01-09-2007, 11:44 PM
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| Guest | Re: About six times as expensive.... Espressopithecus (Java Man) wrote:
> In article <rcousine-E9CF30.19421909012007@news.telus.net>,
> rcousine@sfu.ca says...
>> What are they going to do, ask
>> pop-culture questions to screen out the foreigners?
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> A friend, a Canadian citizen but out of the country for more than a
> decade, forgot his passport when returning to Canada a few years ago.
> Immigration officials grilled him about why he was travelling without a
> passport, and did he have any proof he was a Canadian. He thought for a
> moment and then asked the official if he knew who scored the winning
> goals in the final three games of the 1972 Canada-USSR hockey series.
> My friend claims the official said "Of course, and only a Canadian would
> know something like that", and let him enter Canada.
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> Java
> --
> "Henderson!"
In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national
anthem would immediately be regarded with suspicion.
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