We got our first snow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frankontour]

Not in Laval... but in Chibougamau, a ±10000 persons city in the lower/middle of the province (about 400 miles northern than Montreal).

It was only melting snow, though. Snows on late august in this place is not unusual in this place, although the first snowfalls are generally around mid-september.

(My parents already visited "Fermont" which is a little bit northern and quite eastern and the people were shoveling the snow on their terrain... in july. Sad that there is no ski areas in that area... Mt Veyrier in the Mt Groulx should remain skiable to july easily ;)

[Mumster]

Frankontour:
Not in Laval... but in Chibougamau, a ±10000 persons city in the lower/middle of the province (about 400 miles northern than Montreal). It was only melting snow, though. Snows on late august in this place is not unusual in this place, although the first snowfalls are generally around mid-september. :camera: ?

[Frankontour]

Nope, unfortunately, there was just an archive photo with the article :(

Anyway, I'm not sure if internet reach Chibougamau ;) (375 miles, finally, by the airs. By the roads, it must be close to 500 miles and it's still in the southern QC (at 29% of the distance from USA to the north of the province).

I don't know the parallel, but it should be high in the 50s

[M@]

:camera: !

[Frankontour]

All I can give to you is this :

http://www2.canoe.com/infos/regional/archives/2003/08/20030824-110525.html


If you want to practice your french........ (at least, it's very short !)

not counting that the pic is an archive one, as it was only melting snow.

Canoe is a serious network, so this is not a joke !

[M@]

I'm not learning french. You're on the earth now, speak english.

OKay, here's another joke I heard: Why do people in New Hampshire (insert your state, or Prefecture or whatever the hell you people have up there):anyhow, why do people in this place only lock their cars in August?

A: So people don't give them more squash.

[Frankontour]

M@:
You're on the earth now, speak english.

Don't forget that 90% of the persons on earth don't know a single word of english.

[skicdave]

M@:

OKay, here's another joke I heard: Why do people in New Hampshire (insert your state, or Prefecture or whatever the hell you people have up there):anyhow, why do people in this place only lock their cars in August?

A: So people don't give them more squash. Why is it I don't get that one? LOL... seriously :o

[M@]

Don't forget that 90% of the persons on earth don't know a single word of english. I bet one TuckerMan-Unit-Of-Currency that over 90% of the people alive right now know the word "Coke" or maybe "Pepsi" either way, that's one word and it's english.

[skicdave]

Frankontour:
Don't forget that 90% of the persons on earth don't know a single word of english. Hmm I doubt that Franko. The ten most widely spoken languages in the world are (drum roll)...

1. Mandarin (1 billion+)
2. English (508 million)
3. Hindustani (497 million)
4. Spanish (392 million)
5. Russian (277 million)
6. Arabic (246 million)
7. Bengali (211 million)
8. Portuguese (191 million)
9. Malay-Indonesian (159 million)
10. French (129 million)

French by the way is often called the most romantic language in the world. They also spent years developing and perfecting the French :lips:

English is the official language of more countries than any other language. "Whats up dog" is not officially English.

A recent survey suggested that signs at Tuckerman Ravine should be bilingual so everyone would have equal opportunity at locating the appropriate seasonal :outhouse: at HoJo's.

[elwood]

skicdave:
[QUOTE]English is the official language of more countries than any other language. "Whats up dog" is not officially English.Fo shizzle my nizzle!

[DMC]

Or as I was saying to my Telemarker friends..

Fo shizzle free hizzle

[DMC]

skicdave:
English is the official language of more countries than any other language. True.... In just about every country I've been to people know the word "bathroom" and "McDonalds"

[Frankontour]

I think that Mandarin/Cantonese are close to 2 billions. Anyway, I told 90% as a number like that, just teasing a little bit M@.

Anyway, if you count with just 1G for chinese, we have 14% of mainly speaking english and with the other languages, it should go under 10%. If we add almost another billion for China, ouch, we pass well below the 10% and it should be about 10% of people able to talk in english.

Sorry M@, I can't do better than that. The Canoe english version is for the english provinces of Canada and rarely talk of Quebec news.

I still can traduce it to you :


Already the snow !

