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On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:11 -0400, Rhino
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Doesn't Vancouver get rain basically every day from September through
June? (That's what I was told by an Ontario woman who moved out to
Vancouver for a job but who found the incessant rain so intolerable she >moved back after just two years.) I've got to believe you don't get a
lot of droughts out there. And even if you have 50 miles of forest
across the street, I can't remember ever hearing about a forest fire >menacing Vancouver - presumably because of all the rain.

No but definitely it sometimes seems that way.

I well remember the old Rolf Harris song 'Vancouver Town' which starts
with "I hit Vancouver in the blazing sun / on the 5th of February '61
/ from the 6th of February through till May it rained and poured all
night and day" and I remember one year where we had 41 straight days
with measurable (e.g. more than 1/100th of an inch) rain - the
newspapers were making jokes about Noah and his '40 days and 40
nights'

And I think I mentioned ages ago that when I was in grad school out
your way I went to see the first Rambo film mostly to see scenes of
home since it was filmed about 2 hrs drive E of Vancouver. (They
masqueraded the sets as Washington state but no one that knows
southern BC vs northern Washington would make that mistake)
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:30:52 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:11 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Doesn't Vancouver get rain basically every day from September through >>June?

But it's not real rain, is it? I mean it's the light drizzle that you
don't have an issue with walking in because it would take hours to get
soaked.

(That's what I was told by an Ontario woman who moved out to

Vancouver for a job but who found the incessant rain so intolerable she >>moved back after just two years.) I've got to believe you don't get a
lot of droughts out there. And even if you have 50 miles of forest
across the street, I can't remember ever hearing about a forest fire >>menacing Vancouver - presumably because of all the rain.

No but definitely it sometimes seems that way.

I well remember the old Rolf Harris song 'Vancouver Town' which starts
with "I hit Vancouver in the blazing sun / on the 5th of February '61
/ from the 6th of February through till May it rained and poured all
night and day" and I remember one year where we had 41 straight days
with measurable (e.g. more than 1/100th of an inch) rain - the
newspapers were making jokes about Noah and his '40 days and 40
nights'

And I think I mentioned ages ago that when I was in grad school out
your way I went to see the first Rambo film mostly to see scenes of
home since it was filmed about 2 hrs drive E of Vancouver. (They
masqueraded the sets as Washington state but no one that knows
southern BC vs northern Washington would make that mistake)

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On 2026-06-26 17:30:52 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:11 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Doesn't Vancouver get rain basically every day from September through
June? (That's what I was told by an Ontario woman who moved out to
Vancouver for a job but who found the incessant rain so intolerable she
moved back after just two years.) I've got to believe you don't get a
lot of droughts out there. And even if you have 50 miles of forest
across the street, I can't remember ever hearing about a forest fire
menacing Vancouver - presumably because of all the rain.

No but definitely it sometimes seems that way.

I well remember the old Rolf Harris

He's been evicted from history by "cancel culture".

song 'Vancouver Town' which starts with "I hit Vancouver in the blazing
sun / on the 5th of February '61 / from the 6th of February through
till May it rained and poured all night and day" and I remember one
year where we had 41 straight days with measurable (e.g. more than
1/100th of an inch) rain - the newspapers were making jokes about Noah
and his '40 days and 40 nights'

And I think I mentioned ages ago that when I was in grad school out
your way I went to see the first Rambo film mostly to see scenes of
home since it was filmed about 2 hrs drive E of Vancouver. (They
masqueraded the sets as Washington state but no one that knows southern
BC vs northern Washington would make that mistake)

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On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:15:28 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:34:32 -0400, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eaAq04NVIoI [short]

What the hell were the police thinking? If he just fed a random three
year old to crocodiles but can't be interviewed, that would seem to call >>for him being "sectioned" (the British term for confined to a mental >>health institution), not left free to commit more mayhem!

Yup - as they say in Britain:
Some honourable gentlemen: "Hear, hear"

Anybody that would do that should be off the street one way or another
- I'd prefer prison over psychiatric ward as there have been some
"interesting" cases where doctors will release someone from
psychiatric care MUCH easier than the prison system were.

(I'm thinking of one case near Vancouver where a man killed his
children and tried unsuccessfully to kill his wife. She moved to a new community but he had found her new home town and on release started
hanging around the Tim Horton's nearest her new home (all unbeknowst
to her - she didn't know he was even out of prison much less that he
had been able to find out where she now lived).

[For Americans who don't know, Tim Hortons is a very popular coffee
and donut chain in Canada]
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