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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:54:01 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <87sevn2cy2.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,
Don_from_AZ  <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
>jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>
>> In article <87wmkz3awb.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,
>> Don_from_AZ  <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
>>>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes:
>>>
>>>> RrOn Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:30:02 -0400, William Hyde
>>>> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Many people from Ontario spend winter or part of winter in Florida.  So 
>>>>>there's plenty of opportunity for cross-contamination.
>>>>
>>>> Could be worse - some 30-40 years ago they ran a tourist promotion
>>>> inviting people to Ontari-air-io.
>>>>
>>>I recall a ditty that ended:
>>>
>>>   "A place to stand, a place to grow...
>>>    Ontari-airi-airi-o"
>>>
>>>back about 1968 or so; it's been stuck in my head for 56 years!
>>
>> 1967: the Canadian Centenial. 
>
>Yes, you are probably right about it being 1967, James. Some friends and
>I drove up to Montreal from Troy NY for Expo '67. Aside from someone
>snapping off my radio antenna, probably because the car had a NY license
>plate, it was a fun trip.

I was in kindergarten in 1967 and learning all the words to that
song, and singing it over and over and over, was required. 

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