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those are cool little pint glasses. Are those glasses made for midgets?
They're quarter-pint glasses. And they're made for sampling microbrews at the Great Canadian Beer Festival.
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Snugglebug, was the photoshoot for anything in particular? Or just for fun?
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Yeah forget her physical pain, the emotional trauma could be fatal!
Emotional trauma? How about the damage to your bank account???
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Okay, relax buddy, using a BBQ isn't hard.
Tell that to my dad. I think he can light a BBQ, but anything he might attempt to cook would likely come out inedible.
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So it'll feel extra good when the Condors have smoked Salmon for dinner?
Bakersfield 2 Victoria 5
Bakersfield 1 Victoria 2
Bakersfield 1 Victoria 6 & counting...
Guess the Condors went hungry this weekend.
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Bakersfield Condors = ECHL affiliates of the Anaheim Ducks
All the more reason to dislike the Condors.
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I'm 99% sure I've held the library door open for Chester at UVIC, I never forget a face.
Given how much time he spends there, that's quite likely.
We Victorians should have a Canucks party!Nah - Salmon Kings game all the way!
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Your hockey face?
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I can't be the only one to have seen the resemblance, am I?
I don't really see it...
Maybe because I've seen Chester in person, and not just in photos.
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It's weird that pre WN, this type of thread has emerged multiple times with little success rate in terms of actually getting someone to post their picture.
The thread never lasted long enough...
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Beerfest again, with another random person, this time without sunglasses (well, OK, they're on top of my head this time)
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So out of the 36 pages, how many people have actually posted a picture of themselves? I know I haven't
I have, but I'm wearing sunglasses in it. I might post another one without sunglasses.
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Lookin' hot there Amy Poehler. Got any drunk pics?
Amy Poehler?
No...I have a few more photos where I'm still relatively sober, but the camera got put away long before we were too drunk to work it.
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Since Adria posted, this is a respectable thread and I'll post. Modo has the bigger one of this.
I don't think I've ever seen so little reaction (good or bad) to a picture of a girl on this board...
Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.
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You have some nice, ummm, teeth and boots
Yeah I decided to dress up a bit and wear my good boots that day. The cut-off overalls are pretty hot eh?
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Here's me at beerfest with some random person...
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i went to the mall yesterday and almost every store was sold out of boots. the only ones left were really ugly
I got new boots about a week before the snow hit - just in time!
But even then, most of the functional boots (with good tread) were rather unattractive.
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YVR.ca is backup.
Almost all flights departing YVR is cancelled.
Feel bad for all the people getting stranded at the airport.
I took the PCL across to Victoria from Vancouver yesterday at 7:30am. There was a group on the bus that had their flights out of Edmonton canceled and instead of trying to rebook, they hopped on a bus. 26 hours later, they boarded the bus to the island in Vancouver - one that had no heat. I sure wouldn't want to spend that long on a bus, especially not one that was behind schedule because of snow.
There were (at the very least) ECHL players that were stranded in Victoria too, following the game on the weekend. Some took the ferry to Vancouver when their flight across was canceled, and were still stuck at the Vancouver Airport.
Come to think of it, there was a small group at the arena on Saturday night (when we got dumped on) that were cheering for the Aces. I wonder if they were from Alaska, and had planned the trip down to Victoria as a way to get out of the snow for a few days?
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Victoria could have the whitest Christmas in Canada.Although rain is falling this morning, a snowfall warning is still in effect with an estimated 15 centimetres today and overnight.
It seems implausible, but it's true, said David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
As of yesterday, the city of gardens was the snowiest of Canada's top 50 urban centres, and if the forecast bears out, we'll hold that position on Christmas Day.
At 41 centimetres, Victoria's snowpack tops Winnipeg (24 cm), Quebec City (26 cm) and even the North Pole (40 cm). There were no new measurments available early today. The snowpack, the amount of snow on the ground, is measured by sticking a ruler into the snow at 7 a.m.
I haven't seen any new snow yet today, just rain...
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It's raining in Victoria today.
Nice big slush puddles everywhere.
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10-20 cm for Victoria, but the shopping is done, the cards have been mailed, the pantry is full, the whiskey has been bought, the DVDs are all lined up, and fire log is on channel one. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Not until I get home tonight!
Although I did come straight to work from the ferry today (meaning I have overnight stuff in my backpack), and there are shower facilities at work if I really got stuck...
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I think the best thing about working on VIHA property might be that they have the only clear sidewalks in the city.
I'm back in Victoria now, and downtown there are snow piles (from the plows) taller than me. It's crazy. But at least on sections of sidewalk here that have been shoveled, it's most or all of the sidewalk, and not a 'one shovel width' path as it was near my friend's place on the mainland. Just wide enough for one person, so that when someone came in the opposite direction, one person would have to step into the snowbank to allow the other to pass.
Not looking forward to getting home from work tonight if it starts snowing before I finish up. I think I'll just end up calling a cab if it does, instead of trying for the buses.
