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The Weekly Standard ^ | March 21, 2005 | Matt Labash

[Straight Vermonter]

You should check out the French-Canadian favorite boudin:

And yes it smells like what it looks like.

[quidnunc]

Max in Utah wrote: No, Churchill said that.

IU believe he said it to one Lady Astor.

[Straight Vermonter]

Dont believe everthing you hear...they dont serve poutine in Mc Dicks up here

The CBC disagrees with you.

[Sunsong]

>>>…A cottage industry was born. Anti-American/pro-Canadian blogs proliferated, as blogs unfortunately do. Websites like canadianalternative.com are open for business, trying to entice emotionally vulnerable Americans to turn their backs on family, friends, and country with boasts that Canada has signed the Kyoto protocol, legalized gay marriage in six provinces, and seen its Senate recommend legalizing marijuana. Vancouver immigration lawyer Rudi Kischer took a whole team, complete with realtors and money-managers, to recruit in American cities, helping potential defectors overcome immigration concerns, such as how to pass Canada's elitist skilled-worker test for entry (Give us your affluent, your overeducated, your Unitarian masses yearning for socialized medicine)…<<<

>>>…IN A SENSE, Canada is the perfect place for American quitters, as it evidences self-loathing masquerading as self-congratulation. This I learn over dinner in Vancouver. A delightful realtor named Elizabeth McQueen has enticed me with a promise any American boy likes to hear--that we'd be dining with "two very attractive lesbians." She didn't lie. One of them could make a killing as a Courteney Cox celebrity impersonator. Besides, they're psychotherapists from San Francisco. They ask me to change their names to Cocoa and Satchi since their patients don't yet know they're leaving America….<<<

Canada is recruiting our leftists. I guess that is something good about Canada :-)

Sean Hannity will help all leftists with airfare to Canada - if they will simply sign a form that they promise never to return.

[beaver fever]

You're right but still very funny.

"Posted by: hardhat - on January 06, 2005

Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. (Winston Churchill replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir) AggieLaughs Network"

Churchill had a life long passion for champagne breakfasts. Which goes to show you that some people make more sense when they're drunk than others do when they're dead sober.

Also I believe the first draft of his famous "We will never surrender" speech was written while he was drunk. It goes like this;

"We will kick you ass on the sea. We will kick your ass on the land. We will kick your ass in the air. We will never F**king surrender."

[Northern Alliance]

So we not only have an inferiority complex but we're masochists.

Geez, lighten up. Life's too short to take this kind of thing so seriously. I thought it was funny, okay?

[Max in Utah]

Or Bessie Braddock. Accounts differ.
I tend to think it was Braddock:

Bessie Braddock, MP, Liverpool

[beaver fever]

Responding extemporaneously to an extemporaneous comment.

No overt or covert diversion, disruption or thread high jack attempt may be implied by my response on post #77.

Please direct all further inquiries to the thread police.

[Sunsong]

Your taste must be all in your mouth.

>>>Henry David Thoreau nicely summed up Americans' indifference toward our country's little buddy when he wrote, "I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada. . . . What I got by going to Canada was a cold." For the most part, Canadians occupy little disk space on our collective hard drive. Not for nothing did MTV have a game show that made contestants identify washed-up celebrities under the category "Dead or Canadian?"<<<

>>>If we have bothered forming opinions at all about Canadians, they've tended toward easy-pickings: that they are a docile, Zamboni-driving people who subsist on seal casserole and Molson. Their hobbies include wearing flannel, obsessing over American hegemony, exporting deadly Mad Cow disease and even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums. You can tell a lot about a nation's mediocrity index by learning that they invented synchronized swimming. Even more, by the fact that they're proud of it.<<<

That is really funny stuff.

[beaver fever]

I was lightening up.

It's just that I have an aversion to the sarcasm tag.

The fact is if you said Canadians are masochistic you would probably be closer to the truth than saying we have an inferiority complex.

Don't be so sensitive or I may be forced to conclude that you suffer from an inferiority complex.

And I still refuse to use the sarcasm tag.

[Max in Utah]

Ah yes, Sir Winston was not shy about expressing himself.

He had a parrot (which, I understand, is still living) that was taught to say: "F*ck Hitler! F*ck the Germans!"

[Straight Vermonter]

Sir Winston was not shy about expressing himself.

During the war Churchill was staying at the White House and was taking a bath. Roosevelt walked into the room to find the PM sitting in the tub naked. Churchill stayed calm and said, "as you can see the prime minister has nothing to hide from the United States."

[beaver fever]

A Sunsong you have tracked me down once again.

"That is really funny stuff."

On a previous thread you proved for all the world to see that you have no sense of humor.

Neither does your Ask Jeeves addicted Matt Labash.

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. - Oscar Wilde"

Wilde's comment concerning the relationship between sarcasm and wit was itself an example of wit and irony. Ca Ching!

When Labash can come even close to Oscar Wilde or even Rex Murphy I'll change my opinion but I think I'll be dead before I need to worry about having to contradict myself.

[beaver fever]

The Parrot is still alive!!??

I know they live to be eighty or there abouts but that dude is a hero if he's still kickin,

[Max in Utah]

Still alive, as of last year.

One of the last instances of the use of the Royal preservative, I imagine.

[hardworking]

IU believe he said it to one Lady Astor.

Actually you are both wrong. Here is the correct story: Lady Astor said to Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poisen in your coffee". To which Churchill replied: "Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it!"

The other quote IS attributed to W.C. Fields and the correct version is: A lady said to Fields, "You're drunk!" To which Fields replied, "Yes, I am, and you are ugly. And in the morning I won't be drunk, but you will still be ugly"

Cheers