TGIF (1941, in Columbus, Ohio)

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 02:24 PM 10/13/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>>  >   It's Columbus Day,  and it appears that "TGIF" comes from
>>>Columbus, Ohio!
>>>I never knew that Columbus discovered Ohio, but that's another story.
>>You'd be surprised.  There's even a statue of the Discoverer, right on the
>>banks of the Scioto River in downtown Columbus.
>
>Yes, and Ohio Stadium was built as a giant horseshoe in honor of the
>good fortune of CC, who set out to find India and ended up in central
>Ohio instead.
>
>L

P.S.  A replica of the Santa Maria also sits/floats in the Scioto
River--hoping for a link to the Northwest Passage, no doubt.