Title: Bits 'n Bytes
Ess - April 3, 2007 07:37 PM (GMT)
Also the Canadian Way to Open a Beer! I can also open a bottle with a Bic lighter, among other things one might have handy in the woods/on the beach...
I tried once with my teeth but was too scared to *really* try, but I've never wanted to even try
The American way to Open a Bottle of Beer :ph43r:
Discovery Channel's The Making of BeerThe Beer Song!

Everybody sing!
:cananim:
Almonaster - April 3, 2007 09:12 PM (GMT)
Ess - April 3, 2007 09:19 PM (GMT)
Parrrrtay - April 3, 2007 10:53 PM (GMT)
Hey, she wasn't Irish.....no red hair! :P
Ess - April 4, 2007 06:05 PM (GMT)
Ess - April 5, 2007 04:49 PM (GMT)
Ess - April 9, 2007 05:53 PM (GMT)
Leslie Nielson
:wub:
"I have no goals or ambition. I do, however, wish to work enough to maintain whatever celebrity status I have so that they will continue to invite me to golf tournaments." - Leslie Nielsen:lol:
**Quote from
here.
Ess - April 10, 2007 06:27 PM (GMT)
Ess - April 12, 2007 06:35 PM (GMT)
I dislike that you'd have to enter a legal age and a postal code to fully enter the site, but it's got a clock on the front counting how many yearts/days/etc. that Molson's has been brewing beer. 221 years, apparently, and they are Canada's oldest brewery.
Molson Canadian
Diemetricus - April 12, 2007 07:21 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Ess @ Apr 12 2007, 02:35 PM) |
I dislike that you'd have to enter a legal age and a postal code to fully enter the site, but it's got a clock on the front counting how many yearts/days/etc. that Molson's has been brewing beer. 221 years, apparently, and they are Canada's oldest brewery.
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Apparently I have alot more drinking to do if I am going to get caught up. Best get at it. :P
Ess - April 12, 2007 07:30 PM (GMT)
Parrrrtay - April 13, 2007 10:42 PM (GMT)
It doesn't accept USA zip codes. So I just made up letters and it worked! :lol:
Ess - April 16, 2007 11:48 PM (GMT)
Ritzistan - April 20, 2007 03:20 PM (GMT)
I lover the overpass roadkill :)
Ess - April 25, 2007 07:14 PM (GMT)
Hudson Bay, 822 324 km2, is an immense inland sea that penetrates deeply into northeastern Canada. It is virtually landlocked but is joined to the Arctic Ocean to the north by Foxe Channel and FURY AND HECLA STRAIT, and to the Atlantic Ocean on the east by HUDSON STRAIT. Baffin Island lies athwart the entrance to the bay, and SOUTHAMPTON, COATS and MANSEL islands are lodged across the northern gap. The west coast is devoid of islands, but lying off the east is a string known as the Sleepers, Ottawa, Nastapoka and BELCHER groups. The maximum length of the bay is 1500 km and its greatest width 830 km.
The bay, including Hudson Strait, is fed by numerous rivers, large and small, including, from west to east, the KAZAN, THELON and DUBAWNT, flowing into the bay via Chesterfield Inlet; the HAYES, NELSON and CHURCHILL on the west; the WINISK and SEVERN in the southwest; the Grande, EASTMAIN, Nottaway, Moose and Abitibi, ALBANY, ATTAWAPISKAT and Nastapoca, flowing into James Bay; and the KOKSOAK, flowing into Ungava Bay. The total area of the Hudson Bay drainage is about 3.8 million km2 and the mean discharge of all the rivers flowing into it is 30 900 m3/s.
The bay lies in a huge saucer-shaped basin, fringed by uplands of the Canadian SHIELD. The basin was inundated by seawater after the retreat of GLACIATION some 7500 years ago. The bay is generally shallow, and the land is rising steadily at around 60 cm per 100 years because of isostatic uplift, exposing more and more of the coast. The surrounding Hudson Bay Lowland (see PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS) is a low plain locked in PERMAFROST and characterized by marshes, peat and innumerable ponds. Much of the hydroelectric potential of the area develops at the point where powerful rivers surge out of the Shield on to the lowlands.
An almost unnatural feature of the east coast is the great, semicircular bight, centering on the Belcher Islands, which it has been suggested was caused by a stupendous meteor strike. The west coast is generally without indentation, low and bleak up to Arviat, and increasingly broken and indented farther north, particularly at the great gashes of Chesterfield Inlet and Rankin Inlet. The shores are mostly covered with brushes, aspen, willow and dwarf birch growing among moss, lichen and grass. Cliffs of ancient sedimentary rocks are found at points on the east coast...cont'd:
here
Hudson Bay Shore
The bay is generally shallow, and the land is rising steadily at around 60 cm per 100 years because of isostatic uplift (Corel Professional Photos).
Ess - May 1, 2007 06:08 PM (GMT)
Almonaster - May 1, 2007 09:28 PM (GMT)
Did you know that at one time Hudson Bay opened to the South?
Ess - May 1, 2007 09:40 PM (GMT)
Nope. Do tell!
*waits for story complete with pics and links* :D
Almonaster - May 1, 2007 10:14 PM (GMT)
You'll find it on one of the maps linked from
this page. Follow the whole sequence, though - it's fascinating. (Start at the bottom left, go right across each row, then up to the next row. Don't ask me why he laid it out like that!)
Ess - May 8, 2007 11:09 PM (GMT)
Parrrrtay - May 17, 2007 03:17 PM (GMT)
What does it cost to send a basic letter/card in Canada? They just raised the price of stamps here up to 41cents.
Ess - May 17, 2007 05:29 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Parrrrtay @ May 17 2007, 08:17 AM) |
| What does it cost to sent a basic letter/card in Canada? They just raised the price of stamps here up to 39cents. |
Ess - May 17, 2007 05:51 PM (GMT)
Ess - May 24, 2007 06:35 PM (GMT)
The Formation of the RCMP
North-West Mounted Police at Dawson, Yukon (courtesy National Archives of Canada/C-22074).