11-21-2003, 02:09 AM
signed up on celticradio.net as TragicallyHipandIrish :lol: anybody else use hip related email names and passwords? 
the madness and joy spread...
11-21-2003, 02:16 AM
Yup all the time
I will not give up. My face is set,my gait is fast,my goal is heaven,my road is narrow,my way is rough,my companions are few,my guide is reliable,my mission is clear. I cannot be bought,compromised,detoured,lured away,turned back,diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice,hesitate in the presence of adversity,negotiate at the table of the enemy,ponder at the pool of popularity,or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I will not give up,shut up or slow down....Blessed Be!
11-21-2003, 11:04 AM
one of my e-mail addresses is grooveless_toque@ whatever...it's a quote from the Spectrum 89 show... "this toque will not stay on my head when I groove; it's a grooveless toque". I also used to use that as my username on a couple of boards...which makes me think...I should probably switch. I want to have a Hip related name here!
11-21-2003, 12:21 PM
I like that one a lot better. maybe I should change mine? Although I have no idea what I would change it to? 
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11-21-2003, 01:45 PM
How do you spell toque, as in the hat with the little bobble on top?? I did a google search and found "toque", "tuque", "touque" and more...although I think I remember from elementary school spelling that it is what I have as my name, I can't really say for sure!!
Your name seems fine to me...it's unique...is it a place?
Your name seems fine to me...it's unique...is it a place?
11-21-2003, 01:56 PM
Thanks! I guess I will keep it. Yes it is a place, it's up by Tobermory right on Georigan bay, in the Bruce Peninsula. It's a spot we frequent quite often in the summer. :thumb:
Here's a picture.![[Image: dyersbay.jpg]](http://friends.backcountry.net/atnavi/bt/dyersbay.jpg)
But also I think touque is spelled like this? But the way you have it looks fine. It's the same as Colour and Color I thinkcratch:
Here's a picture.
But also I think touque is spelled like this? But the way you have it looks fine. It's the same as Colour and Color I think
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11-21-2003, 02:17 PM
I use passwords all of the time that are either Hip related or DMB related. Also, my hotmail account is my screen name here.
11-21-2003, 02:22 PM
Ooh...dyers I love the Bruce region...when I was in Shippigan, NB camping, I met some girls who had just come from there and they told me it was gorgeous. The next time I was in Ottawa I bugged my father to drive me there (we stayed with friends in Meaford) and I was NOT disappointed. I loved the cliffs, and we even walked the Lemarchant Escarpment (the big white cliff that runs the length of the Peninsula) for a few kilometres ducking into the caves underneath. It was so cool! And the lake even looked tropical at one point, all shallow and green with the little islands. It was the nicest place I have ever been in Ontario. Never did get up to Tobermoray but I saw aerial shots of the national park there and I'd like to go.
I changed the spelling of my name...whether it's right or not, at least it now looks like how it's pronounced.
I changed the spelling of my name...whether it's right or not, at least it now looks like how it's pronounced.
11-21-2003, 02:46 PM
Yes it is so beautiful! It's for sure my favourite spot to be in the summer! I think the further north you go in Ontario the nicer it gets. Up by Thunder bay is so nice, and secluded witch I really like!
The thing is it's about a 14 hr drive, so uh needless to say I don't get to go that far north to often. Have you ever been to Newfoundland considering you are so close? Now that is a gorgeous place! I will make a point to go back. There are also islands owned by France that you can get to by Ferry it's about a two hr ferry ride from Newfoundland. The name of them escapes me right now, but just another spot I long to go to! :thumb:
The thing is it's about a 14 hr drive, so uh needless to say I don't get to go that far north to often. Have you ever been to Newfoundland considering you are so close? Now that is a gorgeous place! I will make a point to go back. There are also islands owned by France that you can get to by Ferry it's about a two hr ferry ride from Newfoundland. The name of them escapes me right now, but just another spot I long to go to! :thumb:
11-21-2003, 06:44 PM
You bet I've been to Newfoundland...though only twice. it's a bit of a drive. Of course the ferry goes overnight so it's two whole days from here to St John's if you push right through. On a map it doesn't look so far, but for some reason, with the way the highways go and the timing of the ferry, it takes as long to get to St John's from here as it does to get to the Unites States through Windsor!! It's a beautiful drive, though, fantastically rugged, so it's definitely a drive I don't mind. Have you ever been to Cape Breton?
I've never been to Les Iles Magdalenes...the ones owned by France...but I hear they're beautiful. Did you know the ferry to them from PEI had to be stopped because the British crew that came with the ferry took one look at the water on a bad day and said "We're going home!"
I've never been to Les Iles Magdalenes...the ones owned by France...but I hear they're beautiful. Did you know the ferry to them from PEI had to be stopped because the British crew that came with the ferry took one look at the water on a bad day and said "We're going home!"
11-22-2003, 08:12 AM
Yes I have been to Cape Breton. We stayed in a little town named troy in a cottage there. It for sure is beautiful! 
