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JugglingReferee Fri Aug 13, 2010 09:18am
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Originally Posted by Ref_in_Alberta (Post 688605)
Mike was hired this week which makes him the 1st Canadian official to get the job.

Congrats, Mike!
Sorry - amend my post to read "...invited to am NBA tryout camp."

I'll agree that nobody has reached the level he has.

constable Sun Aug 22, 2010 02:26am
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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett (Post 685716)
I clicked on the link to his picture and he seems to be using a Fox 52.6 whistle. That's the metric version of the Fox 40.

Gotta love how American's knock the metric system when they are one of only 3 countries in the world who are still 50 years behind the times..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...on_map.svg.png

canuckrefguy Sun Aug 22, 2010 04:46pm
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Originally Posted by constable (Post 689476)
Gotta love how American's knock the metric system when they are one of only 3 countries in the world who are still 50 years behind the times..
Yeah, congratulations to the USA for being on par with those gloriously modern 21st century democracies Burma and Liberia :D

BillyMac Sun Aug 22, 2010 06:32pm
Burma-Shave ...
 
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Originally Posted by canuckrefguy (Post 689573)
Burma
Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.

mbyron Sun Aug 22, 2010 08:27pm
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Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 689580)
Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.
Whose program? That of the brutally repressive regime that promulgated the name change?

There's more politics than political correctness in that name change.

canuckrefguy Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:13pm
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Originally Posted by BillyMac (Post 689580)
Hey. It's the 21st century. Let's get with the program. It's Myanmar.
Only if you recognize the brutal military dictatorship running the country.

Which I DO NOT.

Long live BURMA :cool:

Kingsman1288 Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:12am
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Originally Posted by canuckrefguy (Post 689610)
Only if you recognize the brutal military dictatorship running the country.

Which I DO NOT.
Neither does he.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...llpaperkr8.jpg

We don't need the metric system when we have him. BTW, the most recent one (set in Burma) was actually surprisingly decent.


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