They did! Also the iconic striped blankets, tremendously warm. We know it has been politically incorrect (I don't want to start a festouche) but my wife and I also enjoyed checking out the fur departments in Montreal...can't say we ever wanted a fur coat, but there were some marvelous hats we loved to gawk at there....the beaver trade was crucial in building Canada, it's still quite a symbol there, used to visit the Beaver CLub at a downtown hotel...
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acdevil
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The Beaver Club is something completely different where I come from
CrazyNotCrazie
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Combining stories, when I was 15 we had a camp trip to Montreal and I think some of my friends tried to get into that club. I was a good kid so stayed back.
And further combining topics, I am waiting for the day when Bucee's, goes public. That place is a gold mine. Unfortunately there are none even close to the Mason-Dixon line but I greatly enjoy my visits when in the south.
bundabergdevil
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Important reminder that Mel Gibson was ina movie called the beaver in which he will only use a toy beaver he found in a dumpster to express himself.
MartyClark
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Colorado now has a Bucee's about half an hour north of Denver. I have not been there yet but it is on my list.
We are getting one in NC soon! I’ve seen several other states are as well. They seem to be expanding more recently
ha, there is nothing bad about the Beaver Club (I think it is gone now): it was a high end restaurant where everyone was fully clothed when I went.
ha, still trying to get into one, I hear rave reviews and who doesn't love 83 gas pumps!
camion
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There's one in Florence, SC and one planned on I-85 in Anderson, SC which will bring it close enough for me to visit out of curiosity when it opens.
bundabergdevil
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There's one in Florence, SC and one planned on I-85 in Anderson, SC which will bring it close enough for me to visit out of curiosity when it opens.
Just so long as they leave South of the Border alone!
would calling South of the Border a dung hole be unfair?
bundabergdevil
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No, it is, and, uh, other things but you gotta lean in on it IMO.
we drove to FLA last year (it won't happen again) and the South of the Border signs have been usurped in the entertainment category by both the personal injury billboards (so many choices! even guys who just do motorcycle accidents) and dozens of religious ones which seemed to be threatening us with eternal damnation...
bundabergdevil
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Oh, yeah, we’ve got plenty of those.
Combine eternal damnation with SOTB:
Hell! I never sausage a place!
CameronBornAndBred
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By the time we got home from the Gator Bowl, I was thinking that I-95 should be renamed The Road To Religion.
if those guys have their facts straight, my prospects are not particularly good...
You know I do not think I have ever seen one religious billboard that ever really demands a call to action other than REPENT. No love thy neighbor as thyself, no fig tree parable, no rich fool parable, nothing from the beatitudes. Very telling.
Yep they want us sizzling on the grill. Love is for dopes
bundabergdevil
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There’s a church down the way that has yard signs up all around it that say “love they neighbor. No exceptions”. It’s such a nice thing to see because you’re right, most messages I see are threatening.
camion
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But that's really hard.