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11-18-2021, 07:00 PM
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Scotland has names on all of their plows / gritters. Some pretty ingenious ones in their fleet.
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11-18-2021, 07:04 PM
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Scotland has names on all of their plows / gritters. Some pretty ingenious ones in their fleet.
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And I think they change them yearly... here's last year's list.
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11-18-2021, 07:04 PM
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Location: Calgary
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This links to a GPS map where you can see all of their names and where they are:
https://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps...a4cac0bd0b1aab
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11-18-2021, 07:05 PM
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Man that’s awesome
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11-18-2021, 07:07 PM
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I believe this is what the city is going to do as well.
This is a fun idea.
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11-18-2021, 07:09 PM
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Location: Calgary
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And I think they change them yearly... here's last year's list.
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I don't think they change yearly. I have a friend who is a driver.
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11-18-2021, 08:55 PM
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If I were to submit a name, I'd probably go with "snow drifter" or something like that.
Or maybe, "the banker".
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11-18-2021, 08:59 PM
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Milan Lucic
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11-18-2021, 10:26 PM
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Remember the whole British warship thing and ‘boaty mcboatface’ won? I’d have hoped Calgarians were not so basic.
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11-19-2021, 12:22 AM
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Remember the whole British warship thing and ‘boaty mcboatface’ won? I’d have hoped Calgarians were not so basic.
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I think it was an arctic research vessel or some other type of scientific vessel.
Also it is awesome
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11-19-2021, 12:43 AM
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If you follow the Scottish national football team then you’ll appreciate that this is actually pretty good……
Yes Sir, Ice Can Boogie
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11-19-2021, 12:44 AM
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Gritter Thunberg also made me chuckle
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11-19-2021, 12:09 PM
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Remember the whole British warship thing and ‘boaty mcboatface’ won? I’d have hoped Calgarians were not so basic.
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Or at least be a little more original.
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11-19-2021, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Welp, one vote in our household by one of my kids by submitting her name of "Blizzard Buster".
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11-19-2021, 12:28 PM
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Sir Plowsalot
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11-19-2021, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary SW
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Boaty McBoatface was humourous the first time. Every time after that, not so much.
In fairness here though, it's Grade 9s and under submitting the names.
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11-19-2021, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Swift
Boaty McBoatface was humourous the first time. Every time after that, not so much.
In fairness here though, it's Grade 9s and under submitting the names.
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We need someone with young kids to submit names on CP's behalf... 
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11-19-2021, 12:49 PM
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We need someone with young kids to submit names on CP's behalf... |
I'll get my little rapscallions right on it.
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11-19-2021, 12:56 PM
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I'll get my little rapscallions right on it.
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Excellent....
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