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world as i see it the essential ingredient that was conspicuously absent from both the editorial and the terse response to it was humor were all flawed so we should learn to laugh at our own blemishes as well as those of our neighbors as with many generalizations of coun tries races and creeds there is sometimes a kernel of evidence to back them up canadians are often cautious we scots can be dour skinflints and many baptists wouldnt be caught dead on the dance floor with a drink in their hands but when it comes to the americans there is an army of canadian comics whose living is derived solely on the foibles of these folks lets face it being an enormous self- sufficient nation there is a tendency to sit back and let the world come to you who could forget the magazine cartoon after last summers olympic games in atlanta where the american commentator offers his audience a news flash confirm ing there are countries other than the usa competing at the games after all or the inanity of the response of one of the american runners after his relay team was left in the dust of donovan bailey and the canadian foursome in the 4x100 event nobody beat us bellowed this dunder head we came second this hour has 22 minutes the hilarious from where i live bruce stapley cbc political satire regularly tweaks the nose of the giant below us in one episode real washington dc residents were asked about a supposed upcoming summit involving their president and the canadian prime minister with each person ques tioned the name of our pm was switched with that of a canadian from a different field of endeavor do you think it should be called the clintongzowski summit or the gzowskiclinton summit the bogus reporter would ask respondent after respondent failed to pick up on the ruse on another occasion the shows shame less mary walsh spewed forth a wicked diatribe aimed at jesse helms while a camera zeroed in on the somewhat corpu lent congressman through a donut hole walsh suggested the canadabashing helms arse should be as narrow as your mind then there was the pitcher from the southern us who was traded to the blue jays back in the late 1970s do they speak american up there he inquired during his first interview of course this is not to suggest that to be american is to be a chauvinistic selfabsorbed cad anyone who has travelled throughout the usa has no doubt experienced the type of hospitality and attentive service the country is known for the nation abounds with people who are sensitive to the needs of others and openminded to the reality that is the rest of the world its just that theres more fun to be had picking on them than in acknowledging their more admirable traits as for chretien and the debacle involv ing the live microphone clinton himself assured the two of them will sort it out the same way issues are settled all over cana da and the us over a game of golf look for your mm meat flyer in todays paper and remember sale starts sunday before the doors 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