A Vancouver Glossary

Sometimes I find the coolest photos via my Flickr RSS feeds. Today, however, I discovered a weblog by an American from the Bible belt who recently moved to Vancouver (his photos are here). I really dig hearing foreigners talk about my hometown, so I was pleased to find his Vancouver glossary. Here are a couple entries:

Starbucks: How you know you’ve reached the end of a block. If someone tells you to meet them at the Starbucks at the corner of Robson and Thurlow, be sure to ask which side of the street.

parkade: Neither a butter replacement nor a place to find a vintage Pac-Man game, it’s the building where you can pay to park your car.

homo milk: Whole milk (homogenized milk). Straight people are welcome to drink it, too.

There’s an addendum here, and also an amusing, rambling entry on his trip through immigration and into the city for the first time: “The floating gas station concept still really messes with my head”.

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