10-20-2009, 11:19 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Calgary
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...... until youve experienced summer, fall, winter, spring and then summer again in a single day in August
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10-20-2009, 11:20 PM
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#62
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Powerplay Quarterback
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For the love of all that is holy, would someone PM me and explain this whole Chicken on the Way thing I've seen in so many threads? I've lived here 30 years and am clueless as to what this running gag is about...
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10-20-2009, 11:20 PM
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#63
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: nz
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...marched in the Stanley Cup parade with the Round-Up band... and yep, all of you sported a fake Lanny 'mo
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10-20-2009, 11:25 PM
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#64
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss
...... until youve experienced summer, fall, winter, spring and then summer again in a single day in August
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The weather posts in this thread, other than perhaps the ones about Chinooks are totally bunk.
Pretty much everyone in Canada has the exact same "legend" of living in their city.
the whole "wait 10 minutes until the weather changes" is the most overused cliches in history. I swear, everyone from Vancouver to St John's believes that they are THE city that this silly statement is true for.
Weather changes a lot no matter where you live, especially in Canada where we get a huge range of temperatures.
I don't mean to knock your post, it is just that I've head that so many times and everyone seems to think it is unique to the city they live in.
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10-20-2009, 11:26 PM
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#65
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06
For the love of all that is holy, would someone PM me and explain this whole Chicken on the Way thing I've seen in so many threads? I've lived here 30 years and am clueless as to what this running gag is about...
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Just go there. Here is a map: http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
Ask for Otis.
"You'll be Fine".
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10-20-2009, 11:29 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Apparently the urban legend is that Chicken on the Way has a swingers club in the basement.
Not just a CP meme either, it has been around for some time apparently.
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10-20-2009, 11:43 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: nz
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Pretty sure the old Super S Drugs up the way on 14th (near 17th ave) had worse things that swingers clubs in the basement. Escalators that just about ate my snowboots, among other things. Anyway I think a fun rite of passage was going to the old arcade at Esso Plaza and chucking quarter after quarter into Gauntlet. Same applies to that old billiards/arcade near the intersection of 14th/17ave. Better games there though.
Anyone Westbrook Mall survivors out there? That place still around?
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10-20-2009, 11:46 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: I went west as a young man
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- Can name and partied in all the bars on Crowchild Trail across from Mcmahon.
- Experienced Thursdays at The Den before the reno.
- Went to multiple concerts at the original Republik.
- Knew that Quincy's Downtown used to be a bar.
- Can remember being bussed all over the Olympic event sites for crowd control practice.
- Went to the Horse Races at the King Eddy.
- Planned to leave town during Stampede
- Rode the sleds at Paskapoo.
- Walked though Forest Lawn at night with no fear for your personal safety.
- Still call 5th Avenue Place Esso Plaza and had gone to movies at the theatre there.
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10-20-2009, 11:48 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by socktape
- Can name and partied in all the bars on Crowchild Trail across from Mcmahon.
- Experienced Thursdays at The Den before the reno.
- Went to multiple concerts at the original Republik.
- Knew that Quincy's Downtown used to be a bar.
- Can remember being bussed all over the Olympic event sites for crowd control practice.
- Went to the Horse Races at the King Eddy.
- Planned to leave town during Stampede
- Rode the sleds at Paskapoo.
- Walked though Forest Lawn at night with no fear for your personal safety.
- Still call 5th Avenue Place Esso Plaza and had gone to movies at the theatre there.
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Sir Daffy's .... !!! 
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10-21-2009, 12:01 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: nz
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Quote:
Originally Posted by socktape
Went to multiple concerts at the original Republik.
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Oh man. The heyday! SNFU, the Smalls, Ramada Gods... heck, Napalm Death.
Paskapoo - Eddie the Eagle!!
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10-21-2009, 12:04 AM
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#71
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The frozen surface of a fireball
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had the monthly special at pfantastic pannenkoek haus consecutively in 2 years
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dear god is he 14?
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10-21-2009, 12:21 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: In the land of high expectations...
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Worked off a hangover by eating breakfast at Nellie's or Galaxie Diner.
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Or prevented a hangover following a night of mis-behaving at the Embassy/the Drink/(orig) Cowboys with a 3am breakfast at Husky House (may it rest in peace!  )
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10-21-2009, 12:24 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Hell
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Been in an altercation with a drunk Indian in forest lawn
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10-21-2009, 12:34 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Wherever you go there you are.
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-Have walked 6 or 7 blocks through downtown without stepping outside, using the +15's exclusively. (theres a movie about something similar, I think it was a bet about who could live the longest without visiting outside)
-visited, or watched people get married in Devonian Garden's.
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10-21-2009, 01:00 AM
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#75
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flip
The weather posts in this thread, other than perhaps the ones about Chinooks are totally bunk.
Pretty much everyone in Canada has the exact same "legend" of living in their city.
the whole "wait 10 minutes until the weather changes" is the most overused cliches in history. I swear, everyone from Vancouver to St John's believes that they are THE city that this silly statement is true for.
Weather changes a lot no matter where you live, especially in Canada where we get a huge range of temperatures.
I don't mean to knock your post, it is just that I've head that so many times and everyone seems to think it is unique to the city they live in.
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10-21-2009, 02:52 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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rolled an empty discarded hot water heater, you found in an alley, down the hill from Parkland blvd to Bow Bottom trail which subsequently broadsided a Starcraft Van, leaving a giant hot water heater shaped dent, and smashed out the windows.
(I was 10.... it was 1984)
Last edited by pylon; 10-21-2009 at 02:54 AM.
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10-21-2009, 03:03 AM
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Scoring Winger
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nm
Last edited by West Karma; 03-15-2013 at 11:29 AM.
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10-21-2009, 06:54 AM
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#78
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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...seen the flame randomly lit up on the Calgary Tower without knowing why it was lit... but still got a good feeling from it.
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10-21-2009, 06:56 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flip
I hate to be a debbie downer but once again I'd like to point out that hardly a single thing in this thread is reflective of living in Calgary.
99% of these can easily be accomplished if you don't live here.
I'd like to add my own though. You haven't lived in Calgary until you've stared at someone like they just admitted to eating aborted fetuses, when really all they did was admit they vote Liberal.
You haven't lived in Calgary until you've cursed Trudeau, despite all the good things he did for this country, and declare that he should be posthumously hanged in Olympic Plaza for the NEP.
You haven't lived in Calgary until you've cursed the other provinces for ALL being Have Not provinces, while we make money and support their welfare and EI collecting asses.
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You haven't lived in Calgary until you know that Trudeau is one of the worst humans in the history of Canada.
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10-21-2009, 07:42 AM
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#80
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Franchise Player
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until you wear cowboy boots and duds to work or school and it isn't during Stampede
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