On February 20, 2004 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > I swear to Christ, when I was in France, I said to myself: PLEASE > > GOD PLEASE get me back to my land of 500 channels of pablum, my > > 24-hour Walmart, my drivethroughs, my land of fakeness and > > commercials and wackiness, because I can't stand this 3rd-world > > country any more! > > Reminds me of a self-deprecating joke I heard in Canada once. > "Canada could have been good. It could have had British culture, > French cuisine and American technology. Instead, it got American > culture, British cuisine and French technology."
That's not quite right, or at least not the one I grew up with. The one I knew of was: "Canada could have had American entrepreneurialism, British Government and French culture" (apparently this was back when French culture was something people actually wanted, but I guess that would include cuisine). "Instead, it got British entrepreneurialism (this has to be a joke from the 70s...), French government and American culture". -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
