Year of the Dog

[dropdeadfred]

what a dog of a week

[dropdeadfred]

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=10026170

[thescientist]

to a prosperous year for all my fellow dogs.....

[mick]

o.k., the year of the dog. nice chat.

[occams_razor]

I don't like signatures, mick. I am usually sick of them after seeing them 100 times or less, so I have them turned off. Plus they make the site slower and half of them are graphics files that are blocked.

[mick]

hi occams, i decided to carry on snoopy for the year of the dog.

how do you like it.

how about all of us do the same?

[ergo sum]

HONG KONG, Feb. 3 — Thousands of people lined up to see Mickey Mouse this week. But when they could not get in, they got grumpy.


Crowds of angry Chinese, brandishing tickets after they were turned away at the entrance to Disneyland in Hong Kong, had shouting matches with the police and security guards. Some people clambered over the heavy green steel gates as guards rushed to close them. One unhappy child had to be passed by the throng atop the spikes of the gates to his parents inside, in a scene played repeatedly on local television.


The culprit was a discount-ticket promotion gone awry. Disneyland had failed to anticipate the rush of vacationers from mainland China during the Chinese New Year. As the crowds swelled, the park closed its gates repeatedly and stopped admitting people who had bought tickets in advance.


Even the Hong Kong government issued a statement late Thursday calling on Disneyland to improve its ticketing and guest entry procedures. The park’s management has issued a public apology to disappointed ticket holders.


By Friday morning, the crowds had subsided, as most Hong Kong residents refrained from attending the park and the flow of visitors became more orderly. But the lines in the park were still long, even by Disney standards, and the park announced it would not sell further tickets at the gate and was temporarily suspending Internet sales.


The problems arose last month when Disney introduced a discounted one-day ticket plan that allows the holder to use the ticket any time within the next six months except on designated “special days” when the park anticipates big crowds.


In Hong Kong, a four-day public holiday for Chinese New Year began last Saturday and ended on Tuesday. The park designated these as special days. But in China, the public holiday for Chinese New Year lasts a full week. So the mainlanders were able to use their discounted Disney tickets on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.


Mainland tour agencies had bought large batches of discounted tickets and brought in busloads of mainlanders to Hong Kong this week. The park said it would review its policies on what days to label as special.

[occams_razor]

Hi Mick,

Illinois. Got ya. Brrrr.

[mick]

the heat isn't bad excep for july and august. we have the pool and a/c to cool down.

most people leave these months to their other homes.
most of them have rv's to travel with.

about 300 miles north it is four season.

i know about the heat.

it is like we went from one extreme to another leaving illinois.

[mick]

wow, that is interesting for the zero weather. i hope you are having a ncie day.

[occams_razor]

Yup, last year was brutal.

Arizona sounds nice. I would miss the seasons. And heat kills me.

[mick]

i'm in that beautiful state of the canyons. always good weather here except for sand storms.

yuma, az. i like it here because almost any way we travel is about central to yuma.

we are going to get an oil refinery in our area soon. tacna and wellton is the area for the refinery.

say that is good to get some golfing in your area. you have had some bad storms there last year.

[occams_razor]

People were golfing here, Massachusetts, this weekend. Snowed on Monday though. Supposed to get hit hard next week. Where are you at?

[mick]

doing good. health wise too. weather is great. golfing is very nice. fees aren't bad with cart $45.

[mnfats]

mick-For Jan. it has been fantastic. Warmest Jan. on record. It has not gone below zero once and has had highs mostly in the 30's. Today it's going to get up to 47. I know that still sounds cold to most of you, but for us it is warm.

The St. Paul Winter Carnival is having some problems. They are trying to make ice sculptors. They work in the middle of the night & cover them during the day. The only outside ice rinks you can skate on are the ones that have refrigeration pipes underneath.

All the cold weather went from the pole down into Russia.

[occams_razor]

Yup, agree totally. How you doing, mick?

[mick]

hi occams, very nice. heaven, i'm in heaven. thank heaven for little doggies. BEAGLES?

[occams_razor]

[dropdeadfred]

yes he is..

Snoopy Rocks!

[mick]

wooof, glad you like some of the dog of the year trials. i have one so far that shows snoopy very well.

snoopy is sharp as a tack in this one.

[dropdeadfred]

wooof wooof

[mick]

o.k.,

[mick]

i have it. can't sort it.

[mick]

pix,

[mick]

pix,

[mick]

cuba or bust

[mick]

lunar?

[mick]

hey where is derf?

[mick]

nice little snoopy.

[mick]

COMMEMORATING 2006 - YEAR OF THE BEAGLE! SNOOPY?

[mick]

mnfats, how is the weather in your area?

[mnfats]

mick-Up here we have the Mall of America. A very large mall and they had an amusement park inside called Camp Snoopy. This year they couldn't come to terms with United Media, so all reference to Peanuts character had to be removed. It's too bad considering Charles Schultz was from this area.

[dropdeadfred]

yep.. snoopy is our dog

[mick]

so now we have our year of the dog.

[mick]

another cool one from the library.

[dropdeadfred]

mick..

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=5090

just started a fun board

[dropdeadfred]

I'll have to dig deep into that web site

[mick]

o.k. some snoopy stuff.

[mick]

hey fred, they got the snoopy's gear there.

[dropdeadfred]

very cool!

[mick]

i have this if you like snoopy's updates.

http://www.snoopy.com/

[dropdeadfred]

nope.. just snoopy

[mick]

did you go into search for the pix of snoopy and woodstock?

[dropdeadfred]

yeah go woody

[mick]

i think woodstock has a chance too. neato, very nice.

[dropdeadfred]

[mick]

hi FA, i believe in these assets. i was thinking adding to the pix for the year of the dog.

[FinancialAdvisor]

Hi mick, I dunno... should I be prepared for something?

Got a lil' $GOLD

Buncha $ILVER...

anything else? ;)

[mick]

yes , i love those nags.

[mick]

hi mnfats, all the person has to do is shake her booty.

very nice...