Zanta Says Merry Christmas

Posted by Tim
Filed in City
December 24, 2006

ZantaI nominate Zanta for 2006 word of the year. He should have been in the running anyway, but now that someone plastered his image on this billboard across from the Gladstone (Queen and Gladstone), I think he's sealed the deal.

I can't recall the last time a local figure has reached such cult-status in this city. Heck, even the stuffy Globe and Mail printed an article on Zanta this weekend.

More photos:

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Previous blogTO Zanta coverage:

* Zanta Deleted from Wikipedia
* Zanta's Plea to Chief of Police
* Zanta Can't Be Banned
* Zantabulous!

Photos on Flickr tagged with Zanta.

Mary Jane on December 24, 2006 at 12:23 PM

Wasn't he banned from downtown?
Well, he's found a new way in!

Trevor on December 24, 2006 at 12:36 PM

Tremendous!!!

A.R. on December 24, 2006 at 1:34 PM

Crazy stuff. Recently I saw him get on the bus without paying a fare, spent a couple of minutes looking through the discarded transfers on the floor. Of course he didn't find anything of use, so he got off without a fuss.

jerrold on December 24, 2006 at 2:11 PM

Awesome!!!! Nice one, fauxreel.

steven on December 24, 2006 at 2:16 PM

What a great hack. This one is SO much better than the bush/kanye one.

Beth on December 24, 2006 at 10:01 PM

Aweeeessommmme. Take THAT, Wikipedia ;)

nick botulism on December 24, 2006 at 10:21 PM

oh god, please no :(

stupid zanta.

jerrold on December 24, 2006 at 11:33 PM

Zanta really does evoke the "yes yes yes" and "no no no" in everyone eh?

kk on December 25, 2006 at 9:43 AM

I want to hire him as my personal trainer

Fen on December 25, 2006 at 6:37 PM

When I drove by today, Zanta was across the street bragging to a TTC driver about the billboard. He was fully clothed though (+ the Zanta hat).

steven on December 25, 2006 at 7:10 PM

Fully clothed? On Christmas?! Zanta is letting things slide.

Fen on December 25, 2006 at 9:45 PM

Yeah, was a little weird.

anastassia on December 26, 2006 at 12:51 AM

Haha ~^_^~ thats so amazing ... so "Toronto" flare ~^_^~

The One Who Knows on December 27, 2006 at 12:56 PM

OMG... ALL THE POWER TO HIM WHEN HE ACTUALLY GETS PAID FOR THIS SHIT! Stop replying with "yesyesyes" and reply with a loonie! Better yet a toonie, cause he's twice the loonie that most of us are!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!! MINUS the "yesyesyes"

Rysio on December 29, 2006 at 10:16 AM

Zanta is za best

mark on May 7, 2007 at 4:28 PM

zanta is the cool man in the world he is funny and make me happy

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