Where Are You From?, Pass the beer mug

That Site is a hoot !

On the more serious side, it also shows the deep immigrant roots of this city..

Dupa, is Polish , for backside...

Grinny , is what the French duded the Chipmonk..

Studda Bubba, is Polish too, Busha is Gramma
and I belive bubushka , the scarf, is Polish or Russian..

When you have so many Ethinc groups, in one area
you get this refreshing lack of PC...
We have a neighborhood here called Polish Hill...
I can imagine someother places might be offended by that,,
here, it is something they take pride in

Makes for great food shopping too, I can go to the Strip district and get everything from Asian Pears, the best imported Itaian cheese, Mexican peppers, plumcandy from Japan, and on and on.. I went to College in Philly.. it's the same there..except no cheesesteaks here not like Philly's cheese steaks...
I imagine it is from being so close to NY and Ellis Island ...

Ty for the Site Elspeth !
In Service to the Dream,
Paula

I lived on a boat in Halifax (Historic Properties) for 4 years

Re: last page question regarding long barrels in South Africa.....can't confirm the length of time-in-tube as it were, but it's a real long wall that looks like it goes forever. It's Jefferey's Bay aka "J-Bay."

Talked to a gal who surfed it.

RON

Nice. What made you decide to stay for so long? What did you think of the waterfront life? I'd kill for that oportunity.

I would have stayed longer but I ended up coming back to Ottawa and then moved to Houston, Texas to be near my brother who I hadn't seen in eight years.
I loved living on the water and it was really hard becoming land-locked. It has been almost 20 years since living by the ocean and I haven't ruled out moving back. The boat that I lived and worked on was the Mar II which is a fixture in Halifax harbour (Murphys on the Water - Picture of the Mar II)

3 Ravens wrote: "Phil, Leo's a ringer! He's an expat!"

A ringer huh? Been here ten years last month. Back to the states twice in that time, last time was over eight years ago.

Leo

weird I was born in Cranston and lived the 1st 4 years of my life in Conventry.

You familar with a small cottage/campground called Button Woods?

My adoptive grandparents (bloodline their my G-G-G-Uncle (For those following the genealogy thread this is my G-G-Grandfather Alexandra's son) and G-G-G-Aunt, Long Story but not Jerry Springer worthy ) But they own a beach cottage have for years down in Button Woods down on the bay. And yes I remember Almacs and Eclipse Coffee Syrup, man does that bring back memories LOL All good.

Hahaha! I read that as "the 1st 4 years of my life in Controversy"

HAHAHA!

That's possible too

I know the last 5 have been LOL

I hear that. Growing up in a tight Protestant home, you can imagine how much my parents love that I've been living with my fiancee for four years now.

Depends on the Protestant home I guess. My friend is a Protestant Reverend: divorced, single mom and would encourage me to live with my fiancee when I said I wasn't going to.

For some reason that reminded me of a real good friend of mine, now a Methodist minister living in the rural Upper Midwest. I've known him since college back in the Dark Ages. The nicest, most genuine and caring man one could ever hope to meet....but back when he was single, he had to go to another town (or come over to my farm) to hook up with his then-girlfriend because of what his parishoners would think of such scandalous behavior. Don't know which would have been a bigger shock to his flock, non-marital sex or partaking of certain frowned-upon herbal substances.....he had to drive an hour away from his town to do that at my house, too.

Like I said, the most genuine and caring man I probably ever met in my life....after 30 some years I'm still proud to call him my friend and I make sure to call him at least twice a year even though I haven't seen him since at least 1985.

RON

Hahaha! I read that as "the 1st 4 years of my life in Controversy"

HAHAHA!

You know, there are two towns in Pennsylvania. In order to get to Paradise, you have to go through Intercourse !