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Ever sit in the $5 McDonald's section in the old arena? I would watch Dale Hawerchuk go across the blue line on a breakaway but would have to wait for the roar of the crowd to know if he scored, as you couldn't see the visitor end of the ice from up there. My first concert experience was Our Lady Peace with Everclear at the old Arena, and it was atrocious as we were way up in those same nosebleeds and behind a pillar. Couldn't see anything, hardly. That old barn had some ATROCIOUS sight lines...

My old man went from Pinawa to Kamloops and now Nanaimo. He'll be 60 this summer and says it's the best move he ever made in his life. I called him a ***** and can't believe he'd ever think about being that far away from the family and everything, but hey, whatever cranks your tractor, I guess.

Are we allowed to talk football around here???????

One of the worst live sports experiences of my life was watching a fLames game from up there....

I've never gone to Cowboy Church service, but I have a lot of friends in the rodeo and at rodeos, they almost always do Cowboy Church on the Sunday morning.....sometimes at Country music festivals, too...

I wonder how many folks setting up these churches share the same "to each their own" attitude as you? Call up a cowboy church and ask if they perform gay marriages? I have a pretty good idea what the answer will be... I think a lot of people here are completely not getting it. It's not a physical building or a special kind of religion. Cowboy Church service is just a type of service. It's generally non-denominational. It just has a Western vibe to it. It's horsemen and cattlemen and farmers and such going to a non-denominational church service.

I thought franchises had learnt by now that building rinks that size was stupid. Ya, i doubt u can see the puck from 18-21k height Doesn't Montreal have a massive arena that people can see just fine in, from any place...?

And it's going to be virtually all private money, from everything I've read...

Gotham! It's too violent, but makes up for it with the story lines, costumes, wacky and frightening characters, dialogue and acting. Oswald Cobblepot is genius I tells yah… And you know the critics have been shitting on it non-stop! Alls I know is, the old lady and I enjoy it every week. Definitely too gory/graphic for my tastes, but I've been a big Ben McKenzie fan for a long time, enjoy Donal Logue, and yes, Robin Lord Taylor has been an awesome Penguin!

Huge Entourage fan....stoked for the movie. Trailer looked amazing....

I spent a year in Estevan called July and August in 1990. That town makes Honey Boo-Boo look like Stephen Hawking. I got a buddy who just moved there... Tattoo artist, of all careers.. I have to assume hes pretty much braindead by this point.. Then he's probably joined a cowboy church and is ready to vote for Brad Wall. "cowboy church" ? do tell. Since many Albertans are Texas wannabees, they tend to follow US fads. The "Cowboy Church" started in Texas and church goers are expected to dress as cowpersons and speak in supposed cowperson idioms, and the sermons are delivered in the same vernacular. The church now has branches in Sask and Alberta. Cowboy Church services are EXTREMELY serious stuff....they're in MB, too. Has nothing to do with "Texas Wannabees", and everything to do with the Western way of life, which is very much alive, especially out here in the foothills. Likewise, Cowboy Poetry is a very big deal... I have a very difficult time seeing a church where people have to dress up in costumes and pretend to speak like they are living in 1870 Dodge City as "serious". I would have the same reaction if a church sprang up where everyone was required to dress as pirates with eyepatches and parrots and speak with phrases like "aye matey", "arr" and "shiver me timbers". It's not costumes....it's just church where people wear "Western Dress", which is something people out here wear regularly. There's Western Casual and Western Dress. A lot of people out here live every day in Western Casual, and then for church or other special occasions, you wear Western Dress. This isn't some Star Trek convention...this is how these people live their lives. They're cattle and horse ranchers...

and THIS is why we all hate Easterners...

I spent a year in Estevan called July and August in 1990. That town makes Honey Boo-Boo look like Stephen Hawking. I got a buddy who just moved there... Tattoo artist, of all careers.. I have to assume hes pretty much braindead by this point.. Then he's probably joined a cowboy church and is ready to vote for Brad Wall. "cowboy church" ? do tell. Since many Albertans are Texas wannabees, they tend to follow US fads. The "Cowboy Church" started in Texas and church goers are expected to dress as cowpersons and speak in supposed cowperson idioms, and the sermons are delivered in the same vernacular. The church now has branches in Sask and Alberta. Cowboy Church services are EXTREMELY serious stuff....they're in MB, too. Has nothing to do with "Texas Wannabees", and everything to do with the Western way of life, which is very much alive, especially out here in the foothills. Likewise, Cowboy Poetry is a very big deal...

Could probably move this to Gen Forum, eh?

Other than the Friends binge we're in the middle of right now, we never use Netflix unless we're completely out of ideas and extremely bored. Almost never use it...but for $8/month or whatever, why not have it, just in case......??

Gotham on Monday nights, Mercer/22 Minutes and SHIELD/Agent Carter on Tuesday nights, Nashville, Criminal Minds, Law and Order: SVU on Wednesday nights, Big Bang on Thursday nights, Saturday Night Live on Sat nights, and lots of curling, hockey, Blue Jays, and CFL, too. We watch a TON of TV and will never understand the cable cutters...

Wasn't that Kenton Thief? That's going back a little ways. Could NOT remember who it was, but yes that sounds about right....

I'm extremely pro-Manitoba, but I'm just gonna point out that I'm not in any way related to the oil and gas industry, but my starting salary here was an increase of about 1.5x and has gone up regularly since. Housing costs in MB are comparable to here, yet pay hasnt gone up with it.

and I heard that the biggest cashspiel of the circuit goes this weekend too.... or something to that effect anywayAttendance numbers similar to tour events, anyhow....

Is Sheets the one who was stealing from other players lockers, and had to get tuned in by an OL? I can't remember who that was.....

They'll work something out in TBay, and if not there, they'll find another place relatively close to Wpg. Keeping them at the MTSC is extremely temporary and I'm sure would work fine for a couple of years.

Brier ended for me on Thursday. Already stoked for Jonesy to romp through the Women's Worlds starting this weekend...

So you COULD care less? ...........

FYP.

Trust me, he's to blame for a LOT of things.....