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Ayreonaut · #**3221** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 5:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

or any one of the man-made lakes that are centerpieces of the local golf courses?

Seriously, Phoenix really is Calgary South.

Although most of Calgary's lakes are surrounded by houses, allow (non motorized) boats, and are actually stocked with fish.

LMich · #**3222** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 7:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Seriously, Phoenix really is Calgary South.

In Phoenix's dreams.

HomeInMyShoes · #**3223** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 1:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Are you talking about Roosevelt Lake northeast of town, or any one of the man-made lakes that are centerpieces of the local golf courses?

What about Lake Pleasant and the drainage ditches coming from it?

I've never been to Phoenix so I'm just making shit up, pretty much par for the course on SSP these days, but I limit my made up facts to this thread.

Regina's Lake is from Wascana Creek. There's some flow in the creek and in spring it's almost a torrent that you could sail Scuffy the Tugboat on.

Centropolis · #**3224** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 1:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

You just described Phoenix, if not most metropolitan areas in the mountain west region

Sin is a reason for metro areas to exist!

Buckeye Native 001 · #**3225** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 3:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

What about Lake Pleasant and the drainage ditches coming from it?

I've never been to Phoenix so I'm just making shit up, pretty much par for the course on SSP these days, but I limit my made up facts to this thread.

Regina's Lake is from Wascana Creek. There's some flow in the creek and in spring it's almost a torrent that you could sail Scuffy the Tugboat on.

True, but Pleasant is man made and was possibly the result of the Central Arizona Project that diverted water to Phoenix from the Colorado River via canal. I may be off on my history of that, though.

Then again, there was a point in which the Salt River (from which Roosevelt Lake drains) was an actual river, and not just a dried-out wash. IIRC, Roosevelt Dam significantly reduced, if not outright eliminated the flow of water into Phoenix.

This is a useful history lesson, folks...

Buckeye Native 001 · #**3226** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 3:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ayreonaut

Seriously, Phoenix really is Calgary South.

Although most of Calgary's lakes are surrounded by houses, allow (non motorized) boats, and are actually stocked with fish.

I enjoy counting the number of cars with Alberta plates heading in either direction between Flag and Phoenix on I-17. Canadians have replaced upper midwesterners as snowbirds.

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Originally Posted by LMich

In Phoenix's dreams.

Agreed.

However, for diplomacy's sake, Phoenix has made a lot of progress with its urban developments in the past decade.

It's still small potatoes compared to what other cities have accomplished.

Ayreonaut · #**3227** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 4:25 PM**

They even put a skating rink downtown for all the Canadians that at least miss that part of winter.

Next time I'm down I'll have to make sure to take the train around a bit, and check out Tempe for once.

HomeInMyShoes · #**3228** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 5:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

True, but Pleasant is man made and was possibly the result of the Central Arizona Project that diverted water to Phoenix from the Colorado River via canal. I may be off on my history of that, though.

Then again, there was a point in which the Salt River (from which Roosevelt Lake drains) was an actual river, and not just a dried-out wash. IIRC, Roosevelt Dam significantly reduced, if not outright eliminated the flow of water into Phoenix.

This is a useful history lesson, folks...

Who would have thought one could learn something in Midwest Coffee Talk?

Of course it wasn't about the Midwest.

Buckeye Native 001 · #**3229** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 7:59 PM**

There's a MIDwest!?

Centropolis · #**3230** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 11:38 PM**

The backyard has advanced to May, somewhere in Alabama.

Untitled by wmh95970, on Flickr

Centropolis · #**3231** Posted **Mar 22, 2012, 11:49 PM**

I actually had to mow the fuckin' yard in December if I recall...

+ the two times it snowed a little bit, 1 time it melted off before I woke up and the other time I was out of town.

rockyi · #**3232** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 12:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by vid

I don't think anyone in Thunder Bay wants to see or be seen. It's too embarrassing to let others know we live here.

Somebody down here in Quad City Land is enough of a T-Bay fan to name this restaurant after yous guys.......
This is right next door to my work place.......Maybe instead of a northwoods theme they should go for the real thing with a hookers-on-meth theme!!

vid · #**3233** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 12:24 AM**

Cooper Black!!!!!!

It wasn't until I started working for a company that uses that font in its logo that I realized how ubiquitous it is. It's worse than Helvetica!

rockyi · #**3234** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 12:27 AM**

Cooper B. really gets around.

Centropolis · #**3235** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 4:44 AM**

Oh my gad I want to shut down the Thunder Bay Grille. Not shut it down in the "we have received numerous complaints" shut it down but like last call shut it down.

Oh my gad.

LMich · #**3236** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 8:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

There's a MIDwest!?

Imagine my surprise when I found out we had a new Mexico. I mean, what was wrong with the old one? And, god only knows that two Carolinas is a Carolina too many, if you ask me. Eff it. Just give everything west of the Mississippi back to the French and Spanish, and let the South go, already.

Cleveland Brown · #**3237** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 1:52 PM**

They must be getting desperate coming all the way to the rust belt. And just because a woman has needs and younger desires does not make her an "animal!"

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Originally Posted by The Detroit News

Possible cougar spotted by U-M

Search finds no animals, tracks, but critter on Twitter

BY JIM LYNCH AND KIM KOZLOWSKI THE DETROIT NEWS 5 COMMENTS

Two reported sightings of a strange animal near the University of Michigan had campus security on the hunt Thursday.

Police responded to a call in the morning of a tan animal, thought to be a cougar, in an area of the North Campus. The call came in around 8:30 a.m. and placed the animal along Hubbard Road, between Green Road and Stone Drive...

... Despite the failure to locate and strange animals, the cougar story took on a life of its own by early afternoon.

A pair of cougar-related Twitter accounts popped up online.

One of them, @NorthCampusCoug, tweeted: "Hide yo kids, hide yo wife and hide yo husbands."

source: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...text|FRONTPAGE

Cleveland Brown · #**3238** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 1:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Centropolis

The backyard has advanced to May, somewhere in Alabama.

Untitled by wmh95970, on Flickr

Is that ground cover or the result of a lack of weed-n-feed?

Ayreonaut · #**3239** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 4:57 PM**

The heat wave has Caltrane talking about his 'honies' again.

vid · #**3240** Posted **Mar 23, 2012, 10:36 PM**

I always read that as "hoe knees".