Idaho, Montana, ALTA, SASK , and BCDUers

[HEyHEY]

Now that I am in Southern Alberta..how many Duers live around here? Enough for a gathering?

Any other states that are close can come too!

[david_vincent]

1. How the HEyHEY have fallen!

Surrounded by Ralph Klein acolytes, huddled in his bunker eating touch o' maple beans out of the can, and making intense, whispered phone calls to Saskatchewan to try to get some people from Moose Jaw to come to his rescue...
Oh the humanity...

[HEyHEY]

2. Yes it really is hell on earth

I ordered a guniess the other night at the bar and the girl gave me the wierdest look...I was ready to hear "Drink your dark ale somewhere else commie!"

But she just laughed and said "We don't serve that here."

:-(

BUt I'll convret em...I'll convert em all! Even the ones who won't go to Vancouver cause they don't want their food "touched by gay hands"

EDIT: I'm actually enjoying it

[david_vincent]

3. So is Klein still giving welfare recipients one-way bus tickets to Van?

He was doing that stuff ten years ago, as I recall. What a f*in sweetheart.
You've got your work cut out for you. "Touched by gay hands"??

[HEyHEY]

4. yeah

Yeah my buddy was ging to this local about how he misses the restaurants in Vancouver....the guy said he'd never go there because he didn't want his food "touched by gay hands"
I actually saw an article the other day making a big deal because someone was going to run for the liberal party ooooooo

[Valerie5555]

5. Another 1 from Southern Alberta here

hee hee hee.

[HEyHEY]

6. here's the article David Vincent and others

http://www.pinchercreekecho.com/story.php?id=83821

[HEyHEY]

7. kick

[greendog]

8. Nothwest Montana

I'm in Kalispell.

Hey, at least you have a decent radio station up there (CKUA). I used to be able to get it when I lived in the North Fork. Now that I've moved down to the valley all I can get is the right wing talk and comercial crap stations.

[Don_G]

9. Seeing As I Can't Make It

And living in Kentucky, would y'all like a bottle or two of Bourbon mailed to your choice of "waterin' hole?"

[ironflange]

18. Hey, we can buy Bourbon here!

It's not that backward here. However, any you may want to send would still be greatle appreciated. . .

[CanuckAmok]

10. Why don't you have an Alberta DU gathering?

You can just save some time for the locals by holding your meeting on horseback, under a nice, big tree, with nooses pre-tied around your necks.

Seriously, how's the new digs? Here's a fun activity for the Spring: sneak over to Saskatchewan the day after the clocks go forward, and mess with peoples' minds. They don't observe Daylight Savings Time in Saskatchewan.

Say "excuse me, can you please tell me the time?", and when they reply, scream "WRONG, SHITHEEL!" into their faces and run away laughing. Good times!

[HEyHEY]

13. New digs..be good!

Good, the only problem is I want out of my apartment...it's too loud, not the traffic, the landlords.

But the job is great. I'm enjoying it all hours of the day. And the town isn't as bad as I thought at first. THe people here (however redneck) are very funny.

I went to Lethbridge the other day...forgot how flat the priaries are.

[ironflange]

17. Lethbridge?

Went to the big city, huh?

:evilgrin:

Actually, I love going through the Pincher Creek area. Those wind turbines are waye kul.

[havocmom]

11. eastern Montana here

A gathering would be fun

[CanuckAmok]

12. Cool. BYO Dental Floss...

I might be moving to Montana soon (not really).

[ironflange]

20. People live in eastern Montana?

Plenty of wide open spaces out there!

[rumguy]

21. I love eastern Montana, and a Hugo poem!

Montana is my home state - I went to high school in Billings. I love the the big-skyed, windswept, drive for days and lose yourself in forever feel of eastern montana. The badlands are haunting, the fishing is spectacular, and the people are down-to-earth and friendly.

Here is a Richard Hugo poem - the dealy departed Shakespear of Montana

Driving Montana
1973

The day is a woman who loves you. Open.
Deer drink close to the road and magpies
spray from your car. Miles from any town
your radio comes in strong, unlikely
Mozart from Belgrade, rock and roll
from Butte. Whatever the nest number
you want to hear it. Never has your Buick
found this forward a gear. Even
the tuna salad in Reedpoint is good.

Towns arrive ahead of imagined schedule
Absorakee at one. Or arrive so late-
Silesia at nine - you recreate the day.
Where did you stop along the road
and have fun? Was there a runaway horse?
Did you park at that house, the one
alone in a void of grain, white with green
trim and red fence, where you know you lived
once? You remembered the ringing creek,
the soft brown forms of far off bison.
You must have stayed hours, then drove on.
In the motel you know you'd never seen it before.

Tomorrow will open again, the sky wide
as the mouth of a wild girl, friable
clouds you lose yourself to. You are lost
in miles of land without people, without
one fear of being found, in the dash
of rabbits, soar of antelope, swirl
merge and clatter of streams.

[eileen_d]

14. Hell yes! Montana here

I'm planning a trip to Missoula in early January -- that might be a good time for me. But I'm up for anything. I love driving across my state. :bounce:

[ironflange]

15. You know about me

Have you come up with a name for your column yet?

[rumguy]

16. I have a question

How many in Cananda closely follow US politics. You seem to follow it, and there are Canadians for Clark, etc...

You just don't see Americans following Canadian politics much.

When people talk politics in Canada - is a significant portion of the convo about US politics?

[ironflange]

19. Yeah, we discuss US politics a fair bit here

It's because Canada's economy is so tied to that of the US, and we're only 1/10th your size. I think that most Canadians feel dominated by the US, but most Anericans couldn't give a rat's ass about Canada.

Reminds me of a joke:

How does Statistics Canada arrive at its figures?

They take American statistics and divide by 10.

[CanuckAmok]

22. Trying to ignore US politics in Canada is like...

...trying to ignore the elephant in your shower.