Are you going on one of the Thanksgiving Beach Trips?

CheenaGringo wrote:With all the prior discussions about personal privacy, is it a great idea to play Facebook by broadcasting when one is going to be out of town and for how long?

Well, no one ever gets B&Eed, in the "Premier Gated Community".

viajero wrote:

ferret wrote:Don't go there guys or I'll have to inform you of the chemical reality and this will end up in the Octagon. :)

Ferret you already spooked me with the bad side effects of mint jelly and red M&Ms,now you're telling us beaver is bad for you as well??

I tell ya, that damn ferret is a real aguafiestas.

seisdedos wrote:

viajero wrote:

ferret wrote:Don't go there guys or I'll have to inform you of the chemical reality and this will end up in the Octagon. :)

Ferret you already spooked me with the bad side effects of mint jelly and red M&Ms,now you're telling us beaver is bad for you as well??

I tell ya, that damn ferret is a real aguafiestas.

Maybe so, but you did ask for it. She delivered. ;-)

I didn't ask for beaver.

How many different directions can you guys take this post?

Canadian Thanksgiving, who's talking about that. Read the title of the post.

It's American Thanksgiving you dodos.

Canadian Thanksgiving is better. They have beaver.

seisdedos wrote:Canadian Thanksgiving is better. They have beaver.

YUK! No thanks. Don't all households have beaver? LOL

johninajijic wrote:How many different directions can you guys take this post?

Canadian Thanksgiving, who's talking about that. Read the title of the post.

It's American Thanksgiving you dodos.

CLASSIC!!

johninajijic wrote:

seisdedos wrote:Canadian Thanksgiving is better. They have beaver.

YUK! No thanks. Don't all households have beaver?

So many different responses come to mind but I'll refrain.

seisdedos wrote:Canadian Thanksgiving is better. They have beaver.

And really, so should all events for which one gives thanks.


@Dawg, Tim Hortons do not water down their coffee. They add extra caffeine, an addictive substance which accounts for at least one Timmy's on every corner.

Note to Seis, beaver may also be addictive,thereby rendering Canadians the most interesting people on earth.

E-raq wrote:

seisdedos wrote:Canadian Thanksgiving is better. They have beaver.

And really, so should all events for which one gives thanks.


@Dawg, Tim Hortons do not water down their coffee. They add extra caffeine, an addictive substance which accounts for at least one Timmy's on every corner.

Note to Seis, beaver may also be addictive,thereby rendering Canadians the most interesting people on earth.

Okay, E-Raq: you get the NOBLE PRIZE for gentility and understatement on this one. It's an ice cream stick. Okay, and covered with chocolate.

Thanksgiving at the Dawghouse is celebrated 365 days a year - a tradition dating from 1971 when Dawg, upon landing on the bayou-blessed shores of Mobile Bay, discovered his soon-to-be Parisienne wife, recent pilgrim to those lovely shores who, while native to a land where the Thanksgiving holiday is not celebrated, taught Dawg. among other things, how to cook French-style thereby providing me with an escape for life at age 29 from marrying some Southern Belle and spending the rest of my life sneaking white lightnin´ from a jug out on the back 40 behind the barn and noshing on hominy grits, turnip greens, cornpone and sugar-laden sweet tea ad nauseum.

E-raq wrote:

Note to Seis, beaver may also be addictive .....

Beaver addiction has brought many a man to his knees.

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E-raq wrote:

Note to Seis, beaver may also be addictive .....

Beaver addiction has brought many a man to his knees.[/quote



Indeed it has, for which we women shall remain eternally grateful. In a continual state of thanksgiving so to speak. Canadian women that is, I can't speak for my learned American compatriots. My suspicion however, is that they too greatly appreciate this salient fact.

Dawg´s friend e-raq writes (in rejoinder to my above slight of Tim Horton´s "watered-down" coffee:

" Dawg, Tim Hortons do not water down their coffee. They add extra caffeine, an addictive substance which accounts for at least one Timmy's on every corner. "

Now, e-raq, as I know you ro be a knowledgable chef, I also know that you know what we both know and that is that caffeine adds no flavor to coffee nor does it add robustness nor complexity to the brew. Rather, its primary function is to transform countless commuters into dysfunctional, hyper, stoned freeway menaces. As one who commuted for years over both the the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges into San Francisco, I assure you I am aware of the importance of the caffeine high not only in aiding commuters in getting to their workplaces but in helping them tolerate those weinies they have to spend the better part of the approaching day with when they actually get there. I do not, however, doubt that Tim´s injects additional caffeine to their coffee which they brag on TV commercials is never more that 20 minutes from brewing when ordered any time of day.

Actually, Dawg has never been in a Tim Horton´s joint and, has only spent two days in Canada (Vancouver and Victoria, BC) in my whole life and that was in 1966. I fled that province and returned to the U.S. when I found out that in those days you could not buy an alcoholic beverage in BC on a Sunday. I just assumed, in my posting, that Canadian fast food chains generally serve weak coffee as they do in the U.S. and Mexico. I´ll admit that that was an unfair assumption.

The first real cup of coffee I ever tasted was in Paris, also in 1966, when I tried my first cup of what the the French call "cafe express", known hereabouts as "espresso". I immediately fell in love with that stuff and found the only way to improve it was not to add caffeine but cognac. As I later discovered, cafe express has less caffeine by volume than does regular brewed coffee so I took to rectifying this situation by adding more cognac, Irish Whisky or calvados. This last solution does not work so well when one is commuting.

