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    RE: office romance

    by Scrubb 04 May 2012

    Yeah, one of my favourite of the expat Frenchies who worked in Saskatoon for several years always wore the same shirt to work every day…

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    RE: Personally I could not be assed

    by Scrubb 02 May 2012

    In our city the price is always identical at every station. However, they apparently do not collude to make it so. It's pure coincidence.…

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    RE: Studying in Saskatoon for the next three or four years

    by brittjustbritt 30 April 2012

    Thank god I got to post number 14.. Thanks for that Scrubb.. I was getting really worried about all these non-Saskatooners down talking…

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    RE: Montreal to Saskatoon

    by brittjustbritt 30 April 2012

    you could also check out Ride Share.. I've personally never done it but it seems like a pretty legit way to get from place to place if…

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    RE: Fucking KLM again!

    by Scrubb 30 April 2012

    I always get stuck with 737s between Saskatoon and Toronto, which is a 3.5 to 4 hour flight. I wouldn't pay for first class in that EVER…

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    RE: Which city is most representative of your country?

    by Scrubb 23 April 2012

    In Canada maybe it should be a smaller city - not one of the big 3 (Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver), or even the biggish 6 (add Ottawa,…

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    RE: Domestic vs. international travel

    by Lady_J 20 April 2012

    I've tried this angle with my family too. No go. So the only vacation I can afford to take this year will be to thrill-a-minute Halifax.…

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    RE: Domestic vs. international travel

    by truenic 19 April 2012

    "Saskatoon is a perfectly nice place, so it must be the in-laws that are the problem, not the location". I'm sure Saskatoon as a city…

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    RE: Domestic vs. international travel

    by Scrubb 19 April 2012

    >"Thank god for the booze" is what my brother says when he has to visit his in-laws in Saskatoon. Humph. Saskatoon is a perfectly nice…

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    RE: Domestic vs. international travel

    by truenic 17 April 2012

    "Thank god for the booze" is what my brother says when he has to visit his in-laws in Saskatoon. I've never been so I can't comment.…

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    RE: Airline food- will you eat it?

    by homerjhomerj 17 April 2012

    Sit up front...problem solved. Or if you do have to suffer the indignity of cattle class for a long haul, just pick an airline with BOB…

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    RE: Non postable stuff

    by Fudgy_the_Whale 17 April 2012

    You could register an alternate handle e.g. "Dubb" who lives in Paris and Saskatoon.

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    RE: How has your friday gone so far...

    by Scrubb 16 April 2012

    Her route was Saskatoon -> Edmonton -> Montreal, so one of those could have been cancelled.

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    RE: excluding General Tso's Chicken

    by Scrubb 16 April 2012

    Wow. 'American chop suey' with pepperoni and cheese. Sounds like authentic Chinese food to me, plus, I'm pretty sure I'd vomit. If…

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    RE: Saskatchewan - Canada's new boomtime province

    by Scrubb 16 April 2012

    DaBaba, every single tiny prairie town has a Chinese restaurant. It was the only foreign food that existed here in the '70s when I was…

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    RE: Saskatchewan - Canada's new boomtime province

    by DaBaba 15 April 2012

    I wonder at the Chinese immigrants. Did they flip a coin and say "Heads Urumqi. Tails Saskatoon."?

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    RE: Nexus

    by ManchVegas 14 April 2012

    Oh, OK. for whatever reason I have this mental block that always attaches him to Saskatoon.

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    RE: Saskatchewan - Canada's new boomtime province

    by Scrubb 14 April 2012

    >I am aware of nothing else about Saskatchewan. Yes you are. You know it has +amazing+ people. At least one. >If you are in an aver…

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    RE: Saskatchewan - Canada's new boomtime province

    by windblowner 14 April 2012

    Saskatchewan's boom isn't evenly-distributed across the province - back in 1931, the province had 922,000 people, but the Saskatoon area…

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    RE: Saskatchewan - Canada's new boomtime province

    by ManchVegas 14 April 2012

    Yeah, true, if you lived in Salem NH You're only about 30 miles from Boston. I've been to Saskatoon BTW. There was a pissup there a…

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    RE: another

    by Scrubb 11 April 2012

    First time it happened to me was when I went to a dance club in Saskatoon (just moved back there after several years away), and ran into…

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    RE: strip clubs

    by Scrubb 09 April 2012

    I don't know anyone who goes to strip clubs regularly, though the ones in Saskatoon aren't a) very good or b) allowed to sell booze. …

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    RE: My time in NYC

    by Barry 09 April 2012

    Nope, Nexus. No Passover for her. Thanks, Whiskey and Webs. We'll meet up this fall. Nexus, did you sing? VDguy, we met in Saskatoo…

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    RE: The next 4 days

    by Scrubb 06 April 2012

    I think the grocery stores open for limited hours on Friday and Sunday; pretty sure all retail stores are closed, though. That's in Saskato…

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    RE: discount travel on Canada rail

    by chepe 04 April 2012

    I've been following Via all winter since January, and the best deals I saw were their "expressdeals". They varied, but damn were cheap,…

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