"You live in south west Calgary?!! How'd you ever get downtown?"
"What with the sky-lab scare, the fears over the DC 10s something just snapped with Sydney"
"They told me before I came to Calgary the streets were literally paved with gold ... but I think they've mined most of it!"
[City bylaw about not being able to cross freshly painted traffic lines.]
[Traffic problems in Calgary, Alberta.]
[City of Calgary has unique "pothole" float designed representing street maintainence division in the Calgary Stampede Parade.]
[Tourists have trouble finding their way in Calgary's residential neighbourhoods.]
"We have a hot one ... the entire band from Poohawkitt, Iowa, fell into a pot hole during the parade."
"I know the stampede figures are down ... but look on the bright side, they're going to pave 7 Ave some day and they are working on the pothole problem ... etc."