Great pic!
Great Post!

Em – Merci! You too.

Mary – Again, we didn’t mean for ya’ll to shoot botox into your heads to try to look young. It was invented as a therapy for facial tics. I’m not apologizing for the blackberry though — someone would have come up with it anyway, why not us?

Maven -Yup, that was one thing I never knew about Canada. It does sort of bring a tear to your eye, doesn’t it?

Meanie – I wish I could have posted the whole thing, but that would have made for a really, really long post, so I just clipped my favourite parts. (had to lost the chainsaw/plastic bag thing)

Eliza – I guess “we” aka RIM was thinking “ka-ching. ka-ching”

Lesley – I always think of you as Canadian, until I see your photo and then I realize you’re way to glamorous to be Canadian.

Missy – Thanks! Come on up any time.

Lebowski – Actually if you see my comment in the last section to Cedar, you’ll notice that I did give credit to that anonymous Swiss who really invented Velcro. Of course he didn’t call it Velcro. He just called it, “Scheiss, now I totally messed up – all this stuff is sticking together. Help me someone.” And a Canadian came along and said, “Sure, I’ll help you.” And DING a lightbulb went on right above his head and the Swiss guy gave the Canadian a few bucks for helping him take this horrible mistake off his hands. The rest is history. (And,no I didn’t forget about the telephone – I reckoned everyone already knew about that one)

Canada – You know the words to our anthem? Could you tell us what they are because they keep changing them and nobody here really knows them anymore. Thanks

Charlene – Ah ha – I was pretty sure we didn’t invent Botox to freeze the wrinkles in vain old people’s faces.

Robin – Canadians are just really open to all sorts of new and wonderful and interesting stuff. Really open. Once upon a time Canada and the US were compared to New Zealand and Australia, with Canada being more like New Zealand and the US being more like the bold brash wild and crazy Aussies. Lately though something very odd has been happening in the US and they’ve become paranoid, holy roller kooks and it wouldn’t be nice or accurate to compare them to Aussies anymore (And by that last statement I’m only talking about the political climate as a whole, not about all the many, many wonderful Americans that live there). But Canada never has and never will have the outrageous zest the Americans used to have and the Aussies still have.