On Canada and Synchronized swimming...
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
--Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
I stumbled across this hilarious article written by Matt Labash entitled, Welcome to Canada in the Weekly Standard.
As I perused the article, this paragraph jumped out and struck my nationalist funny bone, prompting a full read of Mr. Labash's insightfull essay on our Canadian neighbors:
"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."
Enjoy...
Comments
I log on to see the cute pics of Natty and the dog and I am tempted to read on to this article you linked up. That's some good stuff. My favorite line was, "In a sense, Canada is the perfect place for American quitters..." That's classic. I say BLAME CANADA! With there politeness and clean streets. You say that there are junkies peacefully waiting for their drugs? HA! We here in the states get to buy fake Macs from a crackhead! Then we watch that same crackhead beat up his woman for not waiting to smoke the rock with him! I love the parts of Canada I've visited. I'd even consider living there if it wasn't so cold in the winter. I mean who ever thinks that the depths of hell are much worse than -60F obviously don't know a thing about pure torture.
P.S. Am I the only one who thinks its cute when they say aboot? Makes me want to put those little buggers right into my pocket and keep them forever.
Posted by: stinky | March 16, 2005 05:16 PM