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Bizarre moment Canadian politicians start arguing over the use of the word 'fart'
UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/19/2016 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 11/20/2016 6:36:30 AM PST by DFG

It's certainly nothing to sniff at! A heated row has blown up in the Canadian parliament - over the use of the word 'fart'. It happened after Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of 'Alberta like a fart in the room' over employment. But shocked Green Party leader Elizabeth May did not like the use of the word and asked for it be revoked.

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alberta; canada; fart; rempel
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To: trebb

Nice.


21 posted on 11/20/2016 7:56:39 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Elections have consequences." Barack Obama)
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To: mad_as_he$$

What’s even nicer is that Mother Superior knew my Dad because he had been an altar boy at the church....she never saw it coming.


22 posted on 11/20/2016 8:00:02 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb

Icing on the cupcake.


23 posted on 11/20/2016 8:01:07 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("Elections have consequences." Barack Obama)
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To: mad_as_he$$

You said “cupcake”!!! - gotta be something racist/bigoted/misogynistic about it....maybe on another site.


24 posted on 11/20/2016 8:03:26 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: DFG

[’With all eyes on Trump’s destruction of US politics and civil society,]

Sorry, that was all Bill Clinton.


25 posted on 11/20/2016 8:09:55 AM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: DFG

I know nothing about Canadian politics, but I must say that a lady should find a better, more dignified way of expressing her thoughts in any public forum, especially in the Parliament.


26 posted on 11/20/2016 8:24:29 AM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: Bigg Red

“Conservative MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of ‘Alberta like a fart in the room’ over employment.”

Agreed. The need for decorum and this case ladylike language is apparent.

Or, “MP Michelle Rempel accused the government of treating the province of ‘Alberta like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles’...might have worked.


27 posted on 11/20/2016 8:33:27 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: KC_Lion

I know Terrance and Phillip but who is the “S” that is berating them?


28 posted on 11/20/2016 8:50:30 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

RAISING ARIZONA,,,
Watched it Last nite.

The Last biker of the APOCALYPSE!
Leonard Smalls.


29 posted on 11/20/2016 8:51:18 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Bigg Red
I know nothing about Canadian politics, but I must say that a lady should find a better, more dignified way of expressing her thoughts in any public forum, especially in the Parliament.

Perhaps but there is a 'relatively' honorable history to the use of the word and the discussion of the same. I give you Benjamin Franklin; “Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.” and “He that lives upon hope will die farting.” While a 4-letter word, it is a word, as used by this MP, is eloquent as a simile, a noticeable but worthless reality.

30 posted on 11/20/2016 8:54:09 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Big Red Badger

Great movie!


31 posted on 11/20/2016 8:58:33 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: higgmeister

That’s Scott, he’s a d**k!


32 posted on 11/20/2016 10:29:36 AM PST by KC_Lion (Trump's Iowa Class Battleships have come within striking distance of Hillary shores and opened fire.)
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To: DFG

“Fart” sounds better than “toot”,
And really makes more “scents”
Than either “poot” or even than does
“FLAT-U-LENCE”.

Is this either a poem or a haiku?

Offending Sensibilities Since 1946,
TWINKIE KING


33 posted on 11/20/2016 10:40:21 AM PST by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: maggief

Thanks, that was great.

Hehe


34 posted on 11/20/2016 10:57:28 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: SES1066

Franklin was not a lady.


35 posted on 11/20/2016 10:58:52 AM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: higgmeister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7HegNSoWs4
36 posted on 11/20/2016 12:39:56 PM PST by KC_Lion (Trump's Iowa Class Battleships have come within striking distance of Hillary shores and opened fire.)
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