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Civic Holiday dinner
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 21:45:27 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:
>On 8/8/2019 9:23 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 19:45:32 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
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>>> On 8/6/2019 8:24 AM, wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:53:55 +1000, Bruce >
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>
>> Maybe he needs a job, learn to make real life friends or perhaps even
>> 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.
>>
>He doesn't have anything better to do. He deflects, changes course,
>tries to turn it from a thread about FOOD into a question about holidays.
A quote from Jill, in this "shrimp" thread:
>There are hypocrites in any religion. My middle brother dated a
>Jehovah's Witness for a while. She allegedly didn't celebrate
>Christmas. She kept telling him so. Then she got ****ed off at him
>when he didn't give her a Christmas present. Gee, you can't have your
>cake and eat it too.
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