Rob Ford's Toronto

[pud99]

 

[JWBF]

She's pining for the Fords

Shouldn't that be Fjords. (obscure reference to the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python.)

 

[salsa]

Oh lovely, Doug Ford is trending on twitter again.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Oh lovely, Doug Ford is trending on twitter again.

Does it even matter? He can trend all he want - one trend he can't buck is negative impression.

AoD

 

[salsa]

Well as a "journalist" she can probably be afforded some leeway there (even though the content of said tweets are kind of suspect as journalism goes)

SAL is a journalist?

 

[salsa]

Does it even matter? He can trend all he want - one trend he can't buck is negative impression.

AoD

His trending on twitter means that he said/did something stupid and created more controversy, so now everyone is talking about it.

 

[Bebop17]

She's pining for the Fords

I see what you djid there.

 

[pud99]

 

[drk]

I'm in St. Louis and listen to the jazz station from a local university. RoFo's funeral led the live-read portion of their 7am news, just after the canned national news stories. And (of course) accuracy left much to be desired...

 

[kbdid]

Jenny James is on with Warmington - going to be performing this evening (of course)

 

[John_Dee]

Earlier in the thread, someone humorously suggested that Wynne might find herself pelted with rotten tomatoes by the Ford fanboys if she were to actually put an appearance in at the political rally, er, funeral. And you know what? As far as I'm concerned, if something like that did happen, it would serve her bloody well right. She has no business being there. None. Any more than Tory did in pimping out City Hall to the Fords yet again. Fuck them both.

 

[the lemur]

Huh?

Jonathan Goldsbie ‏@goldsbie 6m6 minutes ago
Harris: "He was attacked because, as mayor, he would help the less fortunate get sports equipment."

And that's why Mike Harris is known, in the pantheon of politicians, as a golfer.

 

[NYCBoy2305]

I hope and pray that Doug does not run for Ward 2. If he does, we have to put all our resolve into exposing him and his pseudo-concern for the members of Ford nation. I cannot imagine however his being willing to become the target for all us "haters".

 

[the lemur]

Bagpipes are playing.

I heard the piper again around noon, playing an excerpt from Holst's The Planets - from the movement titled 'Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity'.

(starts around 3:10)

The exact same melody (on the uillean pipes) was used in a short-lived promo for a show on The Rebel, over a montage of stolen/uncredited Canadian landscape footage.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

I'd be curious to know where the hundreds of "Ford Nation" and "Rob Ford" small paper flags came from. Were there boxes of them at NPS?