[dixiechick2000]

ROTFLOL BUMP!

Thank you, both, for the post and the ping!

"As for Francophones, nothing the dog puppet did is as devastating an indictment of their (and my) ramshackle backwater as the first half-hour of Denys Arcand's current film, "The Barbarian Invasions," partly financed by Telefilm Canada, Telefilm Quebec and all the rest. For Americans, the scenes set in a Montreal hospital are a fascinating preview of what U.S. health care would be like if the Democrats ever get to "reform" it."

Ooooh! Nice slam!

It's very nice to see you, JH2. I'm not babysitting tomorrow. It's too bad I don't have the energy to find some trouble to get into...;o)

[JohnHuang2]

You're very welcome -- and GREAT to 'see' ya, too! :-)

[Tom D.]

"There's a lesson here, both for the European Union and an increasingly Hispanicized U.S.: Gags are one of the great pillars of a common culture, but they're one of the first things to get lost in translation--and if you can't share a joke, it's hard to have a shared culture. That's why multilingual societies tend toward the humorless: see Switzerland and Belgium."

P.J. O'Rourke once wrote something to the effect of, "Seriousness is stupidity sent to college". I believe that he was referring to the lack of humor in the pseudo-elite class found on many college and university campuses. Steyn seems to have hit on part of the underlying problem here.