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Old 11-25-2012, 10:36 PM   #81
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BTW, just to be clear. We ARE NOT talking about the Grey Cup here, okay.

Well, at least until I get over my disappointment in my Stampeders.

No pro hockey to watch, and I am not into the NFL, I guess I will now have more time to get things done.
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Old 11-25-2012, 11:06 PM   #82
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Re-thread jack, just have to say: AAAAARRRRRRRGGGOOOOOOSSSSSSSS!!!!
That is all.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:18 AM   #83
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When we take the old Ventura out to the RC float flys, we are smaller than some of the slides on most of the RVs there. So yes at least in Alberta, bigger still rules. I have heard that a lot of the US manufactures were dumping a lot of their stock up here for the last few years because it was one of the few locations that were selling. With me, I guess its my Irish/Scottish heritage(cheap bugger) that keeps me driving what I have got. I just cannot justify buying a new trailer, tow vehicle, storage for the 5 weekends I use it. The Subaru outback is fine for me as it hauls my RC planes , garbage, firewood and just about anything I feel like throwing at it and still isn't too bad for gas mileage (oh damn, whats metric for mileage, kilometerage)

I have lived on both sides of that dotted line that separate the 2 countries and most of the folks on both sides are fine people!

as for the original question, I guess that the guy who invented the Boler must have been Scottish or Ukrainian too because he took a septic tank and turned it into what we all love ! Then the guy who built my Ventura came in and setup shop trying make a better tank opps trailer but he used a square tank!
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Old 11-26-2012, 02:52 AM   #84
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Smile Some statistics

Number of Canadians on this blog - 2078*
Number of Americans on this blog - 6524*
Number of Canadians - 34**
Number of Americans - 314**
Number of Californians - 38**
* = ones that admit to it
** = millions

So there are more Californians than Canadians.
There are about 10x more Americans than Canadians.

Methinks there are more Canadians than Americans on this blog because of the long, cold winters up there.
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Old 11-26-2012, 04:26 AM   #85
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I live on the 49th. parallel but have to drive for two days and take a 100 mile ferry ride to get to the border. We don't do a lot of cross-border shopping out our way. I can get to France with a five-hour drive and a one-hour ferry ride a lot easier.
As for FG trailer making, maybe it's just a case of being good at something.
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Old 11-26-2012, 08:08 AM   #86
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Hi All... In typical Canadian style we come up with ideas and talent but if you can't cross the "Bob-WARR you just aren't!!! Most but not all molds for trailers were exported to the US. from Canada. There they morphed into other brands and some are still successful to this day. We are trying to take back the trophy so to speak, one trailer at a time tho!!!
Fiberglass seems to come and go with the economy of scale. At the moment you can get some pretty good deals on the biggies as long as you have stock in the oil/gas Co's.
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:45 AM   #87
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That's only because you folks are so choosy about who you let in to join the party...
LoL you need to leave the gun & veggies at home :-; Some suggest that one of the nice things about our country is its open door policies which has resulted in our nation being very multi cultural. For example in BC 35% of the residents have a first language which is nether of our two official languages.
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Old 11-26-2012, 11:16 AM   #88
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What WAS the question, anyway????

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The question was "Why do Canadians seem to have more interest in FG trailers than Americans?"

The argument seems to be in how one quantifies "more".

And of course there is ALWAYS an argument.
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Old 11-26-2012, 12:48 PM   #89
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The question was "Why do Canadians seem to have more interest in FG trailers than Americans?"

The argument seems to be in how one quantifies "more".

And of course there is ALWAYS an argument.
Hmmmm...

I think I'm gettin' it now:

If by "Canadians have more interest in fiberglass trailers" you mean " more interest in talking about fiberglass trailers"....this is, indeed, a mystery.

But Canadians talk about all kinds of things that we below-the-liners don't.

I, for example, still don't know what the "Grey Cup" is.

And what's a "looney", anyway? The CBC (Radio Free Canada) is always talking about "the looney". `Canada only has one looney? We have LOTS of loonies- so many that we keep them in bins down here- and rarely talk about them at all. Unless we decide to let them come home for Thanksgiving. Which I remind you we have on the right day.

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Oh, we've got loonies right here on FGRV.
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Oh, we've got loonies right here on FGRV.
You really shouldn't talk about Alf like that. It only encourages him.
Hey, maybe we could campaign to the Canadian mint to put his face on the Loonie.
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You really shouldn't talk about Alf like that. It only encourages him.
Hey, maybe we could campaign to the Canadian mint to put his face on the Loonie.
I didn't mention any names - or nationalities.
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It's because they only have 2 days of summer.
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Old 11-26-2012, 03:31 PM   #94
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I didn't mention any names - or nationalities.
I just assumed you were talking about us Canuckleheads, where the Loonie originated.
I just assumed on the Alf front, it seemed fitting.
Hi Alf.
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It's because they only have 2 days of summer.
Nu uh, 3 whole months. Of which there are usually only 2 nice days.

Though nice for many of us is if you don't have to bust the ice off the surface, in order to go swimming.
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Remember we still have the Queen working for us nothing like royalty.
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Remember we still have the Queen working for us nothing like royalty.
We have royalty, too- there's Lightning McQueen, Queen Latifah, Steve McQueen,The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Prince Albert-in-a-Can, John "The Duke" Wayne...not to mention The King himself: Elvis!

O.K., so the last two are dead.

But still- at least we don't put pictures of our royalty on something and then pass it around while calling it a "looney"!

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Steve McQueen will be thanking you for his Resurrection.

Our Royalty lived in Camelot or is that on a Camel Lot?
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Steve McQueen will be thanking you for his Resurrection.
Steve McQueen's not dead- I just saw him on TV last night! He was trying to get in to Canada by jumping the bobwar fence on a motorcycle. But a whole bunch of bad guys tried to stop him.

I didn't see what happened next because I ran out of quarters for the coin-operated TV here at the Notell Motel...

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Hi: All...I was going for a rebuttal but decided instead to say that most famous Americans are really Canadians trying to keep warm.
As for Looney...that's a relative term.
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