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CPD! Check out this yarn bomber in Ottawa!

Started by Suu, January 22, 2014, 04:44:30 AM

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Suu

QuoteAs temperatures drop across Southern Ontario, an anonymous do-gooder is trying to help keep Ottawa residents warm.

Yesterday, the mysterious Good Samaritan left 14 scarves wrapped around the necks of the statues of The Valiants Memorial on Wellington Street, outfitting Canada's historical war heroes such with brightly coloured knits.

Laura Secord's received had a purple and turquoise scarf, knotted under her bonnet. The bust of Sir Isaac Brock was draped in red.
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Mystery yarn-bomber leaves scarves around Ottawa

A mysterious Good Samaritan has been outfitting Ottawa statues with scarves as temperatures drop across the region.

The scarves were accompanied by notes that read "I am not lost! If you are stuck out in the cold, take this scarf to keep warm."

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mystery-yarn-bomber-leaves-scarves-around-ottawa-1.1648920#ixzz2r6DjKPM3
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Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

That is so cool. :D It warms my twisty little heart to see people doing good things. This is up there with the Mr. Rogers sweater.
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Suu

I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

hooplala

Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.
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Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
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Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.
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"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

hooplala

Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.

When they were wrapped around the parking meters, they were difficult to use.  You have to stick credit cards and shit into these new-fangled models.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
— Walt Whitman

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 08:50:10 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.

When they were wrapped around the parking meters, they were difficult to use.  You have to stick credit cards and shit into these new-fangled models.

And shit.  Oh, yes.
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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 08:50:10 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.

When they were wrapped around the parking meters, they were difficult to use.  You have to stick credit cards and shit into these new-fangled models.

Aaah. That would be annoying. Yeesh. Note to self, if yarn-bombing new-fangled parking meters, leave a slot for the credit card.
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Hulking Dormouse of Lust and DESPAIR™
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"The only way we can ever change anything is to look in the mirror and find no enemy." - Akala  'Find No Enemy'.

Junkenstein

Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 08:51:09 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 08:50:10 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.

When they were wrapped around the parking meters, they were difficult to use.  You have to stick credit cards and shit into these new-fangled models.

And shit.  Oh, yes.

It's the only reasonable response to for paying for parking.
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Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 09:47:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 08:51:09 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 08:50:10 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 06:16:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:05 PM
I feel like I have enough extra yarn to do this around Providence before I leave. I've always wanted to yarn bomb something.

Do it, do it! :D That would be cool.

Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:49:22 PM
Yarn bombers in Toronto usually just wrap a parking meter or bike stand in yarn.  It's pretty useless, and often annoying. 

I suppose this means Ottawa finally has something going for it.

In what way is it annoying, if you don't mind me asking? I always thought that sort of thing was just harmless prettyization.

When they were wrapped around the parking meters, they were difficult to use.  You have to stick credit cards and shit into these new-fangled models.

And shit.  Oh, yes.

It's the only reasonable response to for paying for parking leaving something like that unattended.

FTFY.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

You've never been charged £20 for 15 minutes. I swear if I physically could have, I probably would have.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 09:59:01 PM
You've never been charged £20 for 15 minutes. I swear if I physically could have, I probably would have.

No.  Our parking meters in Tucson turn off at 5 PM and on weekends.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 10:43:28 PM
You make purgatory sound so appealing.

The pitcher plant wouldn't catch bugs if it didn't smell like sugar.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.