On 2/19/09, frank theriault <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:21 AM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > IIRC we can thank Wayne's World for the popularity of that practice. > > > Indeed. > > And Mike Meyers, who played Wayne is from Scarborough (usually called > Scarberia by locals), a huge, bleak suburban wasteland on the east > side of Toronto. Of course, whenever someone from within a 400 > kilometre radius of Toronto does well, he is considered by > Torontonians to be "from Toronto".
The news guys in St. Louis did that, but it was more along the lines of "6 degrees of separation". e.g. Hometown boy knows a guy who went to school with a girls who kissed a girl who's sleeping with the dude who cut off a marine in traffic. And that marine is currently serving in Iraq. We're so very proud of our hometown boy. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
