August 25, 2017

Friday Funny — A Tourism Conundrum

Yo, tourist officials — is there any possibility of offending (and driving away) some US tourists with this name on our Burrard St YMCA?
Maybe we need a plaque, explaining that we don’t care much about Confederate army guys, but we are usually pretty happy to honour local philanthropists.
Robert.Lee.YMCA

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  1. Well, Robert Lee is a common enough name. If it were the “Nathan Bedford Forrest White Christian Mens’ Purity Athletic Facility”, I’d say something was up.

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