🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4fbmfb$gc9@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, Alex Bunker
<bunker@dcs.uga.edu> wrote:

> Joseph Edward Nemec <nemecj> wrote:
> >cs95469@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin) wrote:
> >
> >>>Yeah? How? Hockey riots when you losers lose? Bob and Doug MacKenzie?
> >>>Drinking alot of Molson and hitting each other?
> >>
> >>     You really believe this stereotyped image?  
> >
> >Yes. I've lived in Canada. 
> 
> Well I live in the states and am Canadian So I kind of have the reverse
> perspective. I find Americans for the most part to be extremely ingnorant,
> deluded, and utterly deluvian in all their Christ-bashing puritanical
> nonsense. Violence for kids, theaching children that violence is an
> apprpriate means for problem solving but nudity, OH NO!
> Having lived a number of years in both I can Judge both societies,
> and trust me my stay here is certainly temporary.

Glad to hear it.  Make your money, get your degree and get out.  

> >>     The list is endless.  Yeah right.  I can only think of two great
> >>yankee writers; Poe and Hemmingway.
> >
> >James, Faulkner, Eliot, Pound, Buck, Steinbeck, Whitman...the list is
endless.
> >
> Robertson Davies, Margeret Atwood, Margeret Lawrence, Moreccai Richler...
> Maybe not the greatest authors ever but I think we do ok from our
> pool of 30 odd million...

Which is really Canada's goal.  To be a patriotic Canadian, one says "I
think we do ok from our pool of 30 odd million."  That's really it.  

> Canadians have bravely donned the Blue helmet and performed their peacekeeping
> duty for the U.N. and layed down their lives for it under the U.N. colours
> (many many in Cyprus)
> across the world with none of this "Never serve under foreign command"
> bullshit.
> We posess a true internationalist spirit of loyalty to the U.N. and pay our
> dues promptly, and give generous foreign aid. Our U.N. ambassadors have been
> great leaders of peace who have proudly represented progress social-justice
  ^^^^^
No.  Not great, just good.

> and fairness from Lester Pearson to Steven Lewis a man hailed and loved
> by people across the developing world.

Yep.  You pay your dues.  

> A history of peace law and order, The Mounties partolling the west so
> it was never wild, a peaceful confederation without bloodshed, no genocide
> of native americans after breaking their treaties.

And this pretty much sums up Canada.

Canada is the upper middle class gentleman from across the street.  His
hair is always short and clean, his whiskers neatly trimmed.  He suits are
made from sturdy cloth, his pocket watch is wound.  He's married to a
decent girl, they have two little boys, and every year at Christmas time
they get some wooden toys.

The gentleman belongs to several clubs, he has no enemies; no one ever
felt uneasy talking to this chap.  He works from nine to five at a
decent-paying white collar job, takes the public transit home in time to
bless the meal.

Then one night his house burned down and torched his moderately-worn
flesh.  The papers read, "Family of four dies in house fire," and a lot of
people turned and stared.  Then they went about their business, there was
a well-attended funeral service, a plaque was commissioned at the club,
and everyone was somber at the office for about three weeks, maybe four.

Cheers,

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* Christopher L. MULDOON         *          cmuldo@po-box.mcgill.ca *
* McGill University, Montreal    *     http://mhew151.res.mcgill.ca *