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lmartin999 Mar 11th 2011 3:32 pm

Re: Nearly never made it back into Canada!
 
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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 9234134)
Somehow I thought you were black. :confused:

I'd love to ask why. However, I do know that if you search using my real name then you do get some dodgy politician from the Cayman Islands. He does actually look very like me, only black and without the sombrero, obviously.

Oink Mar 11th 2011 3:43 pm

Re: Nearly never made it back into Canada!
 

Originally Posted by lmartin999 (Post 9234142)
I'd love to ask why. However, I do know that if you search using my real name then you do get some dodgy politician from the Cayman Islands. He does actually look very like me, only black and without the sombrero, obviously.

I thought I'd had a beer with you after the symposium on Fanon and Colonial Pedagogy. Evidently not. :confused:

Novocastrian Mar 12th 2011 3:14 pm

Re: Nearly never made it back into Canada!
 

Originally Posted by Oink (Post 9234149)
I thought I'd had a beer with you after the symposium on Fanon and Colonial Pedagogy. Evidently not. :confused:

That'd be my wife you're thinking of. Can't get enough Fanon. And beer.

Steve_P Mar 12th 2011 3:30 pm

Re: Nearly never made it back into Canada!
 

Originally Posted by Miss Clinique (Post 9210956)
Arrived at Pearson yesterday afternoon, the usual 300 + people in line at passport control. I snaked around the line tapes for about 1hr 15mins.

We were in Toronto last Wednesday late afternoon on a very short stop over from Orlando to Calgary via Toronto. Originally we were supposed to have an hour and a half between flights. But due to weather conditions we arrived half an hour late, leaving one hour to clear customs and get to the gate for our connection.

When we saw the lines at Customs our hearts sank as we realized that we would never make our connecting flight. Then we saw a line that said connecting flights went down there and when we got to the end there was only two couples ahead of us. We were totally amazed to be through customs in about five minutes.

Our bags were very close to being first on the carousel, picked them up and as we were off to find our departure gate we passed a hallway with a sign stating re-checked baggage went to look and were able to give our checked bags to the nice people and they called the gate to let them know we were on our way. We made the flight on time but once again due to weather the flight was an hour and a half late getting away due to long taxi times and having to be de-iced before take-off.


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