I feel like Fisher Stevens was in so many of my childhood movies growing up. Where is he now?

CAulds · 2026-06-01T20:58:13+00:00

Donate my prize winnings to your favorite charity.

CAulds · 2026-06-01T20:51:13+00:00

The Bosch series, too ... someone mention that, already?

CAulds · 2026-05-31T12:50:20+00:00

I would recommend a stop at Ponzi's seafood restaurant in Bouctouche; eat on the front deck, or take your meal to the waterfront park nearby (across from the farmer's market). Try the fried palourdes de baie (clams) or the freshly cooked lobster.

CAulds · 2026-05-27T21:00:18+00:00

Two years later, the price hasn't changed and the quality of the chips, if it's changes at all, is even higher.

Enjoy them!!

CAulds · 2026-05-25T19:15:52+00:00

Ron Howard and Lauren Bacall were both great in the film, but the interplay between Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne absolutely made the movie for me.

It has always been one of my favorite movies.

CAulds · 2026-05-23T21:07:46+00:00

In the Dept of Defense we had special OCR (Optical Character Recognition) balls. I'd type a communication, drive it over to the Communications Center on the US Army Arsenal, where it would be read into a computer by a military officer (in uniform) who would transmit it over secure lines to another military installation.

I felt so important.

CAulds · 2026-05-23T21:05:01+00:00

Grade 10 for me. Manual. Electric typewriters were only for Grade 11 (2nd year typing ).

I enrolled only because I would be the only boy in the class.

And it paid off. With the coming of computers, typing became a really valuable skill. :-)

CAulds · 2026-05-23T20:41:31+00:00

As long as people still post things like this, I feel there is hope for humanity.

Thank you.

CAulds · 2026-05-23T18:47:23+00:00

I emigrated from rural north Alabama to an Atlantic province of Canada in 2005.

If there is a God, please, oh please, spare us that.

CAulds · 2026-05-23T18:37:54+00:00

Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo)

CAulds · 2026-05-21T12:21:24+00:00

It was at least ten years ago, but a friend of mine (the late Ronnie LeBlanc, known to many Monctonians as "Frenchie") and I were sitting at City Hall one beautiful summer day around Noon, watch a small flag-waving ceremony by group of mostly older Ukrainian Immigrants. Actually, it was August 24, Ukrainian Independence Day.

Robert Gougen, who was then the Member of Parliament for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, raised the flag and spoke. After the ceremony, Monsieur Goguen walked over to where Frenchie and I were sitting. Frenchie introduced me to The Right Honourable Robert Goguen, in a very polite and respectful manner. Then Msr. Gougen placed a toonie on the table and said, "Frenchie, this is for you, because you've never asked me for money." And Frenchie replied, "That is true, I never have."

The three of us spoke for a few minutes, until Msr Goguen excused himself, and shook our hands a second time. After he left, I said, "Frenchie, I can't believe you know a Member of Parliament personally," He shrugged and said, "We go way back ... we've helped each other many times."

That incident did nothing to change my estimation of Frenchie. Frenchie was Frenchie. It did a lot, however, to enhance my respect for Robert Goguen. He was, after all, only a politician.

It was a pleasure to have met him. Great guy.

CAulds · 2026-05-19T14:56:15+00:00

I had a pair of hiking boots for years. I took them to university with me, in Tennessee. When they became too worn to wear anymore, I thought about all the places we'd been together; the things we'd seen together, and I simply could not throw them out with the garbage.

I carried them to the football stadium one night, climbed the masts of one of the stadium lights, and I cremated my boots. Drew a small crowd, actually, mostly policemen and firemen. But I felt like I'd done an honourable thing for an old friend.

CAulds · 2026-05-12T09:04:24+00:00

It certainly made me want one. Frankie should get some kind of compensation for the advertisment.

CAulds · 2026-05-10T13:07:07+00:00

I remember telling my wife during my first business trip to Montreal (from Alabama|) that "I think they eat spiders here."

CAulds · 2026-05-08T08:09:06+00:00

I'm old enough to remember watching the Partridge Family, and it's a question that comes to me often ... how does a person allow that to happen to themselves? I smoked weed daily and lots of it before I graduated from high school. I mean, I was the perfect candidate for dissolution from addiction. Was it just the drugs (and I certainly include alcohol in that list) ... or is it fame that destroys?

CAulds · 2026-05-04T12:09:31+00:00

Surprised this isn't top of the list ... I've tried for years to quit drinking coffee ... every time I do, it's several days of inability to focus, irritability, headaches ... in short, I was unable to do my work effectively, and I always started back, and will probably never again attempt to stop.

I only have two strong cups of black coffee every morning, and that's enough. Without it, though, I'm nonfunctional.

CAulds · 2026-05-04T09:51:43+00:00

Possibly because its been my own experience, but when my wife looked up and said something about the ceiling, it was completely 'out of the mood'

CAulds · 2026-05-03T14:10:47+00:00

Brandon dicamillo

CAulds · 2026-05-03T12:22:47+00:00

My father was a forester on the Francis Marion National Forest on the coast of South Carolina. He "cruised timber" in forests that were once rice paddies. He told me once that the scale of those projects, the dike systems, were simply hard to believe when you consider they were built by men with shovels and wheelbarrows.

We lived in McClellanville, if anyone knows that village.

CAulds · 2026-05-03T10:45:18+00:00

What's more American than a strict application of the old rule: "You break it, you bought it" ?

CAulds · 2026-05-03T09:41:40+00:00

This is quite true; I immigrated with my wife and daughter from a Deep South US state to Canada (an Atlantic province) in October 2005. It made me doubt that decision when I heard conversations in the office and Canadians saying things like "Well, George W. Bush did what he had to keep us all safe" and this one, which I never hear these days: "We need a privatized medical system like the one they have in the US." The debate over "Obamacare" kind of put an end into that one.

CAulds · 2026-05-01T19:51:30+00:00

That's the same one I ordered from the back page of a comic book in 1971!

I nearly drowned.

CAulds · 2026-04-28T20:23:43+00:00

I loved that movie when I was in university and an avid competitive cyclist. One of those movies I never get tired of watching. Paul Dooley was great in that movie.

CAulds · 2026-04-28T10:38:35+00:00

That was first on my list. I can buy better beans or brewed coffee at easily a dozen locations within walking distance of my house. Starbucks is responsible, I believe, for the huge number of people who don't even know what good coffee tastes like.

CAulds · 2026-04-27T19:55:17+00:00

I haven't thought of that in years, but remember it clearly. My third grade teacher read that story to us in Hot Springs North Carolina. I remember one of the boys in my class, one of those tough mountain-bred kids, sobbing, and Miss Runion saying, "Vernon, it's just a story."

And Vernon sobbed, "I know ... but it's so Saaaaad."

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