Appy St. Jean LaBatt, esti!

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[font=Arial]Just say, "I have to bow out awhile." I'm not even a writer and I know that. [/font]
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[font=Arial]And yes, I have nothing better to to than nitpick you. Go ahead, quote me for the next 100 posts. I have nothing to add, just criticize you because you are everything to me. All I do is sit here and wait for your next post. I'm like Patrick, no substance. [/font]
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[font=Arial]Quote me, quote me, quote me! I want to see that line in all of your posts from now on, just like the bear suit quote. I just can't get enough of that one![/font]
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Eddie Arzouian said:

[font=Bookman Old Style]I want invite you to my feu. We get togeder and burn all de Inglish sign L'Office de la Langue Francaise collect during the year. Den we hold hand and sing Gens du Pays, tabernac...[/font]

[font=Bookman Old Style]Vive le Quebec![/font]

[font=Bookman Old Style]Vive le Quebec pauvre!![/font]

[font=Bookman Old Style]Long live Pauline Marois!!![/font]

[font=Bookman Old Style]It being a long weekend here in La Belle Province, I have to bow out for awhile. Save your posts until I get back...[/font]

What a silly and insulting thread.

Says the guy of Belgian descent liivng in the US.

Since I am half French-Canadian and my family has been here since 1648 and built much of the town I live in not to mention many of the churches around here at a loss, since my great-grand uncle was a Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeals (you can look him up in the Larousse, Gustav Lamothe) and one of his ancestors, Pierre Antoine de La Mothe Sieur de Cadiilac founded Detroit (des etroits), (they named the cars after him BTW), I think I can say whatever I damn well please about the St. Jean.

We have family photos of three great uncles dressed in their sheepskins with their staffs and lambs when they led the religious, not political, parade of 1900 1902 and 1903.

You want to give me Quebec history lesson, PaddyBoy?

Do you think all Quebecers approve of how the St. Jean Baptiste holiday has been appropriated by Quebec nationalist for political purposes? They do not.

Eat your fries and mayo....

You really should watch out when you decide to teach me a lesson, whether it's journalism or Quebec roots. My family arrived in Quebec in the mid-1600s, and has a large city in the Montreal area named after it after my grandfather's brother was mayor of the city for, oh, 36 years. I can count 3 justices of the Quebec Superior Court, one head justice of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, even two deported "patriotes", to mention just a few notables. You really ought to be more careful, judging my family background based on my last name, given your own is less than pure-laine. And not everyone approves of everything, but your epithet-laden fun-poking at the French is just tasteless.

Eddie Arzouian said:

Says the guy of Belgian descent liivng in the US.

Since I am half French-Canadian and my family has been here since 1648 and built much of the town I live in not to mention many of the churches around here at a loss, since my great-grand uncle was a Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeals (you can look him up in the Larousse, Gustav Lamothe) and one of his ancestors, Pierre Antoine de La Mothe Sieur de Cadiilac founded Detroit (des etroits), (they named the cars after him BTW), I think I can say whatever I damn well please about the St. Jean.

We have family photos of three great uncles dressed in their sheepskins with their staffs and lambs when they led the religious, not political, parade of 1900 1902 and 1903.

You want to give me Quebec history lesson, PaddyBoy?

Do you think all Quebecers approve of how the St. Jean Baptiste holiday has been appropriated by Quebec nationalist for political purposes? They do not.

Eat your fries and mayo....

Eddie et Vlaanderen,

Vous êtes comiques avec vos platitudes, alors continué, ça m’amuse beaucoup.

Continuez, tu veux dire.

velomane said:

Eddie et Vlaanderen,

Vous êtes comiques avec vos platitudes, alors continué, ça m’amuse beaucoup.

Van de Wille said:

Continuez, tu veux dire.

Oui, c'est ça. J' écris pas souvent en français.

