The ever-so-popular Emperor of Canada deigned to visit Vancouver yesterday, giving Vancouverites a rare opportunity to express our displeasure at his choice of an ultimate destination for the handcart in which he has placed our beloved nation.
“Pie Brigade” “pies”, (like the one that Chrétien earned in 2000,) are actually paper plates with whipped cream on them, as in Mack Sennett comedies. I don’t think that possession of a slice of actual pie (at a cosiderable distance from Chrétien,) in a crowd, is justifiable cause for an assault charge.
Oh, and Jean?
Retire, please. Get some more popular clown to continue the important work of selling Canada by the Loon.
Weebl and Bob have been ingrained on my brain-- I can’t even square a circle without thinking of them, hence the thread title. (And a shameless way to garner views from folks who don’t give a rats hoo-hoo about Canada.)
Taran, I scratched my head when I read that too, until I realized that I was parsing the sentence wrong, and what was meant was along the lines of “We arrested him and now we’re trying to determine if there’s anything we can actually charge him with.” Which is just as bad.
No word on the type of pie yet. People need to know, dammit!
But wait… the story gets better. A lawyer who represented the beaten & pepper-sprayed APEC protesters was arrested as he was leaving the event, apparently because the police thought that he “matched the description of someone who was believed to be possibly going to throw a pie at the Prime Minister.” The guy was taken away in cuffs to the downtown lockup, which is a scary scary place, from what I’ve heard about it, stripped, and left in a holding tank for five hours.
I’ll bet you yankees think that Canuck heads of state have pretty petty security concerns. Our terrorist threats involve filled pastry shells. :o
Well, if the prime minister gets to strangle people and get away with it, it only stands to reason that people who are not the prime minister should get to be arrested for eating pie and for having a hair colour they don’t actually have.
No, it’s not illegal here, so you’re probably OK LouisB. However, I wouldn’t transport it into Canada. You could be arrested for smuggling arms. Then Canada would get all upset at the US for having lax borders and allowing terrorists to get into Canada. And no one wants that.
Clarification- Christiansen had a piece of cake, not pie. The cake had icing on it.
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This really is not funny at all.
And I find further cause for alarm in noting that the usually super-par Globe and Mail has misspelled “desserts” in the headline. Maybe it is time to emigrate.