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Medtech, If you go back to the thread that MichaelO. highlighted a couple of msgs back, you'll see my story in there somewhere.  I used to do cigars "now and then" as a victory dance and I am now severely hooked.  I'm trying to get off of them because they are: a)  Bad for your health; b) ...

Airmich, Give Des my regards, and tell him I'll be thinking about him...(he'll remember me as the fifty-ish short fat dumpy ex-sigs biker at the meet-n-greet in Edmonton last Fall).

I have always looked to the Liberal Party of Canada for forward looking--and forward thinking--ideas like this.  It's wonderful...someone should have thought of this years ago. I gotta tell you, this man Coderre is friggin' brilliant. Now, right after we finish creating this new base, (and one...

Don't worry about it until you find him wandering around aimlessly with a golden sykle in his hand looking for mistletoe.  Of course, if he starts to build a half scale model of Stonehenge in the living room (a la Close Encounters of the Third Kind), you may want to call Bards Anonymous. ;)

Hawk, Depends; ADF, OBOD, or Reformed?

Geo, Yes some Wiccan covens do their rituals nude, however that loses alot of facination when one winds ups standing across from a 300 pound guy with a beard down to his navel that hasnt' washed for six months.  :P And I'm still waiting for a NeoDruid group to start up that promotes live...

Tank Recce, What's with this visor crap?  Real bikers don't use visors, we just pick the bugs outta our teeth with our fingernail when we stop for gas. I still remember a ride from the US border back to Edmonton with a couple of friends of mine.  I was still in the CF at the time, and waxed my...

I am truly sorry for those Pastafarian children who are persecuted by the religiously intolerant.  I myself am--of course--paternally tolerant of their misguided devotion to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I follow the ONE TRUE FAITH.  All ye who seek the truth would do well to linger a while in...

Uptheglens--- Actually, the character of Tiny Murphy in Captains of the Clouds was the "Skipper's" father, Alan Hale Sr.  The two of them look so much alike it is difficult to tell them apart.  Hale Senior died in 1950, but was one of the great character actors of his time, and vy popular in...

I have several "favs" (I'll list them later) but I think I've got a new "best". Was vy impressed w/ the TV movie "Lost Battalion". Originally it was done for the US History Channel, and I picked it up on video from the local Rogers store.  Unlike so many US based movie efforts, there were...

Interesting; I saw GAPs post about FedEX cancelling their order and was surprised at the date because I thought I'd seen that article only a couple of days ago.  Seems it was deja-vu all over again.  UPS has done the same thing...

Jc066, I believe you are referring to DOROTHEA Knitting Mills, who made many fine pieces of kit for Her Majesty's Canadian Formed Arses many years ago.

Time Expired. I'm not ex-PPCLI, but as a kid I lived in Victoria during the 70s when 3VP was stationed there, and remember seeing the wedge cap too.  There was an article in one of the early Sentinel magazines that explained that a rifle green wedge cap was standard (pre integration) head dress...

What's changed? He was senile forty years ago when he created  "air force" green, tried to wipe out the regimental system, and deprived the navy of their beloved "square-rig".  For years the "new" rank of MCpl was contemptuously referred to as a "Hellyer Corporal". I think the little green...

Many long years ago, I remember reading an article about REFORGER in some US magazine, (it might have been something as silly as Soldier of Fortune, but I'm not sure).  There was a photo of a Canadian Lynx Crewman with the caption "Canadian Armoured Crewman pulls his headset over his eminently...

I remember the thrill as a boy of watching the Golden Hawks in their Sabres...a more robust aircraft than the Tutor (read faster and heavier), but they still managed stunts not unlike what the Snowbirds have done these past many years.  I believe part of it can be chalked up to superior pilots. ...

Geo, Understood.  On the other hand, I wasn't about to discuss the man's philological peccadilloes with him.  ;D

Back in '75 I was with the C Scot R at Milcon in Ft Lewis Wa.  We happened to be there on Canada Day, and paraded in S4B in the main part of the base.  I still remember the shock and awe from the US soldiers a couple of days later when the local base paper printed a photo of A Coy's CSM... The...

Geo, you haven't been to Edmonton lately have you?  The "boys and girls" here are already driving like that, but I don't think they're doing it to help train our troops. To the soldiers involved in the accident--get well soon and take care.

I find this distressing for one very specific reason; it brings to mind the catastrophes of an earlier time. Not very long ago I read the Report of the Somalia Enquiry (it's on the DND website http://www.dnd.ca/somalia/somaliae.htm). One of the major failures cited in the report was the...