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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
The bad news: The Colorado heat wave continues. Fifth day in a row for a new
daily record high in my little burg. (84 today) The good news: Despite the poor snowmaking weather, A-Basin has finally committed to an opening date. According to their General Manager, A-Basin will definitely open before Halloween, or on Halloween, or after Halloween. You early bird skiers can now breathe a sigh of relief and make your plans accordingly. Meanwhile, I predict that Loveland will not open on 10-24. But we have a cold front coming in on Friday and my best guess is that they will make it by Monday. Stay tuned. Thus spaketh TCS Vail: Vail and Beaver Creek will try to make as much snow as they can while the TV truck generators are turned off. Snowmaking ends on 10 November. TCS (The Colorado Skier) Loveland opens in 1 week! |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
TCS wrote:
The bad news: The Colorado heat wave continues. Fifth day in a row for a new daily record high in my little burg. (84 today) Yeah, I keep watching the Yank news on the ethnic station, hoping to see those temperatures plummet. Canada looks like winter is coming, US are having the Indian summer from hell. The good news: Despite the poor snowmaking weather, A-Basin has finally committed to an opening date. According to their General Manager, A-Basin will definitely open before Halloween, or on Halloween, or after Halloween. You early bird skiers can now breathe a sigh of relief and make your plans accordingly. I bet they are plating the bloke who decided to put in snowmaking with gold. I guess they'll have the snowmakers out at 2am furiously making what they can before the sun comes up. ant |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
"ant" skrev i melding
... Yeah, I keep watching the Yank news on the ethnic station, hoping to see What exactly do you mean by the "ethnic station"? We do not have such a TV-station here, not as far as I know, anyway, so I just wonder what exactly it can be? |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
Inger Skramstad Jørstad wrote:
"ant" skrev i melding ... Yeah, I keep watching the Yank news on the ethnic station, hoping to see What exactly do you mean by the "ethnic station"? We do not have such a TV-station here, not as far as I know, anyway, so I just wonder what exactly it can be? It's a national, gov't owned station that screens stuff from all over the world. Most SBS stuff has subtitles, it also shows a lot of stuff that'd cause trouble on the commercial stations ie nudity and violence. It is meant to exhibit diversity in its programming, catering to minority interests, with an emphasis on foreign content or catering to NESB aussies. It is mostly quite excellent. There's a US show I saw last night, it appeared to be a spoof on Letterman type shows, it was called the Daily Weekly show (or vice versa). It was rather funny. One of their reporters on the spot for the Californian recall election was a bag of plums. ant |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
ant wrote:
Inger Skramstad Jørstad wrote: "ant" skrev i melding ... Yeah, I keep watching the Yank news on the ethnic station, hoping to see What exactly do you mean by the "ethnic station"? We do not have such a TV-station here, not as far as I know, anyway, so I just wonder what exactly it can be? What, you don't have ethnics in Norway? We have LOTS of them in the US. It's a national, gov't owned station that screens stuff from all over the world. Most SBS stuff has subtitles, it also shows a lot of stuff that'd cause trouble on the commercial stations ie nudity and violence. It is meant to exhibit diversity in its programming, catering to minority interests, with an emphasis on foreign content or catering to NESB aussies. It is mostly quite excellent. There's a US show I saw last night, it appeared to be a spoof on Letterman type shows, it was called the Daily Weekly show (or vice versa). It was rather funny. One of their reporters on the spot for the Californian recall election was a bag of plums. Plums or prunes? It makes a difference. The people who publicize prunes have decided that the word "prune" has unpleasant connotations leading to reduced sales. They see "dried plums" as younger, sexier and more salable. So now bags of prunes have both names: "prunes" and "dried plums." At some point it is assumed that "prune" will disappear from our fruit vocabulary and the sellers of dried plums will make the fortune that had been heretofore denied them. Hey, it could happen. -- Cheers, Bev ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The way England treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any." --Oscar Wilde |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
The Real Bev wrote:
Plums or prunes? It makes a difference. Definitley plums. They were making some comic mileage about having a limited budget. One reporter had to run from one camera to another and pretend he was in another bit of LA. Then their 8th (I think) reporter was...a bag of plums. Camera duly showed a little bag of plums hanging in front of the camera. I don't know what it signified but I laughed like a drain. Hmm, according to the TV guide it was the Weekly Daily show. ant |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
tm wrote:
In article , The Real Bev wrote: Plums or prunes? It makes a difference. The people who publicize prunes have decided that the word "prune" has unpleasant connotations leading to reduced sales. They see "dried plums" as younger, sexier and more salable. So now bags of prunes have both names: "prunes" and "dried plums." At some point it is assumed that "prune" will disappear from our fruit vocabulary and the sellers of dried plums will make the fortune that had been heretofore denied them. Hey, it could happen. Recently i was in LA and saw many bilboard adverts for clamato juice. That's the juice of clams mixed with tomato? Apparently, and although I find the concept disgusting it's been around a long time. Anybody who would squeeze a mollusc and drink what comes out is SICK. There's something called Snap-E-Tom which is pretty good -- tomato juice and some kind of hot pepper squeezins. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================ The beatings will continue until morale improves |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
The Real Bev wrote:
tm wrote: Recently i was in LA and saw many bilboard adverts for clamato juice. That's the juice of clams mixed with tomato? Apparently, and although I find the concept disgusting it's been around a long time. Anybody who would squeeze a mollusc and drink what comes out is SICK. No, no! Please, you two are making a joke?! argh. There's something called Snap-E-Tom which is pretty good -- tomato juice and some kind of hot pepper squeezins. now I'm laughing again! Snappy Tom has been a popular brand of cat food here since I was young! If I sit and think for long enough, I can even remember the words to the jingle. ant |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
ant wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: tm wrote: Recently i was in LA and saw many bilboard adverts for clamato juice. That's the juice of clams mixed with tomato? Apparently, and although I find the concept disgusting it's been around a long time. Anybody who would squeeze a mollusc and drink what comes out is SICK. No, no! Please, you two are making a joke?! argh. No, it's the real thing. Clam juice mixed with tomato juice, although the hard-core can buy their clam juice straight. I rarely drink clam juice, although it's a handy thing to have around for cooking. The most common usage for Clamato juice is to make a drink called a Ceasar - Clamato, vodka and a dash of tabasco. It's rather popular at the Canadian [ob]ski lodges. There's a US show I saw last night, it appeared to be a spoof on Letterman type shows, it was called the Daily Weekly show (or vice versa). It was rather funny. One of their reporters on the spot for the Californian recall election was a bag of plums. That would be The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - they take the best bits of the week and repackage it for the international audience. Sadly, it's the best news show on TV. -- //-Walt // // The Volkl Conspiracy |
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Snow in Colorado - A-Basin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:57:48 +1000, "ant" wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: tm wrote: Recently i was in LA and saw many bilboard adverts for clamato juice. That's the juice of clams mixed with tomato? Apparently, and although I find the concept disgusting it's been around a long time. Anybody who would squeeze a mollusc and drink what comes out is SICK. No, no! Please, you two are making a joke?! argh. Sounds weird, but don't laugh; you can't make a truly good bloody mary without it. bw |
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