# Piss off Arnold
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 11, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626 "2010-02-11T23:55:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/21 "2010-02-12T03:21:43Z")
Nancy Greene already carried it in Kamloops, where she’s the chancellor of the local university. She passed it to Mark Recchi.
The Ah-nold thing has me a bit confused, but he’s one among 12,000.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/22 "2010-02-12T03:29:36Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> Fuck that, at least the eleventy zillion were fucking Canadians!
No, not all of them were.
> [@](#):
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> (you’re correcting my spelling at the same time you’re using ‘eleventy’, really?)
“Zillion” isn’t a real number, either. Perhaps you noticed a pattern there.
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/23 "2010-02-12T03:39:02Z")
[nitpick] It’s spelled Schwarzenegger. [/nitpick]
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/24 "2010-02-12T03:45:55Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#):
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> [nitpick] It’s spelled Schwarzenegger. [/nitpick]
Schwitzanooger, Shvarzaneegga, Whatever. The important think is that he spelled Gretzky wrong.
This earns him a 100 Tim Bit pelting by coffee crazed truck drivers in Moose Jaw Sask.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/25 "2010-02-12T03:46:40Z")
> [@AWB](#):
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> More like: doesn’t he have a state to run into the ground?
Maybe he’s running away and using the torch as an excuse?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/26 "2010-02-12T04:43:30Z")
Maybe he heard they’re looking for a mediocre governor in Alaska, and figured, “Hey, it’s on the way…”
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/27 "2010-02-12T04:59:41Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> I hope he gets pelted with snowballs the bastard!
> [@mhendo](#):
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> In Vancouver?
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> Not likely.
And signifcantly less likely considering that the opening ceremonies are going to be indoors.
I read an article that suggested Terry Fox’s mother should be the final torch bearer. That would work for me.
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### Author:  [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/28 "2010-02-12T10:57:32Z")
I predict that **Terry Fox** himself, not his mother, will light the torch - all through the miracle of CGI and holograms. Remember, you read it here first.
And, for non-Canadians, Terry Fox is a real hero, the true thing. [Here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox) is the relevant Wiki article.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/29 "2010-02-12T15:04:57Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> Fuck that, at least the eleventy zillion were fucking Canadians!
Just cause everyone South of the border has more sense than to run around in the cold. 😉
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/30 "2010-02-12T15:58:03Z")
> [@RickJay](#):
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> And it’s “Wayne Gretzky” and “Nancy Greene.”
And _Schwarzenegger_. And _Costas_. I must say I’m kind of shocked that a Canadian could misspell _Gretzky._
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/31 "2010-02-12T16:16:05Z")
Sorry, I was angry. I had it right initially, and then changed it.
I had Greene right initially too, but, again thought it looked wrong.
Costas, okay, silent-ish ‘s’, my bad.
And Schwarzenegger, who gives a rat’s ass if I spelled the prick’s name correctly?
I’m not a big sports nut so I misspelled some proper names.
Goddamn spelling nazi’s, try and stay on topic - hate for the Arnold! Sheesh!
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/32 "2010-02-12T16:17:29Z")
Don’t you understand the harm you’re doing, though? Somewhere in Austria there’s a man named Arnold Schwarzenjammer wondering why this **elbows** person hates him so much.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/33 "2010-02-12T16:20:28Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> And signifcantly less likely considering that the opening ceremonies are going to be indoors.
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> I read an article that suggested Terry Fox’s mother should be the final torch bearer. That would work for me.
That would work just fine for me, too.
So, how do I get over my hatred of the corruption of the Olympics and just enjoy the (almost) local show?
Also, I just wanted to say that one should not underestimate just how horrible a soaker is. I don’t know why the phrase “fill your boots” has come to be a good thing - when I was a kid, it was a decidedly bad thing.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/34 "2010-02-12T16:43:27Z")
Who is this Terry Fox fellow?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/35 "2010-02-12T16:51:10Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> Who is this Terry Fox fellow?
[Terry Fox.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox)
Lost a leg to cancer, undertook a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research\*\*, died from cancer \*\*after running 3,339 on an prosthetic leg.
ETA: correction, the cancer had spread to his lungs, he died the following year.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/36 "2010-02-12T17:26:16Z")
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/37 "2010-02-12T17:28:48Z")
You now who invented the torch relay…
[HITLER!!!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame)
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/38 "2010-02-12T18:24:41Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#):
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> You now who invented the torch relay…
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> [HITLER!!!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame)
And wasn’t he an Austrian? Perhaps this Schvartzenbeggar guy is Hitler’s grandson, or something.
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/39 "2010-02-12T18:36:23Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> [Terry Fox.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox)
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> Lost a leg to cancer, undertook a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research\*\*, died from cancer \*\*after running 3,339 on an prosthetic leg.
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> ETA: correction, the cancer had spread to his lungs, he died the following year.
I remember vacationing on Minnesota’s north shore and my SO and I decided to drive up to Thunder Bay, ON for the day. We asked around about what we should see in their fine town and was directed to a statue of Terry Fox. (Which, incidentally, has a beautiful view of Lake Superior). The person told us the story about how this man planned to run from one side of Canada all the way to the other side, but stopped midway in Thunder Bay.
We thanked the man for that and got in the car and laughed that only Canada would celebrate an achievement that wasn’t even achieved.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-off-arnold/528626/40 "2010-02-12T18:42:31Z")
> [@stpauler](#):
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> We thanked the man for that and got in the car and laughed that only Canada would celebrate an achievement that wasn’t even achieved.
Ya, what a great thing to laugh at! After all, because of Terry Fox, his foundation has only [raised over 400 million dollars for cancer research](http://www.terryfox.org/Foundation/)
The story of Terry Fox’s determination has touched a lot of people, and has done a lot of good.
But laugh away.
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