Alert, Canada. Most northern city in the world.

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― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"city"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a friend that worked at the army base there for a while.
he is completely mad.

also they get subsidized beer.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

So named for the effect on visitor's nipples.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

most of Canada has that effect, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Alert "Hotels Reservation Service"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Canada (noun): large country in North America; corruption of Iroquois word "ka-na-ta" meaning "pointy nipples"

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

pics

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

where is the northernmost point you've ever been to? (should I start a thread?)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Alert is just north of all of Greenland as shown on this map

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil, yes!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks to gareth for the link.

what yahoo thinks of Alert, Canada

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Apologies for shitty grammar in title.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Alert's history

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/alertsign.GIF

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/directions.GIF

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/bigbunny.GIF

Alert, Canada wildlife!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/foxcute2.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/colorful.GIF

Twilight ("day time") in late February

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shepson/Alert/Sunrise.GIF

First sunrise of 2000 in Alert, Canada. (guessing later that afternoon from the above pic)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

More pics from this great site

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Time for a FAP

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll totally have a beer with that snow fox. He looks mellow as all get out. Like he'd be all "Yeah, it's cold here, but I don't mind. The coffee's good, you know?"

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.arcticphoto.co.uk/search/previews/rws0134-05m.jpg

Alla, A Nenets girl, poses with a pet reindeer calf and a cygnet at a summer camp near Nadym, W.Siberia,Russia

― andy, Wednesday, 28 April 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So, have you listened to "The Idea Of North" yet?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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