By the way, cognac infused cafe express with snatches of beaver is the French version of tapas.

hound dog wrote:Dawg´s friend e-raq writes (in rejoinder to my above slight of Tim Horton´s "watered-down" coffee:

" Dawg, Tim Hortons do not water down their coffee. They add extra caffeine, an addictive substance which accounts for at least one Timmy's on every corner. "

Now, e-raq, as I know you ro be a knowledgable chef, I also know that you know what we both know and that is that caffeine adds no flavor to coffee nor does it add robustness nor complexity to the brew. Rather, its primary function is to transform countless commuters into dysfunctional, hyper, stoned freeway menaces. As one who commuted for years over both the the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges into San Francisco, I assure you I am aware of the importance of the caffeine high not only in aiding commuters in getting to their workplaces but in helping them tolerate those weinies they have to spend the better part of the approaching day with when they actually get there. I do not, however, doubt that Tim´s injects additional caffeine to their coffee which they brag on TV commercials is never more that 20 minutes from brewing when ordered any time of day.

Actually, Dawg has never been in a Tim Horton´s joint and, has only spent two days in Canada (Vancouver and Victoria, BC) in my whole life and that was in 1966. I fled that province and returned to the U.S. when I found out that in those days you could not buy an alcoholic beverage in BC on a Sunday. I just assumed, in my posting, that Canadian fast food chains generally serve weak coffee as they do in the U.S. and Mexico. I´ll admit that that was an unfair assumption.

The first real cup of coffee I ever tasted was in Paris, also in 1966, when I tried my first cup of what the the French call "cafe express", known hereabouts as "espresso". I immediately fell in love with that stuff and found the only way to improve it was not to add caffeine but cognac. As I later discovered, cafe express has less caffeine by volume than does regular brewed coffee so I took to rectifying this situation by adding more cognac, Irish Whisky or calvados. This last solution does not work so well when one is commuting.

By the way, cognac infused cafe express with snatches of beaver is the French version of tapas.

Dear Dawg, many thanks for your more than astute observations. Just made my day in fact, and also that of my better half, who would be in complete agreement with the french version of tapas. He did ask that I add, also for your amusement, that Canadians filter their coffee with very fine beaver fur.
I also was in Paris in 1966, small world, observing my dear departed father, wee David, as he made a bit of a spectacle of himself at the Folies Bergere, much to my disgust of my mother. Frankly I thought it was just great.

seisdedos wrote:

viajero wrote:

ferret wrote:Don't go there guys or I'll have to inform you of the chemical reality and this will end up in the Octagon. :)

Ferret you already spooked me with the bad side effects of mint jelly and red M&Ms,now you're telling us beaver is bad for you as well??

I tell ya, that damn ferret is a real aguafiestas.

ROTFLMAO! A sus ordenes caballeros. Lo sciento.

Tim Horton's of Canada is a wannabe Dunkin' Donuts of America. Dunkin' Donuts has the best coffee and donuts. All the others are imitations.

Dunkin' Donuts sucks.

johninajijic wrote:Tim Horton's of Canada is a wannabe Dunkin' Donuts of America. Dunkin' Donuts has the best coffee and donuts. All the others are imitations.

What you fail to realize is that most people in Canada are Happy with who they are and don't strive to 'Wannabe' anybody else, especially anybody from the USA.

Dunkin' Donuts has a few places in Canada and has very Good Coffee.

However, it would be hard to find one in ten Canadians who prefer DD to Tim Horton's.

There are only 3000 Tim Horton locations in Canada for the 30 million people. That is why there are line ups everyday for their coffee and donuts. LOL

Damn, Canadians getting all riled up over fricking donuts.

Naw, it's the coffee. LOL

johninajijic wrote:How many different directions can you guys take this post?

Canadian Thanksgiving, who's talking about that. Read the title of the post.

It's American Thanksgiving you dodos.

John this is so typical you. I truly don't understand how you could read the above title and believe it was meant only for Americans.

You do know that Canadians have Thanksgiving as well and also go to the beach don't you? Well maybe not. To some John today is Columbus Day to others, well some of us are going to have turkey. Happy Thanksgiving John.

MexicoPete wrote:

johninajijic wrote:How many different directions can you guys take this post?

Canadian Thanksgiving, who's talking about that. Read the title of the post.

It's American Thanksgiving you dodos.

John this is so typical you. I truly don't understand how you could read the above title and believe it was meant only for Americans.

You do know that Canadians have Thanksgiving as well and also go to the beach don't you? Well maybe not. To some John today is Columbus Day to others, well some of us are going to have turkey. Happy Thanksgiving John.

Pete - I don't know why you didn't understand that it was about American Thanksgiving. It was meant for Americans because that's the time the travel agencies off bus tours to the beaches. Do the travel agencies offer bus trips to the beach on Canadian Thanksgiving? Have a happy gobble, gobble day. Don't eat too much.

seisdedos wrote:Damn, Canadians getting all riled up over fricking donuts.

It wasn't the donuts, it was John's carte blanche statement...so I dished it back.
Dunkin' Donuts and Tim Horton's are franchises. Their popularity depends on whether the franchise owners stay true to the "formula" or cut corners. I've been in both franchises in different locations...sometimes the coffee is great and sometimes it's not. Franchises that cut corners or offer stale or watered down coffee go out of business...and I don't care whether it's Tim's or Dunkin' Donuts.

ferret wrote:Dunkin' Donuts sucks.

Why did you say this? Dunkin Donuts is one of the most successful franchises in the US.

Everyone I know loves their coffee and donuts. I have never had a bad cup of coffee or donut in any Dunkin Donuts. What other donut franchises are there that could ever come close? Not Tim Horton's!