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#41 lastchair_44

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 12:38 PM

View PostEmax, on Jan 6 2007, 01:57 PM, said:

"is that my buddy Johnny's new license plate?"

(Shhh... we stuck one over his rear plate and he hasn't noticed it for a week.)

You guys are funny! :devil:
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Posted 07 January 2007 - 12:48 PM

thank god i haven't driven it for a week...... :nono:
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Posted 11 January 2007 - 11:08 AM

View Posttcs, on Mar 3 2006, 07:39 PM, said:

Canada seems to have a lot more "pictographs" along their hiways then the U.S. has.


Here are two of my favourites, from on a trip out to Tremblant in Quebec:

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I dunno why, but they both had me cracking up. :)

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Posted 17 January 2007 - 05:45 AM

Me too. Good find.
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 09:41 AM

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Posted 31 January 2007 - 08:32 PM

View PostLiftTech, on Jan 31 2007, 10:41 AM, said:



And what "Machine" is that?
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Posted 31 January 2007 - 09:32 PM

Here's one from Southern Utah University, where I go to school:
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No idea---I haven't seen a mule anywhere.

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:15 AM

View PostKicking Horse, on Jan 31 2007, 09:32 PM, said:

And what "Machine" is that?

Any machine will do.
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Posted 17 February 2007 - 01:38 PM


There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou

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Posted 22 February 2007 - 06:17 AM

:thumbsup:
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Posted 27 February 2007 - 09:37 AM

Time Out !


There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 12:42 PM

oh yeah

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Posted 28 February 2007 - 03:24 PM

:smile:

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#54 Ontariodude

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 10:10 AM

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This was taken 5 days ago from my trip to Quebec (Le Massif and Mont-Ste.-Anne). Minimum 60? U'd be roadkill if you went that slow. The average speed people travelled from what I remember is 120km/h although there were alot of cops out on Autoroute 20 from Montreal to Quebec City so everyone went 110:thumbsup: . Slowest car we saw: 75km/h just outside Montreal on A-30 :tongue: .
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Posted 15 March 2007 - 10:33 AM

View PostOntariodude, on Mar 15 2007, 09:10 AM, said:

This was taken 5 days ago from my trip to Quebec (Le Massif and Mont-Ste.-Anne). Minimum 60? U'd be roadkill if you went that slow. The average speed people travelled from what I remember is 120km/h although there were alot of cops out on Autoroute 20 from Montreal to Quebec City so everyone went 110:thumbsup: . Slowest car we saw: 75km/h just outside Montreal on A-30 :tongue: .

I was almost made roadkill when driving across Alberta two years ago and I was going 110, the speed limit.

Those minimum/maximum signs in downtown Denver on I-25 look like a cruel joke when youre stuck in traffic. At those times the 40 MPH minimum is about double the speed that traffic flows. I sure love the mountains :thumbsup:

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 05:12 PM

View Postpoloxskier, on Mar 15 2007, 01:33 PM, said:

I was almost made roadkill when driving across Alberta two years ago and I was going 110, the speed limit.

Those minimum/maximum signs in downtown Denver on I-25 look like a cruel joke when youre stuck in traffic. At those times the 40 MPH minimum is about double the speed that traffic flows. I sure love the mountains :thumbsup:

I hate the Denver traffic. :cursing: You sit there for almost an hour in rush hour just to get going up the mountain. But I-70 in the mountains is knarly in a blizzard. :shocking:

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 07:01 PM

the drive from Niagara falls to Port Huron Michigan we were driving around 120-140 kilometers/hr, i don't see how people can drive that fast, especially on that stretch of road, i nearly dropped the suspension of my car trying to keep with the pace of traffic.
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#58 poloxskier

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Posted 15 March 2007 - 07:53 PM

View PostLift Kid, on Mar 15 2007, 04:12 PM, said:

I hate the Denver traffic. :cursing: You sit there for almost an hour in rush hour just to get going up the mountain. But I-70 in the mountains is knarly in a blizzard. :shocking:

I-70 isn't that bad but I guess its all in what you get used to.
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"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

#59 Ontariodude

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Posted 16 March 2007 - 06:30 AM

This is a bit off-topic but the European Union is asking the nation of Germany to impose a speed limit on their Autobahn series of highways. It's not because of safety but because of global warming. Cars use much more fuel when trevelling at say 220km/h rather than 130km/h (80mph) which is actuallly the European Union's proposed speed limit for the Autobahn. I wonder if Germany will agree :unsure:

As for driving in Ontario, people usually go a good deal faster than the speed limit but that is normal for Canada. On the weeekend if the traffic volume is moderate, its not rare for people going 130 - 135 on a 100 zone. But then again, many of Ontario's highways are in fairly good condition although some need work (ex. parts of the 401, 402 and 417). In Quebec, I noticed how the increased police pressence slowed people down. I don't know if it was a special week for them but it seemed as if there were alot of cops out. Then again if you go fast in Quebec watch out... the road infrastructure is seeming to crumble away in some areas.

My best story of the lack of police pressense on Ontario's highways is during one late evening on the Queen Elizabeth Way (expressway from Toronto to Fort Erie - Buffalo, NY) where traffic was flowing at a steady 125km/h but the volume was fairly high. All of the sudden, a group of about 10 Ducatis, Hondas, and Yamaha superbikes started whizzing by going between cars and weeving through cars like it was a game. I sware it could have been from a movie set :unsure: :shocking:

While in Michigan awhile back, I noticed that people seemed to follow the speed limits quite closely.

My off-topic 2cents



Oh here is another sign. It's not really funny although where else do you see a sign with street names honouring a founder of Canadian Beer and a world-renowned genius (at the same time).

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Taken on km139 of A-40-73 in Quebec, Quebec.


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Posted 16 March 2007 - 01:19 PM

View Postpoloxskier, on Mar 15 2007, 10:53 PM, said:

I-70 isn't that bad but I guess its all in what you get used to.

I know. But the 3.5 hour trip from where I-70 was in the foot hills to the Dillon Exit is pretty bad if you ask me. That was during the 2nd blizzard of the 3 in a row this year.





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