On my birthday we took the whole day and drove the entire Capot trail. We went as far as White point. Have you heard of White point? It's way up there. But what a gorgeous little fishing town. You really have't to remind yourself that you are still in Canada. It took us 10 hrs to drive the whole trail but we had to keep stopping to look at all of the beauty. We where stopped at the side of the trail and we where watching a whale watching boat. We saw these figures in the water that we found out where dolphins. WOWhock: so growing up around lakes all my life to see dolphins and whales and even jelly fish was quite stellar for me. We also went to Pei and New Brunswick. Those Hope well rocks are also quite a site :thumb:
Four provinces in two weeks, it sure was a lot of fun. :mrgreen:
On my birthday we took the whole day and drove the entire Capot trail. We went as far as White point. Have you heard of White point? It's way up there. But what a gorgeous little fishing town. You really have't to remind yourself that you are still in Canada. It took us 10 hrs to drive the whole trail but we had to keep stopping to look at all of the beauty. We where stopped at the side of the trail and we where watching a whale watching boat. We saw these figures in the water that we found out where dolphins. WOW
hock: so growing up around lakes all my life to see dolphins and whales and even jelly fish was quite stellar for me. We also went to Pei and New Brunswick. Those Hope well rocks are also quite a site :thumb: Four provinces in two weeks, it sure was a lot of fun. :mrgreen:
11-22-2003, 03:58 PM
It's a joy to read people's testimonies about the Maritimes. I think more than any other place in the continent, it is incredibly easy to forget when you live here that there are beautiful spots. Note that I didn't say that the Maritimes were beautiful - I know some people who swar every inch of Nova Scotia is stunning. To me, Cape Breton and the Shippigan-Dalhousie-Campbellton shore in New Brunswick are the only two awesome spots. But it's nice to be reminded that to other people, especially, it seems, to Ontarians, that the Maritimes are good places to be. There is so much you become aware of when you live that makes them seem unpleasant and otherwise undesirable. And since I am so familiar with the coast, sights that seem completely pedestrian and commonplace to me seem alien and intriguing to come-from-aways.
Did you really see DOLPHINS up here?! That's incredible. Are you sure they weren't porpoises? There's a lot of them, and they look exactly like dolphins. I don't know if dolphins take the cold water well...anyway, if it was dolphins, good for you!! I've never seen them. Now I'm going to go into my "bearded road apple" phase and get to storytelling...I was fishing off West Pennant near Sambro (which is the place that was hardest hit by the Hurricane if you've seen my pictures) in my uncle's tiny 9-foot aluminum Princecraft when we hit a rock or something under the water and we puttered over to some rocks sticking about a foot out of the water. We were probably half a mile or more from shore, and it was really scary because I was only twelve and I didn't know how well I could swim. We got out on the gooey, slimy rocks and while my uncle fiddled with the motor we realized that what we had mistaken for waves were not - they were actual porpoises, coming right towards us. A school of about 6 of them, altogether, and they swam right over to us in that peculiar "bouncing" in and out of the water that dolphins and porpoises do. They hung around less than 50 feet away...it was amazing. Of course, we didn't have a camera since we weren't expecting anything other than fishing, but they seriously came close enough to touch a couple of times. My uncle said that they were really friendly and he would have let us hop in if the boat was fine, but in the event that we had to swim back he didn't want us wasting our energy in the water. Eventually he managed to fix whatever was wrong with the engine blades and we slowly made it back to shore with the porpoises following us. It was really incredible...they have this perceived intelligence you can't imagine unless you've seen them up close. I've heard the same about dolphins.
Sorry...I know it was rambling...but it's one of the coolest things to ever happen to me in the waters around here!
Did you really see DOLPHINS up here?! That's incredible. Are you sure they weren't porpoises? There's a lot of them, and they look exactly like dolphins. I don't know if dolphins take the cold water well...anyway, if it was dolphins, good for you!! I've never seen them. Now I'm going to go into my "bearded road apple" phase and get to storytelling...I was fishing off West Pennant near Sambro (which is the place that was hardest hit by the Hurricane if you've seen my pictures) in my uncle's tiny 9-foot aluminum Princecraft when we hit a rock or something under the water and we puttered over to some rocks sticking about a foot out of the water. We were probably half a mile or more from shore, and it was really scary because I was only twelve and I didn't know how well I could swim. We got out on the gooey, slimy rocks and while my uncle fiddled with the motor we realized that what we had mistaken for waves were not - they were actual porpoises, coming right towards us. A school of about 6 of them, altogether, and they swam right over to us in that peculiar "bouncing" in and out of the water that dolphins and porpoises do. They hung around less than 50 feet away...it was amazing. Of course, we didn't have a camera since we weren't expecting anything other than fishing, but they seriously came close enough to touch a couple of times. My uncle said that they were really friendly and he would have let us hop in if the boat was fine, but in the event that we had to swim back he didn't want us wasting our energy in the water. Eventually he managed to fix whatever was wrong with the engine blades and we slowly made it back to shore with the porpoises following us. It was really incredible...they have this perceived intelligence you can't imagine unless you've seen them up close. I've heard the same about dolphins.
Sorry...I know it was rambling...but it's one of the coolest things to ever happen to me in the waters around here!
11-23-2003, 04:58 PM
Wow that's a cool story! I would have had to touch them. :lol:
I guess I'm not sure if they where dolphins, that's what we were told.
But based on your experience with the 5 or 6 of them swimming together, that's what we saw. So they could have been porpoises?cratch: Very cool regardless, to see such a sight! I love that kind of thing! :wink:
I guess I'm not sure if they where dolphins, that's what we were told.
But based on your experience with the 5 or 6 of them swimming together, that's what we saw. So they could have been porpoises?
cratch: Very cool regardless, to see such a sight! I love that kind of thing! :wink:
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