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Thanks Jen. After insulting poutine, I think it only fair that my next question concern something Canadian.
Yonge (pronounced "young") Street in Toronto was listed in The Guinness Book of World Records between 1994 and 1998 as being distinctive as streets go.
What was that distinction?
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On the left is Yonge Street in 1903 looking north from Temperance Street. Below is the same view at the same intersection in 2008.
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I have to try Poutine at some point. I ate a crumpet for Gregg, and frankly, everyone loves chili-cheese fries. Poutine doesn't sound all that different!
Yonge street. Is it most poutine places on a single street? The two photos look very similar. Most... architecturally unchanged street?
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The only thing I know about Yonge Street is when I was a kid all the doctors, tundra lawyers, and frenchie nuclear physicists went there. There's a rainbow in Toronto!
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Steerpike said:
I have to try Poutine at some point. I ate a crumpet for Gregg, and frankly, everyone loves chili-cheese fries. Poutine doesn't sound all that different!
Yonge street. Is it most poutine places on a single street? The two photos look very similar. Most... architecturally unchanged street?
If I had to make a choice, I'd always choose a crumpet over poutine. A crumpet is just a nice bit of fried bread that usually comes pretty naked, allowing the eater to mess it up however he/she wants. Much more appealing than anything that comes with curd already applied.
To let Steerpike know that someone is paying attention to the "home" page (glad to see links to a whole other batch of articles)...would the new Lara Croft be the "thinking man's crumpet"? You could look it up.
No, Yonge Street wasn't in the GBWR for most poutine establishments. And not most unchanged. Sorry.
Fink: that's a hoot. I haven't thought of SCTV in years. Ain't no rainbow in Toronto today. It's 28ºF with a wind chill of 15, and snowing a bunch. West winds at 22mph. Maybe tomorrow.
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hmm how about the street with the largest stretches between stop signs/lights?
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Sorry Aud, that's not it either. But while you're here, how do you stand on poutine? [Image Can Not Be Found]
I guess I should say that the photos offer no clue to the answer. I just like photos. And cities. And architecture.
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Spike said:
Sorry Aud, that's not it either. But while you're here, how do you stand on poutine? [Image Can Not Be Found]
I guess I should say that the photos offer no clue to the answer. I just like photos. And cities. And architecture.
well I had to look it up on internet and the photos made me initially say yuck but I am always up for trying anything once 🙂
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In an attempt to move this one along, a clue.
What is one of the simplest Guinness Book of World Records designations?
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hmm How about the longest street in the world?
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Woo-hoo! We have a winner. Congrats, Aud.
For several years, until 1998, Yonge Street was indeed listed as the Longest Street In The World by the Guinness Book of World Records, measuring in at 1178 miles. It is no longer considered the longest road because over its 1178 miles it becomes various regional or county routes with corresponding name changes. It also makes a dog-leg or two.
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Guessing is fun 🙂
This isn't the most exciting piece of trivia but I am tired, got lazy and just looked it up on a trivia site. Am I fired?
During the 1930s and 1940s, inventor Donald Hings helped
to develop a two-way radio device called the Walkie-Talkie. What government did Hings work during the Second World War?
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A small one. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Only, ONLY, because I've heard the Brits use the word "walkies" (admittedly when referring to dogs) I'm gonna guess that Hings worked in British government. Plus, a name like "Donald Hings" doesn't say "USSR" or "Japan" to me. I guess it could sound German, but I'm sticking with GB.
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Ah, sorry I didn't pop in for your question, Spike. That was the obligatory "give a freebie to xtal" question! 😛
Another piece of Toronto streets trivia: twice a year the setting sun aligns with the east-west street grid of Toronto in a phenomenon that would be more widely known as "Manhattan Solstice," although it happens in a few other cities as well, Toronto being one of them! Google Image "The Chemistry of Common Life." [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Nope not British
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Ooh...ooh...ooh. Are we sticking with the Canada theme?
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Yer a smart cookie Spike!! You got it. [Image Can Not Be Found]
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Thanks Aud.
Leaving Canada – at least for a bit…
This photo depicts something called Ivy Mike. Ivy Mike was just a code name, of course. Ivy Mike was the first successful….what?
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Photo courtesy of Wikipedia, and believed to be in the public domain.
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