duty free

[Paul Pless]

At least there's still one thing that's a joyful experience at the United States/Canada border crossing. . .

[botebum]

Yeah? Maybe for you. I had to turn around about a thousand feet before the duty free shop.
Can'tada ... America's Hat

Doug

[Paul Pless]

Yeah? Maybe for you. I had to turn around about a thousand feet before the duty free shop.
Can'tada ... America's Hat

Doug

An extra nice thing about Canadian Duty Free is that many of the sale bottles are liters instead of fifths. While Kat and I were mostly shopping quality, i.e. Grand Manier, Ron Zacapa 23, Basil Hayden, etc, etc. . . we did run across four college students buying a 4.5 liter display bottle of Jamesons for $45.00!

[botebum]

... we did run across four college students buying a 4.5 liter display bottle of Jamesons for $45.00!

Would you be interested in running a small mail-order operation?

Doug

[Captain Intrepid]

we did run across four college students buying a 4.5 liter display bottle of Jamesons for $45.00!

Nothing like a Texas Mickey to make a weekend memorable and forgettable at the same time!

[Paul Pless]

Would you be interested in running a small mail-order operation?

Doug

You mean like mailing myself a box of Cuban cigars from the Canada side?

[Meli]

Nothing like a Texas Mickey to make a weekend memorable and forgettable at the same time!

Must not... must not...

[Captain Intrepid]

Please do! Mental filters are smart, but boring. :P

[Meli]

Mickey is another one of those colloquialisms

[Captain Intrepid]

So... penis? Here a mickey is a small bottle of booze, and a texas mickey is a ridiculously huge bottle of booze.

[Meli]

no the other sex.
It's a local term I havent heard for years, not actually vulgar but in the context you wrote?

Never mind,

[stevebaby]

You mean like mailing myself a box of Cuban cigars from the Canada side?

The Naval Dockyard where I used to work had a well equipped gym built and paid for by the employees. It was financed by buying duty-free cigarettes from sailors and reselling them outside. This was illegal and the Naval Police were well aware of it.
Unfortunately for them, the base was big enough to warrant its own post office, so the sailors simply posted the cartons of cigarettes to their home address. The NP needed a warrant to search mail, for each and every parcel so it really wasn't worth their while.Then the sailors worked out that they didn't actually have to post the cigarettes. If they wrapped them up and put a stamp on it, it became "mail" and they could walk through the gate carrying their cigarette carton shaped "mail" with impunity.

[Paul Pless]

Here's another active nest box, at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. 4 eggs, due to start hatching yesterday, and I think one did.

odd. . .

[Donn]

I could swear I was in the Peregrine thread.

[David W Pratt]

Maybe you wandered.

[B_B]

no the other sex.
It's a local term I havent heard for years, not actually vulgar but in the context you wrote?

Never mind,

No, in the interest of international communication and understanding we NEED to know

[Dan McCosh]

I thought you were filling up with the tax-free diesel fuel.

[Paul Pless]

I thought you were filling up with the tax-free diesel fuel.

I didn't notice a duty free fuel stop at the Port Huron crossing. . .

[Dan McCosh]

I didn't notice a duty free fuel stop at the Port Huron crossing. . .

Wrong bridge. It's at the Ambassador Bridge, where your tax dollars go directly to the owner.

[Paul Pless]

where your tax dollars go directly to the owner.

Yeah Matty Maroun is pretty clever.