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May 26, 2006
More about Canadians and the United States
This came in as a comment, but it's too good not to put here where it's easy to read:
"I remember a Canadian television commercial, where two Canadians are outside a club or a hotel or something in Detroit and a limo pulls up and a bunch of guys get out, leaving the door open. The Canadians look inside and see the Stanley Cup. They get an idea, jump in the limo and get the driver to go over to the Windsor side, where they open up the sun roof and drive around holding the Stanley Cup up in the air.
"To me, it seemed to sum up the Canadian obsession with their big brother neighbor. We don't notice them, but they can't help but notice us, everywhere. They can't turn us off. We're on their TV sets. And, we steal their national sport.
"It's like a joke: What do you call 12 Canadians surrounded by 30,000 Americans? Answer: A professional hockey game."
Posted by Karen Christensen at May 26, 2006 5:13 AM