Salut,
Michel

Pas de probleme. Moi je maintiens mon francais en jouant au scrabble en-ligne. Quand meme du bon francais pour quelqu'un de Winnipeg (bien que ma femme soit de la...).

Who is this Eddie character and why does he post so much meaningless information on this site?

It's even starting to bore me, and I'm a new member so I haven't been exposed to it as much as everyone else.

Allez donc faire de la politique sur un autre site.... Eddie, mon père pisse plus loin que le tien, ma queue est plus grosse que la tienne... criss de baby boomer à marde.

This is completely tasteless and once again the product of the same old person. No wonder you are banned across the land. I agree 100% with the previous post.

OK, tabernac.

Patrick I'm trying to believe your history but like everything else you say, it is difficult to do...

...and like everything else I say, the effort is worth it. Complete truth. You should stop thinking you're better, smarter, more experienced, more pure-laine, than everyone else. And length of family history in Quebec is no excuse for a silly and insulting thread that has nothing to do with cycling.

Living in Illinois, did you even know it was St. Jean Baptiste Day?

If you love Quebec so much, come live here with the rest of us and deal with its problems.

Why don't you address the Legacy Foundation issue? Staying clear of that one, aren't you?

I don't blame you given your earlier statements, which were erroneous.

You said the by-laws were unimportnat.

What has the Foundation done in 14 months? They have ONLY written the bylaws. Now that they are done they tell us NOW they can begin to do something.

So, it turns out those bylaws were pretty damn important, since they couldn't do anything without them or so it appears. Whaa have they done in 14 months?

Where is the annual report of the foundation promised by Kinash in December 2004? When he said the bylaws would be ready "shortly" in October 2004 did he mean nine months later...? Nine month to write what you called unimportant boilerplate? How long will it take to do the tough stuff?

When will they ever get to the partner, donor and sponsorship search they were mandated to do in Bill Kinash's Annual Report of 2003?

Do you really think dishing out the legacy in little drops of $20,000, just enough for one, maybe two small projects will accomplish anything? Will it change anything? Will it better development? One extra project, how will that change anything?

Their approach to the problem is mindless, unimaginative and simplistic.

I think you spoke about that subject in another thread. Why don't you go back to that thread and add to it. That would be the correct way of doing things, it would make your point more official on the matter. You're obviously trying to make good from a tasteless joke/thread. I suggest you drop this one and stop shifting gears so much. Another good pointer would be to ask for a slight dosage change on that Lithium.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Speaking of Lithium, do you see how that Mr. Arzouian, once he gets a bit "excited", that his posts sort of degrade? They start off as coherent and then get sloppy, fast and excitable, and then morph into something unrelated? Check out the last post, as Patrick would say, "vintage Ed." Someone says that a thread is offensive, and Ed starts lambasting Patrick, saying he's lying about his own heritage, and then says the SAME point he just made in another, nothing to do with the actual point and he keeps typing and
gtpyping

and going on

bout the naked bike race
and cycling and i write 20000 articles not briefs

and i think Patrick is stupid

Sakstahchewan sucks Kinash is crazy

you'tre all dubmb sdumb dubm bumb dumb you know nothing I know

everythying

Eddie Arzouian said:

Living in Illinois, did you even know it was St. Jean Baptiste Day?

If you love Quebec so much, come live here with the rest of us and deal with its problems.

Why don't you address the Legacy Foundation issue? Staying clear of that one, aren't you?

I don't blame you given your earlier statements, which were erroneous.

You said the by-laws were unimportnat.

What has the Foundation done in 14 months? They have ONLY written the bylaws. Now that they are done they tell us NOW they can begin to do something.

So, it turns out those bylaws were pretty damn important, since they couldn't do anything without them or so it appears. Whaa have they done in 14 months?

Where is the annual report of the foundation promised by Kinash in December 2004? When he said the bylaws would be ready "shortly" in October 2004 did he mean nine months later...? Nine month to write what you called unimportant boilerplate? How long will it take to do the tough stuff?

