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- From: janiceg@marvin.Eng.Sun.COM (Janice Gelb)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: YEAR IN REVIEW
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:25:40 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <mjenkins.726450723@cunews>
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- In article 726450723@cunews, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
- >
- >>Dave may have decided to add "making fun of Canada" to his list of themes.
- >
- >That's fine with us. We Canadians are a fun-loving bunch. And
- >relatively unarmed, too, which makes us good targets...for humor, that is.
- >
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- Hope you caught the Sports Illustrated issue just before the World Series
- that featured an article by a Canadian writer "explaining" Canada to
- visiting Yanks: it was done as an alphabetical list. B was for bunts, a
- very Canadian play, since it's self-effacing and self-sacrificing, not
- showy at all. W was for the War of 1812: "We won. You lost. Nyah nyah."
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