Re: the longest undefended border
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:48:34 -0800 (PST)
--- Paul Kennedy <kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca> wrote:
> THIS might be the best idea I've heard in a LONG
> time!:
> PLEASE can we include O CANADA--which has to be the
> funniest national anthem
> in the world even before you try to play it on
> kazoo....
> ...and stand on guard, O Canada,
> We stand on guard for thee.
> O Canada, Glorious and free,
> We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
> O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!
> I haven't
> been able to sing the thing through without cracking
> up in SO long that I've
> forgotten....
NOW, NOW (not shouting - just emphasis) - we used to
sing "Oh Canada" in my fourth grade general music
class with Miss Rice at the upright piano. I was nine
and I liked it. Maybe you couldn't get through all
the on Guards without laughing when you were nineteen
or twenty and stoned on some good dope but that's
understandable (and welcome).
I would certainly stand on guard (as long as I was
playing my Kazoo) for a nation with nationalised
health care, the CBC, Tom Thomson the painter, Molsen,
Toronto's wonderful Transit system, Stephen Leacock,
Margaret Atwood.....the Nova Scotia coast south of
Halifax is beautiful, so is about ten or twelve miles
north; just get rid of that damn metric system and
make the place a bit warmer in January (maybe like
Boston - that's not asking too much)
......so here you've got an anomolie, a Yank
chauvinistic about Canada.....
I think it's VERY
> HEALTHY to have a national anthem that makes people
> laugh....)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
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