bluto

that show spanned quite a few eras.

look up a few posts

sounds like someone is jealous of not getting leaked-to.

i think the Als will play out of their skins trying to impress Popp... just like they played like warmed over garbage to try and get rid of Busey.

spoken just like my R.E.A. (a cool guy who now sits in my section at games.) he's never gotten me less than 98.9% on my listings or had me pay more than 94.5% of one.

First of all, congrats on doing that program and increasing your potential earnings and expanding your own marketability. Good on ya. Toronto would be a big culture shock for a young man from Winnipeg (more on this in a bit). Especially if you're planning on living in a central area. The downtown core of Toronto proper is a very mixed bag of what you can manage to afford (ie: apartment types will range from sub'ing someone's condo, to 100 year old 3 story brick houses that have been converted to appartments, to the basic highrise appartment complexes). If you're anywhere down there you'll easily be able to get where you need to go by getting a TTC Metropass every month. If you plan on living outside of the core, keep your car. i repeat: keep your car. Like what Terry said about Vancouver, Toronto is made up of many self contained areas where people live and work and each has it's own identity. The fact that TO is also the most poly-ethnic city on earth adds to that bigtime. a few good things you likely already know: - jobwise, there will be 100 companies of the type that you apply to. if you're good at networking, you'll be able to advance and get ahead by keeping your ear to the ground and finding the next great opportunity at company X. - from a culture standpoint, we have everything. really. aside from mountains and an ocean, you really can't list anything that anyone would want to see or do that Toronto doesn't have at least one grandiose version of it. - restaurant and club wise, we have a selection that is of the highest calibre in the world. and the ones that are hidden-gems in the various neighborhoods are often better than the fancy ones in TorontoLife magazine. a few drawbacks that you may not: - a-type personality as a lifestyle: the regular pace of business here is go-go-go, either make food or be food... but to us it's normal. i only know that we are seen this way by others in the rest of the country after years of having dealt with people from most provinces. if you don't do well with pedal-to-the-metal, you may find that Vancouver is more your bag. - traffic. yeah, i know that everywhere has rush hour. but ours is a special circle of Dante's Hell all of its own. so do try to live near work if you can. - even if you don't think that you're a good match culturewise with Van or Calg (Hippie or Cowboy), trust me on this, you may not be anywhere near a match for too-cool-for-school TO. this is a youth culture(by that i mean under 35) that prides itself on being impressed by nothing except how cool they themselves are. we have the coldest women in the western world. this is not hyperbole, go to any forum where men talk about dating/game strategy and you'll see that Toronto is routinely singled out as the most difficult place in the western world to pick up. if you think that you're great at approaching people socially, okay, maybe this won't be an issue... but the vast majority of westerners i've met who come here are left reeling by the perceived frigidness (and sometimes hostility)of folks here. i don't want to go on about this but i'm willing to discuss this more via PM as one of the businesses i used to own was directly in this field. and about Terry's comments, he's right that Winnipeggers are closer to Calgarians in style than Vancouverites... but he misses the point a bit (in a harmless, funny way) when he says that the hippies don't live in Vancouver anymore... it's true that proper hippies aren't really the people who populate modern Vancouver... but... when we in Toronto have to do business with Vancouver, we dread talking to the laid-back-wavy-gravy types (by comparison to a Torontonian) that have no respect for deadlines or fixed appointments... mind you... they likely put down the phone with me and tell the guy next to them that the a-hole in Toronto needs to lighten-up man... i don't know what else to say in terms of generalities... ask me anything you like about various parts of town or if i know of certain companies (i do a lot of Biz to Biz work, so i may know some ppl). happy to help and good luck.

best summation of the situation i've read. it's an offence that seemingly has no core philosophy or tenets. no identity.

said it in the chat last night and you list 4 more good examples of the Peter Principle in real life. people will rise to their own level of incompetence.

at the time it looked to me like he half-engaged him with his left hand then turned away without even slowing him down.

i know what you're saying Al and i definitely see Higgins as a quality hire. but i don't get how people think that a guy with as many contacts in football as Forde has would somehow not know a single soul south of the border... or that the Bombers don't already have a pretty good guy doing the scouting down their already to work with Forde. i think people sell him short.

how can i hate you for wanting him? you'd be nuts not to. he also would be a second player personnel guy for your new GM. you'll likely have to outbid Montrel for him though... and he's already the highers paid coordinator in the league by far. (he gets more than some HCs get)

feeling your age there oldtimer?

i had them as equivalently smelly. they both were bad calls that set up TDs that shouldn't have been. but it's all a matter of perspective.

#95. total matador job. OLE!

i thought the game hinged on the mystery flag on Marsh. it may not have been close in the 2nd half but for that.

two ways you could have taken that post, rg. perhaps he was saying that he doesn't care about the plight of the team (like the theme of this thread being that fans are starting to stop caring) and not about you or your opinion. ........ i'm well past the Schadenfreude stage with the state of the Blue Bombers. it's getting to a sad place and the fact is that i don't see a fix that doesn't include dynamiting most of the people who are decision makers for your club. i remember all of those years of Bomber teams that, while sometimes they weren't a top-level GC contender, they always had guys on the team who were worth watching play and were the backbone of the roster. the type of player that not only would you gladly pay to watch, but if you were rebuilding the team next year, you didn't have to worry about their positions because they were locked-in. i'm talking about Stegall and Brown level guys... or even the next tier of Roberts or Simpson players. players that other GMs wish they had. right now the roster is nigh bereft of players in that category. there's maybe one blue-chip NI and maybe, maybe two top level imports. that won't cut it on any team and it's the biggest reason why the Bombers are again in last. only one man can take ownership of that. period full stop. Buchko, inexperienced sports exec though he may be, had an instinct last off season to bring in another manager to hedge the team's bets. it's a shame he got persuaded not to do it. because whether or not Forde was the right guy (or will ever be a top CFL exec), at least he'd have been an option. another football mind to talk to Buchko and help him find the next GM. options are good things. and that $200k seems like a small fee to have another way to go right now to me.

i remember those! i had a Greer one made of the same stuff.

at 31 years... this is awful news for him.

makes our defensive assignments for Thursday a bit easier to guess: Jones: Okay, Watkins! You cover Green. Everyone else... just pick someone.

it's a blow... but i have a feeling that the offence's production in Montreal will still be going up. bad: Richardson out for year good: Hawkins fired it's a net-gain still i think.

your BoD had their chance. they blew it bigtime.

QBs in tonights game.

very much that. lucky for us other teams in the East the Bombers won't do anything resembling that.

i am calling Dave a homer... but it's for the reason that he's trying to sell coaching as the only place that Mack has failed in that post.