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Originally Posted by BCPhil
Close matey.
Yeah, on a ship a lanyard is a cord that ties things together or down.
But the term we use it for originates in the military, where a lanyard was a cord or rope that attached something, like a gun or sword, to the uniform. Usually it was used by calvary so that if the weapon fell out of the holster or hand it wouldn't be lost.
So can you get these lanyards only inside venues? Or can you get them at the ticket office downtown too? It would be nice to have something to keep my tickets in because my parents are going to be using theirs as transit passes.
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I actually asked at the main ticket office downtown. They didn't have anything, and suggested the Bay (where I had already been).
As I mentioned in the main super-thread a couple of days ago, what I did was go to London Drug and purchase some plastic photograph protectors (photo album book inserts) for "panoramic-size" photographs. Those are 4" wide but longer than the tickets. Each sheet also has two slots for two photos. I bought a couple of lanyards from the Bay, cut the excess off of the photograph protectors leaving a little extra room so it would be longer than the ticket. Then I trimmed the excess plastic from the top and sides, and punched a hole near the top of one of the photo pouches. Clip on the lanyard, and you're done. Repeat the process with another sheet if you need more than one.
The Vancouver 2010 lanyard things are $7 each, and a whole package of the photograph protectors was about $3 so it's not that pricey. If I could have just bought one put together, though, I would have.
Now, you will need to un-clip the lanyard from the pouch if you need to present the ticket for direct inspection (if it can't just be scanned). In the case of transit, they may just need to see it so I can't imagine you'd need to remove it from the protective pouch very often.