Conn Smythe buried a time capsule on September 21, 1931 as the Maple Leaf Gardens was being built. Last year they found it while making the old Maple Leaf Gardens into a Loblaws, buried at the corner of Carlton and Church St. behind the cornerstone - This week they did the big reveal! Inside the copper box besides newspapers, the items included professional and amateur hockey rulebooks, a municipal handbook, a mini Red Ensign flag, a letter to Gardens directors, and a stock prospectus and a mystery item - an ivory elephant whose significance has officially stumped Ryerson officials. Ryerson history professor Arne Kislenko hinted he had a theory, but was under a gag order not to reveal it. Its a no brainer to me - elephants were good luck charms especially in the 30's during the depression. DUH! On regular pocket pieces, the elephant appeared along with a panoply of good luck symbols, including the All-Seeing Eye, the swastika, the heart-padlock, the four-leaf clover, the horseshoe, the rabbit foot, and the wishbone. Today, we have tons of stupid email chain letters that promise a plethora of good things to happen if you forward to 10 people for which I respond back to the sender this:
"If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, and the fleas from 120 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbor's ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's best friend's beautician . ."
(smirk!)
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