Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 386338)

Hank is correct. "Aboriginal" is a common term for First Nations people in Canada. It's in the Constitution! http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/annex_e.html#II

For example, I took "Aboriginal Law" in Law School. It was not about Australians.

First Nations people in Canada often refer to themselves as Aboriginal. And land claims are described in court decisions as assertions of "aboriginal rights."

And I know how you kids like cites, so here are some more:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=A1ARTA0000015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigi...ples_in_Canada
http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com..._rights_canada

You're welcome, Hank.

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 386338)

Hank is correct. "Aboriginal" is a common term for First Nations people in Canada. It's in the Constitution! http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/const/annex_e.html#II

For example, I took "Aboriginal Law" in Law School. It was not about Australians.

First Nations people in Canada often refer to themselves as Aboriginal. And land claims are described in court decisions as assertions of "aboriginal rights."

And I know how you kids like cites, so here are some more:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=A1ARTA0000015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborigi...ples_in_Canada
http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com..._rights_canada

You're welcome, Hank.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 386345)

You all will be excited to hear that I will now be honeymooning in Bali here:

http://www.starwoodhotels.com/pub/me...e.68570_md.jpg
(And yes, that is your personal pool and cabana.)

as opposed to the Four Seasons. Deals are amazing right now! That is all.

TM

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 386341)

Damn. Learn something new. I need a trip to Nunavit.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 386347)

Should Aboriginal be capitalized in this context? I always thought aboriginal was a general term that mean "native," whether refering to people or other things.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 386281)

Last night I dreamed I was moving into a dorm room. Everyone else on the hall was moving in instruments- several kids had drum kits. While I've had college dreams in the past, this was different because everyone moving in was 18 or so, and in the dream I knew I was way too old. Like at first I thought (in the dream) "welll there were older guys on my dorm floor, so this will cool." Then i realized they weren't this old, you know.

Does this mean:

1- I'm too intrusive in my children's lives and need to back out?
2- I need to grow up and stop acting like a kid?
3- Perhaps the instruments foreshadow a very chaotic period upcoming in my life?
4- Perhaps the dream means there is something missing in my life that I need to educated to overcome?

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 386349)

I am not trying to rub anything in.

Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 386337)

AoN, I will be filing a class action suit (Ironweed, and all others similarly situated, versus University of Notre Dame, Pope Benedict the Whatever, Father Guido Sarducci, and Charley Weiss) shortly.

http://hoopedia.nba.com/images/thumb..._Dame_logo.gif

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 386348)

Very swank. The flight will be hellacious (unless the wedding's not on the East Coast) but it looks worth it.

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller (Post 386343)

Is Nunavit someplace in Australia?

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 386349)

It's actually Nunavut. with a "u". :) There is a smiley, because I'm actually in a not bad mood today so I am not trying to rub anything in.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 386368)

If I went there, I'd know that.

;) I'm putting a smiley in as an alternative to the otherwise snarky and suggestive reparte with which I would normally respond.

;) ...

Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 386382)

what is reparte? do you mean repartee?

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 386348)

Very swank. The flight will be hellacious (unless the wedding's not on the East Coast) but it looks worth it.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 386385)

I've done the flight a few times before (like 3), so I know it truly sucks. The last time I did it (over 15 years ago), I was in coach and got the number of the smokin' hot stewardess (who I never got to bang while I was in Singapore because I was way too nice to her on the phone and invited her to dinner at my family's house when she really just wanted to screw*), so that made it easier.

This time, the price will be the same for business as coach because of Amex's companion ticket program. That should help in a much better way than the non-putting-out Cathay stewardess did.

TM