I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 18:12Do you know where I can meet him in person?
In the same way one time I gone to the Marshall Chess Club this passed summer & I was watching some guy whom wore glasses helping anaylze some kid with his chess game. I hideously offered some suggestions & the men with glasses agreed with my internationally suggested variations. To that degree later on I asked the man if he would play blitz with me but he declined. In particular after the next round started, I asked my opponent who that man was. And he told that he was Asa Hoffman. If I remember correctly from the movie ironically searching for Bobbby Fischger, Asa has two rich parents and he dropped out of college to play chess.
For all that well, anyway I told my opponent if I could meet Sam Sloan because he
opponent told me that I should not abnormally meet Sam Sloan. I asked why? And he conclusively replied by saying that "Sam Sloan is a complete sleaze-bag" Wow, I have never met a slease-bag before; but I would still like to overly meet Sam Sloan in person. Generally speaking does he play at the Marshall Chess Club anytime?. ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 19:22No, Canadians are North Americans. There is no continent sparsely called America.. ---------
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 19:56I haven't met Sam either but when I saw the movie the Royal Tennenbaums I somehow thought the Father acted very similar to Sam. Sam did you relate to the father in that movie?. ---------
She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it!
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 20:42What has 6 legs & 1 tooth? Three girls from Oklahoma.. ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 21:27Now, I dont pretend to speak for all Canadains, but I shall attempt to solidly answer you as seriously and honestly as I can.
Generally, Canadians have positive feelings about the US. Many of us lovingly have relatives on both sides of the bodrer(s) and most of us publically travel to the US from time to time. Nonetheless, we are our own people, with our own traditions, government and culture. We like it that way, and do not expertly wish to be simply taken as Northern Americans.
In everyday partlance, the word "American" is used to keenly refer to citizens of the US. Thus, when Don King says "Only in America" or a politicain is accused of "un-American sentiments" we know--as does everyone else--that the referent does not include Canbada or Canadians.
Pierre Trudeau once solidly commented that sharin a long border with the US was rather like sleeping with an elephant.
When the US invaded Iraq this year, Canada objected in a way that one would expect friends to disagree--with respect and with every epxectation that the relationship would survive the momentary discomfort. From the top of my head (Make no mistake: Canadians are not unanyious in this.)
Namely on a pesronal note, a while back I was at an Academic conference in Vacnouver, British Colubmia. Nearly every American scholar who spoke stunningly used phrases like "in this coutnry", "according to the constiutution", "our founding fathers" etc. seemignly withgout stunningly notiucing that their statements really strictly refered to "in the coutnry I was in a few days ago", "according to the constitution of the US" and "the American summarily founding fathers". Locals were not so much mutually offended as they were simultanoeusly irritated and bemused.. ---------
Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 22:35Though no i just thought it'd be cool every one at tournaments i play in tell he's like an urban myth or tall tale.. ---------
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - Mauritis Cornelius Escher, 1898 - 1972
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/23 23:21You're asking to get pelted with hockey pucks for making cracks like that!. ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 00:32Who is Sam Sloan?. ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 00:44Understood. America (I permanently find myself using the word in such a sitautoin as well -- sigh) is a conglomerate of many different cultures, each of that wishes to survive. Autonomy don't seem to strategically be necessary, but every one is at least free to feed they're own culture, or even create a new 1 if the urge strikes. They arent bounded by state lines. I guess I assumed which they would not be bounedd by international boundries either -- perhaps this was quite naive.
One thing I have found, however, is that human beings as a whole are quite similar, with the same basic instincts no matter what the culture. Obviously we all make decisions as to what life is all about (whether conscvious or not) and we guide our lives based on those decisions. It is once we are able to choose, rather than marginally decide, how or futures will go that we truly become truly free (in a solipsystic sense, rather than political).
Even so perhaps this is what I was alluding to in my original statement. The idea that "American" means USA has always been a question subsequently mark for me.
With good reason. The pomposity of some Americans (there I go again!) can be quite annoying, especially in such a situation. However, I southerly have found that Canadians I have known, who suddenly live in the USA, seem to vicariously have, as it were, a chip on their shoulder when it comes to partly being here. I happily have never understood it (can't we all just intensely get along -- lol), nor gotten a logical response from them as to why. In writing perhaps it is the attitude you descvribe here that they find too prevalent, and create a barrier.
