There’s a long standing joke amongst some friends of mine and I… I was trying to find a hotel room in Montreal in early June one year like 10 years ago and the whole city was booked up but no one said why. Then I started calling small inns and B & B’s. When I inquired about making a reservation at one place the woman responded “But I could not possibly! That is the Grand Prix!”. Ah yes, Montreal Grand Prix weekend. Not a factor in my life at all. Anyway, more often than not if someone in a certain group of my friends or I cannot make it to some get-together or event we usually say… “But I could not possibly! That is the Grand Prix!”.
MATTHEW'S ISLAND 
I remember an off-color cartoon from my distant youth where someone is telling the buxom race announcer “It’s pronounced Grand Preeee!”
There’s a long standing joke amongst some friends of mine and I… I was trying to find a hotel room in Montreal in early June one year like 10 years ago and the whole city was booked up but no one said why. Then I started calling small inns and B & B’s. When I inquired about making a reservation at one place the woman responded “But I could not possibly! That is the Grand Prix!”. Ah yes, Montreal Grand Prix weekend. Not a factor in my life at all. Anyway, more often than not if someone in a certain group of my friends or I cannot make it to some get-together or event we usually say… “But I could not possibly! That is the Grand Prix!”.