Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

OK, But if you change your mind, the offer stands.

between a Toronto Maple Leaf’s Stanley Cup Champions team photo and a Calgary Flames Stanley Cup Champions team photo?

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The Calgary Flames’ photo is in Color!!!!!!!  

The good old hockey game has never been the same. My brother and I watched hockey night in Canada the traditional way, growing up, glued to the TV every saturday night. We also played pickup on frozen ponds we scraped off ourselves, and road hockey until dark. We dreamed of seeing our heroes too. Now a days the kids don’t do that, its all structured for them, a shame really, and expensive too. Did you try to buy a Leaf’s ticket lately, ain’t no family night out.

I met Bobby Orr twice and he is as inspirational as he is humble. He signed autographs for two hours at the convenience store where I worked as a teenager. He was supposed to be there for only an hour and stayed until every kid had a chance to shake his hand and take their treasured autograph home, while the big wigs at the university campus were waiting for him to arrive for a fundraising dinner. He kept them waiting for the sake of his true fans. I’ll never forget that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0-9Wi713o&feature=related

The Leafs are my favorite team now….if they would just deliver the Cup.

Winedoc

Found this article posted on Kitco.

Our gov seems to be making big changes to our balance sheet without our approval. Canadians need to read this:

http://www.financialpost.com/related/links/story.html?id=1029190

you have to watch a LOT of football to appreciate all of the nuances and suttleties (SP) of getting eleven players to do the right thing at the right time in order to make a play successful. Not to mention there are eleven players on the other side determined not to let you be successful.

………..played by Sophisticated Athletes

but I must decline, if I accept you will be deluged with requests for the same offer !! Besides that, I will never be satisfied, I ALWAYS need one more 0z of copper/tin. hehe

I really have to chuckel at myself because thinking back to the last winter olympics I found myself watching curling of all things………and enjoying it !!

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Well, if you need one more ounce of silver, I can send you one. I have no gold.

www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/fallows-chinese-banker

wow….talk about a straight shooter…!…………he even said the word Bullshit

….U S Trained too………so he understands Americans !

….Are the Chinese the bad gys anymore…?

……can anyone with the Biggest Golf Complex in the world be bad guys ?

Be nice to Fully!   They have to wear ice skates or use a broom for sports in the frozen north! 

I should have specified I was speaking of tin and copper……the lead should be forboden also. eh

…….You wanted happy thoughts

…….So I posted happy thoughts

…….And then you call football players neanderthals

…….if that is supposed to be an insult, don’t you know that you can only insult a thinking man ???? hehe

Insult a neanderthal = ozymoron

That will give you a total of 2 ounces…..that is more than my one and one half and Wankas one ounce…..
SHHHHHHHHHHHHH don’t mention the ah stuff …..Go Tin Go Lead..Go copper

In his first interview since the world financial crisis, Gao Xiqing, the man who oversees $200 billion of China’s $2 trillion in dollar holdings, explains why he’s betting against the dollar, praises American pragmatism, and wonders about enormous Wall Street paychecks. And he has a friendly piece of advice:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/fallows-chinese-banker

People, especially Americans, started believing that they can live on other people’s money. And more and more so. First other people’s money in your own country. And then the savings rate comes down, and you start living on other people’s money from outside. At first it was the Japanese. Now the Chinese and the Middle Easterners.

We—the Chinese, the Middle Easterners, the Japanese—we can see this too. Okay, we’d love to support you guys—if it’s sustainable. But if it’s not, why should we be doing this? After we are gone, you cannot just go to the moon to get more money. So, forget it. Let’s change the way of living. [By which he meant: less debt, lower rewards for financial wizardry, more attention to the “real economy,” etc.]