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By Jennifer Wells
Feature WriterWhat's your Wordle?
I love that!
Ian Chamandy, partner in the Blueprint team that is leading the charge in defining Toronto's DNA, has taken more than 200 of the now 500 (!) submissions from Toronto Star readers and stuck them together in one long pastiche.
It reads like found poetry.
Here's the fun part. I submitted the whole lot (well, I cut out a few swear words) to www.wordle.net to create my very own word cloud.
Try it. You'll like it.
As for the poetry created from reader's eagerness to define the city in seven words or less, read on:
Seven Words to Describe Toronto: Now we're having fun - thestar.com
Seeded on Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:47 PM EDT
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- Public Discussion (3)
This wordle.net isn't too bad...
Here's some I liked (funnier negative snide ones, though I don't share them, they're funnier), lol
Ugly New York wannabe without Central Park!
Sadly too conservative to progressively move forward
Toronto needs to become a new province.
Villages disguised as a Big City! We love our neighbourhoods.
Just like NY without all the stuff
In search of an identity. Got one?
Toronto - Chicago it is not.
Five hundred kilometres south...just about right.
Showing the World how to live together
Only a five hour drive to Montreal.
Respected, Revered Internationally. Loathed Nationally. Beloved Locally.
Hick-town in sheep’s clothing.
Lazy Complacent Rude Constipated Alcoholic Half-assed Canadian
It’s here. It sucks. It’s not Chicago.
Toronto, it is local to the world
Toronto: where do you come from...
Shifted Euro multicultural character to Asian multiracial.
Once known as ‘the city that works’.
Beautiful, Livable, Abandoned by consecutive Federal Governments.
Commies and perverts living off taxpayer largesse
Ethnic ghettoes where no one speaks English
Where “Samosas on Sunday” passes as multiculturalism
Not quite New York, not even close
Totally out of control, owned by developers
North America’s Coolest City isn’t in U.S.
Unappreciated, one-of-a-kind melting pot.
Elitism is too expensive, bring them down.
Expensive maybe, but so worth every penny/Leafs lose, Raptors too, Gardener closed, boohoo/At least it is not Ottawa, ha!
Toronto the good the bad the ugly
Dirty Deluded Declining Whiny City, Fix Yourselves
Toronto the Good, do your part.
Elitist, Politically Correct, Socialist, Violent, Overtaxed, Invaded
The Biggest Ripoff In Canada For Tourists
Losing sports teams can be found here.
You hate us because you’re stupid.
If you make it here, that’s nice
We’re not different, you are.
Toronto, could be worse. look at Detroit
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#1 - Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:17 PM EDTParadise for some, hell for others!
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#2 - Sat Oct 2, 2010 8:39 AM EDTgood one...
One quip that keeps popping into my head is actually a rip-off from the Simpsons, and has to do with US city in regards to Canada:
Mr. Burns: "Ah, Chicago....the Miami of Canada"! (Another favourite of mine from Burns is: "Whoa, slow down, maestro....there's a NEW Mexico?!")
Others that I had in mind (mostly in negative fun!):
"An hour to Niagra, 2 hours to a Buffalo Bills game"
"Prices suck the fun out of shopping!"
"Toronto wishes it was Montreal..."
"Toronto, Montreal's boring sister. Ottawa isn't even family!"
"Toronto, as sore and useless as the CN Tower!"
"Toronto...where artist careers die!"
"It has an NBA team?!"
"Local and imported mixed nuts"
"Lot of Green talk, addicted to Concrete"
"We're not the capital of Canada?!"
"Why travel the world, when its all here!"
;)
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