01-10-2007, 12:02 AM
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#102 (permalink)
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| Guest | Re: About six times as expensive....
On 2007-01-10, Friday (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> 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?
>>>
>> 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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> In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national
> anthem would immediately be regarded with suspicion.
Rar rar rar rar rar ragh ra ragh
mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble mumble
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!
I don't believe I just typed that particular bogan call.
--
TimC
The prolonged application of polysyllabic vocabulary infallibly
exercises a deleterious influence on the fecundity of expression,
rendering the ultimate tendancy apocryphal. --unknown
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