… and the years zoom by. 153 of them, just like that.
So I have the special limited edition Canada Day Smarties.
…please help yourself … not available in the USA so take a good handful, I have lots more! Good milk chocolate!
Happy Canada Day to you sir! [:D]
Thank you Penny. May Smarties and Ice be upon you!
This is cool. Wayne will luv it.
Loved it, loved it, loved it!
Makes me want to fix bayonet and charge Vimy Ridge. Or Juno Beach. Or the Scheldt. Or something!
Happy Canada Day Vince, SD70Dude, and all our cousins north of the border!
PS: Bring some of that good Canadian beer and we WON’T be sorry! [;)]
I’m just a tad disappointed that you didn’t make a maple leaf out of the smarties
Dude-- Actually there is something to that. This is the first year that they did not stamp the maple on them. Covid cut backs I guess.
Flintlock/Wayne-- yeah now I really want to go curling.
Here’s one more for my fellow citizens… get out the Kleenex box.
Mike sends us his greetings for Canada Day
Stompin’ Tom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWiQnKMBA4
Why would we be sorry?
Congratulations and ten times 153 more!
Just a goofy thing to say, comedy I suppose. oh wait … how about an army of Justin Biebers and Celine Dions. Yikes! Everyone gets a Jim Carrey as a neighbour.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about this. Happy Canada Day! Can’t believe it’s been 153 years already. Time sure moves fast.
Wouldn’t have been comedy if that nit Diefenbaker hadn’t thrown Avro under the bus. Imagine where the Orenda engine family might have gotten by now.
Of course we found out that brazed honeycomb construction comes apart wholesale when exposed to the second heat pulse of a thermonuclear device (which is not exactly the surprise it turned out to be, if you think about it), so maybe not quite as bad that he cancelled it … but still.
Jeez, I had to get the Kleenex box! Glorious! Absolutely glorious!
The issue with the Arrow was that it was an advanced jet fighter built in a country whose Air Force was not large enough to provide profitable orders for the manufacturer.
And the U.S. was embarrassed at how advanced it was. So we got those stupid Bomarcs instead. Terrific weapon for the Great White North… (they weren’t exactly suited for our winters)
All righty then!
Oh, I wouldn’t mind Jim Carrey moving in next door, (God knows why he might!) as long as he didn’t do that “Fire Marshal Bill” routine he used to do on “In Living Color.” Jeez, that bit gave me the creeps!
I wouldn’t mind Celine Dion either, although I’d prefer Lara Fabian!
The secret issue with the Arrow is that it was an interceptor, not a fighter, and most of the sophisticated expense was, exactly as with the 108 and the B-70, quickly made nugatory with the advent of effective high-speed missiles. Meanwhile all sorts of its enabling tech was like candy to Russian espionage, and God help 'em, the Canadian tech industry in that era had little effective conception of industrial security.
Doesn’t change what a glorious achievement it was.
Didn’t the Bomarc missiles have a warhead of sand! At least at one point it did.
The Chinese now surpass anything the Soviets accomplished re spying and stealing.
What would you use for testing?
I assure you that very effective warloads for BOMARCs existed, were deployed, and in at least one instance functioned as expected.
Think of these as ramjet/rocket powered interceptors, comparable to the Arrow but MUCH quicker launching and accelerating, and maneuverable without concern for a human pilot … armed with a 10-kiloton warhead to take out a whole formation of enemy bombers including via fratricide.
(We nuked part of central New Jersey, ironically around Lakehurst, which some might argue was no particular cause for despondency, but effectively quashes the idea the BOMARCs were Quaker rocketry…)
Overmod-- Good we got that straightened out… so thanks!
Wonder if they could have used popcorn? Feed some birds as a side benefit.
