Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny
Fri, 2008-04-04 15:25
#1
Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny
Fri, 2008-04-04 15:25
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[img]http://pixofcanada.com/images/fanny7.jpg[/img]
[url=http://www.pixofcanada.com/wp/?p=37]Now why do between 8-15,000 people come out to see Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny -> Fun. Better yet - Water Fun.[/url]
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Back in 1980 the town of Port Hope on the shores of Lake Ontario suffered a devastating flood when the Ganaraska river swollen by pitched rains rampaged through town. And ever since the townspeople have been celebrating the recovery with a little crazy defiance - its known as Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny.
[url=http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=971637]Float Your Fanny canoeists and kayakers start down the river at 10 a.m. at the Canton Bridge at County Road 10, racing 18 kilometres to the finish line downtown. The Krazy Krafts enter the water at 11 a.m. at Sylvan Glen for a 10-kilometre float to the finish line.[/url]
[url=http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=968488]When the kayaks, canoes and crazy craft take to the river on Float Your Fanny day, a casual observer might be forgiven for assuming that Port Hopers really just know how to make the most of a good thing - that a river runs through it.[/url]
[url=http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=971676&auth=Par...'est Please, Walsh Mountain Ironworks, Port Hope Lampworks and Monogrammes will be giving 50 per cent of their proceeds to the Humane Society.[/url]
[img]http://www.floatyourfanny.ca/map06.JPG" width="500[/img]
Notice, by the way, the blue and white "H" on this map showing where hypothermia victims should go. Sadly, it's now a seniors' residence. The only battle Port Hope has ever lost.
[ 04 April 2008: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]
Sun, 2008-04-06 15:42
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I choose to read this with the British meaning. [img]tongue.gif" border="0[/img]
Sun, 2008-04-06 16:12
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Originally posted by Doug:
[b]I choose to read this with the British meaning. [img]tongue.gif" border="0[/img] [/b]
[img]confused.gif" border="0[/img] Fanny, meaning "bum," yes, of course. What's the other meaning? [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img]
Mon, 2008-04-07 11:51
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Originally posted by Wilf Day:
[b][img]confused.gif" border="0[/img] Fanny, meaning "bum," yes, of course. What's the other meaning? [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img] [/b]
Fanny, meaning a woman's private area.
Mon, 2008-04-07 12:05
#6
I've never heard that one.
Mon, 2008-04-07 12:07
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i was corrected in a room full of strangers, on my first visit to London (uk) last year. how i went my whole life with british parents not knowing that i don't know. but it sure was funny to them. [img]tongue.gif" border="0[/img]
Mon, 2008-04-07 18:30
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Originally posted by farnival:
[b]how i went my whole life with british parents not knowing that i don't know.[/b]
My British-born-and-raised wife never heard that meaning, and my English-born-and-raised mother never warned me against it either. Must be Cockney, and now Australian.[url=http://petitedov.blogspot.com/2004/10/saga-continues-another-narcissist-...'s a truly far-fatched explanation:[/url]
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Fanny is a diminutive form of such names as Frances, Euphenia, and (my favorite) Myfanwy. It became popular in the 17th century, and saw its decline in the 19th century. This decline was probably due to the name becoming slang for "bottom" or "backside" the dictionary notes (you think?). It goes on to write, the name's popularity probably also decreased due to a notorious murder of a little girl named Fanny Adams in 1860's. "Sweet Fanny Adams" became a euphemism to mean "nothing at all." Now, if you know your Elizabethan English, you recognize that "nothing" was a slang term for "vagina" - as in Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing is a clever way to say "a lot of hoopla over some pussy" (makes you glad i don't write poetry). So by putting the old euphemism of the word "nothing" meaning vagina and the new "euphemism" of Fanny meaning "nothing at all" you get "fanny," a slang term for vagina!
Elizabethan slang was still current in the 1860s? [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img]
[ 07 April 2008: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]
Tue, 2008-04-08 11:21
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I've heard that about Australia. They have a lot of fun laughing at tourists with their "fanny packs".
My fanny has been in Port Hope during this fest but it never floated -- too cold! My back teeth did though I recall. Good times.
Tue, 2008-04-08 11:38
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Originally posted by Wilf Day:
[b]
...Must be Cockney...[/b]
well, goh luva duck. oyve nevva erd me dad say that Ivva, an he's a cockney too.
love the raft in the pic posted at the opener. reminds me of the crazy bathtub races from Nanaimo to Vancouver. my grandparents used to live on Gabriola Island, and it was prime viewing location for all the wacky floating contraptions. my favourite though was always the speed demons in real bathtubs with outboards. haha.
Tue, 2008-04-08 15:38
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Originally posted by farnival:
[b]reminds me of the crazy bathtub races from Nanaimo to Vancouver.[/b]
Bathtubs would never stay afloat in the Ganaraska. Best I can do:
[img]http://i.pbase.com/u6/sean_191/small/1618876.P4063966.jpg" width="300[/img]
(If the picture doesn't come up, right click on it and click "show picture.")
[ 08 April 2008: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]
Tue, 2008-04-08 18:55
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Originally posted by triciamarie:
[b]I've heard that about Australia. They have a lot of fun laughing at tourists with their "fanny packs".
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And they love getting shirts from Roots. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
Sat, 2010-04-03 11:39
#13
I'll be downtown shortly. Perfect day for the race.