06-02-2009, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: CGY
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I Love Deerfoot Trail
Yup. Its true. I actually do LOVE Deerfoot trail, especially in the morning rush-hour. Its like playing some perverted game of Mario Kart except with crazier moves.
My favorite part is how I always let a gap open up between me and the guy in front that is larger than average. This is so I can avoid using my brakes while everyone around me guns it as hard as they can for all of three seconds before having to slam on the brakes again.
Same thing on the ride home commute. Except this time people don't seem to want to mash into my lane as much and therefore if you are lucky enough to get stuck behind me, you will have a nice consistent speed without needing to tap the brakes every five seconds.
I love watching some of the morons who try to cut through traffic like its going to make things any easier. This morning in an effort to get by me, some crazy broad in her Dodge Mini-Van must have swooped across all the lanes multiple times trying to get around me and a wall of trucks in front of her. As it turns out she could have stayed behind me the whole time and made it through faster without all the wear and tear on her vehicle and the extra gas wasted.
Instead she smashed into the back of a logging truck.
Other Deerfootisms that make me grin are things like the construction zone after the Cath Robe Bridge (spelling?) that has been there seemingly forever, but doesn't look any different and still rides like driving over the moguls on a ski-hill! Honorable mention also has to go to the idiots who designed the Southland/Deerfoot/Anderson interchange. Pure genius.
So in closing, enjoy the ride. Its like a giant game of F-Zero! If you hang back, let a large gap open up in front of you and have the right tunes:
a) You won't have to brake anywhere near as much or as hard.
b) You will save gas.
and most importantly...
c) You will see lots of morons who will make you laugh.
Stupid drivers.
Carry on.
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Last edited by Traditional_Ale; 06-02-2009 at 02:03 PM.
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06-02-2009, 02:04 PM
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I approve of this message.
It's Calf Robe Bridge fyi.
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06-02-2009, 02:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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calf rope...
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06-02-2009, 02:06 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
calf rope...
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No, Malcolm is correct.
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06-02-2009, 02:07 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Stupidest name for a bridge ever.
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06-02-2009, 02:09 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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How many cars manage to cut infront of you during your commute?? I've seen people who let 2-3 cars a minute cut infront because they have a braking aversion.
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06-02-2009, 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
No, Malcolm is correct.
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Ben Calf Robe Bridge
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06-02-2009, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Cath Robe Bridge (spelling?)
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Calf Robe, named after the former chief of the Siksika.
A few years ago, they had his family do a ceremony on the bridge to bless it and hopefully give it good omens to stop all the accidents.
It didn't help.
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06-02-2009, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: The centre of everything
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Stupidest name for a bridge ever.
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Exactly, that'd have to be a crazy kid cow with MAD COW disease to get all dressed up...maybe it thought the robe would give him special powers...and CALF ROBE was created...
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06-02-2009, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
How many cars manage to cut infront of you during your commute?? I've seen people who let 2-3 cars a minute cut infront because they have a braking aversion.
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Probably 5-10 per trip, going most of the length quite often though. For me it's not just my aversion to brakes, but the lack of desire to go hammer down on the gas once a small gap opens only to slam on the breaks 5 seconds later.
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06-02-2009, 02:12 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Calgary AB
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hmm and I just thought it was a jacket a calf wears. 
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06-02-2009, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
How many cars manage to cut infront of you during your commute?? I've seen people who let 2-3 cars a minute cut infront because they have a braking aversion.
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When its jammed up enough and you can feel the stress of everyone around you I simply find a nice speed that allows people to rev their mighty little engines and whiz by and get far enough away before they have to brake again.
Thank God epileptic's cannot drive. Sometimes the brake lights flickering everywhere remind me of a rave. 
Also, how did I know YOU would be the first response about actual driving...lol! 
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06-02-2009, 02:13 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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It's all the morons who think "oh its the Calf Robe Bridge, I've gotta slow down" and then slam on their brakes that cause all the problems.
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06-02-2009, 02:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Stupidest name for a bridge ever.
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It's named after Ben Calf Robe a Blackfoot elder. Besides “The Stephen Colbert Bridge” is a pretty bad name.
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06-02-2009, 02:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan02
Probably 5-10 per trip, going most of the length quite often though. For me it's not just my aversion to brakes, but the lack of desire to go hammer down on the gas once a small gap opens only to slam on the breaks 5 seconds later.
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What he said!
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06-02-2009, 02:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
Ben Calf Robe Bridge
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Just Calf Robe bridge. His son was Ben Calf Robe.
The Calf Robe Robe is in the Glenbow Museum, courtesy of Philip H. Godsell.
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Calf Robe was a leading chief of the Siksika and had been one of the original signers of the Blackfoot Treaty in 1877.
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From "Blackfoot War Art" by Lloyd James Dempsey
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
It's named after Ben Calf Robe a Blackfoot elder. Besides “The Stephen Colbert Bridge” is a pretty bad name.
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It's named after Ben Calf Robe's father, Calf Robe.
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06-02-2009, 02:18 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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I'm very glad I don't have to drive Deerfoot during the rush. I like my sanity.
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06-02-2009, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
Its like a giant game of F-Zero!
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Holy moly. I need to play this game. I can ever so faintly recall its greatness.
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06-02-2009, 02:19 PM
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Norm!
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I need this car to drive the deerfoot
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to kill the president with a grenade.
Annie Paine: [ pulls off Captain Crunch's glove, revealing a grenade built into his hand] A grenade?
Captain Crunch: A hand grenade!
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06-02-2009, 02:29 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: St. Albert
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You just highlighted my biggest pet peeve when driving around Calgary (or any other city really) - the A-holes that steal the gap I've given myself to somewhat safely follow another vehicle. Even if its barely 1 car length! Why are the majority of drivers on the deerfoot 500 so ignorant to this? They had to learn it when getting a licence right?
I got a summer job a bunch of years back driving a gravel truck & pup for a landscaping company. I HATED having to deal with the deerfoot - booting along with a full load of gravel was stressful. The second a gap of over a car length opened up in front of me some arsehole would race up, swerve in, and lay on the brakes. The result was me trying to lay on the brakes to avoid turning them into a freaking stain on the road. Brutal.
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