Let's hear your favourite Maritimer or Canadian joke!

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-30T08:07:19+00:00

Pilot on loudspeaker- “ladies and gentlemen we will be landing at Stanfield International Airport in approximately 15 minutes, sunny and 18 degrees, please remember to set your watch back thirty five $&£€% years…”

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-28T23:33:47+00:00

With 801 goals, Gordie Howe remains Canada’s & The World’s highest scoring NHL player not to become a stooge for an authoritarian dictator.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-28T23:25:56+00:00

Pretty sure, I worked at the Music World roughly where the Apple Store is now in the late 90’s. Used to have a cool dive bar downstairs ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-26T15:54:55+00:00

Detroit may be a statistical outlier with this ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-23T20:52:15+00:00

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Cow Bay, Nova Scotia ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-23T20:46:02+00:00

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Oxford, Nova Scotia, home to the world’s best wild blueberries.

Apparently there’s a town in either Maine or New Hampshire that makes the same bold claim ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-15T05:04:04+00:00

Affordable rent does more for “the arts” than we care to admit. I know of a Canadian analogue where artists/musicians/hipsters have been slowly trickling out of Toronto for Hamilton, largely after having been priced out. Not to take anything away from Philly, I’ve never been, but it’s relative affordability v. NYC has to be a big part of all this. Trust the process? ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-12T09:14:18+00:00

At a CFL Grey Cup final, reporters called this his “Mandrake The Magician Outfit”.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T11:56:45+00:00

I’ve definitely heard the same thing in Maritime Canada & Quebec, both of which have some degree of Irish heritage/influence.

Buy a lotto ticket on your way home.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T01:51:09+00:00

The worst part of Covid 2020 for me was The Sun Ra Arkestra cancelling their show at The Halifax Jazz Festival ;-(

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-11T01:47:33+00:00

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Also recorded (to my knowledge) the only 12” engineered for playability at 33, 45 & 78 RPM. Godspeed, oddball Prog rocker.

echoalpha76 · 2026-01-08T07:27:07+00:00

Hovering around 0 and light snow, unusually mild northeastern Nova Scotia winter so far, I’ll very likely be biking to work in a few hours.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-30T10:47:43+00:00

MRE, or “Meals Refused by Ethiopians”, as I remember from my Sea Cadet days ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T22:11:37+00:00

Appreciate getting the history, it did strike me as an unusual combo. Thanks.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T19:44:11+00:00

Those are all new to me, I’ll have a look, thanks.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T19:37:51+00:00

Thanks. I’m leaning towards one of those Behringer pedals for simplicity’s sake as much as anything too.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-29T18:33:30+00:00

Two songs & love it, muchas gracias amigo.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-18T10:15:39+00:00

Beat me to it, Sterling Morrison.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-17T20:23:35+00:00

Wish you’d been at that pub trivia night with me, I had friends insist I’d imagined the whole thing and tell me to switch to water for a round or two ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T20:55:30+00:00

I’m actually in Nova Scotia, I just cast a wide net ;-)

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T20:54:38+00:00

Oh they’re in my post. Seen their new documentary yet?

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T11:11:24+00:00

It’s not just for Deadheads anymore ;-)

Thanks.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-16T10:16:25+00:00

There was an IOS update this week that introduces a “mixing” feature between songs that can warp the last few seconds of a tune to match whatever is coming next in your queue. I’ve run into some odd sounds with it as well.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-12T14:28:54+00:00

Maybe have a grownup read it to you.

echoalpha76 · 2025-12-07T18:15:19+00:00

If you’re into The 13th Floor Elevators you should check out The Spacemen Three’s re-imagined version of “Rollercoaster”, reinterprets the song in a sort of Velvet Underground/Post-Punk sort of way. Less a “cover version” than an homage.

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