Quick, call a Waaaaambulance

[Michael OLeary]

The OIC has snubbed Grafton.  :

Ontario town torched
Olympic flame goes out of its way to bypass Grafton

The Olympic flame may not be burning in the town of Grafton next week but its mayor may very well be.

"It just doesn't make sense," said Bill Finley, mayor of Alnwick-Haldimand Township. "We would give them a friendly welcome."

For weeks he has been wondering why no one from the Vancouver 2010 Olympics organization would confirm if the flame would come through his town next week. Now he knows.

He received a letter yesterday from Jim Richards, program director Vancouver 2010 Torch Relays, making it official that Grafton will be bypassed.

"We simply cannot travel everywhere," Richards explained.

Everywhere?

The flame will travel through 1,000 communities before February.

Perhaps if organizers checked a road map, they'd see it's right in the centre of the very route the Olympic torch is set to travel.

The flame may not be able to travel everywhere, but, oddly, it seems to be travelling to the two towns on either side of Grafton and yet somehow avoiding it.

SNUBBED

"It's travelling through Colborne, the first town to the east of us first, and then heading to Cobourg, the first town to the west of us," Finley said. "We are right in the middle, so naturally our citizens and school children were hoping for three minutes to wave and wish our athletes luck."

Instead, this has the look of an Olympic-sized snubbing of a proud, small Canadian town -- once home to the Friendly Giant, Robert Homme -- that has fired up the temperature of its mayor and 6,000 residents.

More at link.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

I didn't know there was a *Gafton, ON*...apparantly I am not the only one.

Wait!  I heard the Torch isn't going thru Ellerslie PEI either!  Dammit NOW I am mad too!  ;D

 

[vonGarvin]

Perhaps the mayor of Grafton doesn't realise that when the torch goes from town to town, it gets driven.  To stop, set up the "reception" (stage, etc) takes time and resources.  So, to hit that town, it would cost several hours from the schedule.  I don't think that it's a slight, but as stated, a choice to hit "x" towns, and they are right, they can't hit them all.  As an example, the torch was in Oromocto, and then Fredericton.  It missed Lincoln.  (Which is right between the two).

 

[Bird_Gunner45]

  As an example, the torch was in Oromocto, and then Fredericton.  It missed Lincoln.  (Which is right between the two).

I wouldn't say that the torce "missed" lincoln... nothin would ever miss that place!!!! OH SNAP

 

[Kat Stevens]

Strangely, it's not coming to Dapp AB either.  Myself and the other 27 residents are outraged! 

 

[BlueJingo]

If they want to see the torch just go to either of those 2 cities and wave to it... lol

 

[sm1lodon]

Strangely, it's not coming to Dapp AB either.  Myself and the other 27 residents are outraged! 

Holy smokes! That tagline about "furlongs per fortnight" is a joke I came up with when I was undergoing Aircrew Selection in Toronto and we had a test question and someone in the class asked about the units of measure for the velocity!

"What are the units of measure for the velocity?"
me: "Furlongs per fortnight"


I haven't seen that measure "furlongs per fortnight" for XX years! (I don't want to quote the exact figure)

I remember there was a silence, then everyone in the class burst into laughter. Classic moment, totally off the cuff, and a Joke is Born!

 

[Kat Stevens]

It's one of Murphy's Laws of Engineering.

 

[Michael OLeary]

Holy smokes! That tagline about "furlongs per fortnight" is a joke I came up with when I was undergoing Aircrew Selection in Toronto and we had a test question and someone in the class asked about the units of measure for the velocity!

"What are the units of measure for the velocity?"
me: "Furlongs per fortnight"

I haven't seen that measure "furlongs per fortnight" for XX years! (I don't want to quote the exact figure)

May I congratulate you on the speedy spread through time (in both directions) and space of "your" inverted phrase:

And Google says: Results 1 - 20 of about 490,000 for "furlongs per fortnight". (0.35 seconds)