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I look out the office window this morning to see snowflakes falling. I hate snow.

Before everyone jumps on me, I grew up on Skis, been snowboarding, snowmobiling, nearly killed in sledding accidents, and know how to snowshoe. Growing up in Southern Vermont means lots of snow. Now that I'm nearing hte 30 year mark, I've had my fill.

Driving through the Boston Commute has now added more time to my ride.

Just had to vent my sorrowful feelings at the impending snowfall.

AO
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
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I look out the office window this morning to see snowflakes falling. I hate snow.

Before everyone jumps on me, I grew up on Skis, been snowboarding, snowmobiling, nearly killed in sledding accidents, and know how to snowshoe. Growing up in Southern Vermont means lots of snow. Now that I'm nearing hte 30 year mark, I've had my fill.

Driving through the Boston Commute has now added more time to my ride.

Just had to vent my sorrowful feelings at the impending snowfall.

AO
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Does this mean that in fact Ally McBeal was right, and that it does always snow in Boston?!

I love snow. I especially love the fact that the handbrake becomes a perfectly acceptable tool in car control when it's snowy!

I don't like snow when it starts to melt and gets all dirty however.
 
Ally McBeal. Please tell me that you don't watch that crap, Giles. Even if you have to lie to me. Please.

On topic, I'm surprised it's that cold up there. We've been in the upper 50s all week, with dips into the 40s at night, but we're nowhere near snow, and won't be for another month +.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
Ally McBeal. Please tell me that you don't watch that crap, Giles. Even if you have to lie to me. Please.
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Wife = TV Addict.
Me = Computer Addict.

TV + Computer != Same room

Therefore, sometimes in order to spend some time with the wife, I end up watching shows that ordinarily I would not watch. Ally is one of the less painful ones (see here for discussion of some of the more painful ones!)

All about compromise mate!
 
Snow? I love snow! Definitely something we don't get enough of here. I love skiing too... I'm not that much of a snowboarder though. :)
 
Yeah, snow is great. People in Japan are all about this 'new' thing called drifting.

Us folks in the Midwest have been doing that for years. :)
 
Well. The snow didn't last long, but there's more in the forecast.

I've been hand brake driving for as long as I've been behind a steering instrument. Be it the handle bars of my bicycle, the wheel of the car, or the grips on a snowmobile.

AltF8... :D

AO
 
We got some snow last night! An inch of it maybe. Just took some pics of it.

I hate scraping the snow off of my car. It's the worst when there is about 15 inches of snow in top of it.
 

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Originally posted by neon_duke
Ally McBeal. Please tell me that you don't watch that crap, Giles. Even if you have to lie to me. Please.

On topic, I'm surprised it's that cold up there. We've been in the upper 50s all week, with dips into the 40s at night, but we're nowhere near snow, and won't be for another month +.
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Even those of us who watch(ed), only watch(ed) because of Portia DeRossi. And before her, Merideth Baxter-Birney.
Calista (Please start me on TPN (total parenteral nutrition) Flockhart is too skinny to see.
They say the camera adds ten pounds. If she was to gain ten pounds by eating, she'd be up to "opaque."
 
Originally posted by Gil

Even those of us who watch(ed), only watch(ed) because of Portia DeRossi.
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Ohhhhh, yeah! :D

What were we talking about? oh, snow, yeah, that's right. I'm not quite sure if I'm ready for all of this snow stuff. Pretty soon that's all there is going to be. Just snow. No grass, no dirt, nothing but eternal snow until May.
One of my guy's at work is from Louisiana and he's lived there his whole life and he's never seen snow before until about last month when it snowed here for the first time. He's sure gonna get his fill of snow here.
 
:scared: :ill: :yuck:
Most female celebrities I wouldn't cross the street to see naked. For Calista, I'd jaywalk during rushour in Manhattan to avoid seeing naked. And that prissy little mouth just makes me want to slap the daylights out of her. She should have been tied up in a sack and drowned in the lake with the rest of the runts in her litter.
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And that's totally without mentioning the awful, stereotyped writing of the show, the wretched characters, or the boundless cliches and retreads. Mind you, that's all apparent just from watching the commercials...
 
Originally posted by rufrgt_sn00pie2001
Snow? I love snow! Definitely something we don't get enough of here. I love skiing too... I'm not that much of a snowboarder though. :)
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We don't get enough snow her for sure. And even we are so lucky to have some of it falling down from the sky, we can't do anything with it. No mountains to slide down from :(
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
:scared: :ill: :yuck:
Most female celebrities I wouldn't cross the street to see naked. For Calista, I'd jaywalk during rushour in Manhattan to avoid seeing naked. And that prissy little mouth just makes me want to slap the daylights out of her. She should have been tied up in a sack and drowned in the lake with the rest of the runts in her litter.
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And that's totally without mentioning the awful, stereotyped writing of the show, the wretched characters, or the boundless cliches and retreads. Mind you, that's all apparent just from watching the commercials...
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yeeeeaaahhhhh. I bet! :D

Neon, it's ok to admit that you didn't miss an episode of Ally McBeal. Really, it's ok! ;)
 
Boombexus:

While the second picture is breathtaking, the first picture is disheartening. I'm not ready for the snow to come. :cold:

The sound of it crunching under my boots drives a cold spike up my back, that never leaves until mid-May.

