01-10-2007, 09:26 AM
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#105 (permalink)
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| Guest | Re: About six times as expensive....
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:44:08 +0800, Friday <nowhere@sometime.net.au>
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>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.
>>
>> Java
>> --
>> "Henderson!"
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>In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national
>anthem would immediately be regarded with suspicion.
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>Friday
Dear Friday,
Fair enough, but let's move on.
Amicably,
P.D. McCormick
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