# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1141 "2013-05-14T02:50:08Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > In other news, the Leafs and Bruins are tied 4-4 on overtime, and I got hailed on today here in Jonquière. The Bruins won. What does it mean to get “hailed on?” Or should I even ask? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1142 "2013-05-14T02:53:35Z")
My condolences, **Leaffan**. Hailstones falling from the skies? that’s what I took it to mean. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1143 "2013-05-14T03:01:58Z")
Yes. Of course. Hailstones. My brain is numbed by the hockey results. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1144 "2013-05-14T03:10:54Z")
> [@wolfstu](#): > > Chris Hadfield, first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, is on his way back to Earth in his Soyuz capsule with crewmates Thomas Marshburn and Roman Romanenko. The de-orbit burn is in about 15 minutes, with landing in just over an hour. You can watch it here: > > [NASA Live - NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/ntv) Yay, they landed safely! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1145 "2013-05-14T03:13:36Z")
Yay indeed! What an awesome guy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1146 "2013-05-14T03:30:21Z")
I just got this from Twitter - [Don Cherry’s Piano Desk.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJp5-g69go) I don’t know why that’s so funny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1147 "2013-05-14T03:48:10Z")
thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1148 "2013-05-14T03:57:26Z")
Too bad about the Leafs, but glad to hear that Commander Chris has made it back to Earth safely. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1149 "2013-05-14T04:07:17Z")
The Ottawa Senators: Canada’s team. 🙂 I go to school with a bunch of Leafs, Habs, and Nucks fans. I shall let the taunting on Facebook commence! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1150 "2013-05-14T15:56:45Z")
It’s going to be a sad day when [**William Shatner**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner) dies. At 82, he’s as busy as he’s ever been. I love his early-days quote about taking whatever roles he could: “_Work equals work_.” I stumbled across his latest endeavour, [brownbagwinetasting.com](http://brownbagwinetasting.com/). I checked out a couple of the short videos, and Shatner is actually a pretty good interviewer. Is he a Canadian Treasure? I think so. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1151 "2013-05-14T17:07:57Z")
It is difficult being a Leafs fan. Read somewhere one saying yesterday that, when he dies, his wish is that members of the team act as his pallbearers and lower him into the grave … as he wants to be let down by the Leafs one last time! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1152 "2013-05-15T13:47:52Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > It’s going to be a sad day when [**William Shatner**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner) dies. > > At 82, he’s as busy as he’s ever been. I love his early-days quote about taking whatever roles he could: “_Work equals work_.” > > I stumbled across his latest endeavour, [brownbagwinetasting.com](http://brownbagwinetasting.com/). I checked out a couple of the short videos, and Shatner is actually a pretty good interviewer. > > Is he a Canadian Treasure? I think so. Shatner is unquestionably a national treasure. I worship Him like a God. 🙂 On an unrelated note, the day every year when the Leafs get eliminated from Stanley Cup contention is always the day the sun shines brightest and reminds me that all is right with the world. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1153 "2013-05-15T15:08:51Z")
So the pollsters lost in BC. Christie Clarke gets a majority govenment here, when a month ago no one thought the Liberals had a chance. (BC liberal does not equal Liberal Party of Canada). Adrian Dix, the NDP leader won his seat, but lost the election and Premier Christie Clarke has lost her own seat. Interesting. So we get to pay for a bi-election so she can sit in the Legislature? But the best quote of the night? " Dix’ caucus is shrinking." ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1154 "2013-05-15T18:08:53Z")
Dix had the charisma of a wet noodle. Plus, he decided to run a “high road” campaign, while the BC Liberals pulled out all the stops, calling the NDP “marxist communist socialists” who were going to shut down every resource company in the province, put your children in commie re-education camps and sell your grandmother to the bug-blatter beast of Trall. Apparently the electorate (in the rural middle of the province anyway) bought the fear and smear. The electorate also seems to have forgotten about the 6 million given to the BC rail criminals for their silence, making BC “the best place on earth for pharmaceutical companies to sell dangerous or useless drugs”, permission to sell forestry land by cabinet ministers with a conflict of interest (brother in law), Premier’s aids working on political campaigns on the taxpayer dime, etc. etc. This will just embolden the BC Liberals to continue business as usual. Watch for a fire sale of assets to pay off BC’s structural deficit - sort of like paying off your VISA by selling the furniture. Watch for these assets to be bought for very good prices by folks with connections to the party - coincidence of course. Watch for further cuts to advanced education and training, followed by an increase in foreign workers in the province to do jobs (at lower salaries) than Canadians who (golly) don’t seem to have the training. Watch for the “conditions” for a pipeline across sensitive northern BC habitat to magically be fulfilled, and for ads paid for by the BC taxpayer to convince us that Enbridge is our bestest friend who would NEVER put profit ahead of safety. Watch for our debt to increase, while taxes from corporations go down. Yes, I"m freaking thrilled, can you tell? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1155 "2013-05-15T18:20:21Z")
What strikes me the most from your post, **Euphonius Polemic** , is that you could substitute “Alberta Conservatives” for “BC Liberals” and not significantly change the things you’re saying. Isn’t that interesting? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1156 "2013-05-15T19:55:28Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What strikes me the most from your post, **Euphonius Polemic** , is that you could substitute “Alberta Conservatives” for “BC Liberals” and not significantly change the things you’re saying. Isn’t that interesting? Interesting but not surprising, since the BC Liberals are essentially the Conservative Party here. The BC Conservatives are more like the Wild Rose party. Stockwell day was on TV last night, congratulating Christy Clark. Harper advisers were all over her campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1157 "2013-05-16T19:45:00Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Dix had the charisma of a wet noodle. Plus, he decided to run a “high road” campaign, while the BC Liberals pulled out all the stops, calling the NDP “marxist communist socialists” who were going to shut down every resource company in the province, put your children in commie re-education camps and sell your grandmother to the bug-blatter beast of Trall. > > \ > Watch for our debt to increase, while taxes from corporations go down. > > Yes, I"m freaking thrilled, can you tell? Well slide over and pour me a BC wine, I am with you on all of it. I live at the boundary between Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Point Grey. I would have LOVED to vote against Misty Christie but instead I got to vote against her cabinet minister. A week ago I was posting on Facebook from my phone and I mentioned that since the woman didn’t know how to [vote](http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/09/christy-clark-wrong-ballot/) correctly I could hardly trust her to run the province. But I typed “rum” the province. I got a bunch of teasing for that, but I threatened I would need enough rum to give myself a 4 year black out if she was re elected. Gulp. I will be in rehab by 2017, I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1158 "2013-05-16T19:46:34Z")
Where do you live **Euphonius Polemic**? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1159 "2013-05-17T05:03:23Z")
[Video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack?](http://gawker.com/for-sale-a-video-of-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-smoking-cra-507736569) Could be. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1160 "2013-05-17T05:33:58Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > [Video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack?](http://gawker.com/for-sale-a-video-of-toronto-mayor-rob-ford-smoking-cra-507736569) Could be. No. It Couldn’t. Don’t spread that shit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=59)