The canoe joke is an old This Hour Has 22 Minutes thing. Our wonderful satirical commentary on the worlds news.
FranticMad I can certainly appreciate the sentiment. When that happened my roomie was hit hard. He served with 2 of those soldiers that died. He talked to the wife of one of them afterwards. But it was a joke. An old joke at that. Take it at face value and let it lie. I’m certain we are all well aware that people will be dying soon.
Calm down people. I understand that tensions are running high right now, but keep in mind what forum you’re in.
Cajun Man ~ Moderator
Paraphrasing Jean:
He is not a moron. He is my prime minister.
Very few countries are openminded enough to have a leader who speaks none of the official languages.
I do, however, have to respect a man who isn’t afraid to beat protesters himself rather than just ordering it done.
Hmm, come to think of it, I do remeber something of the sort being done on 22 Minutes. Also I clearly recall Jimmy Fallon doing the joke on Weekend Update. However the punchline was “two guys in a canoe with a slingshot.”
His wife’s a pretty tough cookie with a ivory sculpture, too.
He inherited his verbal and physical communication skills from his bus.
Hate to point out the obvious to those who’d rather get up-in-arms about a simple joke that wasn’t demeaning in any way to ANYONE’S troops, imho…BUT
It was just a joke about the Canadian-American exchange rate. The value of the Canadian dollar vs. the value of the American dollar.
Jesus, people, lighten up.
And a damn old joke at that. Yes, it was off SNL, saw it just last week or so on a Comedy Central SNL rerun
Holy cow - if I had any notion a silly joke would cause such a reaction, I never would have posted it. I apologize for any offense I may have caused - that most certainly was not my intention. As Cerri said, it’s an exchange rate gag. It made me laugh. It made my friends laugh. I’m sorry it didn’t have the same effect here.
Laugh at our Prime Minister, but don’t laugh at the exchange rate of our loonie.
Or should that be exchange our Prime Minister, but don’t laugh 'cause he’s loonie.
Or should that be . . .