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"It's the film we watch every Christmas a...

2010-08-20T22:55:43.646-04:00

"It's the film we watch every Christmas as a family.."
I love this. That kind of twisted humor is right up my creek.You sure none of you are related to Hunter S Thompson?

She did. It's the film we all watch every Chr...

2010-08-20T17:13:16.450-04:00

She did.

It's the film we all watch every Christmas as a family.

Omemeetc. You should make a documentary of Felix ...

2010-08-20T17:11:09.285-04:00

Omemeetc.

You should make a documentary of Felix Blowing Leaves. I am an amateur documentary maker and my first documentary was "Ho leaves the Neighbourhood". We had a ho living on the street and it was quite the moment when she moved out so I filmed it.

Roz

In my time the leafs have never warranted a cap L....

2010-08-20T12:14:43.641-04:00

In my time the leafs have never warranted a cap L.

So... if the foe shits...

What CB gets up to in his private life is one thing; introducing his foibles to the group in this manner is one heck of a way to make a point, however. And they are referred to as leaf blowers, not leaf suckers...

I digress...

And on the subject of obnoxious neighbours, Felix uses his leaf blower(s) to also clear/melt snow!!

You will note I introduced the plural; my eyes have just begun to recover from the sight last week of a shirtless Felix using two blowers similtaneously as if he was in some action movie. Thing is, Felix has magnificent moobs and the vibration, well.. you can doubtless imagine the rest.

Please note the use of the lower case "l"...

2010-08-19T21:26:43.843-04:00

Please note the use of the lower case "l" on the word leaf...

Using an upper case "L" would have created a much different and probably more interesting scenario.

How many more sleeps til hockey/mocking season starts?

Yup, I'm leaving the leaf blowing phrase alone...

2010-08-19T20:53:25.714-04:00

Yup, I'm leaving the leaf blowing phrase alone. Waaay too much ammo there.

I have the utmost respect for what Kurt has achiev...

2010-08-19T19:57:04.089-04:00

I have the utmost respect for what Kurt has achieved in his life and career but I can't help think his name will be in the At Risk Survivors of the Darwin Awards for this episode.

"I've never blown a leaf in my life but I...

2010-08-19T18:01:03.902-04:00

"I've never blown a leaf in my life but I suck them voraciously"

hmmmm, interesting. Is everybody leaving this one alone? Come on, I need a little excitement, it's been a crappy day.

Roz

My house, that just means dinner...

2010-08-19T17:34:43.827-04:00

My house, that just means dinner...

According to the report, he left the leaf blower o...

2010-08-19T17:30:48.845-04:00

According to the report, he left the leaf blower on the seat in his car going full tilt to dry out. I'm betting it was a boxster with fabric seats. I mean burning leather, you'd smell that inside a house.

I have never blown a leaf in my life but I suck th...

2010-08-19T17:09:37.491-04:00

I have never blown a leaf in my life but I suck them voraciously. They explode into tiny leaf particles and reside in my Costco leaf bags, with hardly a murmur. Much less spontaneously combusting. If leaves can do it, so can Porsches. The problem here is not leaf blowers... it's the damn Porsche!!! The air that exhales from a leaf blower is about 30 degrees Celcium. And that's on a hot day. In the cool of autumn it runs about 20. Celcium. So what's with the Porsche? If those low temps cause it to combusticate (yes it's a word... just ask Dubyah) then I'd say there's a serious design flaw in lower Germania.

Leave poor Kurt alone.

Didn't Stephen King write something like this?...

2010-08-19T16:26:48.904-04:00

Didn't Stephen King write something like this???

Well one of my first jobs when coming to Canada wa...

2010-08-19T15:41:20.716-04:00

Well one of my first jobs when coming to Canada was working for a quality Landscaping company in Toronto. We had these huge condos where they got upset about the leaves on the ground, yet they got upset about the leaf blowers. You just can't win with some people.

I think it would be great to have one of those burny stick things you see firefighters use during forest fires to clear dead grass and create fire breaks. I could become a Landscape Arsonist. Just walk around and burn leaves and twigs to my hearts content, crappy neighbours fences, gone in a flash. This would satisfy some hidden desire im sure.

It was a Porsche! I'm dying to know which one....

2010-08-19T15:28:17.257-04:00

It was a Porsche! I'm dying to know which one.

Ozzie - I have a leafblower maniac here too. They've been revving up all summer, searching for something to blow.

Were his seats leather? I thought ragtops always h...

2010-08-19T15:25:29.726-04:00

Were his seats leather? I thought ragtops always had leather seats with fabric being optional if available at all. I know soem US cars had cloth seats on open top models, notably the 1979-1981Pontiac Trans Am's cloth interior. But that was twenty plus years ago! Are manufacturers still selling convertibles with cloth interiors? Sucker of the Year Award, there.

When I read this piece earlier in the Star, I wond...

2010-08-19T13:54:25.563-04:00

When I read this piece earlier in the Star, I wondered will this mean a recall on all leaf blowers? Think about it; people, including my idiot neighbour Felix, use leaf blowers all the time. Leaves are generally dry when being blown (that does not read well, does it?). So will blowing leaves cause fires? Sounds to me as if there may be extenuating circumstances here yet to be explored.

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