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place. Placid rill-forming community on the edge of the Athabasca river in nothern Alberta. Chosen as a settlement site by the Hudson Bay Company in 1987 because of the ease with which sandstone boulders could be wrestled from the banks to anchor white-fish nets.
Home of the Weasel Scars lacrosse team, three-time NLL champs, and headquarters of the Canadian Portage Company.
Windshield-repair shops and piles of loose gravel crowd the edges of Klein Street, a dinosaur tomb attracts tourism dollars, and french lessons are available from the nubile lasses in the winter months.
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Home of the Weasel Scars lacrosse team, three-time NLL champs, and headquarters of the Canadian Portage Company.
Windshield-repair shops and piles of loose gravel crowd the edges of Klein Street, a dinosaur tomb attracts tourism dollars, and french lessons are available from the nubile lasses in the winter months.
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The canoe feels a bit unsteady. Hop out and see if a side-paddle fell off.
I think that was just the rill as we went through Athabasca.
I think that was just the rill as we went through Athabasca.
by gnostic1 August 6, 2012
Get the Athabascamug. place. Refreshing Canadian village untouched by time, grime or crime.
Situated on a gravelly glacial morraine just out of sight of the majestic Rocky mountains and very close to the rich fertile earth of Benalto Eckville's lack of oil deposits have kept it from the neo-industrialisation that has despoiled much of Alberta. Eckvillians, untouched by the trappings of ostentatious wealth displayed by their consanguinous neighbours in Benalto, revel in their Amish-like attachment to aging wooden vehicles and small poultry holdings. Nestled in their wooded canyon, well-served by an ice-highway in winter and government motor-sled service in summer, Eckville has become a haven for performance artists, accordian troupes and genetically modified geese enthusiasts.
A very camp "Bavarian Lawn Ornament Festival" featuring displays of Austrian Gnomes and Miniature Jockeys is held at the Putsch Hall in even-numbered years and usually attracts a good number of older germanic gentlemen holding boldly decorated beer steins and youg busty-blausen co-eds with shaved heads.
Clubs devoted to hunting elk, pond hockey, rock sorting, gravel amassing and duck breeding help to keep the populace amused through the long winters.
The long-planned Holocaust Memorial is on hold, since the needed permits have been denied, but a new windshield chip repair shop will open in the fall of 2012 to provide some needed jobs and bring some outsiders off the road.
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Situated on a gravelly glacial morraine just out of sight of the majestic Rocky mountains and very close to the rich fertile earth of Benalto Eckville's lack of oil deposits have kept it from the neo-industrialisation that has despoiled much of Alberta. Eckvillians, untouched by the trappings of ostentatious wealth displayed by their consanguinous neighbours in Benalto, revel in their Amish-like attachment to aging wooden vehicles and small poultry holdings. Nestled in their wooded canyon, well-served by an ice-highway in winter and government motor-sled service in summer, Eckville has become a haven for performance artists, accordian troupes and genetically modified geese enthusiasts.
A very camp "Bavarian Lawn Ornament Festival" featuring displays of Austrian Gnomes and Miniature Jockeys is held at the Putsch Hall in even-numbered years and usually attracts a good number of older germanic gentlemen holding boldly decorated beer steins and youg busty-blausen co-eds with shaved heads.
Clubs devoted to hunting elk, pond hockey, rock sorting, gravel amassing and duck breeding help to keep the populace amused through the long winters.
The long-planned Holocaust Memorial is on hold, since the needed permits have been denied, but a new windshield chip repair shop will open in the fall of 2012 to provide some needed jobs and bring some outsiders off the road.
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I'm nearly out of gas Sophie. Why don't we drive a few miles off the beaten path and get some gas and a few bags of gravel in Eckville?
Good choice Saul! If we're lucky the Rock Festival is this weekend.
Good choice Saul! If we're lucky the Rock Festival is this weekend.
by gnostic1 July 8, 2011
Get the Eckvillemug. n. the complex sentences, gestures, and facial expressions one uses when extracting oneself from a sticky situation.
v. useage of same.
v. useage of same.
1)Did you hear how Kara seamlessly employed blatant adlibbery when the electronics manager asked why six televisions were nestled in her car?
