Behold the magnificence which is Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan’s River Street.
Often has it been said that Canadians are too literal-minded; most particularly often it has been said to my face, although there’s nothing about my face in particular or in whole which is literal-minded, and indeed quite often the parts migrate at will or vanish altogether and I’ll end up all ears, ferinstance.
Quite embarrassing, especially when they see me writing down everything they say.
But that is neither here nor there. And it’s certainly not in Moose Jaw, which is not all that far from everyone’s favorite Canadian place name: Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump.
So…have you been to Moose Jaw? Have you seen it? It’s not Paris, let me tell you. So, when the city fathers/mothers/foster parents put their heads together and wanted to do something uniquely Moose Jawian, they quite naturally phoned Germany and brought over artist Edgar Muller and his team to turn River Street into a painting of a river, reportedly the world’s largest 3-dimensional painting.
How proud they must be, eh?
So they not only paved Paradise: they gravened themselves an image of it and now walk all over it.
raincoaster 
i wonder how long it will be before the paint wears away?
Just think of the pranks one could play on drunken and unconscious friends and visitors . . . .
I have no idea to whom you could be referring.
i did most of my growing up in moose jaw. when i was learning to drive, on sundays dad would make me go to river street and parallel park because that was the only reliable place to find parked cars. did i mention that i didn’t like going to river street? did i mention that it was where the seedy dives (all two of them) and the stroll were? i didn’t?
Well now you can pray for the river to flood. Isn’t that the Canadian thing, though? You have a skanky street, so you import a muralist and foof it up to get the PR, then consider the problem solved, whether or not it has been.
FFE is just talking about himself.
Naturally. Metro assures me that River Street has Moose Jaw’s closest thing to a titty bar, though, so he might actually enjoy it. Can’t have that, now!
I love Beever.
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Good god, an opportunity to make a Beaver reference and use the Beaver tag and I didn’t see it till now?
Now I KNOW that I drank too much on my vacation.