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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.
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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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posted on
02/19/2004 9:04:59 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
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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)
To: Pokey78; xm177e2; mercy; Wait4Truth; hole_n_one; GretchenEE; Clinton's a rapist; buffyt; ...
Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the ping!
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.
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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.)
To: Pokey78
jokes in Canada are not illegal. They're just federally regulated.hahahaha
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:12:42 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
To: Alamo-Girl
Welcome ;-)
To: Pokey78
Every Tomovia, Dickania and Harristan is independent these days Steyn cracks me up.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
To: JohnHuang2
That's the way a mature, confident society deals with such provocations--with cheap jokes
I finally found you a tagline
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:17:08 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
To: Pokey78
I never really understood why the rest of Canada didn't just let Quebeq go.
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:19:46 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Evil thrives when good men do nothing!)
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.
To: Pokey78
bttt and thanks for an unexcerpted version..
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:22:14 PM PST
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: GeronL
G'evening, amigo
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
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:24:13 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(IF JOHN KERRY IS THE ANSWER, IT MUST BE A STUPID QUESTION)
To: GeronL
Tagline under construction ... ;-)
To: Pokey78
Notice he didn't dare write this for a Canadian paper...
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:24:52 PM PST
by
Drango
(Liberals give me a rash that even penicillin can't cure.)
To: MJY1288
Concur! If Mark Steyn didn't exist, we'd have to invent him ;-)
To: JohnHuang2
Exactly how many publications does he write for anyway??
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:25:40 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
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.
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posted on
02/19/2004 9:26:58 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
To: GeronL
A whole slew -- don't remember 'em all off hand, but U.K. Telegraph, National Post (Canada), Chicago Trib are among them.
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