2) Don't try any of that adlibbery on me young man! I can smell the evil weed and see the cheerleaders leg!
2) Don't try any of that adlibbery on me young man! I can smell the evil weed and see the cheerleaders leg!
by gnostic1 January 4, 2011
Get the adlibberymug. adj phrase. Laudatory remark voiced when someone does anything of earth-shattering importance: usually used ironically.
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Nice work finishing up those carrots. You are the bolt.
Are you being sarcastic?
No man. You are totally the bolt.
Are you being sarcastic?
No man. You are totally the bolt.
by gnostic1 August 5, 2012
Get the the boltmug. v. phrase. British expression for emptying one's bladder. Also a sexual euphemism.
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Thanks awfully for the cucumber sandwiches my lady but I fear it is now time for draining the moat.
Sorry?
I need to take my corgi for a walk.
Pardon?
It's time to get my valet to lower my trouserings so I may lift my drawbridge and take care of the teathings.
Are you coming on to me?
No my majesty!
Pity.
Sorry?
I need to take my corgi for a walk.
Pardon?
It's time to get my valet to lower my trouserings so I may lift my drawbridge and take care of the teathings.
Are you coming on to me?
No my majesty!
Pity.
by gnostic1 September 24, 2012
Get the draining the moatmug. place. neglected, forlorn former gold-mining town located where Alaska, British Columbia and the Yukon Territory intersect. Since the placer deposits played out in 1899 it is no longer large enough or robust enough to be officially a town. It is, in fact, currently struggling to retain its hamlet status.
Novelty stores selling fool's gold to tourists, several petting zoos featuring wounded native fauna, a convalescent hospital featuring wounded natives, a used book store and a combination first-aid staion and bicycle repair shop can be found in the optimistically-named downtown area. A knick-knack maintenance facility is slated to open out by the abandoned Malaprop Mine in 2013.
Currently gravel production is the major industry with most of the heavy work being done by the local rivers and glaciers. Sorting, bagging and marketing is done through a co-operative association in conjunction with the Canadian Gravel Board.
Although there is currently no highway into the area a variety of cutlines and logging trails provide access and egress for ATV enthusiasts while a landing strip on the river accomodates tourists in bush-planes, who mostly come for the Northern Lights Fiesta and stay for the the abandoned mines where groups of chilly kids are often trapped.
A good variety of sports such as pond hockey, river hockey and lake hockey keep the locals amused. A school is in the planning stages and amateur theatrics are staged at the Generals Store most month-ends.
Novelty stores selling fool's gold to tourists, several petting zoos featuring wounded native fauna, a convalescent hospital featuring wounded natives, a used book store and a combination first-aid staion and bicycle repair shop can be found in the optimistically-named downtown area. A knick-knack maintenance facility is slated to open out by the abandoned Malaprop Mine in 2013.
Currently gravel production is the major industry with most of the heavy work being done by the local rivers and glaciers. Sorting, bagging and marketing is done through a co-operative association in conjunction with the Canadian Gravel Board.
Although there is currently no highway into the area a variety of cutlines and logging trails provide access and egress for ATV enthusiasts while a landing strip on the river accomodates tourists in bush-planes, who mostly come for the Northern Lights Fiesta and stay for the the abandoned mines where groups of chilly kids are often trapped.
A good variety of sports such as pond hockey, river hockey and lake hockey keep the locals amused. A school is in the planning stages and amateur theatrics are staged at the Generals Store most month-ends.
Never mind Anchorage. This weekend we should visit Gravelgold. We could maybe go to a petting zoo and visit that cantankerous author who lives in the woods near there.
Have you had a Rabies shot?
No, but he has ... so we should be safe.
Have you had a Rabies shot?
No, but he has ... so we should be safe.
by gnostic1 August 23, 2011
Get the Gravelgoldmug. n. secret notification, usually from one nurse to another, that a patient has been incontinent of feces or urine; a signal used by care staff who wish to avoid the clean-up or who wish to save the patient's dignity by removing visitors from the room.
This is a funny time for emergency blood work. And what the heck is a serum reiff-trenchel osmolality?
Don't be a dweeb doctor. That was just a soiler alert.
Don't be a dweeb doctor. That was just a soiler alert.
by gnostic1 April 21, 2011
Get the soiler alertmug.