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Any ideas what I could do with 55 pounds of novacaine?

We’re in Phoenix and tho’ I try to avoid the stupidfest that is local “news,” what I’ve seen is they’ll usually only talk about Mexico if a storm is coming up the Sea of Cortez or if spring break is happening.

It’s probably as much that the Irish would get the hump if they thought the BBC was trespassing.

It’s a bit of a touchy topic, is Ireland….

I don’t live all that close to the 49th Parallel anymore, but whenever I venture northwards, the local TV and radio stations in Washington do offer international weather forecasts. But not very far north, usually within TV transmission range of the international border.

The National Weather Service does not do so. They officially ignore Canuckistan. And Mexico as well; both are grayed out.

Any ideas what I could do with 55 pounds of novacaine?

Yes, and in the interest of maintaining the usual elevated level of discussion on the threads, I will keep them to myself.

But personally, I’d spend the £2100 on Old Kentucky Tavern bourbon…

Weasel says:

Any ideas what I could do with 55 pounds of novacaine?

Spend a great deal of time at the Old Bailey, explaining what you were doing with 25 kilos of pharmaceutical grade white powder?

But EW1(SG), the webpage says it’s perfectly legal. So you know that’s gotta be true.

Weasel says:

But EW1(SG), the webpage says it’s perfectly legal. So you know that’s gotta be true.

No doubt.

So there’s no reason for you to end up in the Tower of London. It’s just that the explaining could take years!

I would definitely go with “I’m taking up cosmetic veterinary body piercing as an avocation.” for a defense an explanation.

Go with the lidocaine. Just put a leetle bit into your bathwater, and voila! Instant relaxation.

You might want to have Uncle B nearby to make sure you don’t inadverntly slip under the water.

Ha, off to North Carolina tonight. Pig pickin’, golf, NASCAR, and general southern shit.

I live in San Francisco and according to the local news, the world ends just the other side of Oakland.

Unless, of course, Modesto gets a new shipment of Mexican Novacaine or Sacramento interrupts the harvest of Humboldt herb.

Yeah, I’ve done enough international work to get that “You only speak one language” crap along with other snide remarks. I point out, tactfully, mind you, that driving the nine hundred miles east from El Paso, Texas just barely gets you out of Texas, much less the US, and a similar length drive east from the Franco-German border, where they speak French, you’d pass through four or five countries, each with its own language.

It’s hard of our weatherfolk to do one or two states…

MC

And I bet Cajun knows more Spanish than he lets on.

Any ideas what I could do with 55 pounds of novacaine?

BlackMarket some to Rosetta, next time he thinks he needs to get “Lucky”?

When I lived in Florida we’d get reports of weather in Mexico and the Caribbean if a hurricane was in the vicinity. Basically the weather stations become obsessed with hurricanes from May through November, so if there was a tiny one heading for the coast of Chile or something we would get a report on it. And the Weather Channel would give international weather as well. I don’t know what they do here in Virginia, though — I don’t have tv now.

We get our weather from the Air Force, so in order to find out whether or not there’s a shamal heading this way from Syria, I have to sit through the forecasts for Cairo, Ankara, Tehran, Kuwait City, Doha, Riyadh, Saana, Tel Aviv, and Damascus.

Or, I can just ask Colonel Karim to call his mom and find out how her rheumatism is doing. She’s been more accurate in the past thirty months than the weather-guessers have…

When I lived in Detroit, they would give the temp for Windsor most of the time. Just across the river and lots of folks went there on a daily basis. More like another suburb than part of America’s Hat.

The local stations in Texas towns along the border give the forecasts for Mexican cities to the south. Of course, from, say, McAllen to Reynosa is about a 15 minute drive, not counting border formalities. Way, way up north in Houston, you get bupkis about Mexican weather unless it’s a big disaster or something. In NVA, you get forecasts of anything that might hit you or get close to you. Plus disasters, of course.

I live approximately 18 miles north of the border, in San Diego, and to hear just the weather reports, you’d think Tijuana didn’t even exist. The only time you will hear Baja Mexico mentioned is when some weather pattern is creeping across the border that may affect us directly. Temps and forecasts are seldom, if ever given for the region outside of San Diego county. Mind you, that’s all local stations in English. The US-based Spanish stations may be different.

Now of course, anything else that happens in TJ or the surrounding area (drug smuggling, multiple murders, kidnappings, and so on) get air time, especially if 1) it’s a slow news day or 2) there is a San Diego connection, however tenuous.

Anyone have Dixie Carter in the Death Pool?

Stoatie, just found a clip you might like. A Stoat in the new ‘Life’ series taking down a rabbit 7 times it’s size…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbqvqf3-14

Well- per CIA Worldbook the entire UK is only about 90,000 square miles. That’s pretty small. Reduce that to England and it’s only about 50,000.

The state of Minnesota is about 84,000 square miles. North Dakota is about 71,000. South Dakota is about 77,000. Wisconsin is about 65,000. Depending on what is going on, I get weather for all four states. Usually it’s bad stuff heading for Minnesota.

While the Dakotas are fairly normal, you can make a valid case for Wisconsin being a foreign country (lousy cheese eating Packer fans) and we see some of their stuff on Twin Cities weather broadcasts on a regular basis.

Is it wise for a gopher to make sport of Badgers?

Wuz watching the galloping stoat in that horribly narrated by Orcah “Life” series. All the dumb bunnies sitting around watching their unlucky friend ex-sanguinated.
I was rooting for the stoat for sure. Who says short legs cannot run fast.

LOL… Yah, the version aired in the U.S. was narrated by the Oprah. In all, her narrative sounded better….