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Skriven 2008-08-15 23:13:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MARK LEWIS
Ärende: Ice road truckers
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-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Jim Weller <=-

 ML> speaking of trucks, can you say or do you know what happened to alex
 ML> this year in ice road truckers? i saw an episode where he was ill or
 ML> something and instead of on the northern ice road where he had been,
 ML> he was in the hospital in yellowknife... IIRC, this is the oil route
 ML> where they are driving on the frozen ocean and not just across the
 ML> frozen lakes... i think they said he was 1000 miles to the south when
 ML> he was in the hospital? in any case, they called in the priest while he
 ML> was there but i've missed the next few episodes... i hope whatever it
 ML> is/was that pulled him off the i-road has been taken care of and that
 ML> he's back in the saddle and with his family again...

Alex is in good health again. He may be going to Hollywood next!

From CBC North: " A hit U.S. television show about ice-road truck
drivers in the Northwest Territories could very well move to the
silver screen, and the show's Yellowknife-based star says he could
envision a Hollywood debut. 20th Century Fox has recently purchased
the rights to use Ice Road Truckers, the History Channel's
documentary series, as the premise for an action film, CBC News has
learned.

Alex Debogorski, seen in January at a Yellowknife machine shop, is
recovering in hospital from a blood clot in his lung. There is no
word on who would play Yellowknife's Alex Debogorski, the veteran
trucker known on the show for his outgoing personality and hearty
laugh.

"I suppose if there's an opportunity to get involved in it, I'll
have to start jogging and lifting weights," Debogorski said
Wednesday. "I'll have to get some of that Botox and stuff so the guy
looks a little younger," he added with a laugh. "I think I can do
that."

But Debogorski is not on the road right now - he was flown by
medevac from Inuvik to Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife
earlier this week, after he began experiencing shortness of breath.
Debogorski told CBC News that he has a blood clot in his lung, and
he is optimistic about his health.

"Well, they don't have to amputate anything and it hasn't affected
my good looks," he remarked. "Probably going to die of old age
within the next 50 years; that's my prognosis."

Meanwhile, the affable Debogorski is already thinking about
spinoffs, should he get that call from Hollywood. "They'll have my
little action figures right next to the G.I. Joe figures in
Wal-Mart," he joked. "


BHP Billiton Diamonds, who are very professional and safety
conscious, didn't like the spin the program put on the ice road (the
truckers really hammed it up for the camera and the narrator twisted
the facts to make the operation look far more dangerous than it
really is) and refused the film crew permission to return. (It is
private property after all.) So they took the guys to another ice
road, from Inuvik to Tuk and the offshore oil and gas exploration
rigs. Yep, it's about 1000 miles from Yellowknife (actually 600
miles north and 400 miles west) which is why I feel I don't live in
the far north at all. Even Inuvik is still on the mainland. There's
lots of Canadian islands north of there.


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 Categories: Pork, Eggs, Nuts, Onion, Filipino
      Yield: 25 Servings
 
      1 lb Ground pork or chopped
           Shrimp
    1/4 c  Chopped water chestnuts
    1/2 c  Finely chopped onions
    1/4 c  Minced fresh mushrooms
      2    Egg yolks
      3 ts Soy sauce
    1/4 ts Garlic salt, or to taste
           Pepper, to taste
           Vegetable oil
     50    Fresh spring roll wrappers
           Sweet and Sour Sauce or Duck
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  Mix all of the filling ingredients in large bowl. To test the
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Cheers

YK Jim


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