On (03 Nov 03) Doug Powless wrote to George Pope...
 DP> Sadly, you're right.  I once sat in front of a rather ditzy woman who
 DP> was exclaiming loudly about the glass floor in the CN Tower.  She said
 DP> something like "Oh I don't think I want to go there!  Everyone could
 DP> see
 DP> up my skirt".   It hurts when you shoot Pepsi through your nose.

Did she mean to work on the floor above the "glass ceiling"? Or what WAS
she going on about?

 DP> It used to be that the world compared its currency with ours, not the
 DP> U.S.  We've lost our status since then.  Or something.  Actually with
 DP> our
 DP> imports doing so well, it's hard to come up with a good reason why our
 DP> dollar should be worth more....

Well, as I recall, our dollar has long stacked up better against the
Japanese yen than has the American dollar!

Might be cuz the Yanks have a slight problem with fair trading. . .

The Japanese sell lots of cars in the US(& here) because they've come up
with something people WANT (smaller, quieter, better on gas
consumption); and they make money for it, but Detroit (US automobile
center) complained to Washington that Japan wasn't buying US vehicles,
not even the new smaller ones!

You might think, on first glance, that that's unfair, until you learn
that the US was shipping cars as-is (the way they make & ship them
domestically), with left-hand drive, when Japan drives on the other side
of the road (a la Britain!)

Japan always manufacturered left-hand drive vehicles for the American
market, but they were expected to retrofit the bass-ackwards cars the
yanks sent over, on their own dime! :|

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 DP>
 DP> Anyway, I recall when vacations to the U.S. were a lot more affordable
 DP>
 DP> than they are now.
 DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> GP> * " is
the BEST!!!"
 DP> GP>  DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> I live in Ontario but have never been out west or to the
 DP> Martimes.
 DP> GP>  DP> Judgement suspended for the time being. 
 DP>
 DP> GP> Well aren't you the unique one! *LOL*
 DP> GP> I meant that more as a controversial come-on for all those OUTSIDE
 DP> of
 DP> GP> Toronto, who mostly DO have some sort of opinion on it (&, for
 DP> them, not
 DP> GP> having ever SEEN Toronto in person is not considered , BY them, to
 DP> be
 DP> GP> any sort of shortcoming or barrier to having strong anti-Toronto
 DP> GP> opinions! *sigh*)
 DP>
 DP>   True enough.
 DP>
 DP> GP> I've been in Ontario (and every province to the west thereof, at
 DP> least
 DP> GP> outside the Territories) but not Toronto, so I, too, reserve
 DP> GP> judgement... but I am already aware that it's a cultural centre
 DP> and
 DP> GP> filled with just regular folks, (as is Vancouver, except we're
 DP> nowhere
 DP> GP> near as historically cultural!)
 DP>
 DP> Really!  I would have thought you'd at least have a large Asian
 DP> component to your workforce there.
 DP>
 DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> GP> * "Toronto sucks, eh?"
 DP> GP>  DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> Hmmm. Not really.  Parts of it does.  I hate driving in it.
 DP> But the
 DP> GP>  DP> nightlife is unbelievable.  And I'm all about the parties,
 DP> man.
 DP>
 DP> GP> Ditto as above, with other peoples' biased views! :)
 DP>
 DP> GP> I think EVERY city could have it said, especially by its own
 DP> citizens,
 DP> GP> "parts of it suck"
 DP>
 DP> Did I mention the parties?  :)
 DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> GP> * "Gay Marriages?"
 DP> GP>  DP>
 DP> GP>  DP> Nothankyouverymuch.  I was married.  To a woman.  I'll never
 DP> GP>  DP> understand
 DP> GP>  DP> gay attraction, so you can see that I have no desire to ever
 DP> get
 DP> GP>  DP> married again, much less to a man.  But thanks for asking.
 DP>
 DP> GP> Aww, if they want equality, why shouldn't they have the suffering
 DP> and
 DP> GP> hassles of marriage just like the rest of us? *LOL*
 DP>
 DP> Shhh.  No one's thought about that side of it yet.  I'd hate to be a
 DP> judge in a gay divorce case:  it'd be too hard to figure out which one
 DP> was
 DP> more feminine, and thus too hard to figure out which side to get
 DP> biased
 DP> about.  (Oh sorry, was my bitterness showing again?)
 DP>
 DP>
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