Talking to Americans
Mike Steele
-> Canadian puts the joke on US
->
-> So, did you hear that Canada is finally granting the vote to
-> citizens of Irish ancestry? And that diabetics in this realm of
-> permafrost and muskeg bog can take heart that legalization of
-> insulin appears just around the corner? And the country's public
-> school system is expanding to offer Grade 9?
->
-> That's the good news. On the down side, it's doubtful that Canada
-> will find the moral fiber to end its unhappy custom of stranding
-> old folk in the Arctic to cut social security costs. And global
-> warming poses a threat to the national Parliament building -
-> constructed, as everyone knows, of ice bricks in the form of a
-> giant igloo.
-> [...]
Well, not really, as it turns out. But it's a funny article anyway.
Ah, those wacky Canadians...
--Mike
Christin Keck
wrote:
This is a prime example of Jungian principles (or principals) at work.
Why, just today I saw another example of those Wacky Canadians' sense
of humo(u)r. On the Urban Legends website, there was an article about
April Fool Jokes which mentioned not one, but TWO, *count-em* TWO
Poisson de Avril Jokes played in Canada to the entire country.
BEGIN QUOTE.....
The media also can't resist getting into the act. Radio personalities
are especially drawn to creating playful hoaxes. The year Canada
introduced a two-dollar coin, pranksters from CHEZ FM fooled listeners
into believing April 1 was the last day the treasury would honor all
the two-dollar bills still in circulation. Local banks and the Royal
Canadian Mint fielded call after call from concerned citizens. That
same year, other radio pranksters had people going through their
pocket change in search of the elusive two-dollar coins which had
mistakenly been minted from real gold.
It's not just the DJs who give into the urge to prank on April Fools'.
Canadian Member of Parliament Sheila Copps was responsible for a
particularly creative leg-pull in 1996. On the respected news show
CBO Morning, she announced that the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower was
being switched over to digital.
END QUOTE.....
Hee hee...now you know why they called them Loonies!
Ain't it fun up there in Canadia? Doncha wish you could go?
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John I. Carney
"Christin Keck" <she...@concentric.net> wrote in message
news:3b16af47....@news.concentric.net...
> On Thu, 31 May 2001 18:50:51 GMT, Mike Steele <mest...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> of humo(u)r. On the Urban Legends website, there was an article about
> April Fool Jokes which mentioned not one, but TWO, *count-em* TWO
> Poisson de Avril Jokes played in Canada to the entire country.
If I recall correctly, some years back on April Fool's Day, All Things
Considered had a wonderfully realistic story about how we were going to sell
Arizona to the Canadians to reduce the US national deficit (and so Canada
would have a warm-weather playground). They had some pretty high-ranking
officials, from both nations, in on the joke, and they were quoted in the
story.
Rose Marie Holt
changing the pronunciation of the name to the more correct Keltics. I fell
for it completely. It was about a 10-15 minute story with interviews, etc.
I figured it out when they read some letters later from fans of the joke.
D'uh
leah d. casner
>
> BEGIN QUOTE.....
> The media also can't resist getting into the act. Radio personalities
> are especially drawn to creating playful hoaxes. The year Canada
> introduced a two-dollar coin, pranksters from CHEZ FM fooled listeners
> into believing April 1 was the last day the treasury would honor all
> the two-dollar bills still in circulation. Local banks and the Royal
> Canadian Mint fielded call after call from concerned citizens. That
> same year, other radio pranksters had people going through their
> pocket change in search of the elusive two-dollar coins which had
> mistakenly been minted from real gold.
>
> It's not just the DJs who give into the urge to prank on April Fools'.
> Canadian Member of Parliament Sheila Copps was responsible for a
> particularly creative leg-pull in 1996. On the respected news show
> CBO Morning, she announced that the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower was
> being switched over to digital.
> END QUOTE.....
>
> Hee hee...now you know why they called them Loonies!
> Ain't it fun up there in Canadia? Doncha wish you could go?
>
>
dyed the milk green. Took everybody a while to figure it out, too.
MFH, proudly
leah d. casner
>
>
> If I recall correctly, some years back on April Fool's Day, All Things
> Considered had a wonderfully realistic story about how we were going to sell
> Arizona to the Canadians to reduce the US national deficit (and so Canada
> would have a warm-weather playground). They had some pretty high-ranking
> officials, from both nations, in on the joke, and they were quoted in the
> story.
>
>
And, to no revelance whatsoever, I'm just going tomention here that a woman on NPR on weekends,
Lisa Simione, if any of you listen, was a schoolmate of mine.
I really, really hated her.
MFH
Edward Rice
leah d. casner <cas...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Lisa Simione, if any of you listen, was a schoolmate of mine.
> I really, really hated her.
People so often feel that away about successful people they know. It's a
shame the little (figuratively) people can't deal with their own failures
better.
--
I've never even been to space and I'm fairly confident of this.
Charles A. Lieberman
But for everybody else (sorry, Charlie):
http://www.binaryfreedom.com/towelday/
Christin Keck
spewed:
>In article <1104_991390525@newbie>,
>leah d. casner <cas...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > Lisa Simione, if any of you listen, was a schoolmate of mine.
> > I really, really hated her.
>
>People so often feel that away about successful people they know. It's a
>shame the little (figuratively) people can't deal with their own failures
>better.
Because that's how you feel about Uncle Ben....?
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Frank Palmer
Ca> I am SO jealous. all that happened here this year was my daughter
Ca> dyed the milk green. Took everybody a while to figure it out, too.
What colo(u)r did you think she had dyed it?
--
Frank Palmer
flpa...@ripco.com