Re: Those Rowdy Canadians

From: tcomeau (tunderbar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 06:39:16 -0700

"Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<10j1iukc0dnja1c@corp.supernews.com>...
> "MikeV" <mvidler@NOSPAMiname.com> wrote in message
> news:bdUXc.1216$JT3.579@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > OUR TAKE
> >
> > (From: TheMotleyFool.com)
> >
> > By Bill Mann (TMF Otter)
> > August 27, 2004
> >
> > A few weeks ago, in a story on Nortel (NYSE: NT), I asked people to
> > submit a Canadian joke to me. This is as good a place as any to
> > reveal the winner. And I received hundreds, almost all of them from
> > Canadians. Though I did receive one from Brunei, something for which
> > I have absolutely no explanation. The winner of a copy of Tom and
> > David Gardner's Money After 40 was Karl Walters, who submitted the
> > following:
> >
> > Q: How does a lifeguard get 50 rowdy Canadians out of a pool?
> >
> > A: He says, "Please get out of the pool."
> >
> > (My addendum is that he then repeats it in French.)
> >
> >
> >
> > MikeV
> >
> >
>
>
> Canadians live longer on paper
>
> http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=299850
>
>
> Residents of a River Heights condominium complex were in shock yesterday
> after police recovered the remains of a neighbour dead for two years. "We
> thought he had gone away for holidays or something," said Bertha Claeys who
> lived across the hall from the man.
>
> Claeys and other neighbours at the 870 Cambridge South condominium
> identified the man as Jim, a resident in the building since the mid-1980s.
>
> Claeys said the man was in his late 40s or early 50s, suffered from multiple
> sclerosis and had been living on a disability pension.
>
> Claeys said she believed city police were called to the man's second-floor
> apartment after a report of irregularities with his finances.
>
> Police found the man's remains on his bed, reduced to only bones, said
> neighbour Sam Shuster.
>
> Shuster described Jim as a friendly man, but a loner.

What is your point? This man's story is an absolute tragedy. What is
your fucking point? ***.

TC