As a 37 year old mother of a 2 year old: my party days are over. sigh...jealous. Wish I could get my drink on. Pity me?
Pfft. You just need to plan ahead. Find a summer camp you can send your kids to during Stampede and go nuts!
Alternatively, leave them at home and go nuts anyway. Teach your kids the value of hunting for food themselves... any true Calgarian should have no trouble finding a pancake breakfast!
But feel free to act holier than thou and pick random parts of peoples responses to try and prove a point.
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How anyone can hate the Stampede, I will never know.
It's easy if you try. Like imagining there's no heaven.
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I am intrigued and I want to know where such a strong hate for the Stampede and everything and everyone associated with it comes from.
Did you wife/girlfriend cheat on you with a cowboy during Stampede?
Really it is the only rationaly explaination for all of this hate.
Living in Calgary for 5+ years is enough reason to justify Stampede hatred. Living here all of your life and having this backwater **** show shoved down your throat every year justifies homicide.
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I pray for a freak 10 day snowstorm every time the Stampede rolls around. Truly one of the most miserable weeks of the year for me. Transit is packed,
traffic is terrible downtown and it's all that gets talked about on the radio, which is annoying if you really don't like it in the first place. Also, it sounds like a lot of these Stampede parties are almost forced on people in the workforce.
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Oh TTC, I would miss you if you didn't visit this thread every year. You are the best.
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How anyone can hate the Stampede, I will never know.
Approximately 150 years ago, European settlers came to what is now known as Calgary and abolished the native way of life. By virtue of living here, we're expected to identify and be proud of this, because it's "our heritage". To commemorate, people throw on their nicest set of Wranglers and engage in acts of animal abuse and become obnoxious drunkards for two weeks every year. That's how.
This year marks a particularly special Stampede for me. It was my first Stampede ten years ago that convinced me to move to Calgary two years later.
On top of that, it's my son's first Stampede and we've got him all the cowboy gear. I can't wait to take him down to the grounds!
Happy Stampede everyone!
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Thank you Reggie that brings back awesome memories!
ie every noon hour grades 4-6
Ron Barge for PM!
re posers: what a lot of bs over nothing...live and let live
I'm the as big of a Ron Barge fan as the next guy but what the f*(& is with those puppets. Did they drag them out of the back corner of the seediest thrift store in town circa 1950? Couldn't channel 7 have sprung for more than $12 on the puppet budget?
I believe that was CFCN
Anyways it was a locally produced childrens show...what do you expect but laughably cheesey production?
That was part of the charm...for me anyways
Seriously?...that sounds awesome!(sort of)
I think were getting slightly off topic though...waiting for the axe to fall
Back on topic...do they still have deep fried ice cream?
I remember it from the early seventies i think...mmmmm
I was just driving downtown along 9th ave and there are actually people sitting in chairs right now waiting for the parade...
I've never actually watched the stampede parade, is the excitement like this every year or is it just because people want to see royalty for 30 seconds as they pass by?
