yeah, great analogy, Ron...articulated and crafted in poetic fashon as only you know how
OK, i think Jess just might have hit the nail on the head...if Canadians tooting their horn is taken as anti 'any other country' then i understand now...i gotta say i kinda preferred when some of canada's nice features or talents were the world's best kept secrets...i think eveyone worldwide can relate to being able to see a local performer at there own small pub but once that talent gets discovered, all of a sudden you have to buy a ticket to a big arena show to see 'your boy' along with the rest of the masses...i could be off track...but a neat thread would be for all to contribute stories where a local talent of their was previously enjoyed on the small stage (they in attendance) before making it bigtime...i think John Fowles is one who saw our Gord on the small stage before he made it bigtime...Gord i mean
i think at times, some of us use this Small Talk area to post Canadiana similar to canada.com discussion boards...it's hard to say if non-canucks find any of it interesting or notice differences or similarities....maybe we need some more non-canuck horn tooting going on as well...i think Pam can certainly author one of those patriotic threads with the best of them...she should probably go head to head against Palin in 2012
and I'd be char's sidekick (I'm starting to look like abnd even slip up, like Biden) if she went up against Harper whenever our next election is...i still havent figured out when our elections are, i think they are on demand ...which sounds like a pretty good system to me ....actually char would make a good great of the IOC and UN