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Default Civic Holiday dinner

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:45:32 -0400, jmcquown >
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>On 8/6/2019 8:24 AM, wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:53:55 +1000, Bruce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 02:54:24 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, August 5, 2019 at 8:06:07 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> I wasn't very hungry and had little interest in dinner. We had been out
>>>>> to Canal Days in Port Colborne and we had shwarma for lunch. It was
>>>>> piled high with chicken and miscellaneous extras. I was ready to take a
>>>>> pass on dinner, but my wife suggested that we could use up a bag of
>>>>> shrimp that was in the freezer as a nice,light dinner. We put the
>>>>> shrimp in a bowl of water to thaw while I made a marinade of lemon
>>>>> juice, olive oil, lots of garlic, a dash of Worcestershire sauce, some
>>>>> ketchup, salt, pepper, hot sauce and parsley. I put the shrimp in to
>>>>> marinade for about and hour, then stuck them on skewers. I had a roll
>>>>> and some salad with it. It was fantastic.
>>>>
>>>> "Civic Holiday" is such a bland descriptor. Did it used to be called
>>>> something else?
>>>
>>> Christmas is called "Non-denominational Holiday" in Canada.

>>

><yawn> "Civic Holiday CDN" is even noted on my USian wall calendar.
>
>> Strange that, I have lived in Canada 52 years and have never heard it
>> called that.
>>

>That's because Bruce is a troll and knows perfectly well this has
>nothing to do with denomimational anything.


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volunteer some of his time to support his community as a more
productive outlet, instead of using RFC as a self-imposed day care
centre.