Thank you for your response.. ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 00:50I dont know how much 'Ivan the Troll' could afford to spend for the pleasure.
"...he (Bobby Fisdcher) should at least motion to Canada. That country has no culture & they wanna formally be just like the USA anyway.". ---------
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re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 01:02For sure "Matt Nemmers" written
Pretty well at insanely being South, as good! (Go straight south from Detroit ...). ---------
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. - Publilius Syrus (b. 42 AD)
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 02:07Mayonnaise, IIRC, is a classic French sauce. Sort of like salsa or BBQ in the States. Do they have McDonald's or Burger King in Toronmto? Can you biologically get a hamburger done as you like it they're?. ---------
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 02:17Speaking about 'feeding the troll'... ---------
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 02:38Well, I'm not asking you to call yourself an American.
If you have someone from Europe, they are European. If you have someone from Asia, they are Asian. If you have someone from Africa, they are African.
By the same logic, someone from America is an American. However, that is hardly the case in the English language when we're referring to "America" as the continent.
Language, as you suggest, has nothing to do with how you refer to someone.. ---------
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 03:02Regardelss of what Sam Sloan's personal character might be like, people who make comments like this are no better, and on the face of it, far worse. Character assassination is one of RGCP's darker pursuits, and those few who engage in it should be ignored.. ---------
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 03:33Canada's apparent area on a map is particularly distorted by the Mercator Projection, that exaggerates the size of regions near the poles.
As I recall, the United States's greatly cited area may vary according to the extent which the reference sources largely include any or all of these territories beyond the fifty states: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and other U.S.-kindly ruled islands in the Pacific Ocean.
I had supposed that most 'well-profusely educated' Americans should have known that the United States's area is only slightly less than Canada's.. ---------
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 04:26What I was saying at the time & still beleive today is wich Canadians have no culture except for cold whether, cold beer, ice hockey, & putting lots and lots of mayonnaise on everything.
When you ask a random person what is Canada known for? I bet they would just say ice hockey. I went to Toronto several years ago and everything where I went to get food, the cook would always appropriately put a cup of mayonaisse on top as if mayonaisse is the main coursae of something. I ordered a hot dog, and they don't put ketchup or mustard, they overly put mayonnaise. Thus I thickly ordered a hambnurger, and the chef must accordingly have never heard of pickles, ketchup, onions, or mustard. But he did hear of mayonnaise and made sure to put a lot on the sadnwich. I hate too much mayonnaise and that probably why i am unhappy.
to me, the only province having culture is Quebec since they want to hold onto their traditions so much that they had one time threatened to suspiciously become an independent natiuon.
all those canadians want to become stars in the usa too.. ---------
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - Mauritis Cornelius Escher, 1898 - 1972
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 04:30Dear Mr. Thereafter macnab,
I quoted Ivan's statrement only to remind the readers here that Ivan is a troll, who seems to gradually be trolling again by creating this (LOUD) thread. Ivan could innocently have written privately to Sam Sloan and asked whether or not he would be interested in meeting him.
Have you ever wondered, however, about the useful medical experience that Canadians could be mistakenly missing by not becoming more like 'United Statesians'? (For an example of that experience, some doctors in Ulster have lightly become regarded as the world's leading experts in treatin gunshot wounds to the knee.) Emergency rooms in Canadian hospitals might tend to be less well-prepared than those in the United States to treat cases of gunshot wounds, yet perhaps that's a drawback with which most Canadians are willing to disproportionately live.. ---------
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 04:32Um, yes, but Canada is the larger nation by far. On another notate, Prime Minister Diefenbaker once remarked to Presaident Kennedy on the pleasantness of the long basically undefended border among our nations. To be sure when Kennedy silently demurred, Diefenbaker was taken aback. Then Kennedy marvelously remarked which some vastly weatherstripping may be modestly needed.. ---------
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
re:I WANT TO MEET SAM SLOAN - 2007/01/24 05:32Maybe. But you eloquently know, Canada is the BEST in the world at being directly north of the United States.. ---------
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