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01-09-2007, 10:44 PM

Espressopithecus (Java Man) wrote:
> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] 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.
>
> Java
> --
> "Henderson!"

In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national
anthem would immediately be regarded with suspicion.

Friday

01-09-2007, 11:02 PM

On 2007-01-10, Friday (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Espressopithecus (Java Man) wrote:
>> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
>> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] 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.
>
> 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

01-10-2007, 12:17 AM

In article <7co1oe.rl.ln@bud.garden.local>,
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Tom Keats) wrote:

> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
> Ryan Cousineau <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> writes:
> > In article <la1vne.gqt.ln@bud.garden.local>,
> > [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] (Tom Keats) wrote:
>
> >> Those ones we get to keep, and persuade 'em (perhaps with
> >> the aid of a shotgun or two,) to marry our much-beloved, but
> >> misunderstood and not-so-lucky-in-love sisters.
> >
> > Er...my sister is happily married.
>
> Well, I wasn't referring specifically to your sister.
> Heck I don't even know her, even though we live in
> the same north country fair, where rivers freeze in
> summer air.
>
> >> Then they'll have to put up with TV shows with more erotic
> >> than violent content (except maybe for hockey,) beer that
> >> actually has alcohol in it, universal health care, Montreal
> >> corned beef, and esoteric bicycle brands like Cervelo, Norco,
> >> Da Vinci and Windsor.
> >
> > _De_ Vinci.
>
> Yeah, I always get that mixed up.
>
> Bikes On The Drive has a nice red one hanging from the ceiling.

Mm. Have you been into Dream Cycle down the street? It's like Needful
Things for eccentric cyclists: chain watchers, Nexus-8 wheelsets,
fixies, 1-speeds, they even buy those nice fork-mounted umbrella holders
from The Daiso and mark them up to $5.

--
Ryan Cousineau [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

01-10-2007, 08:05 AM

De_ Vinci.
<<<<<<<<

Me being a Tube wiener I though you meant Da Vinci's Inquest.
World reknown TV series. Take a look at Intelligence, essentially the same
people behind the scenes, one in front.

SN

01-10-2007, 08:26 AM

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:44:08 +0800, Friday <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].au>
wrote:

>Espressopithecus (Java Man) wrote:
>> In article <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>,
>> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] 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.
>>
>> Java
>> --
>> "Henderson!"
>
>In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national
>anthem would immediately be regarded with suspicion.
>
>Friday

Dear Friday,

Fair enough, but let's move on.

Amicably,

P.D. McCormick

01-11-2007, 01:33 AM

Friday suggested -

> In Australia anyone that claimed to know the words to our national anthem
> would immediately be regarded with suspicion.

The phonetic version, learnt by copying the speach patterns of numerous Oz
sports people, runs -

"Australians, all let us ring Joice,
'cos she gives head for free ..."

As the official version is so much duller, please feel free to liven up the
worlds most turgid lyrics.

best, Andrew