheads, manta rays, leopard sharks, schools of bumphead
> parrots, a plethora of fishies. And on shore living under and then stepping
> out for a sunbath in front of my acco . . . monitor lizzards!
>
> Mabul . . . Mandarins, crocodile fish, ribbon eels, mating nudis, seahorses,
> so many kinds of fishies I still don't know what they were, and some showing
> the strangest behavior.

This ain't Kansas any more, Toto. This is Diving with a Capital 'D!' But
just wait until you dive Palau... *grin* It will make Sipadan seem like
Key Largo!

Steve Kramer
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"Jess Englewood" <pleasen@spam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
> news:DP3rc.514787$Pk3.297730@pd7tw1no...
>
> > It is a bit ridiculous to say the least. People are wearing their Iggy
> > hockey shirts to work. Most everyone has those flags flying from their
> > vehicles and many have more than one.
>
> I love those window flags. I don't care how many I see it still makes me
> laugh when one, or a dozen, or a hundred go passing by.

How would you like to be the guy that thought them up and marketed them?
They cost $20 a piece.

>
> > Driving to work makes one feel like
> > they are in a parade. There are flags and banners in home windows and
> > others have Flames pictures posted on their office doors. Efforts to
get
> > tickets for last night's game had reached new highs.
>
> For game seven of the finals against New Jersey a few years back, just
> before entering the Pepsi Center I was offered 4 grand for each of our two
> seats. My wife and I actually had to stop and consider it. 8 grand! My
> entire regular season tickets are a little more than 10 grand. After a few
> minutes we said "screw it" and headed in to be part of the game. It was
> worth every penny, but had the AV's lost, I don't know what I'd think
> (actually there is some correlation between this and the trip insurance
> thread! :^)

LOL, you are crazy! $8000 would buy a great dive trip, insurance or no and
you could have watched the game on TV.

> > Even yesterday,
> > everyone was in such a good mood, it was a bit ridiculous. Today should
> be
> > something else!
>
> I'm jealous......I'm jealous

You should be.

>
> > Did you notice the color in the stands? Red, red, red . . .white and
red.
> >
> > I didn't watch the whole game but the third period really got my blood
> > pumping and I'm not even a hockey fan. I can't even imagine the level
of
> > insanity that will result in the next round.
>
> Hockey is a minor sport in the US...in fact very minor. I can't imagine
what
> Calgary is like but I suspect in your town it will be fun of the highest
> order. If I were you, I'd eat out every night of the finals....at sports
> bars! I wouldn't want to miss the revelry and camaraderie.

I'm off for lunch today. Most of the guys are BIG hockey fans and were at
the game last night. Until I hook up with them, I won't know for sure, but
a person has got to believe this is going to be one heck of a party.

>
> Yes, I'm jealous.

:^)

> The time between the Av's final game and the Bronco's first game is my own
> little personal purgatory!

Gack! Hockey fans . . .unbelievable.

"chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
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> LOL, you are crazy! $8000 would buy a great dive trip, insurance or no
and
> you could have watched the game on TV.

Sell game 7 Cup Final tickets and watch on TV!!! Oh I'll bet I can get about
900,000 Calgarians (minus 1 of course) to agree that YOU are crazy!

Anyway, I don't miss any diving opportunties as a result of my sports
fetish. But I do miss a whole lot of bad TV. And it keeps me off the
freakin' internet :^)

> > The time between the Av's final game and the Bronco's first game is my
own
> > little personal purgatory!

> Gack! Hockey fans . . .unbelievable.

Ha Ha ha, I can't believe I hearing this from a Canadian lass!

chilly wrote:
>
> How would you like to be the guy that thought them up and marketed them?
> They cost $20 a piece.

I'd rather be the guy from Calgary who was wandering around the casino
in Vegas, pissed, one evening back in October when the odds on the
Flames were probably 500-1 for them winning the cup. In his drunken
stupor he stupidly drops a Hun at the sports book on the Flames to win
it all. Stupid Calgarian. The Flames are predicted to be mopping the
cellar this season.

Flash forward to now- Our Calgarian now holds a ticket worth tens of
thousands because despite all predictions the Flames are going to win it
all. It was obvious the moment they beat Detroit. There is no team in
hockey that is playing anywhere near the level as the Flames. They are
as solid as any team that ever played the game.

Which pisses me off to no end.

Brian
Edmonton, Alberta

chilly wrote:
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> > "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
> > news:DP3rc.514787$Pk3.297730@pd7tw1no...
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> > > It is a bit ridiculous to say the least. People are wearing their
> Iggy
> > > hockey shirts to work.
> !
>
> Gack! Hockey fans . . .unbelievable. *

Not all of them.....
http://tinyurl.com/3buwn

Erik Y.
Edmonton


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"Erik" <Erik.16lita@forums.deeperblue.net> wrote in message
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>
> chilly wrote:
> > *"
> > > "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada> wrote in message
> > > news:DP3rc.514787$Pk3.297730@pd7tw1no...
> > >
> > > > It is a bit ridiculous to say the least. People are wearing their
> > Iggy
> > > > hockey shirts to work.
> > !
> >
> > Gack! Hockey fans . . .unbelievable. *
>
> Not all of them.....
> http://tinyurl.com/3buwn

Yes, there's talk of renaming that strip, Boob Alley.

Brian Nadwidny wrote:

[....]

>
> Which pisses me off to no end.
>
> Brian
> Edmonton, Alberta


All this testosterone-poisoned sports crapola just makes me yawn. "A
flag! A flag! My hump's got a team flag on it! Woo Hoo!!"

(yawn)

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"Jer" <gdunn@airmail.ten> wrote in message
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> Brian Nadwidny wrote:
>
> [....]
>
> >
> > Which pisses me off to no end.
> >
> > Brian
> > Edmonton, Alberta
>
>
> All this testosterone-poisoned sports crapola just makes me yawn. "A
> flag! A flag! My hump's got a team flag on it! Woo Hoo!!"
>
> (yawn)

Actually it sounds like your "hump's" got a welcome sign on it.

Not that there's anything wrong with that..............