MacPuffins - Got them all!

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MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Z00 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:10 pm

I found the last one needed to complete the set of 21 on the bay - CHEAP!

YAY

1975 - Cape Breton Map
1976 - Steam Train
1977 - Girl Guides
1978 - Hydrofoil
1979 - Piper
1980 - Fortress Louisbourg
1981 - Bluenose
1982 - Canso Causeway
1983 - Scottish Dancer
1984 - Silver Dart
1985 - Sydney Bicentennial
1986 - Highlands National Park
1987 - Miners' Museum
1988 - Gaelic College's Crest
1989 - Port Hawkesbury
1990 - Canadian Coast Guard College
1991 - Alexander Graham Bell Club
1992 - St. Peters Canal
1993 - Englishtown Ferry
1994 - Rita's Tea Room
1995 - Sydney & Louisburg Railway Station
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby nero12345 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:13 pm

ALL I CAN SAY IS SWEET!!!!
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Z00 » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:28 pm

Now I need a MacPuffin abum.
Guess I'll have to look at a generic one and make my own.
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Morsecode » Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:25 pm

Cool. What they look like?

They are all Cape Breton themed?
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby twentybux » Mon Mar 19, 2012 5:39 am

Good for you! Congrats!
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby nero12345 » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:07 am

Funny yet strange story about the Canso causeway. When building this causeway to connect Cape Breton to the Mainland workers were working on both sides dumping tons and tons of rock and dirt into one of the deepest channels in North America. Trucks thats were dumping didn't always dump on steady ground and at least a dozen or so slide off and are now permenantly buried in the causeway. it became normal practice to dump your rocks with the door open so you could jump if you felt the truck goin sideways. you know Zoo your half way there in becoming an honorary Caper by having this collection. :lol: . Could your life get any better.
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Morsecode » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:45 am

Ahh...driving the causeway at night in a storm. What could be more of an adrenaline rush? :shock:
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Z00 » Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:52 pm

I have always loved The Cape.
It has been too many years since I have been there. Spent a week camped in the parking lot of the College at St. Annes during the competitions one year. Drove the full round of the Cabot trail. Had some awesome lobster at a restaurant at the north of the trail. Edison's granddaughters were having a yard sale, bought some tetrahedrons that he used in experiments.
So these coins bring back a lot of fond memories.

My mother's side of the family is from the Antigonish area. Her mother was born in NS.
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Morsecode » Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:15 pm

I think you mean Bell's grand-daughters, not Edison.

But, hey...you did say it was a long time ago :D
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Re: MacPuffins - Got them all!

Postby Z00 » Mon Mar 19, 2012 6:18 pm

Morsecode wrote:I think you mean Bell's grand-daughters, not Edison.

But, hey...you did say it was a long time ago :D

Ya, my bad.
It WAS 40 years ago! Oh well.
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