"Beaver Fever": I take it you are either Canadian or you like chicks.
>>>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.
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."
What Thoreau said was
"I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold. "
Typically writers like Labash conveniently bend or omit the truth when writing a trash piece. At least Thoreau was honest enough to admit he hadn't seen much . And in a "A Yankee in Canada" honest in his observations. That's the difference between a great writer and a poor one like Labash , who already condescending with his little buddy bs , deliberately misquotes Thoreau to add a little legitimacy to his foolishness . Unfortunately many of the posters here do the same. Perhaps I'm wrong in assuming that unlike Labash , they're smart enough to know better .