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Volcanic Ash Heading Towards North America
chocomilko writes "St. John's International Airport, the easternmost airport in Canada, has begun canceling flights due to worries of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, leaving travelers stranded after the weekend's Juno awards festival. Early reports stated that there was a 30% chance ash would reach the island by early Monday; Air Canada has issued an all-day travel advisory. A thick blanket of fog currently covering the city isn't helping matters, either."
This is all Saddam's fault, trying to escape from Hell and head back to Canada.
That just sucks ash... eh?
Finally. All Canucks & Americans who laughed at us Europeans now get to experience how nice it is: no hassle, quiet skies, no contrails, stay-at-home and work -- or be stranded in interesting cities at your bosses' expenses !
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It's Eyjafjallajökull. I barely knew which volcano you were talking about.
it's their turn.
This was overheard in London:
The English Banker to the Icelandic representative for Kaupthing Bank:
We said we wanted CASH... not ash!
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And Leon's getting laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarger!
How 'bout you?
Bet you're feeling real good about driving that Prius designed to be oh-so-gentle on Mother Gaia, ain'tcha?
Meanwhile, the belch from one unpronounceable volcano wipes out the cumulative effort from all of mankind over the past hundred years to purify the water and soil, and dwarfs all of our species' feeble, amateurish efforts to pollute them in the first place.
Gimme a rainforest, a chainsaw, and a case of Red Bull. It's Payback Time!
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This is Canada. The "Sorry" and the frowny face are actually dictated by law.
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We have passenger rail outside the northeast. You just rent a car, drive 90 miles to the depot, arrive near your destination, rent another car to drive 90 miles to your home. What could be easier? ;)
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And don't forget the 'Desolé' since everything has to be in french. I assume they should draw a frowny face with a french hat and a cigarette as well...
how long until
A volcano, in ICELAND? Tell me another one. Everybody knows that volcanoes are only in warm places like Hawaii.
"Stopping flights, all over Europe? [guardian.co.uk] Pull the other one, mate."
It's an International Railway Conspiracy.
A few more strong eruptions like this in different regions around the world, and there'll be enough ash in the sky to knock the temperature down a little bit. Global Warming is solved!
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Also, the hand-drawn "Sorry" with a sad face next to each flight number will start to take on a somewhat patronising tone.
Patronizing? Really? I can't see how that would be patronizing at all. But then again, I'm a Canadian, and I'd just find that being apologetic in a friendly tone.
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the iceland economy, that died in 2008, stipulated in its last wishes that its ashes be spread over europe
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
First they run the country down and go bankrupt, then they set the place on fire... I'm wondering if this is somekind of insurance fraud?
I'm just waiting now for Fox/Glen Beck,etc to blame Obama in some way for this.....
Rush Limbaugh FTW
There is a graphic of a tire there as well, and I am offended.
Since when does North America have a monopoly on tires? They don't. I was born in rural Angola, Africa and we even had tires there. When I was in Japan I saw tires. And in Iraq. And France and Italy and Belgium and Brasil and New Zealand. So how then can anyone place a graphic of a tire next to a story with "North America" in the title, as if tires are solely possessed by North America?
This is an obvious infringement of my rights.
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Canada - leading the world in being just north of the USA.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
That graphic is actually another code for Canadian -- it's a Canadian Tire.
Thought thinks itself.
sounds like you're wheely tired of getting tread on. But don't worry, what goes around, comes around.
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And don't forget the 'Desolé' since everything has to be in french. I assume they should draw a frowny face with a french hat and a cigarette as well...
Q:-(_...
What do you mean by "being apologetic in a friendly tone"? Is there any other way?
Signed, another Canadian.