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Rob Ford's Toronto

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hper said:
Speaking of hardhats, remember this guy?

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The proto-Ford Nationalist. Cronenberg directed 'The Dead Zone', so Sheen's character may in fact have been based on that colourful Toronto gadfly, Ernst Zundel.
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Colourful gadfly? I think you mean "Infamous German deported from Canada and incarcerated in Germany for inciting racial hatred who had close ties with one of Kathy (The Hutt) Ford's paramours".

P.S. On a personal note, my mother forbade me to deliver the newspaper to a customer in our neighbourhood that held a fundraiser for Zundel's legal fees who was visiting. My mom wasn't Jewish but man she had a hate for Nazi's, especially Toronto/Waterloo Nazi's.

P.P.S. Her fave scene in the Blues brothers movie was "I hate Illinois Nazi's" which was actually a sly reference to "National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
 
ROFOMOFO said:
Colourful gadfly? I think you mean "Infamous German deported from Canada and incarcerated in Germany for inciting racial hatred who had close ties with one of Kathy (The Hutt) Ford's paramours".

P.S. On a personal note, my mother forbade me to deliver the newspaper to a customer in our neighbourhood that held a fundraiser for Zundel's legal fees who was visiting. My mom wasn't Jewish but man she had a hate for Nazi's, especially Toronto/Waterloo Nazi's.

P.P.S. Her fave scene in the Blues brothers movie was "I hate Illinois Nazi's" which was actually a sly reference to "National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie
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Sorry if offense was taken. Sarcasm was intended. But, that said, when it comes to the Zundel-type, maybe that's not the best tack. They don't really get that smarty-pants triple-syllable stuff like 'sarcasm' (and the ones that do are very dangerous). Of course, Zundel wasn't a colourful character. Or some kind of bon-vivant flaneur, if you will. He was a little man who felt big standing on his hate.

Good on yer mum. OUaT, There was a great battle outside Sneaky Dee's (of all places) between dickhead neo-nazis and those opposed to their vile views, some 20 years ago. A donnybrook. Nazis lost. It was the beginning of the end for Ernst.

Anyway, non-construction related hardhats seem to attract a bad crowd,
 
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I'm in serious need of some news. Gossip, even, would suffice. What the hell did I do for entertainment before Rob Ford?
 
whatthe said:
I'm in serious need of some news. Gossip, even, would suffice. What the hell did I do for entertainment before Rob Ford?
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It's funny, I was thinking the same thing earlier today. While I can't wait to see the end of the Ford Follies, I'm wondering what I'll do with all this spare time come October. Maybe I'll start doing housework again.:rolleyes:
 
"Great to be out meeting residents along Rustic Road tonight. These folks want low taxes and more subways"
https://twitter.com/TOMayorFord/status/497529891706130434/photo/1

I'll take the low taxes, thank-you very much. I already live near a subway.

I think the folks on Rustic Rd. will be getting higher taxes, and a subway in Scarberia.
 
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JWBF said:
Actually 1946, the dotted lines were existing or proposed bus routes. If you want to know more about the DRL proposals and history
go to http://drlnow.ca.
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The dashed lines were the streetcar routes that would radiate out from the streetcar subway. The Harbord streetcar line ran from Danforth & Pape to Gerrard, then to Broadview and down to Dundas and into downtown. It was an early DRL as you could use it to avoid the crowded Bloor cars and the Yonge subway. I wouldn't expect Ford to know any kind of transit history. In his mind streetcars = bad, subways = good. Very simple, just like him.
 
nohostages said:
[QUOTEThere are posters on this thread way sharper than me!
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Thanks Wagstaff and Ghost. That helps. I think my problem with old posts is because the thread was split and rejoined. But the little button deal is sweet.some of my best stuff is auto correction. For instance Wagstaff came out wastage. (Not casting aspersions) I think you are pretty sharp.[/QUOTE]

"Wastage", that's pretty funny. Not quite as good as the McRobb/"microbe" we had last week. Some might say all the time we've spent following this thread is wastage, but it's been fascinating to watch this whole sorry saga unfold along with the great posts that have come with it. Definitely looking forward to the happy ending where RoFo gets booted out on election night!
 
the lemur said:
I think I saw something about the Rob Ford Rangers a few days ago - handwritten signs about cleaning up, posted near garbage cans? I didn't realize the Rangers were (a) a thing (of dubious realness, admittedly) and (b) anything to do with Singing Jimmy.
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'Rob Ford Rangers' meet with mayor

McMillan met with Ford in the mayor's office reception area on Thursday to hand over four construction helmets with TTC logos he found during a clean-up near St. George Station.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/07/rob-ford-rangers-meet-with-mayor
 
Deep transit thoughts: If you took 97 Cadillac Escalades (the standard, shorter, version) separated by one car length each, those 97 Escalades would stretch about a kilometer. If those Escalades each had a single occupant (the "Ford Transit constant"), a single Flexity streetcar could transport even more people and occupy a scant 30 meters of roadway.
 
the lemur said:
If we're talking about the Amsterdam soccer team, then the j isn't silent, it represents a 'y' sound, so 'eye-ax' (English approximation) or 'aa-yuks'.

The cleaning product is always Ay-jax - ay as in ay, bee, cee, that is.
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As a person of Polish background, I habitually mentally pronounce "Minaj" as "Min-eye".
 
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