Re: Electoral Vote Canadian debate continues

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

I like the curling joke.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:42:25 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > J.G.D. in Bellevue, WA, writes: A few words about the alleged plans 
 > Canadians have to take over the U.S.: Despite displaying some 
 > serious socialist tendencies (free health care for everyone) so 
 > close to America, owning in reserve 80,000 barrels of maple syrup (a 
 > major threat to the economy of Vermont) and claiming to have within 
 > its borders the center of the universe (ask any Torontonian), so 
 > long as you do not say Canadian beer sucks at a hockey game north of 
 > the border, Americans have nothing to worry aboot, eh!
 > 
 > J.F. in Houston, TX, writes: You wrote: "Warnock will have to stand 
 > for reelection in 2022."
 > 
 > I am deeply concerned about the Canadian fifth column right here at 
 > electoral-vote.com. Down here south of the 49th parallel, I believe 
 > you'll find that we "run for reelection."
 > 
 > 54-40 or Fight!
 > 
 > V & Z respond: We wouldn't want to fall out of favour with you, nor 
 > to be criticised again, so let us just very politely assure you 
 > there is no fifth column, eh.
 > 
 > C.C. in , writes: You wrote "Canada could be the 
 > birthplace of Elvis, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Dylan, Jimi 
 > Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, and the Red 
 > Hot Chili Peppers, and it still wouldn't make up for Bieber."
 > 
 > But there is one Canadian rocker trump card that pays for all: Neil 
 > Young.
 > 
 > V & Z respond: You make a compelling case.
 > 
 > E.H. in Washington, DC, writes: A Canadian invasion through 
 > cyberspace? For some reason, over the last couple of weeks I have 
 > been having Corner Gas show up a lot on my Amazon Echo front page.
 > 
 > V & Z respond: Soon your Google searches will start to produce Tim 
 > Horton's ads, and then all will be lost.
 > 
 > P.S. in Gloucester MA, writes: I fully concur with D.L-O. in North 
 > Canaan, CT. Curling is part of the plan for total domination.
 > 
 > I grew up in metro Detroit—which the Canadians think of as the 
 > northern suburbs of Windsor, Ontario.
 > 
 > I remember from my childhood 50-60 years ago that CKLW-TV, channel 
 > 9, broadcasting from Windsor and readily received in metro Detroit, 
 > would televise lengthy curling matches in their entirety. We kids 
 > watched not knowing we were being indoctrinated. And—ominously—some 
 > years later, erstwhile commercial, independent CKLW-TV became 
 > CBET-TV, an outlet for the quasi-governmental Canadian Broadcasting 
 > Corporation.
 > 
 > I note further that CKLW operated a 50,000 watt clear-channel AM 
 > radio station, audible at night across most of the eastern and 
 > central US, that played Top 40 hits in the 1960s and 1970s and 
 > touted itself as the "Motown Sound"—a clear cultural appropriation 
 > if ever there was one.
 > 
 > Insidious. Utterly insidious.
 > 
 > V & Z respond: The curling thing is particularly bad for those who 
 > just don't have the stones for it.
 > 
 > B.F. in Chugiak, AK, writes: Donald Trump doesn't remind me of Biff 
 > Tannen. He reminds me of Greg Stillson from The Dead Zone.
 > 
 > S.K. in Sunnyvale, CA, writes: In the moment, I had ruminated that 
 > Four Seasons Total Landscaping could just as easily have been Biff's 
 > Auto Detailing.