Puzzle Description:

Again this will be familiar to our Canadian contingent. I apologize if it's too easy a solve even with blots but I hope you enjoy it still.

#1: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Jul 3, 2016

Home Hardware.

And I was so proud of myself. Enjoy your boot john :)

I guess I will need to take a trip to Canada to see some of these things.

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Way to go John. I'm sorry I cannot endow you with a fur lined FBA so I hope you will enjoy the regular old fashioned type. Thx again for participating gang. :)

I enjoyed solving this puzzle, especially with the blots. I also like the logo.

Totally enjoyable puzzle, Aldege. challenging enough to be fun without getting frustrated.

Instead of sending it by Canada Post, you could just have it walk to Toronto - that would get it to me faster. It's only about 1500 km (that's almost 1000 miles for those of you who are from one of the three metrically challenged countries in the world - there's Libya, Myanmar, and one other that doesn't come to mind, but I suppose that it is about as backward as the first two).

I am happy to have easy blot puzzles to solve. They build my confidence and skill for solving the harder blots. Thank you.

Thx Kathy. It really is a cool logo. I've gotten a little off track with my theme here. I started with products and now it's become just company's logo's. I guess we can do both.lol. I'm glad blots work out for solvers,but I will probably mix those up with puzzles without blots. I know some solvers like tough ones as well. :)

Thx Teresa. :)

John I am so glad you won this. You are one of the funniest guys I know.(next to me of course). I so enjoy your sense of humour and I know others appreciate it too. I will in fact let it walk to Toronto to speed delivery up,and I'll put one of my wife Niki's socks in there with it which should get it there even faster.( BKA Express Mail). Did you mean backward as or ass country like the good old USA. Oh John that boot is going to make a stop over in Hamilton to watch The Ti-Cats kick the crap out of The Argo's. :)

Thx Vesta and your very welcome. :)

How nice, John. You indicate there are three countries that don't use kms. Libya, Myanmar, and one you don't remember. That third would be the good old US of A. So you don't remember who we are and think we're backward, huh? :)

I found this interesting: The UK switched to metric in 1965, and this happened only because the industry forced this. UK companies were simply having too much a hard time trading with European countries. Even 50 years later, many Britons still refuse to move entirely to metric. Distances are still measured in miles, yards and inches, weight in pounds and stones, even pints and gallons are still used.

Yes, it can take a *long* time to convert.

Canada switched to metric in the 70's. Distances are commonly used in km, speeds in km/h - both of those are used often enough that the standard road signs get people converted very quickly. Temperatures are only reported in C, but there are lots of older people that still think in F (with varying degrees of ability in mental conversion). Recipes still use cups, teaspoons, table spoons, etc. - you can't just through away great-gramma's family recipe book. However, liquids are sold in litres and millilitres, (albeit frequently in strange numbers such as soda pop coming in 541 ml bottles to match some number of American fluid ounces so that the same bottle can be made and used across the border with just a label change). Lumber is sold in feet, with the standard 2x4 being 1 3/4 inches by 3 3/4 inches, of course. (It is 2x4 *before* it gets milled smooth - except that if you are renovating an older house, you'll find 2x4s that are a real 2x4 after milling. Weight is mixed between pounds and kilos - mostly metric but older people still only understand body weight in pounds (Canada never used stones, though). Football fields are measured in yards (110, rather than the "tiny" American 100 yard fields, but that pre-dates metric conversion and has relation to the fact that 100 meters is about 111 yards. Canadian football only gets 3 down instead of 4 before the team has to have earned a new first down; but it does share the basic rules and the use of the word football to indicate a game in which feet rarely come in contact with the ball, unlike the game that most of the world calls football and we north americans call soccer).

Back in the 80's I heard of a person who did not convert his watch to daylight time in the summer - he didn't believe in that metric time; but otherwise there was no change required for metrification.

The one change that got made in that conversion that I've never really absorbed is rating gas consumption of vehicles. They switched from miles per gallon to litres per 100 kilometres, inverting the fraction as well as changing all the scaling number. So, small is now good and big is now bad. That is just a bit too tricky to convert mentally.

The US has made a few halfhearted attempts to change, but they fizzled due to lack of interest.

Arizona doesn't like that metric time, either. :)

Darn, I thought this was Husqvarna.

A long time ago, when my brother and I were teenagers, my brother was on a team that raced motorcycles. One day, my brother told his friend on the racing team (who had been a family friend since they were in grade school, and who had gone to the same high school that my mother taught at) "Hey Larry, mom just got a Husky. A Husqvarna." Naturally, Larry's first thought was of Husqvarna motorcycles, and thinking of our mom was seriously considering it as a likely possibility. Then he was shown the new Husky - a Husqvarna sewing machine.

Oh, and Husqvarna is not a Canadian company - it is Swedish.

I didn't read closely enough to notice the "Canadian" part. It was just my first thought when I saw the logo :D

Good job on the logo Aldege. Knew what it was right away

Thx Susan. I figured you would get it. :)

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