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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Books Featuring Frigid, Icy Worlds
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:17:51 -0400
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James Nicoll wrote:
> 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.

Dark times, dark times.

William Hyde