Believe it or not : It snowed during the night of saturday, in the north of Quebec, notably in the region of Chibougamau.

UN luckily, the temperatures were above the freezing point so it didn't stuck to the ground, as the snow was melting.

According to Environnement Canada, some snowfalls on an august 24 are not exceptional for this of Quebec, but they generally happen later, in september.

[M@]

Frank, you should put "eh?" in your signature line.

[BladeGirl]

skicdave:
[QUOTE]The ten most widely spoken languages in the world are (drum roll)...

1. Mandarin (1 billion+)
2. English (508 million)
3. Hindustani (497 million)

A recent survey suggested that signs at Tuckerman Ravine should be bilingual so everyone would have equal opportunity at locating the appropriate seasonal :outhouse: at HoJo's. Hmm. As bilingual only means two languages, I guess the second language would be Mandarin, just to make sure the largest number of people were reached. We could always go really wild and add Hindustani for a trilingual sign! :p

-BG

[DMC]

I read an article about people that speak Mandarin Chinese use both sides of the brain to speak and supposely makes them smarter...

Funny - I don't think their so smart... I've never heard anyone speak Mandarin at Tucks...

[elwood]

I like Mandarin Oranges, they're tasty... As for the language? Not gonna go there...

[Frankontour]

DMC:
I've never heard anyone speak Mandarin at Tucks... Would you really recognize Mandarin anyway ? ;)There is hundreds or thousands of different languages that look like Mandarin for us.

Anyway, the chineses were not some big skiers until few years (just take a look to the "Snowriders 1" movie of Warren Miller and you'll know what I'm talking about). Now, I know that they're planning to build not less than 350 ski areas in the country... just 350.....

[DMC]

Frankontour:
Would you really recognize Mandarin anyway ? ;)There is hundreds or thousands of different languages that look like Mandarin for us. Yes I would there Cliff Claven..

[NHski]

Yes I would there Cliff Claven.. That is the funniest ****ing thing i have heard all day. Good one DMC. I am still laughing

[Skilasnow]

skicdave:
Frankontour:
Don't forget that 90% of the persons on earth don't know a single word of english. Hmm I doubt that Franko. The ten most widely spoken languages in the world are (drum roll)...

1. Mandarin (1 billion+)
2. English (508 million)
3. Hindustani (497 million)
Well, actually, do the math and you will see that 90% of the people in the world do not speak english. However I don't believe that only 508 million speak English, that would mean that less than a sixth of India speaks english.

[Frankontour]

DMC:
Yes I would there Cliff Claven.. Am I supposated to understand this if it's an attack ?? No idea of what (who) is Cliff Claven anyway...

SkiLasLeñas : my 90% was on the basic of 2 billions of Chinese... and there is probably not more than 4-5% of them that know a little bit of english. There is may be 800 millions persons that speak english, at least a little bit, but I don't think it reach 1G.

[DMC]

Frankontour:
DMC:
Yes I would there Cliff Claven.. Am I supposated to understand this if it's an attack ?? No idea of what (who) is Cliff Claven anyway...Attack? hardly.... Having fun... yes...
If you think thats an attack... Then I'll just stop responding to your .... hold back Doug ... posts.... I was just funnin ya...

Sorry - It's just that you make it so easy... Cliff Claven Trivia (http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1915/cliff_triv.html)

[M@]

Nice claven reference. And backed up with a link no less.

[DMC]

Google rules....

It's the Cliff Claven of the Internet... ;)

[M@]

I'm gonna be first in line when they start implanting internet connecitons into your spine. And I'll be doing google searchs all day long.

[DMC]

No doubt...
When I started this job - I forgot all my MVS/JCL skills.. I used google searches to find all I needed to know...

[elwood]

Damn,

I got busy and I missed all the fun!!! Holy hsit batman, that Cliff Clavin reference was freaking high-larious!!!

DMC man you are killin' me. People are looking at me funny because I am laughing so hard!

Franko, it's all in good fun man, nothing to worry about...

[DMC]

Our access to our servers has been sketchy all day...
Thank JAH the net connection wasnt harmed...

[Bannick]

DMC:
Or as I was saying to my Telemarker friends..

Fo shizzle free hizzle fricken briliant. You guys continually crack me up.