Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 608 of the podcast that relatively travels in space and time.
This week: July fools; Jeffy pop; the “bucks” stop here; pleasantly plum; freeze frame; graveyard plot; the man from uncool; Raunds and Raunds we go; guest work; on your tip woes; shop and awe; float on; last resort; yes, surname; it’s all about family; going to the chapel; tide over; monumental island; irony is alive and dead; you’re out of odour; banks for nothin’; non-Canadian quotidian; surprise sequels; trilling adventures; our two detours; two guns; retaliation excitation; nanna nanna nanna nanna nanna nanna bad pun; come on, come on, come on, come on, now touch tone, babe; playing favourites; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; time travel waits for no man; the Brexit club; he needs her; freak flags; flabby films, and, finally, ciao time.
Question of the Week: What’s the odour of Canada?
Sub-question of the Week: What’s the most action-packed thing you’ve ever done?
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Here is a small assortment of photos Dave took of The Stromness Shopping Week Fancy Dress Parade. Enjoy!
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Hey, guys. This is a week late, but what else have you got to do? A movie I waited too long to watch was Double Indemnity. It’s been on the list for years, and I finally watched it a few weeks ago. The writing is fire! Billy Wilder’s plotting with Raymond Chandler’s dialogue are a dynamite combination. It’s a damn shame they couldn’t stand each other, because think of all the bangers this pair could have made together. Gen Xers who only know Fred MacMurray from My Three Sons and Barbara Stanwyck from The Big Valley should prepare for a shake-up. If you haven’t seen the film, change that up as soon as it’s safe to do so (like, park the car first).
My nominee for the Odour of Canada is “indoor hockey rink.” Most Canadians have had to go skating at least once in their lives with their family, school, or some community group. There’s the smell of chlorinated water coming off the ice and the machine smells coming off the Zamboni. Foot odour from the shoes and boots people take off so they can put their skates on. Sweaty smells coming from hockey team locker rooms. Whiffs of tobacco clinging to the jackets of smokers. If there’s a snack bar, there’s the smell of hot chocolate and spilled soda, hot dogs, nachos, French fries and poutine.
My most action-packed adventure was probably taking a helicopter ride over the skies of St. Augustine, Florida. It was really small and only carried the pilot and two passengers. Fortunately we didn’t plunge into the Atlantic.
Having never been to Canada, I can only imagine and I’m being generous here. In my mind it’s a big wide open place and it smells like either a humid forest rich with growth or it’s the smell of cut lumber and fresh wood.
I have no idea what poutine smells like.
Rather than sneaking onto the Death Star or infiltrating the Rebel Moon of Endor, I’ll go for another action-packed adventure, driving from Dallas to Las Vegas in January. I had a cousin, also originally from Chicago and living outside San Diego, who used to travel back and forth by way of visiting Dallas. Right after my college graduation I joined him in a trip back to Las Vegas then onto San Diego. New Mexico in January can get so much snow that the state will close the highways and when they did, my cousin and I headed south thinking it would be a warmer route. It was quite the opposite as the snow got worse and after I drove his car off the road into a snow bank! After getting towed out, we stopped in a little Indian town for the night. It was pitch dark and we had hardly a clue where we were, then the sun came up in the morning we realized we were surrounded by mountains. The highways were cleared, so we headed straight for Las Vegas and arrived there by the evening. I wasn’t the adventurous one, my cousin was and all I did was follow his lead, he was the original Ferris Bueller. He’s no longer with us but times with him were fearless and action-packed, I wouldn’t trade them for anything.
Okay Sneakers, fuel up the motorbike, get to the choppa!! and have an action-packed week!
1. I think the smell of Canada is what I think of as the smell of the forest. However, when I go out to the prairies it smells the same and there are precious few trees there. So I guess that’s just the smell of fresh air.
2. Most action packed thing I’ve ever done? Maybe all our vacations because I over-schedule us so much, lol, this last one being a bit of an exception. We were only moderately over-scheduled on that one.
Outside of that, maybe my involvement in the 2017 IMGE, which stands for international mounted games exchange, which is an international riding competition between teams from Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia. In 2017 Canada hosted, and I was the judge of the competition. I was also on the organizing committee, because in addition to the competition itself, there is a 10 exchange where the host country tours all the competitors around. It happened to be Canada’s 150th birthday when the tour started so we went downtown and started with a band with those festivities, and then over the next week there were a variety of activities from attending a horse show to whale watching, to white water rafting, dragon boating, Grouse Grind, beach visit, trip up to Whistler, trip over to Vancouver Island, treetop adventure, and many other things. I only participated in a handful of them but by the end I was exhausted. This November I’ll be coaching the Canadian team in Australia when they host – the agenda is a little less packed but it will keep us busy nonetheless.
Like the rabbit i’m late….
Nice carnival, the roller coaster is excelent, and here it is ! The barbie feminist thing that every body is talking about, tought I never gona see it…
And remember stay frosty…
Wôôôôt ? That’s Frosty Dragon podcast blog, or what ?!?!