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    Teenager invents faster way to clean up toxic tar sands

    Scale is always an issue even with something as simple as baking a cake. Typical petro whoar/mouthpiece.
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    Most Original Reason Ever for Not Delivering Mail-Vancouver

    ‘Bear at door’ blocks B.C. man’s package delivery - The Globe and Mail Actual Bruin
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    Potato Salad

    I head down the street to Ploegers-Best Potato salad I even eaten anywhere. Not a particularly appealing or well run place the proprietor hates everyone especially Canadians but that salad is made right.
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    Brain scans show that dogs are as conscious as human children

    Anyone who's ever owned a dog knows that canines have the self consciousness of a 2yo human child-this is not news.
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    I Make Hot Sauce w/Pics

    This simple recipe inspired me-had some of the ingredients to hand and the others were easily available. One pineapple, peeled and diced, two mangoes, peeled, and diced, two cups of white vinegar, a cup of raw sugar (or refined if you prefer) and a couple habaneros for heat. Simmer the...
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    In Georgia They Know How To Make Muzzies Feel Welcome

    Those madcap Georgians and their puckish sense of humour what will they think of next? Georgia: Pig’s Head on Madrasa Sparks Religious Tensions Georgia’s off-and-on cross-and-crescent tension hit a new low on September 10 after members of one provincial church placed a pig’s head on the doors...
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    Yet Another Reason to Hate Seals

    My hatred of Pinniped vermin is well known here because they have stolen so many of my Salmon-here's yet another reason-they carry disease !!! Seals 'brought TB to the Americas before Europeans' TB can jump from humans to other animals, such as seals, and then back again The long-held idea...
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    Bogota Bullfighters on Hunger Strike

    In this weeks weird news comes this sad story of some out-of-work bullfighters threatening to starve themselves to death unless they can once again act like children-Oh Wait they already are acting like spoiled children. Bogota’s Bullfighters: Stop Us From Killing Bulls and We’ll Kill Ourselves...
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    Sockeye Salmon & Orcas-Same Old/Same Old

    Sorry to be so boring it's August so I can't help but repeat myself Sunrise over Point Grey/UBC Sockeye Salmon-Oncorhynchus Nerka Orcas, Orcas, Orcas Souvenir from the legendary run of 2010
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    How many here use a breadmaker?

    I stopped by the local Sally Ann thrift store last week saw four (4) breadmakers on sale none looked like that'd ever been used.
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    Giant White Sturgeon Caught/Released in Fraser River

    It's been slow overall lately fresh & salt-taking one of these with the freshet is on is a tad unusual; I know the guide a better person to handle a fish that size you'll never meet. Giant sturgeon caught on Fraser River Fourth giant in 2 years to be captured on the Fraser River A...
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    Edible bugs touted as solution to world hunger

    There was a big time local bee ess artist/restaurateur who claimed he was going to put bugs on the menu-the Globe & Mail ran a pic of some of his employees holding a Chapatti that was apparently flavoured with vermin and the look on the one cook's face was priceless you could see she didn't even...
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    Roasted Cauliflower

    Cooking Cauliflower smells like rotting sox-too awful a smell even for this breezy place.
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    Gordon Lightfoot Live 1972 Video

    GORDON LIGHTFOOT IN CONCERT 1972 - YouTube
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    Ancient BC Orca 'Granny'-Still Alive 'n Well

    An amazing and heartwarming story that might even affect some of the more hard core grouches here you never know B.C.'s matriarch orca 'Granny' is still going strong at 103 J2 or ‘Granny’ is the whale at left in this photo taken Saturday in the southern Strait of Georgia. If orcas were to...
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    Yet More Laughs from Fattie Ford the Coke Addict

    Beyond pathetic comes to mind-but cue the usual apologists. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford 'to get help for substance abuse' Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was stripped of many of his political powers following an admission of drug use while in office Controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is to take a leave...
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    Quebeckers Acting Like Themselves

    No one should be surprised when people who have been on the Gov't teat all their lives act like complete idiots Easter egg hunt in Laval goes horribly wrong 10,000 show up for hunt where kids got knocked over, parents snatched eggs from other kids' baskets An Easter egg hunt in Laval, Que...
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    Stovetop Salmon Smoking w/Pics

    Anyone ever notice how much jealousy, spite, rage and general small mindedness my posts about living a healthy outdoor lifestyle generate from the usual pinhead suspects? Was it Ted Peck who said 'indoorsy know nothings you shall always have with you'. 'Tight Lines & Straight Shootin'.