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the BC Transit buses (at least the double deckers in Victoria) are getting a new green-blue striped livery:
Getting? They already have it. All the new double deckers are white, and have been for a while. I'm still getting used to it though.
The PCL bus this morning was terrible. The heater on it was busted, and there were no spare buses available (too many problems with other buses) so at 7:30 this morning I boarded a FREEZING cold bus and it stayed freezing cold all the way to the ferry. It was marginally warmer by the time we got to downtown Victoria, and by "marginally warmer" I mean I was able to take my gloves off. Now I can't stop coughing. This cold weather is doing nothing for getting rid of my cough.
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Enough snow, you'd think, but it'll snow again on Wednesday. It's hard to walk on the streets now and you have to jump through piled of snow to cross the streets or even to get on a bus.
I love snow but not 20-30 cm of it... and when it melts or when it starts raining, it'll be hell coz of floods.
Don't forget the deep puddles & slush where it's already started to melt. I'd rather climb over a pile of snow (and often opt for that if I can) than walk through the slush puddles.
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I love Jack Knox! Some of his columns are fantastic.Our weather's pretty funny -- at least to the rest of Canada
By Jack Knox, December 21, 2008
It was no good. I couldn't go on. The snow was too deep, the ascent too high, the unrelenting, deafening gale sapping every last ounce of strength. Frostbitten fingers had long lost the ability to grip an ice axe.
As wind-driven ice crystals whipped my cheeks -- rock salt fired from the mountain gods' own shotgun -- I turned to my climbing companion, lifted his ear flap, shouted to be heard: "You go for the summit! I'll make my way down to base camp!"
"What do you mean summit?" the letter carrier replied. "I'm heading for your mailbox. We're only going up your driveway."
Yes, but it's a very steep driveway, or at least one with a slight incline, the kind of slope you never notice until it snows, which it never does in Victoria, except for every winter.
Oh, go ahead, rest of Canada, have a good laugh. Laugh at Vancouver Island brought to its knees by the kind of weather that Calgarians equate with the August long weekend. Laugh at Victoria, where the city's three-stage snowfall response plan consists of 1) demanding Stephen Harper do something, 2) calling out the grief counsellors and 3) pumping Prozac directly into the water supply.
For this, we accept, is the West Coast's role in the great national theatre: To provide a little winter solstice amusement, a bit of darkest-day relief, for our block-heatered and parka-bound compatriots.
We all have a stereotype to play in this production: Albertans are rednecks, Torontonians self-obsessed and Newfies fun-loving. Montrealers are hipper than you in either official language. Saskatchewanianites, or whatever, are salt of the earth.
Us? We're total wimps when it comes to winter, each floating flake sending us ducking and flinching like George Bush on a tour of the Florsheim factory. And lord but it makes the rest of the country feel good to watch us dig the Westfalia out of the ditch.
OK, we get it. Everybody likes to see the princess step in a cow pie. But please, did Mother Nature really have to chuck us headfirst into the barnyard? I mean, this week we've entertained the country with much more than our usual seasonal slapstick.
Not only did it snow, but it snowed and stayed. We normally deal with snow the same way we deal with a jealous spouse on the doorstep: Close the drapes and ignore it, eventually it will go away. Not this time. This time it not only stayed, but called in friends with baseball bats.
And that howling wind! Put the dog out to pee, it phoned half an hour later from Port Renfrew, asked for a ride home. The only good thing about the wind was not having to put up the Christmas lights this year. Just waited for the neighbours' display to blow over and plugged it in.
And cold? It has been -8 C, or -18 with the wind chill -- not that this impresses anyone who lives beyond Hope. The rest of Canada doesn't believe in wind chill. It's like saying a player stands six foot eight with his skates on, when he's really only six foot five.
You want wind? Try the Prairies. I used to live in Regina. Go to the west side of town, you could find Big Mac containers that had blown in from Edmonton. Go to the east, you could smell the stench of rotting principles wafting in from Ottawa. If we drag wind chill into the equation, Reginawanianites, or whatever, will just think we're soft as Charmin.
This is not true. For example, earthquakes don't faze us at all. This being B.C., half the people don't even notice when the house starts shaking, figure it's just the brown acid from Woodstock coming back to haunt them. We had one quake where a ceiling panel fell and busted in two over Judy Lavoie's head, right there in the Times Colonist newsroom. She was like George Chuvalo fighting Muhammad Ali: It buckled her knees, but she wouldn't go down, just kept plugging away on her story. Earthquake shmearthquake. I'd like to see a Regina Leader-Post reporter take a shot like that and still hit deadline. But I digress.
The point is that we all like a good joke, but enough is enough. This was not in the brochure. If Gordon Campbell wants to be re-elected in May, he had better darn well do something about the weather. And if Canada wants a good laugh, it should go back to watching Rick Mercer.
© Copyright © The Victoria Times Colonist
http://www.timescolonist.com/Column+weathe...1935/story.html
Tell that to my dad. 
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Nah it's a pretty fake-looking blue.
These are my eyes, with no photoshop. Not quite sure what color to call them, usually just go with green because that's how they look from a distance...
(contact lenses are not colored)