Conference kaosws::canada

    All museums, theatres, cinemas, restaurants, etc. will be frozen shut!
    
    
    
    
    Disregard that.  All of the above will be open during the winter
    months.  Additionally, your friend will be able to walk on water, or
    skate on it (the Rideau Canal, a sluggish branch of the pan-hemispheric
    Grand Canal, is the world's longest skating rink when the water gets
    stiff).
    
    Lots of skiing (Alpine and cross-country), tobogganing, snow-shoeing,
    tongue-to-pipe contests, snow snake hunting, frozen road-apple hockey,
    etc.
    
    Enjoy,
    
    Pat

	Pat,

	Saw my first snow snake of the year yesterday, it was foragging
	in my garbage for snow bags. Unfortunatly the damn things make
	such a mess when they break open the bags but I hate to kill them,
	they have such beautiful colouring.

	Charlie

    Charles, stay away from snow drifts!! That's where they nest.
    
    I read about a kid in Clyde Forks who walked too close to a snow drift. 
    It was a gruesome sight when they finally retrieved his mutilated body.
    He was alive, mind, but still he was a mess.  He's now living
    anonymously as a snow diviner in Florida.
    
    Korff

Does anyone have any recipes for snow snakes?

I looked up snow snakes in my game cookbook but it wasn't listed?

		Famished

    
    You cook for them with recipes?  Don't they get spoiled?
    
    They'll never go back to Snake Chow after that.
     

    I've got one!

    Place one or more snow snakes into boiling water
    Stir for 5 minutes and reduce heat
    Place contents into glass bowl
    Add 1 package of Jello brand gelatin.
    Stir frequently for 2 minutes
    Allow contents to cool at room temperature
    Refrigerate



    Yum Yum!

re-1
Sounds tantalizing.

I'm concerned about the humanity of the term "Placing them in to boiling water".
Are they live like lobster when you place them in? Do they change color? Not
yellow I hope.

If one does a roast of snow snake what is the perfered method of thickening
the gravy?

	Snakes alive, I don't mean to be venomous, but this note
	has quickly slithered off topic....

	Vivien, there isn't much comparison between Toronto and Ottawa.
	Ottawa is probably the most anally-retentive city in Canada, 
	particularly from an entertainment perspective.  At least in
	T.O. they don't roll up the sidewalks at 7:30.  I suppose though,
    	if your visiting your friend, you could always catch a play at
    	the NAC (yawn), or skate on the Canal (zzzzz), or, lemme see, nope,
    	thats about it.

-Ian

    Churchill Manitoba is the most anally retentive city in Canada.


    Hope this helps.
    
    Glenn

	Actually, if visiting Ottawa, your friend could visit the exciting
	and dynamic town of Carleton Place. It is only 30 minutes from Ottawa
	and the activities there are endless. You can see the fights at the
	Queens, or watch the babes pump gas at the Canadian tire gas bar,
	or visit the cow pattie museum on the outskirts of town...

	I forget them all...actually, Ian, you live there, can you
	elaborate on any others?

	Partied out in box town,

	Huang Overagen

    
    	nah, ya pretty well covered all the bases there H, thanks for
    	the input.

    Re: 879.7  ..thickening gravy...
    
    Make sure you screeze the lumps out of the snakes before you attempt to
    make gravy from the broth.
    
    Now, does anyone have a recipe for ice worms?
    
    I was out last night on the Mississippi with a flashlight and the ice
    was alive with the little devils!!
    
    Also, does anyone know of a safe way to get them out of the ice?
    
    Knarf Carjunk

    
    You use trained zebra mussels.  Just don't let the little devils off 
    their little harness.  They tend to head for the US.
    
     

re 879.13

Try marinating the ice worms in 3 oz of Scotch for 3-5 minutes.
Then enjoy to your hearts content.

    Have you considered Sarnia ? For complete information, check 53.*.

    OK is it me you all you lot?  I have totally lost the plot!!!
    All meek and mind little me asked was information on my friend either
    going to Toronto or me ottawa?
    
    What's this about snakes?  worms and cooking receipes?  
    Anyway thank you for the reading - It gave me an insane moment out of
    time!
    
    Vivien

>    Anyway thank you for the reading - It gave me an insane moment out of
>    time!
    
    You must be new here.  In this conference, it's *sanity* that gets only
    a "moment of time".  To be expected, I suppose, in a conference where
    you have to type the national anthem to get in:
    
    	Notes> O Canada
    
    -Mark

    In fact, I enter the note by typing:
    
    Note> Open can

    Is it a can of Molson Canadian?

    
    I think we've opened another can of worms here...
    
    
    Sorry, I don't know what came over me.  
    
    
    
    

    Can be...

    re: .18
    
    :---------)
    

    thanks for that, i can sleep at night now!! and why didn't it go down
    to the market and buy the snow bags like everyone else!!