# Get out of Denver, baby, go! Go! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909 "2007-08-01T02:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/81 "2007-08-06T21:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] So? You in Ottawa yet, **Frank**? [/QUOTE] Yes. Umm, I mean . . . YES!!! No internet in this hotel except for their business center. More tomorrow, after I have unloaded my truck. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/82 "2007-08-07T03:58:21Z")
Better get that “Location” updated in your Profile! Welcome to Canada / Bienvenue au Canada! And, I agree that Ottawa is definitely not Toronto. I’ve never liked T.O., but I spent a year once in Ottawa and loved it. It’s the right size for a middling big city. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/83 "2007-08-08T14:26:04Z")
Welcome to Ottawa / Bienvenue à Ottawa! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/84 "2007-08-08T18:16:12Z")
Jeez Frank, I had no idea until I just read all of this thread. I’m in the west end of the city. Please feel free to contact me for a beer, a chat, directions, thoughts… And welcome, mon ami. Will you still moderate from Canada? Is that allowed? 😉 Seriously, you seem like a decent enough fellow to share a beer with. Let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/85 "2007-08-08T18:35:30Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] And welcome, mon ami. [/QUOTE] Wait, is that French? I don’t speak French! I’ve already had my pronounciation corrected on Vanier and St. Laurent; no doubt the first of many times that’ll happen. Unloaded the truck into storage yesterday, that was rough work. Then spent today looking at high-rises. Didn’t find any apartments that both looked good and were available immediately, so tomorrow I work the phones on the classifieds. I’ll be happy to meet anyone for beer(s), anywhere, anytime. Tonight I’m still beat. I’m going to stroll Parliament Hill, have a bite to eat, buy a French-English dictionary, and collapse. As opposed to last night when I was going to do all those things but instead simply collapsed. I’m happy to be here, and I’m sorry to be the source of so much confusion to so many Ottawans: “Where you from?” . . . “Denver? And you moved here?” . . . “It’s a nice city, you’ll like it.” Have I mentioned that I haven’t had a cigarette since I left Denver? Halfway through day seven. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/86 "2007-08-08T18:43:07Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > I’m happy to be here, and I’m sorry to be the source of so much confusion to so many Ottawans: “Where you from?” . . . “Denver? And you moved here?” . . . “It’s a nice city, you’ll like it.” Plus ça change, mon ami? 😉 If you get to see the Changing of the Guards, send me pics! I want busbies this time! ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/87 "2007-08-08T18:52:41Z")
I don’t say ‘eh’ all the time. My parents do. My dad says it with a thick Japanese accent. It’s cute. Right after you get there, you want to look up Kettleman’s Bagels. They have the best damn bagels I’ve ever had, and they’re open 24 hours. I envy you your proximity to good bagels and good poutine. And welcome to the Great White North! (Current temperature 32C). ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/88 "2007-08-08T18:54:46Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Wait, is that French? I don’t speak French! I’ve already had my pronounciation corrected on Vanier and St. Laurent; no doubt the first of many times that’ll happen. Unloaded the truck into storage yesterday, that was rough work. Then spent today looking at high-rises. Didn’t find any apartments that both looked good and were available immediately, so tomorrow I work the phones on the classifieds. I’ll be happy to meet anyone for beer(s), anywhere, anytime. Tonight I’m still beat. I’m going to stroll Parliament Hill, have a bite to eat, buy a French-English dictionary, and collapse. As opposed to last night when I was going to do all those things but instead simply collapsed. I’m happy to be here, and I’m sorry to be the source of so much confusion to so many Ottawans: “Where you from?” . . . “Denver? And you moved here?” . . . “It’s a nice city, you’ll like it.” Have I mentioned that I haven’t had a cigarette since I left Denver? Halfway through day seven. [/QUOTE] High-rises? Oh, you mean apartments. 😉 You can pay the same monthly amount renting as you can for a mortgage Frank. I’m sure that’s the same in Denver though. I’m not sure what you’re looking for, but my email address should be available through my profile. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/89 "2007-08-09T02:22:42Z")
> [@](#): > > The proliferation of different words for pizza with the standard set of toppings is a great example of the modern vitality of vocabulary variation. One might expect that a concept so central to contemporary popular culture would quickly develop a common name all across the continent, but instead we find a colorful range of regional terms. Perhaps the most distinctive is Montreal’s all-dressed , which has a French equivalent in toute-garnie (“all-garnished”). Which came first is not clear. All-dressed has crept across the border to become a minority term in eastern Ontario as well, and shows up very curiously as the choice of a small majority of participants in Saskatchewan, creating the only major vocabulary boundary between that province and its Prairie neighbors, Alberta and Manitoba. How all-dressed got to Saskatchewan is a complete mystery: perhaps someone in Saskatchewan will one