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407

407 ETR – Toll highway surrounding Toronto (ETR stands for “Electronic Toll Road”). The 407 has no tollbooths – subscribers have electronic transponders that log their entry and exit from the highway, while non-subscribers have their license plates read by cameras, with a bill sent every month. (There is an additional fee for not having a transponder). Its toll status means that it is less crowded than the other roads surrounding Toronto, but the tolls are extremely expensive relative to other toll roads. The 407 is owned by the Province of Ontario, but is leased to a private corporation for 99 years in a sweetheart deal concocted by a previous government. (The terms of the deal remain a closely guarded secret).

The 407 corporation is generally hated by Ontario residents because of the high tolls, and also because of frequent incorrect billing that is very difficult to correct (forcing people to pay for trips they never made if they want to renew their drivers licenses), leading to the ETR being known as the “Express Toll Ripoff”. Ontario residents use many creative methods to obscure license plates so that the cameras can’t read your plates to send them a bill. Some out-of-province drivers who use the 407 will get a bill in the mail, but (unlike Ontario residents) they can't threaten not to renew your plates to force you to pay it.

To drive the 407 from one end to the other in a car (about 70 miles) costs almost $19.00.

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv February 28, 2007

grow op

Suburban house that is actually a concealed indoor marijuana plantation. Grow-ops are usually loaded with high intensity lights for the crop, and often have illegally bypassed electrical meters, both to reduce costs and to prevent their detection by electrical consumption. They are often detected because of their heat -- either via infra-red thermography, or in colder climates, because snow melts on the roof faster than on other houses in the neighborhood. Some larger scale grow ops are installed in larger industrial buildings, rather than in residential areas.

The term is in common use in suburban Canada,

You know that suspicious house down the street? The cops raided it today -- It's a grow op!

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv September 8, 2006

celine dion

Canada's most infamous export. Now in Vegas where she belongs. We don't want her back.

Las Vegas is 100% fake, so Celine Dion will fit in perfectly.

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv September 2, 2006

avro arrow

The James Dean of the aircraft world -- "Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse". Considering that only 5 were ever flown, the Arrow has generated more books, articles, documentaries and controversy than many aircraft produced by the thousands. Virtually a secular religion to a vast array of Canadian conspiracy theorists who are convinced that the *evil Americans* were responsible for its demise.

The Avro Arrow was a Canadian interceptor aircraft from the late 1950s that never went into production.

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv September 1, 2006

las vegas

American excess at its most excessive.

Everything that's bad about the United States all rolled into one location.

A colossal waste of energy, in the middle of nowhere.

Las Vegas should be seen at least once, if only to prove that it really does exist, and isn't the demented fantasy of a Hollywood set designer.

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv September 8, 2006

paris hilton

1. (noun) A mystery, puzzle or conundrum. Something well know for no apparent reason (that's the conundrum).

2. Living proof that inheritance taxes and income taxes for the rich aren't anywhere near as high as they should be.

Paris Hilton is famous. Why?

by avgfhadsfkjbvhadsfjhbv September 2, 2006