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But Robert, Arizona is a beautiful state with great weather (better than Canada's?), and since I believe you've already finished high school, you might want to reconsider some day.

Just for fun:

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

H Arwen,

The man shovellling snow is probably from Minnesota. No Canadian would shovel snow without mittens on.

An easy way in Canada to recognize foreign borns : they carry an umbrella when it snows.


Canada has no poisonnous snakes, hardly any earthquakes to speak of, only imitation hurricanes, no Democrats and best of all, no Republicans.

Come on up!

Robert

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Ma mission [est] de faire aimer le bon Dieu comme je l'aime. (Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus) My mission is to have God loved as I love Him.

Maybe he is from Arizona.


But you have lots of COLD and snow and those crazy star-chamber human rights tribunals. Maybe some SUMMER I'll come and visit.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

No Poisonous snakes?


Snakes of Canada


Canada can claim at least the Venomous Rattle Snake.

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Bob C

Yah, but, since it's so cold in Canada for all but perhaps 1 month out of the year, the snakes aren't active for much of the year.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

I was curious because I spent quite a bit of time in Upstate NY just south of Montreal and there were snakes in New York, so I was wondering how the Canadians kept them out?

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Bob C

Checked for visas at the border.

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BobA

Could be.

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Bob C

Bob, that doesn't seem to deter the drug cartel rattlesnakes from crossing back and forth from Mexico to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California!

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Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

We hve out own version of those rattlers here in Florida, I was out working on an antenna one day and felt this tapping on my boot, I thought it was one of the guys goofing with me. I looked down and I was standing on a rattler, and the tapping was him striking my boot, venom was running down the side. I jumped and he slithered away.

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Bob C

Si, el cascabel diamante con droga.

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BobA

Yes, I watch "Venom One" on animal planet all the time. Not only do you Floridians have to cope with the venomous snakes native to your state, like the eastern timber rattler, cottonmouth and others, you also have to face the occasional escaped exotic, some of which are even more deadly than the native varieties. (I remember one episode where Captain Rick was capturing a black mamba that had taken up residence in a bathroom!)

That's one advantage to living where the hard, cold winters will eliminate those escaped tropical reptiles.

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Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

…Y que es mucho más letal que la cascabel que rastrea en su vientre!

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Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

Well Jim, your Spanish is far better than this Polish/Italian-American.

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BobA

Rattlers scare me when I'm in the desert. When it's coming on to summer, the monastery puts up warning signs everywhere to inform people that it's rattler weather and sometimes it will say that they've been seen in the monastery compound. One of the monks is a doctor and he told us that the only people who arrive in the ER with snakes bites are young, drunk men who tangle with the rattlers.

I like to walk in the back forty past the building but on a trail. One time I stupidly walked off the trail and onto all sorts of things that would have been great for rattlers. I told someone I'd walked there to the stream and they explained how dumb I was.

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

I only recall seeing a Massassauga rattler once. Up by Georgian Bay.

It was hanging out by the entrance of a cabin we had rented.

So we left for a while, and by the time we came back it had slithered off elsewhere.

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Jamais le mal n’aura le dernier mot. La foi et l’amour déplacent les montagnes de la haine.
- Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse

Full disclosure, Bob: I used a translator!

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Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

I was testing some ordnance devices at our facility in the Orlando area and had to use an underground bunker during the testing. We would have to wait for someone to clear the little landing at the bottom of the entrance stairs of snakes before we could enter the bunker.

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BobA

Don't you guys know anything? Kateri Tekakwitha chased all the snakes out of Canada and they swam across the St. Lawrence Seaway to the USA and became lawyers.

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Pax et Bonum


Schultzz

So that's why we have so many lawyers.

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Bob C

That's right Bob, and some of them swam down to Florida but didn't worry about being eaten by the sharks and the alligators as they were given professional courtesies.

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Schultzz

Schultzz,

lol

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Valerie Garcia
vals1990@yahoo.com

"Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him ....." St. Benedict

Hi BobC

Those rattlers are illegal immigrants. We're working on a path to the cannery.

Robert

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Ma mission [est] de faire aimer le bon Dieu comme je l'aime. (Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus) My mission is to have God loved as I love Him.

I wanted to post a cartoon about snakes but it comes from a website that is somewhat unsavory. Needless to say I won't post a link. But imagine this...the caption reads: "ill fated blind date...St. Patrick and Medusa". Picture St. Patrick decked out in his liturgical garments and a bald Medusa crying into her drink....

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Daisy Martin

Is this the one, Daisy? It is no longer attached to the questionable website.

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Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

LOL


LOL Thanks, Daisy and Jim.

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Grace

As to the past, let us entrust it to God's mercy, the future to Divine Providence. Our task is to live holy the present moment. - Saint Gianna Molla

That's the one, Jim!

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Daisy Martin