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My wife is from there. I've been there many times. People seem to love it up there but I don't get it. Of course, I find the idea of a lake house awful and most of my visits are during the winter holidays visiting in-laws. So, I'm probably not a great resource here. But, that said, most people who go up there really like it.

"All the Michigan guys keep talking about Traverse City, but from what little I've found on the internet, it appears to be mostly wineries/breweries."

You say that as if you're disappointed...

there's a bunch of islands scattered throughout the Canadian side of lake Huron and all kinds of mom and pop cottage waterfront cottage rentals but it looks like they shut down by early October. I was kind sold on taking a ferry to Manitoulin Island. They act like its -12 degrees there after labor day

I can't find anything that overly appealing to me about Traverse City but these Michigan guys never shut up about the place. I mean its scenic but all of northern Michigan is scenic.

The wife would get into all those wineries, plus she'd stay sloshed the entire vacation and want sex.

Maybe *that's* why all those guys want to go there for weekend getaways.

What ever happened to the compound you and the wife were going to last year, where you quasi roughed it for a few days and ate your own slaughtered caribou, or some shit? Did that happen last year?

Bklyn wrote:What ever happened to the compound you and the wife were going to last year, where you quasi roughed it for a few days and ate your own slaughtered caribou, or some shit? Did that happen last year?

that option is still available to us but I have a summer long project at work so I can't take any time off, so they are going at the end of July without us.

that's why I'm planning fall vacations.

Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

eCat wrote: The wife would get into all those wineries, plus she'd stay sloshed the entire vacation and want sex.

Oh god how fucking awful. What a nightmare. You should start a GoFund me account for such a devastating travesty.

Still a virgin huh?

So, I'm flying to Scotland. Business class. Connection from BHM to IAD. Sky Waitress with the drink cart stops, gives me a gingerale, chats. The guy on the other side of the aisle stole 3 airplane bottles off the cart and put them in his jacket pocket.

Another Sky Waitress saw him. They put his ass off the plane at IAD. About had to drag him. Police came. Delayed the flight an hour.

Why would you steal $5 ($15 on the plane) in booze and risk that flying in business? I don't understand people. And, also, American has a zero tolerance policy on booze theft, apparently.

its not free on international flights in business class?

Not on the domestic leg. He wasn't flying through. And then it's just beer and wine, iirc. I never drink on flights.

English as She Is Spoke is a charming book created by a gentleman who only wanted to help teach the English language to his peers, but instead created a literary disaster that became a linguistic phenomenon. The book has been republished a number of times, the most recent edition printed in 2004 by Collins Library. (A scan of an 1884 pressing can be viewed for free at the Public Domain Review.) Sadly, this was Pedro Carolino’s only published work, although it is an accidental piece of transcendent art with a legacy that has lasted centuries.

One could ponder why Carolino took on the task of creating a phrasebook in a language he did not speak, but sometimes it is better not to look a gift horse in the mouth; or as Carolino says, “a horse baared don’t look him the tooth.”


http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ho ... -sensation

went to check the weather for tonight and weather.com is saying that a hurricane is about to hit Taiwan that is so powerful that the monitoring station literally put the windspeed off the charts

That's the first time I've ever seen something literally off the charts

a hurricane like that hits the U.S. and we're shut down for 6 months.

It hits Taiwan and they're playing Pachinko by the weekend.

A+...

first Pachinko reference at the Goat Pen?

Heh. Yes, I believe so.

I would so do this

This Latest Mean-Spirited Airline Fee Is Really Going To Drive You Crazy

http:// http://www.inc.com/chris-matyszczyk/thi ... crazy.html