I Amuse Myself

22 Replies to “I Amuse Myself”

1. Farmer overheard after 40 days of rain: “We could use a couple more inches.”
   (Was my dad)

   1. I’m not getting the plate. But then, I live in, shall we say, the eastern Midwest.

2. Brad Wall?
   The guy who closed all the hospitals and schools in Saskatchewan and helped Stephen Harper bankrupt all the farmers by getting rid of the Canadian Wheat Board?
   That guy? /s

   We should remind the NDP of how wrong they were.

   1. I am pretty sure that I recall most here in the comments opposing the CWB and being in favour of its dissolution. What happened? Asking as I really want to know about what happened and what people felt then versus what they feel now. Asking so I can understand – not being critical or confrontational.

      1. Lickmuffin

         Same here…??

      2. From what I can tell the horrific predictions of doom for farmers were 100% bullshit.
         Sask farmland prices have not collapsed as they would have if the naysayers had been correct.

         Same as all the

      3. The fact that you hear almost nothing speaks volumes.

         (progressives despise progress when it’s made by conservatives).

      4. The cwb forced you to sell your grain through them It all went into a pool and the good or lucky farmers that grew a #1 grade worth more had to prop up the # 3 grade that was worth less.That’s just a little bit about it.Straight socialism

   2. “closed all the hospitals” – Do you mean the hospitals in little towns without doctors?

      “getting rid of the Canadian Wheat Board” – I used to love the propaganda how Saskatchewan farmers were so much better off getting half the price farmers received in North Dakota and then had them sent to jail for selling grain in North Dakota. The Wheat Board was formed to keep down grain prices during WWII and served that purpose well until the day it died from a stab through the heart.

   3. The wheat board was communist sh-t.

3. I was recently joking with friends about how dry it was in in southern Saskatchewan in the late 1980s. I remember golfing with my mom and her friends at a small town golf course…It was impossible to lose your golf ball because a big cloud of grasshoppers flew up wherever your ball landed.

4. One of the first things i learned when I moved to Sask was not complaining about the rain. I enjoyed spotting recent arrivals when they started babbling about the wet – barely – weather. I remember street lamps coming on from dust in the early 80s.

5. Always liked Saskatchewan plates. Don’t know why, maybe because it reminds me of a cereal box. Not an insult.

6. I know a guy, I’ll call him Noah Guy, who was driving back to the old country after having been away for a while. As he neared the border between the Keystone province and his native Province the vehicles with green and white plates became more frequent. He’d heard there were new plates on the flatlanders mobiles but didn’t know there was a moto. Being of short-sightedness Noah was trying to make out the words. He finally turned to his passenger and said o.k., I’ve got it and it makes good sense — I always said Saskatchewan was the best place for tasty pies. His passenger was confused. So Noah pointed to the plate on the car that had just passed them and explained: “Land of the Living Pies”!

   1. Beats the Quebec plate motto, which translates as “I buy souvenirs”.

      Ontario’s new slogan is rumored to be “Your children are ours to discover”

      1. Despite je me souvien Quebecois don’t remember who lost the effing war in 1759.

         1. +++scar. As most English speaking Canadians also do not remember. Stupid, morons. Is that an oxymoron?

         2. They went with “Je me souviens” because “Reconnaissant à la merci des Britanniques d’être en vie” didn’t fit.

7. Sometimes Kate’ s comments can be a little hard to interpret, but I do believe she refers to the 1997 Red River Flood and the potential for a similar occurrence this year.

   1. I may have misread it.
      I thought it was about all the NDP and Liberal tears when Brad won.

      1. You could well be right. There seems to be many interpretations here.

8. I should have stood up to read that one, it went over my head.