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Mark Steyn: Severe Winter Storm
Opinion Journal ^ | 02/20/04 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/19/2004 9:04:59 PM PST by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:28 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Conan O'Brien finds Anglophone Canadians can't take a joke about Francophone ones.

W.C. Fields said never work with children or animals. That goes double if the animal's a hand puppet. So when Conan O'Brien's sidekick, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, visits Quebec and characterizes the natives as obnoxious, dull and mostly homosexual, and rent-a-quote Canadian Members of Parliament are asked for their reaction, the best response is: "Sorry, I'm a little tied up today. Why not try Miss Piggy or Lamb Chop?"


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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; marksteynlist
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1 posted on 02/19/2004 9:04:59 PM PST by Pokey78
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2 posted on 02/19/2004 9:06:14 PM PST by Pokey78 (Steyn: Leftists demonize Wolfowitz because his name begins with a big scary animal and ends Jewishly)
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Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!


3 posted on 02/19/2004 9:06:39 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the ping!
4 posted on 02/19/2004 9:10:40 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Pokey78
I didn't know Steyn was from Canada; this spelling is usually South African, and besides I thought he lived in New Hampshire.
5 posted on 02/19/2004 9:11:46 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: Pokey78
jokes in Canada are not illegal. They're just federally regulated.

hahahaha

6 posted on 02/19/2004 9:12:42 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Welcome ;-)
7 posted on 02/19/2004 9:12:43 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Pokey78
Every Tomovia, Dickania and Harristan is independent these days

Steyn cracks me up.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

8 posted on 02/19/2004 9:14:34 PM PST by Criminal Number 18F
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To: JohnHuang2
That's the way a mature, confident society deals with such provocations--with cheap jokes

I finally found you a tagline

9 posted on 02/19/2004 9:17:08 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: Pokey78
I never really understood why the rest of Canada didn't just let Quebeq go.
10 posted on 02/19/2004 9:19:46 PM PST by McGavin999 (Evil thrives when good men do nothing!)
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To: Pokey78
'So a dozen people objected to the "vicious hatemongering" and as a result the rest of us 30 million Canadians are now damned as humorless prigs.'

Laughable isn't it? Thank you Mark Steyn. A member of the media actually GETS IT.
11 posted on 02/19/2004 9:20:37 PM PST by NorthOf45
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To: Pokey78
bttt and thanks for an unexcerpted version..
12 posted on 02/19/2004 9:22:14 PM PST by lainde (Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
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To: GeronL
G'evening, amigo
13 posted on 02/19/2004 9:24:05 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the Ping John, Mark Steyn sure has a way of clearing the fog as well as telling it like it is. It's a rare occasion when Mark Steyn doesn't hit it out of the park
14 posted on 02/19/2004 9:24:13 PM PST by MJY1288 (IF JOHN KERRY IS THE ANSWER, IT MUST BE A STUPID QUESTION)
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To: GeronL
Tagline under construction ... ;-)
15 posted on 02/19/2004 9:24:26 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Pokey78
Notice he didn't dare write this for a Canadian paper...
16 posted on 02/19/2004 9:24:52 PM PST by Drango (Liberals give me a rash that even penicillin can't cure.)
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To: MJY1288
Concur! If Mark Steyn didn't exist, we'd have to invent him ;-)
17 posted on 02/19/2004 9:25:10 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Exactly how many publications does he write for anyway??
18 posted on 02/19/2004 9:25:40 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: Drango
He used to work for the National Post of Canada but I think he quit over some issues. His columns are run by the UK Telegraph, UK Spectator, Chicago Sun-Times and others.
19 posted on 02/19/2004 9:26:58 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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To: GeronL
A whole slew -- don't remember 'em all off hand, but U.K. Telegraph, National Post (Canada), Chicago Trib are among them.
20 posted on 02/19/2004 9:28:36 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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