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vanessa_world

Welcome to Canada

Jan 24, 2008 21:00

it's the Maple Leaf State
Canada, of Canada it's great

Sadly there were no royal mounties, bags of milk, or venison slurpies on my trip (NB: obscurish song reference). However, there was a visit to Smokey Tom's, or more accurately, hazy Tom's, a trip to the shoe museum, a weekend of lovely nerdy conversation, and a long awaited drink.

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implodingfeet January 25 2008, 07:27:02 UTC

Lots of lumber and lumberjacks and logs! I'd say it can't be that obscure if I know it, but I guess the Christian-punk listening subset of your lj readers is pretty small.

vanessa_world January 25 2008, 13:32:27 UTC

Yes, and I was assuming from the onset that you'd be the first to pick up the reference. By obscurish, I meant not mainstream pop (otherwise, I'd have just said obscure).

Incidently, no Shatner either.

Hosers take off, it's not half bad! holomorphic January 25 2008, 21:01:35 UTC

I can still sing about 3/4 of that song by memory. Your onetime Christian-ska (FIF as punk?!?) listening subset is larger than you might have guessed.

Glad it was such a neat trip! Is the "confusing Canadian Customs" solely about the pizza, or was there another source of hilarity?

Re: Hosers take off, it's not half bad! vanessa_world January 25 2008, 21:35:13 UTC

Ok, so I've perhaps underestimated my audience. It was really just the shoe museum/pizza combo. However, US customs did give me the pleasure of searching my car as I returned to the states, because apparently Americans like to bring back a lot of contraband from Toronto. Thankfully, apparently terrorists don't drive their mom's cars and carry developmental biology textbooks on drug/weapons runs.

asianwill January 26 2008, 19:11:26 UTC

Was slurpee just misspelled? Not that I thought highly about a punk band with positive happy lyrics anyway; my Über-Catholic ex-girlfriend used to listen to them. They can all be lumberjacks, and that's okay.

Smokey Tom's Yay! marscracklepop January 26 2008, 21:45:20 UTC

And the shoe museum (since I've actually been there.)

I hope the drive went as smoothly as possible, given the conditions.

I'm surprised you didn't see any Mounties at the border. Every time I've come by road I've seen them.