day find the answer. Elsewhere in North America, other terms proliferate: deluxe in Western Canada and parts of Ontario; the works in Atlantic Canada; everything-on-it in New England, the Mid-Atlantic region and the Great Lakes region of the United States; and supreme in the American Midland Midwest and South. From [here](http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/linguistics/faculty/boberg/Articles/n_american_survey/N_American_Survey.htm) Very interesting, I’m going to need to read the entire article now…! Even after six years living in Ontario, I don’t think I ever realised that no one else was saying all-dressed… though “deluxe” does sound familiar from the menus! **Northern Piper** , you must come from that bizarre little pocket in Saskatchewan that ended up with “all-dressed” for unexplained reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/90 "2007-08-09T04:24:54Z")
[QUOTE=mnemosyne] **Northern Piper** , you must come from that bizarre little pocket in Saskatchewan that ended up with “all-dressed” for unexplained reasons. [/QUOTE] “Toute-garni” works for me too. But I wouldn’t refer to the capital of Saskatchewan [see location] as a “bizarre little pocket”… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/91 "2007-08-09T04:57:01Z")
Ha, if they think that’s the only vocabulary difference that Saskatchewan has with its neighbours, they’ve never heard of the bunny hug (which is a hooded sweatshirt by the way). And **Frank** welcome to Canada. I hope you enjoy living in Ottawa. By the way, you need to start practicing your spelling of places like Science Centre. That’d be an “re” not an “er” for you now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/92 "2007-08-09T13:38:18Z")
Good morning, Frank and welcome to Ottawa! PM me if you want to meet for coffee when you are downtown checking out the sights. My office is only a block or two from the Hill! das 'Glas ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/93 "2007-08-09T15:44:06Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] \I’ll be happy to meet anyone for beer(s), anywhere, anytime. \ [/quote] Great! We’ll see you at the Calgary Dopefest!😃 That’s another thing you might have to get used to - Canadians drive. D-R-I-V-E. It’s not a vacation or a long weekend if it doesn’t involve driving to at least one province over. > [@](#): > > Have I mentioned that I haven’t had a cigarette since I left Denver? Halfway through day seven. Good for you! Go Frank, go Frank! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/94 "2007-08-09T16:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] That’s another thing you might have to get used to - Canadians drive. D-R-I-V-E. It’s not a vacation or a long weekend if it doesn’t involve driving to at least one province over. [/QUOTE] Hey, Frank’s in Ottawa–he just has to drive across the river and he’s “one province over.” ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/95 "2007-08-09T18:17:02Z")
> [@](#): > > ]And, for a lighter mood, anything by the Arrogant Worms, with a special recomend for “Saskatchewan Pirates.” “And it’s a heave! Ho! Coming down the plains Stealing wheat and barley And all the other grains…” I think “The Mountie Song” might be necessary in-car listening, too. To get into the spirit of Ottawa. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/96 "2007-08-09T18:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Hey, Frank’s in Ottawa–he just has to drive across the river and he’s “one province over.” [/QUOTE] Which I have not yet done (maybe Saturday), though I’m considering expanding my apartment search over there. My great-great-grandfather moved to Massachusetts from Quebec; perhaps I should return? I’ve got my French-English dictionary - next thing is to sign up for a class. **featherlou** , believe it or not, Americans are also a bit car-mad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/97 "2007-08-09T18:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=Das Glasperlenspiel] Good morning, Frank and welcome to Ottawa! PM me if you want to meet for coffee when you are downtown checking out the sights. My office is only a block or two from the Hill! das 'Glas [/QUOTE] You’ve got PM’s blocked. I don’t, or email me. Maybe tomorrow? Or Monday? I’m staying at Bay and Albert, so it would be easy for me to wander somewhere in the area. I’m just not sure what I’ll be doing tomorrow yet. ---
**Author:** ![Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/das_glasperlenspiel/32/2944_2.png) [@Das\_Glasperlenspiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Das_Glasperlenspiel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/98 "2007-08-09T19:07:07Z")
I’m right next door at 473 Albert! I’ll unblock PMs and we’ll make coffee arrangements! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/99 "2007-08-10T16:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] \ **featherlou** , believe it or not, Americans are also a bit car-mad. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Good - you’ll have no excuse for not coming to visit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909/100 "2007-08-11T04:41:34Z")
Hey, **Frank** , if you’re looking for a nice place for a Saturday or Sunday morning snack to read the paper, i’d recommend the ‘Scone-Witch’, just down the street from the Albert & Bay hotel: wide variety of scones, good tea, relaxed atmosphere. (Good choice on the hotel, by the way - it’s where I stay when I’m in Ottawa. I particularly like the Black Bear pub 🙂 .) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-of-denver-baby-go-go/413909.md?page=6)