Bob Denton wrote: > I just returned from a weekend in Toronto. I have gained a new level of > respect for those who live above the 49th parallel! 43.5 actually. > I can only compare my > experience of walking out of a pub in downtown Toronto at 2am with the scene > from 2001 when HAL ejects one of the crew into the cold void of space. Some of our pubs are like that! > It > was beyond weather! It was another planet, radically different from the one > my home in Delray Beach, Florida exists on. I was told it was -38 (at that > temperature C and F are about the same: brutal) and the only comments passed > by the locals were: "A bit cool eh?" > They lied to you. It wasn't below -27C this winter. > > I will never complain about hurricanes or mosquitoes again! > Come back in the summer. We don't worry about hurricanes or mosquitoes either. We worry about tornadoes and mosquitoes. The mosquitoes use chainsaws and carry off the weak and slow. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Jan 23 2000 - 15:10:17 PST
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