I'll be the first vote to ship any snow we recieve out to you. I'll even package some up for MIH. I do feel pity for your co-worker, does he realize that you measure snow in feet not inches?

AO
 
Originally posted by Der Alta
Boombexus:

While the second picture is breathtaking, the first picture is disheartening. I'm not ready for the snow to come. :cold:

The sound of it crunching under my boots drives a cold spike up my back, that never leaves until mid-May.

I'll be the first vote to ship any snow we recieve out to you. I'll even package some up for MIH. I do feel pity for your co-worker, does he realize that you measure snow in feet not inches?

AO
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Yeah, that first picture is quite disheartening. Especially when there is a foot and a half on top of her!

Oh, and that crunching of the snow under boot, it drives me crazy, kinda like pulling the cotton ball out of the asprin jar. :mad: :D

And as for the guy that has never seen snow. I've tried to explain the intensity of the winters here, but I don't think that he can grasp the concept of perpetual snow. He'll find out soon enough!
 
Originally posted by boombexus


Yeah, that first picture is quite disheartening. Especially when there is a foot and a half on top of her!

Oh, and that crunching of the snow under boot, it drives me crazy, kinda like pulling the cotton ball out of the asprin jar. :mad: :D

And as for the guy that has never seen snow. I've tried to explain the intensity of the winters here, but I don't think that he can grasp the concept of perpetual snow. He'll find out soon enough!
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Well, call me crazy but i like that crunching sound.

3 years ago i went on a skitrip to Austria. I went a week, and the entire week it was snowing. When i came, there was 50 cm of snow, after 3 days it was 350cm. Biggest snowfall in 30 something years. I loved it:)
But that was only a week. I don't know if i would still love it if it was like that the entire winter.

I probably would:D
 
Snow rocks. Tons of fun driving anywhere with my bro, he just burns out everywhere and drifts...really my mom and dad do to sometimes...

Biking in snow is awsome. It's challenging and if you screw up you crash in the soft stuff so you aren't hurt. Since I live on a corner, snow plows pile snow on our corner, and you can go down the street and just slam the bike though the snowy/icey wall and sometimes you make it, other times you do a mid-air Superman and land face first into the snow on the front yard...
Also ice is exellent. Put the back tire on the ice patch, lean against something, and just shift, then push off whatever you are leaning on, leave the ice patch, and you are jet propelled and leave a nice burnout on the driveway.

Or just ride up to the elementary school I went to with a saucer(the metal round sled) sprayed down with Pam and park the bike and go sleding...

My new bike should be exellent in the snow, I get it Friday(I know I said Wednesday before but my dad left town today(Subaru training in Chicago) and no one will be able to pick it up till he gets back on Friday), and I hope it snows soon here...
 
Snow in Boston, where was I? It was raining today, but I didn't see any snowflakes. It only snowed a few times last year [all less than 5 inch downfall] and was the first year that not one day of school was cancelled because of snow.

Snow rules.
 
here in STL, there's 5 built in snow days(or was that 3...) and any more adds another day onto the year or just takes out a day that we would normally have off. No days off last year, there was snow but it was while we were on winter break and then again on a weekend and not bad enough to cancel school on that monday.
 
Originally posted by boombexus
Here's another pic. I find it so wierd when there is earth above the clouds.
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But when you're on the earth that's above the clouds, that's so cool! I remember the first time I was in Switzerland. I woke up, and I was like "Wow, what a lovely day. No clouds anywhere". By room-mate said "Look down". And sure enough, there they were, about 500 feet below us!
 
Originally posted by Klostrophobic
Snow in Boston, where was I? It was raining today, but I didn't see any snowflakes. It only snowed a few times last year [all less than 5 inch downfall] and was the first year that not one day of school was cancelled because of snow.

Snow rules.
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I never got a single snow-day when I was in school. 'Paradise' my ass.

I did take a few days off college in Pennsylvania because I had never seen snow before in my life (except on one vacation to Michigan).
 
Originally posted by M5Power


I never got a single snow-day when I was in school. 'Paradise' my ass.
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I didn't either. Half the time I was at boarding school, so it wasn't really an issue, and the rest of the time, my Dad just drove through the snow. :mad:
 
Originally posted by M5Power
Where'd you go to school?
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I went to a day school in Worcestershire, and my secondary school, which was the boarding school, was in Shrewsbury.
 

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