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Re: CBC "The Greatest Canadian" contest - bullshit

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From: *xVx*
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:45
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rocks are more honest than trees

"SHARX.." <SHARX@SHARXTANKSnospam.com> wrote in message
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> Svend RobbingStores wrote:
> || Yeah and I bet they're biased towards humans too.  why the hell
> || would I vote for Suzuki when I could vote for a tree?????
>
> Trees are far more honest than any human being.
>
>
> ||
> || In article <4086e0e9$1_1@aeinews.>, Basilic@no.thanks says...
> |||
> ||| I guess a lot of you hockey fans saw this commercial.
> |||
> ||| The CBC has a contest where you, Joe/Jane Public, gets to nominate
> ||| who the Greatest Canadian is/was. After you nominate, they tally
> ||| the votes and pick a winner.
> |||
> ||| Nothing wrong so far....but,
> |||
> ||| on their web site, www.cbc.ca/greatest , they offer a list of
> ||| people to choose from. No, you don't have to choose one of these,
> ||| you could, in fact, choose whomever you like, could be your
> ||| neighbour.
> |||
> ||| Now, going through this list I saw that they have listed non
> ||| Canadians, i.e.. Bell, Cartier, Champlain, Cunard (only made it to
> ||| the C's). This is quite deceiving, whereas some people could get
> ||| the idea that these non Canadians were actually Canadian, funny as
> ||| it sounds.
> |||
> ||| That's the rotten CBC for you. I've complained to them stating that
> ||| they should rename the contest, to something like "The most
> ||| influential person towards Canada" or modify the list to contain
> ||| true Canadians (born here or immigrated and became naturalized).
> ||| We'll see if they do anything. IMO I don't think so because the CBC
> ||| are decievers and are quite BIASED.
> |||
> ||| Having vented, go Suzuki go.
>
>
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