2.05.2008

Ticker Tape

The Giants' win against the Patriots is one of those wins worth celebrating.  Scrappy underdog makes it to the Superbowl to upset a rough team of all-stars who were never really dignified or well-liked even before news of their cheating came to light.  

I still have a lot of questions (how, how did Tyree catch that? where could I see that again?) and one that's puzzling me is 'what exactly is a ticker-tape parade'?

Well, it turns out that ticker-tape was a long spool of paper used to print telegraphed up-to-the-minute stock information on.  Used ticker-tape was cut into confetti and that is what was thrown from the windows in the downtown Manhattan of yesterday and ten minutes ago.  All told, today's parade should use 50 tons of (shredded, standard) paper and 317 sanitation workers to have the whole thing come and go.  And it's worth it.  

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