When will they ever get to the partner, donor and sponsorship search they were mandated to do in Bill Kinash's Annual Report of 2003?

Do you really think dishing out the legacy in little drops of $20,000, just enough for one, maybe two small projects will accomplish anything? Will it change anything? Will it better development? One extra project, how will that change anything?

Their approach to the problem is mindless, unimaginative and simplistic.

And Good Day Sirs.

Uboat said:

Speaking of Lithium, do you see how that Mr. Arzouian, once he gets a bit "excited", that his posts sort of degrade? They start off as coherent and then get sloppy, fast and excitable, and then morph into something unrelated? Check out the last post, as Patrick would say, "vintage Ed." Someone says that a thread is offensive, and Ed starts lambasting Patrick, saying he's lying about his own heritage, and then says the SAME point he just made in another, nothing to do with the actual point and he keeps typing and
gtpyping

and going on

bout the naked bike race
and cycling and i write 20000 articles not briefs

and i think Patrick is stupid

Sakstahchewan sucks Kinash is crazy

you'tre all dubmb sdumb dubm bumb dumb you know nothing I know

everythying

peloquma said:

I think you spoke about that subject in another thread. Why don't you go back to that thread and add to it. That would be the correct way of doing things, it would make your point more official on the matter. You're obviously trying to make good from a tasteless joke/thread. I suggest you drop this one and stop shifting gears so much. Another good pointer would be to ask for a slight dosage change on that Lithium.

Yes, I did write of the Legacy waste in another thread (many other threads, actually). Van de Wille is avoiding that. He is reading this one, or was, so it makes it more obvious he is trying to ignore the Legacy issue because he was wrong on it. Unles he wants ot say 14 months of inaction is a good thing???

I'm not trying to change the subject on my joke. It was just that a joke, a a rather funny one. I am laughing at myself in it as much as anybody else, since I am fulll half-French Canadian very fluent in the language and live in Quebec and have for about 32 of my 43 years, which is far more than Van de Wille can say for Illinois.

He is commenitng on Canadian cycling (and Quebec politics) from the US and has not been to a race in Canada for probably five years or more ( I do not know if he has ever done anything political in Quebec at all). He will not admit when he attended his last race or where. Did you attend the 2003 Road Worlds in Hamilton Patrick they were not too far away? Big cyclign fan like you, you must have ben there? Which races did you watch?

I happen to think if you want to comment on Quebec it helps to live here, it adds more credibilty to your statment. Just like if you want to comment on cycling it helps to have some experience in that as well, more than just as a spectator and reporter.

Thanks for the tip on the dosage issue. Do you have experience there? Experience, it is key.

Let me know what dosage you're on.

Thx, again.....

Eddie Arzouian said:

Living in Illinois, did you even know it was St. Jean Baptiste Day?

If you love Quebec so much, come live here with the rest of us and deal with its problems.

Why don't you address the Legacy Foundation issue? Staying clear of that one, aren't you?

Of course I did. My reasons for not living in Quebec are my own, and have nothing to do with politics or a lack of patriotism. Given the post that started this thread, I think you're in a poor position to say someone else lacks devotion to his home province. Do you laugh at blacks by posting threads in ebonics?

And on the Legacy non-issue, I'm not interested in responding because I totally agree with peloquma and I also have no interest in beating a dog that was already killed in another forum.

The rest of your personal stuff against me is boring and stupid, and if you think it's lessening my credibility I'm afraid you're mistaken - in fact, it's probably having the opposite effect. I don't need to report to you when I last saw a race in Canada nor when I expect to next, although you might be surprised at the answer.

You can see Patrick's PR skills at work.

See how he can avoid a simple question.

Biggest cycling event in 29 years in Canada in Hamilton in 2003. Did you attend?

Should be simple enough to answer.

As for the Legacy issue I have seen no comment from him on that since the new press release from the CCA last week.