TORONTO (AP) - Toronto is bracing for a fake moose invasion. Hundreds of moose - life-sized, painted fiberglass models - will take to the city’s streets this summer in a campaign to lure tourists and raise money for charity. Sponsors will pay $4,450 for each moose, or $20,700 for a herd of four, Mayor Mel Lastman said as the campaign was launched Wednesday. He said he expects the total fake moose population to reach 400, raising more than $2 million for charity and the Canadian Olympics Foundation. Organizers say the animal model idea worked in Chicago, where life-sized cow models helped attract 2 million more tourists last summer compared to the previous year. The additional visitors generated an extra $135 million for the local economy.
“Say, Edna, let’s cancel that trip to Paris we’d planned—golldangit, I gotta see them fake moose up in Toronto!”
What the hell do you suppose were the ideas they REJECTED in favor of this little bon-bon? I mean, I’ve never been to Toronto, but doesn’t it have other things to recommend it besides a bunch of fiberglass moose? And did 2 million people REALLY go to Chicago to see fake cows?
I went to Chicago last summer(not to see the cows), I do remember seeing them everywhere though. It was kind of cool, a cow just plopped in the strangest places, most of the businesses had painted them to match their signature colors. Or just abstractly painted, wreitten on whatever. In the mall on the corner of a street. Everywhere. Weird. Maybe NYC can do something similar with rats.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
-Sigmund Freud-
I’d like to say that there’s nothing fake about me.
“I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
But of course, the real question is: who has the biggest fake moose? That honour goes to the city of Moose Jaw, whose mascot is Mac the Moose, notable for two points:
a) Mac is the biggest fake moose in Canada, if not the world;
b) Mac is anatomically correct, a feature which unfortuately does not show on this link: Mac the Moose
But of course, the real question is: who has the biggest fake moose? That honour goes to the city of Moose Jaw, whose mascot is Mac the Moose, notable for two points:
a) Mac is the biggest fake moose in Canada, if not the world;
b) Mac is anatomically correct, a feature which unfortuately does not show on this link: Mac the Moose
Um, Wally, it cost $2900 more to buy a herd of 4 meese than it does to by 4 individual meeses. If that’s a Canadian discount, let me be the first to invite you to Doctor Jackson’s Discount Bridge and Ocean Front Property Emporium.
Sig! Sig a Sog! Sig it loud! Sig it Strog! – Karen Carpenter with a head cold
