I know you said "no ice" but...

[max76487]

By the way-this was NOT intended to tell any diabetics out there they could safely eat sugar and not worry about it-if you are diabetic, you know what you are supposed to eat and what to be careful with-I am Not a diabetic educator or dietician. So don't any kids out there think 'Oh, Mom is just being mean". Too many carbs, (candy, cookies, SODA, pizza, CHIPS...) will keep your sugar (glucose) level too high, and the result of that is blindness, amputation, organ failure, early death
I just wanted to stick in a bit of information about what actually causes a diabetic seizure.

[Dunthor Warsmith]

My little cousin is a diabetic, and I'm always impressed by the vast amount of carb per cup information his parents have memorized about common and not-so-common foods.

[Draggar]

Originally posted by KyrosKrane
I'm pretty sure a loonie is a CAN$1 coin and a toonie is a CAN$2 coin. I had a friend who used to constantly joke about those.

You are CORRECT!

Its called a "loonie" because it has a lune on the back.

"Twonie / Toonie" is just a continuation of that.

Besides, metal coins are so much easier and cheaper to make than paper money.

[Draggar]

Originally posted by Cigarskunk
When the Sakajahwea coins first came out, my buddy Herb used to joke with folks and tell them that the new US $1 coin was going to be the Canadian $2 loonie coin due to the lousy exchange rates at the time.

That would play right along with my Canadian invasion theory..

I was in far northern Maine (Presque Isle / Caribou) afew years ago for a wedding. The gorcerey store, that advertised exchanging Candian / US money, wouldn't use up the rest of their money (5 mins before closing).

They're scared up there.

The only reason why they didn't invade after WWII was because they knew if we pissed off the Russians enough, they'd nuke us, and all the nukes would fly over their heads, some possibly landing there.

Now that the majority of the threat isn't coming from the Russia, we better watch out!

They've hated us ever since 1812, don't let their hockey players or bacon make you feel secure.

[Draggar]

Re: Loonies

Originally posted by Llorian
Actually, loonies are worth about $0.65 US. If any of you guys need some send me money and I'll be happy to exchange loonies for $1 US. *snicker*

SEE! They're stealing all of our funds though this SNEAKY "exhange" program!

When Canada invades, we'll be too broke to fight!

Why do you think I moved almost as far south in the continental US as I could? Even in southern NH they were scared!!

The French even set up training camps in Quebec and Ontario to teach them how to invade the US.

You want more proof? What language does everyone speak in far north New England? FRENCH!!!!!!! They're getting prepared!!

The invasion will come down though New England, the Great Lakes, and though Seattle.

Stop buying Molsen's beer! Boycott hockey! No more canadian bacon!

No more Ugene Levy, Rick Moranis, or any of those other SCTV people! Stop buying Celiene Deon CDs!!!!

[Telaeth Everdark]

But...

But I like Canadian Bacon. It's yummy and good, especially on pizza. o.o

[Aandaie]

There is something really weird about this that everyone, including me, is afraid to do. This is what we should do:

"Say wait person, could you please get the manager over here?"

(Manager arrives by wait person)

"How may I help you?"

"This is the absolute worst wait person I've ever had, screwing up our easy orders 3 times so far. Could we please get a halfway adequate wait person instead?"

[Emeraldeye]

Originally posted by Aandaie
There is something really weird about this that everyone, including me, is afraid to do. This is what we should do:

"Say wait person, could you please get the manager over here?"

(Manager arrives by wait person)

"How may I help you?"

"This is the absolute worst wait person I've ever had, screwing up our easy orders 3 times so far. Could we please get a halfway adequate wait person instead?"

Unfortunately I have tried this and I always end up with a puzzled look from the supervisor and a "Why?" which then leads to an explanation and the same puzzled look.


I think the worst thing that ever happened to me was me and several friends frequented a restraunt quite a bit and one evening we stayed late drinking coffee. We then got up paid our tab and left. The next evening some of us returned. We had just placed our order when an older waitress walks up to us and explains how we were thieves and we didn't pay for our coffee. I told her she must be mistaken. She disagreed loudly. Unfortunately it was dinnertime and the place was packed. I tried to reason with her. I told her which table we were sitting at and told her our servers name. She said we were sitting at another table the night before and she didn't have to check because we were thieves. I asked for the manager at that point, I was told he wasn't in till the next day. We paid our bill and left.

The following day I asked to speak with the manager. He came out. I had explained what happened and presented my credit card reciept. Our original server was there she also confirmed we had paid. He became very hostile and told us that his restraunt catered mainly to drivers and he did not want any of us at his establishment. He also told us to get the hell out and called security to escort us out.

The funny thing is through this entire incident I wasn't hostile. I never cursed or raised my voice. I was mainly hurt. I hate being accused of something I didn't do.

After this I went home but I warned family members about the place and by coicidence my grandmother was telling a friend of her's about the treatment I had recieved. It turned out her daughter owned controlling stock in that chain. She talked to me over the phone I told her what happened and sent copies of the reciept to her. She called back a few days later and set an appointment for me to meet her at the restraunt when she flew down.

She had both of them there I got to tell my side of the story and they had to listen. She then explained how they had opened the company and therefore her up to a lawsuit and how their behavior was the poorest she had ever heard of. I then got to do something I never thought would happen. She allowed me to inform them they were both fired immediately. It's funny how karma works.

It was the one time I ever took pleasure in terminating someone and to this day I never pay for a cup of coffee in that restraunt under the owner's orders.

[Cigarskunk]

Originally posted by Aandaie
There is something really weird about this that everyone, including me, is afraid to do. This is what we should do:

"Say wait person, could you please get the manager over here?"

(Manager arrives by wait person)

"How may I help you?"

"This is the absolute worst wait person I've ever had, screwing up our easy orders 3 times so far. Could we please get a halfway adequate wait person instead?"

Well, this gal was actually funny - I did try that one time at a Pizza Hut though with disasterous results. After leaving us waiting at our table for close to an hour, we finally got our pizza after having to call the place from my cell phone (the entire staff had disappeared) to remind them that they had some customers. The pizza came out half cooked with the center almost ice cold. We demanded to speak to the manager and when we informed him of the temperature, he actually stuck his finger into our pizza, agreed and asked if we wanted him to reheat it after he'd stuck his finger into it. Needless to say, we walked out.

(My appologise for this tale not being as humoursly transcribed as others - I'm very sick today.)

They've hated us ever since 1812, don't let their hockey players or bacon make you feel secure.

That's just because we invaded them, burned thier capital (York - now called Toronto) and the Brits had to come in and rescue them.

The French even set up training camps in Quebec and Ontario to teach them how to invade the US.

You want more proof? What language does everyone speak in far north New England? FRENCH!!!!!!! They're getting prepared!!

LOL - if the French are training the Canadians, then may god save the souls of those poor Canadian soldiers - all one has to do is take a look at The Complete Military History of France to see what we would be up against. Just because the frogs in EQ were capable of topling the trolls with the help of a sneak attack and a god backing them up doesn't mean the French could actually ever win a RL battle.

[Suva]

Only had service terrible enough I would never go there again if I remembered the name of the place once. We had a family reunion somewhere in a back hall of some restaurant. We all ordered and sat tlaking waiting ont he food. A little over 2 hours later a waitress came back with the checks and asked if we wanted desert. To which we asked if we could please have our food first. Somehow the entire order had been misplaced and not one person had come back to check in 2 hours.