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airscape
Oct 29, 2009, 2:49 PM
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I had to google to see where Maine is.
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reno
Oct 29, 2009, 3:36 PM
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airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico.
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airscape
Oct 29, 2009, 4:45 PM
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reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. Shit, now I have to Google Mexico.
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Gmburns2000
Oct 29, 2009, 5:55 PM
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reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. Yeah, um, considering the Maritimes, it's the other way around.
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airscape
Oct 29, 2009, 8:29 PM
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Sorry I doughnut get it.
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epoch
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Oct 29, 2009, 8:35 PM
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reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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hafilax
Oct 30, 2009, 1:15 AM
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Everything I know about Maine I learned from Murder She Wrote. That and hearing Bangor Mall ads while driving through to go skiing in Sugarloaf or Sunday River.
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squierbypetzl
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Oct 30, 2009, 7:27 AM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. Yeah, um, considering the Maritimes, it's the other way around. Mexicos´s version of Canada? Dunno if I got what you meant but I laughd.(ed to replace slaughed with laughed) True story: South Baja California peninsula, México, a couple of years ago, set in a pueblo on the beach just a few miles away from a famous resort town, very popular with upper class ´Mericans. One sunny afternoon, I was walking around the beach up to this small town, some 1000 inhabitants tops at the time, and I stopped at a Cabana/restaurant to buy some chips and a drink. As I walked up the wooden stairs towards the sound of clinking glasses and surf rock playing on a satellite jukebox, I caught sight of an elderly gentleman sitting under a beach umbrella on the porch. When I got to the top of the 5th stair, a gentle summer breeze brought to my attention, at first a whisper, and then the full bodied luxury of what is still one of the finest pipe tobaccos I have ever come across. I got a better look at the guy as I passed. To my initial surprise, the man was sporting a steel Piguet watch around his left wrist, in his right hand he held a matchbox, and betwixt his lips a handmade pipe of the highest caliber. His shirt, a white guayabera shirt (very light cotton or linen shirt popular in tropical America), and loose khakis with brown leather sandals, nothing eyecatching but probably not something just anyone could afford. I had been told (and noticed) this town was popular with tourists, most of the businesses were obviously catered to foreigners, but it wasn´t until that night upon my return to the restaurant that I realized exactly what kind of people the town attracted. On at least 5 of the perhaps 25 tables in the restaurant, rested $400+ bottles of wine, all open and being poured into ordinary glasses, not even wine glasses, though the place usually served their drinks in red plastic cups so I guess that was a plus. What drew such affluent crowds? The towns location, close to a big city but hidden away from the crowds, spas and rec. vehicles for rent, and of course the region´s culinary specialty: Freshly caught lobster and shrimp served with a side of freshly baked beans. Yes, beans. $15 a medium, $20 a very large lobster. After having gorged themselves on buttery succulent lobster meat, someone from each party would throw down a couple Benjamins or Shermans and they´d leave. True story.
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granite_grrl
Oct 30, 2009, 4:10 PM
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Gmburns2000 wrote: reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. Yeah, um, considering the Maritimes, it's the other way around. Maine is just the US's lame version of the Maritimes.
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Gmburns2000
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granite_grrl wrote: Gmburns2000 wrote: reno wrote: airscape wrote: I had to google to see where Maine is. It's like Canada's version of Mexico. Yeah, um, considering the Maritimes, it's the other way around. Maine is just the US's lame version of the Maritimes. But MUCH better.
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