Dead or Canadian?
Just in case you needed further proof that the term "Canadian celebrity" is an oxymoron. This is from an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail about his Tubship, Conrad Black:
"Confidently working a Toronto banquet hall filled with such Canadian celebrities as singer Gordon Lightfoot, actress Kim Cattrall, former Ontario lieutenant-governor Hilary Weston and a group of Catholic dignitaries..."
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some canadian celebrities i can think of, just off the top of my head: did you already say gordon lightfoot? shit. ok, hold on. celine dion! marcel dionne! the dionne quints! al gore! no, wait a minute, i got confused. i gotta go.
i feel bad about canada's lack of star power. we need to create some new canadian celebrities, with recognizably canadian names, like darcy kolumchuk, jean-marie something-or-other and tom brown. but how to do it?
that's not bad. the dionne quints count for five canadian celebrities. and don't forget the chicoutimi cucumber.
i thought that's what free trade was going to be all about -- we send the united states shakes and shingles (those are wood products, apparently, not diseases) and in return we get slightly-used celebrities.
i'm down with that. keep those shakes and shingles coming and you can have every actor that ever appeared in a hockey-themed movie. michael j. fox (who's probably canadian anyway), michael keaton, randy quaid, rob lowe, emilio estevez... enjoy them, canada. but we're keeping paul newman. ditto keanu reeves (who appeared briefly in 'youngblood').
canadians are funny because they come from a funny country. think about it -- it's the size of russia with the population of mexico city. if you didn't laugh, you'd cry.
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