# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 151
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3001 "2013-12-18T15:07:34Z")
Also BC Hydro whose downtown tower, the [Electra Building](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_Building_(Vancouver)) got turned into a pretty cool [condo tower](https://www.google.ca/search?q=images:+electra+building+vancouver&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=O7mxUuGYF9PdoAThjoHwAQ&ved=0CCwQsAQ) in Vancouver when they moved offices. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3002 "2013-12-18T16:05:21Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Here in the valley and in the Outaouais a case is 24, a box is 12. In Manitoba, 24 packs weren’t available initially so a case was 12, and a two four was, well, a two-four. That was the 80s and early 90s though. As Poysyn points out, it’s a box and case respectively now. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3003 "2013-12-18T18:49:47Z")
Funny we never cam up with a slang term for the 18 packs. Back in the 80’s it was the perfect number of beers for a party. I remember even drinking OV because, at one time, it was the only one left that sold them. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3004 "2013-12-18T19:39:24Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Funny we never cam up with a slang term for the 18 packs. Back in the 80’s it was the perfect number of beers for a party. > I remember even drinking OV because, at one time, it was the only one left that sold them. I remember 18-packs. Notwithstanding their suitability for parties, they were never terribly popular. And speaking from experience, I can assure you that when we at the Beer Store prepared a pallet of empties to return, they were difficult to stack on a pallet together with 24s, 12s, and 6s. Hm. Lots of memories of my time at the Beer Store. Maybe I should do an “Ask the former Beer Store Guy.” 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3005 "2013-12-19T01:55:21Z")
Some pictures from today - [Mountain ash berries and blue spruce.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Winter%20Scenes/SAM_3742_zps10dbd5a2.jpg) [A notice on a local shed.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/SAM_3749_zps1daa9e2a.jpg) [Here’s a magpie for **Leaffan**.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Winter%20Scenes/SAM_3722_zps606452e6.jpg?t=1387331486) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3006 "2013-12-19T01:57:52Z")
**Cat Whisperer** , I guess the magpies don’t migrate? I was talking to a friend from Saskatoon, who had recently visited there (back in Saskatoon), and she said it was pretty cold in November and there were still magpies there. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3007 "2013-12-19T02:23:25Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Hm. Lots of memories of my time at the Beer Store. Maybe I should do an “Ask the former Beer Store Guy.” 🙂 But wouldn’t the answer to every question be: the same: [bob&doug]“Beer.”[/bob&doug] ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3008 "2013-12-19T02:33:14Z")
I don’t know if magpies and crows migrate or not - it seems like they hang around for part of the winter, then are gone for part of it. Looking it up, apparently magpies do not migrate. Crows migrate a little. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3009 "2013-12-19T03:03:28Z")
Crows seem to migrate to the nearest dump. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3010 "2013-12-19T03:09:40Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > But wouldn’t the answer to every question be: the same: [bob&doug]“Beer.”[/bob&doug] Hm. Yeah, probably. It’s probably too localized to be of interest as an “Ask the” thread in MPSIMS; but seriously, if any Ontario Dopers (or others who have patronized one of Ontario’s Beer Stores) have any questions, ask away. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3011 "2013-12-19T03:36:51Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Some pictures from today - > [Mountain ash berries and blue spruce.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Winter%20Scenes/SAM_3742_zps10dbd5a2.jpg) > > [A notice on a local shed.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Miscellaneous/SAM_3749_zps1daa9e2a.jpg) > > [Here’s a magpie for **Leaffan**.](http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s142/featherlou/Winter%20Scenes/SAM_3722_zps606452e6.jpg?t=1387331486) 😃 Yeah, hey thanks for the Magpie snap. I’m pretty much up on birds in this area; I’ve never seen a magpie. Look at[this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRnI4dhZZxQ) crow in Russia. He created his own amusement park ride. These birds are scarey intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3012 "2013-12-19T04:53:26Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Here’s a term that I don’t think was on that list: “food fair” (what a food court is called in Vancouver. And maybe other places out west?) Though I’m not sure if that’s an exclusively Canadian term or if it’s used in the US too. I think that’s a regionalism; I’ve never heard it used in this part of the country. In fact, this is the first time I’ve seen it in print (in that sense; the term “food fair” is used in many other senses.) They’re “food courts” here. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3013 "2013-12-19T16:27:24Z")
I’ve never heard it either. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3014 "2013-12-19T16:58:08Z")
There are Food Fare grocery stores, FWIW, but I’ve never heard the term food fair before this thread. I’m not sure what a food court is. A multi-outlet fast-food area in a mall, otherwise known as a squat ‘n’ gobble? ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3015 "2013-12-19T17:09:01Z")
Well a court, like a courtyard, where vendors arrange themselves along the sides. So food court isn’t a terrible name. Squat & Gobble sounds like an appallingly bad porn parody. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3016 "2013-12-19T17:22:59Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Squat & Gobble sounds like an appallingly bad porn parody. :eek: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3017 "2013-12-19T20:37:25Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > I believe “parkade” was copyrighted by the Hudson’s Bay Co., so any publication that used the term in the generic “parking garage” sense and/or without a capital P was informed by the HB company of the transgression. > > I don’t know when HBC lost the war. Maybe its U.S. owners didn’t care. Nitpick: I don’t think you can practically copyright a single word, perhaps it’s more of a trademark? I literally saw that term for the first time yesterday at St. Laurent mall in Ottawa. But it was for the Bay, so it sounds like your theory is bang on! ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3018 "2013-12-19T20:49:35Z")
You’re right. Trademark. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3019 "2013-12-19T21:41:52Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > Well a court, like a courtyard, where vendors arrange themselves along the sides. So food court isn’t a terrible name. > > Squat & Gobble sounds like an appallingly bad porn parody. :eek: It’s the ‘squat’ part that pushes it over the edge, I think. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/3020 "2013-12-20T00:29:25Z")
The “gobble” isn’t helping, either. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=150) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=152)