And you know what? Neither does ita.

But only one of us thought Toronto an acceptable substitute.

God, I miss real bagels right now.

Elena, we know you're insane... ; )

That's like a given, right?

Excuse me? When did it change from pick on Megan week to pick on Elena week?

Where's the memo?

Oh, dear god, am I out of the memo loop?

Oh, dear god, am I out of the memo loop?

I hate that when that happens.

But only one of us thought Toronto an acceptable substitute.

Yup, fair cop.

God, I miss real bagels right now.

Hmm, I'm a bit hungry myself, maybe I should go for a walk and get some, since I ... can.

My thought on the matter is that if Triumph had shown up in Letheridge, Victoria, Scarborough, or St. Johns, and they kicked up a stink about it, the people here come heavy with the 'Oh, get a sense of humor' talk their own selves.

I just don't see why someone should be mockery free just because they're french. Hell, we make fun of the British, Germans, Canadians in general. Everyone makes fun of the Yanks when they're not pointing missles directly at us. Why should Quebec be exempt?

Conan spent the whole week ripping on your people and ours. It was grand.

This isn't a taunt so much as a Public Service Announcement:

Do NOT miss Angel next week.

hype = met

Sue, Dal classes are cancelled. When will they close work???

Do NOT miss Angel next week.

I sure won't! The pictures make me laugh insanely.

When will they close work???

NEVER!!!

Megan, did you go to work? Everything else seems to be closed, but they're not specifically telling Gov't Employees to stay home. Yet, they're telling people to stay home unless you have to. I'd only go in if I htought A. would be there, but since schools and daycares are closed, I doubt she will. I think I may hang out for a while, and see what happens. I'm supposed to be in school this morning anyway.

It looks like either someone already shovelled my sidewalk or the wind is blowing it out there. Either way it's good.

I just don't see why someone should be mockery free just because they're french.

I think it has to do with a trio of facts: a) The French are a minority in this country that have a long history of being marginalized and treated unfairly by English Canada and b) The fun that was made was not of poutine, Celine Dion, the weather or some other mundane franco-Canadian thing - which is fair game, but rather their ethnic origin and their right to speak their language (probably latent American hatred of all things Freedom...erm...French, post Iraq), and c) It was done by an outsider.

Again, going to Victoria, Toronto etc and making fun of the group in the majority is fair game, but going to Alberta and mocking natives for being drunks is playing on historic and offensive stereotypes. The same is true when you tell French people to go back to France, or to stop speaking French.

And again, I go back to the canoe.ca article which essentially pointed out that saying "Go back to France" to a Quebecer is little different from saying "Go back to Africa" to an African American. Both phrases are so ladened with historic racial poignancy as to be not fair game for humour. In fact, the "humour" in using such phrases is tied not to irony, wit, double entendre or cynicism, but rather to the base distain that English Canada has and has always had for Quebec, and that America has newly developed for all things French. That's why the Toronto audience laughed, and that's why it played 'well' in the US - and that is specifically why they shouldn't have resorted to that type of mean-spirited, you-are-less-than-us-because-of-who-you-are "humour".

CBC just announced that all Gov't buildings are closed today!!! Wooot!

GOD! THE LC IS CLOSED!!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!