Music is important
*cough* Hello, long-time lurker, first-time poster. Please be gentle.

Anyway, living as I do in the vast northern wastes of Canada, road trips are an important part of life. I have a group of friends that I go on a lot of trips with, travelling in a beige Toyota Camry lovingly known as the Kegmobile. And over time, the car has collected a fair collection of CDs for in-flight entertainment, music that has led to some entertaining traditions.

We have a lot of movie scores, which can be fun on their own (there's nothing quite like passing a big group of trucks while the Jurassic Park theme blares), but there are certain tracks we reserve for certain situations. For instance, there's a particular place we tend to pull off for coffee and gas, as it's a few hours from home and on the way to places we want to go. As we pull in to this fairly dull chain coffee shop in a suburban strip mall (here it is on Street View, so you can revel in it's dullness), we always play Blunt Instrument" from the Casino Royale soundtrack. Preferably timed so that the last minute of it is going just as we're parking.

But the best of our traditions, I think, is when we return home, with another successful trip behind us. As we're getting off the highway, we put on the Ewok Celebration and End Credits from Return of the Jedi. Personally, I strongly recommend it at the end of a long trip, as it always makes me feel very triumphant, especially if we encountered hardship on the journey (flat tires when it's -15 C are not fun).

We have other traditions, of course, but these two are the best, in my mind.
(Canadave, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 23:30, 29 replies)

Are you sure that's Ontario?
It looks like Texas, except with funny names.
(dingomart thought he was fluent in bile, just not like this, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 23:49, closed)

Hang on!!!
There's a giant castle in the background! You live in Camelot, not Canada.
( difficultchild, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 23:55, closed)

Hi, thanks for posting.
It's always great to see a new poster on b3ta, we're really glad you came.
The only thing is, and I hate to bring this up, but it must be said, the people who run this website hate Canadians. I'm not sure why, they mutter darkly about some atrocities from the last war, but you'd fit in a lot better here if you pretended to be from Belgium.
And also, claim to be a Mayor.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 0:08, closed)

Canadians are wannabe French
and the French can fuck right off, eh
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 2:44, closed)

Nah, that's just the fools in Quebec.
The rest of the population are quite happy with speaking English.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:07, closed)

what's that all aboot, eh?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:40, closed)

Fucked if I know, and I'm one of them.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:53, closed)

A Quebecois or Canadian?
Because you simply can't be both! Unless you're a subversive . . secretly gathering intelligence on the Bloc
(SomeGirl needs more sleep, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 17:32, closed)

The latter.
There's not much intelligence in the Bloc to gather.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 1:12, closed)

Pay no mind. . .
I'm a canuck too. I've been lurking here since the early 2000's and only mustered up the effort to join last year. Mostly because I moved well north (Saskatoon) but I come from Trenton ;) so was pleasantly surprised to see Reid's (big silly castle) in your google map pic!
(SomeGirl needs more sleep, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 5:02, closed)

Saskatoon?
Isn't that the village which appears only once every hundred years?
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:09, closed)

might as well be, middle of bloody nowhere really

(SomeGirl needs more sleep, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 17:25, closed)

Friends of mine,
used to have the soundtracks from Grease and Little Shop of Horrors, on near constant rotation in the car. Drove me up the wall.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:04, closed)

I love the idea of the Jurassic Park soundtrack blaring!
Ah Tim Horton's! One of those places gave me much needed shelter at a freeeezing cold Niagara Falls.
( awayfromthenumbers, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:17, closed)

One of my pet hates is
the phrase "long-time lurker, first-time poster" why can't anyone admit they are new? Do people think Oh well must have been here since the start, extra kudos? /Rant


Btw welcome to b3ta
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:32, closed)

That, and any of the many variations on "pearoast"
are like nails on a blackboard, for me.

Funnily enough, nails on a blackboard don't bother me at all. Polystyrene does, though.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:41, closed)

Definately MM
It just brings me out in a fit of rage hulk style when I see it.

Nails down a blackboard are fine for me also, I think the whole thing is over rated.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:50, closed)

Now that schools have moved on to whiteboards,
what are future generations going to use as a reference point?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:03, closed)

arse rape

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:08, closed)

They were doing the whole arse rape thing when I was at school.
Lot tougher the arse rape was when I were a nipper, kids get dumbed down arse rape nowadays.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:11, closed)

It's not rape if they don't say no.
Chloroform is your friend.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:53, closed)

What if they have no tongue?

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 11:11, closed)

No rimming for you, then.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 11:13, closed)

i am chewing on polystyrene as i type.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:58, closed)

AAAAaaaaaaargh!
Swimming lessons were hell, for me, as the only thing worse than dragging fingers across a wet float, is rubbing one float against another.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:02, closed)

Not a fan of X-Ray Spex, then?
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:05, closed)

Arf!

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:09, closed)

And *pop*
for first posts.

Even though I think I may have done that myself.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 10:44, closed)

I start every significant journey with East Bound and Down
from Smokey and the Bandit.

Jerry Reed is the man.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jul 2011, 9:49, closed)