Hi Rashida,

I'm somewhat familiar with O'Canada. I was in the Navy back in the 70s/80s and was stationed in upstate NY for 6 months in '77 where I visited Montreal and Mont Tremblant Provincial Park (skied there). I really wanted to see the Forum and cheer on les Habs but the timing wasn't right. A buddy of mine and I gave a guy from Guelp, Ont. a lift while we were on the road in Maine and we visited him at his college for a wild weekend. In 1981, I met a woman from Burnaby, BC while I was on leave in Austria and we spent a month traveling together in southern Europe. We were smitten with each other and promised to hook up when I got back stateside. We wrote a few times but I never saw her again. Kids! In the spring/summer of 1997, my wife Pat and I drove from Milwaukee to Fairbanks, AK and we saw quite a bit of western Canada. What a beautiful country, and very friendly folks. We spent a while in Edmonton. That's where I picked up "No worries" as my standard reply to someone begging for pardons.

Take care, Rashida.

No joke here (sorry)
Aboout "fins"

My Irish-descended family here on the East Coast USA also refers to five dollar bills as "fins."

Interesting, eh? I wonder why...

I've been loving everyone's puns and jokes.
thanks!!!