WE ARE FAMOUS IN CANADA! The Canadian Press, which we are informed by a northerly tipster is “like the AP, only colder, and a little less exciting,” mentions your Wonkette as one of the American publications that poked “good-natured fun … at the breathless nature of Canada’s coverage of Obama’s visit.” Soon Wonkette will be more famous than Raymi and Matthew Good combined. [Canadian Press]
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Didja catch that, David Denby? It’s not “snark” it’s “good natured fun” ya blue-scrotumed stimulus package writer!
I can see Canadia from my front porsche. Also.
-SP
Where were all the hockey moms?
Famous in Canada. Just like NHL hockey players and Don “The Coach” Cherry.
Enjoy it while it lasts. I’ll mail you a booklet that includes a coupon for a free Tim Horton’s Timbit and a six pack of Sleeman’s Cream Ale. Also.
Wonketee is the new Degrassi!
If you have not done so, everyone needs to go out and buy every matthew good album…you will not be disappointed
WHY ARE WE SNARKY, WE ARE VERY SRS!!!1!, (and delicious..)
/snark off
Yeah, typically Canadian–ignoring all the brilliant commentary and giving us a whitewashed version of things. Oh, what, WERE SOME OF THE COMMENTS TOO FUCKING IMPOLITE, EH?
How come the didn’t mention buttsecks or truck nutz???????
Alanis Morrisette will be sending you s3xxy text pix soon.
“red aboot u in canadian press. wanna get textual?”
Now at least you can watch the hockey game while being backhoed. It’s a fact!
Hmph. I was already famous in Canada.
Being famous in Canada for being something other than a hockey player, hockey coach, or a hockey commentator, is something to be proud of. We also have famous curlers from time to time. I still brag about the time I fixed a pipe in an Olympic curling gold medalist’s basement.
Now that Canadians have given up on just about everything to an extent that makes Italians seem positively manic (a decision I must say I admire tremendously even if I’m too angst-ridden to join them), I was impressed they even noticed they were being visited by our Prince Formerly Known as Senator Obama.
I think Canada can be excused for the “breathless nature” of the coverage of Obama’s visit. Think about it for eight long miserable years Canada had George Bush to deal with. He was like an emotionally abusive boyfriend. For 8 years Canada had to put up with putdowns, unfair accumulations of flirtations with the terrorists, rubbing in their face his special relationship with Mexico. Now Canada has in Hopey a great boyfriend who brings her flowers, appreciates Canada’s awesomeness, who says he loves her — who promised to call back – you know he will. I mean what is not to love.
The article reminds me of the commenter onthe blog who said he wished some of the wonkeratti would show up, as they’re very funny. It made me sad, in a wistful way, thinking of the poor Canucks, locked in the cold prison of good manners, yearning for a bit of “good clean fun” like butsecks and trucknutz.
…more famous than Pamela Anderson?
Bless their hockey lovin’ hearts. How about some actual photos of Canadians? Do their heads split when they talk like the Canadians on South Park? Do they really eat lots of back bacon?
Clamps:
What is “fixed a pipe in the basement” a euphemism for, again? (I’ve forgotten all my Canadese.)
“Now Canada has in Hopey a great boyfriend who brings her flowers, appreciates Canada’s awesomeness, who says he loves her — who promised to call back – you know he will. I mean what is not to love.”
All of Canada is still basking in post-coital bliss. We’ll wait by the phone for a few days waiting for Hopey to call. Then we’ll start calling the White House, and hanging around recovery.gov. In about a month, we’ll see Obama hanging out w/ the UK, France, and Japan, and we’ll get jealous. But we’ll forgive him, and welcome him back with open arms when he finally returns our drunken text messages.
It’s a vicious cycle.
Why do I have a feeling this is just like that nerdy guy who claims to have a super-hot girlfriend, except that she lives “in Canada,” so obviously no one will be able to prove that he’s lying?
Sure we were in the Canadian press, sure.
Was President Obama serenaded by Crash Test Dummies?
Inquiring minds want to know.
[re=248008]Serolf Divad[/re]: Exactly: “Deliciously snarky”! Choke on that, Denby!
[re=248039]loquaciousmusic[/re]: Better yet, he may have been greeting by Bare Naked Ladies. I’d watch the CBC news for that.
[re=248013]Woodwards Friend[/re]: Can we get a guest post from Silent Bob?
But what is the exchange rate on whore diamonds?
Wonkette is already famous in Canada because as we learned earlier this week, 23% of its commenters live in or near the “Little Ethiopia” district of Toronto. This is where we stock up on snark and get our American political news from paintings on restaurant windows.
[re=248043]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Er, that is “greeted.”
Or greeting. Either one works, I’d still watch.
[re=248041]Gopherit[/re]: Isn’t “deliciously snarky”, actually snark? Are we going to be sucked into some kind of Canadian Snark Vortex now?
[re=248053]Bruno[/re]:
The Canadian Snark Vortex was closed when government funding dried up in the 1990s. Sudbury hasn’t been the same since.
[re=248032]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Hey! We have lots of buttsechs in Canadia! I mean, it’s been legal in Canadia since 1967 (“the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation)–we didn’t have to wait for Justice Kennedy to get teh smartz and legalize buttsechs in Lawrence v. Texas.
I am still surprised that Canada had a government for President Obama to meet with. I though QEII banished them a while ago.
Being famous in Canada is a little like finally getting the chance to fuck Madonna, only now she’s 50.
Listen, I will personally welcome Kady O’Malley to the US and volunteer to show her around.
[re=248081]Mr Blifil[/re]: Hey, that makes us A-Rod! Oh, wait…
If there are any Canadians checking out Wonkette for the first time today let me welcome you and say that I love your country. Montreal had one of the best beer halls I have ever visited (1986). You also do the best lung transplants. Also thank you for “Permanent Waves.”
[re=248091]Gorillionaire[/re]: Beer halls and lung transplants often go hand in hand.
Canadian comic Rick Mercer used to have a TV feature that he called “Ask An American”. If you can find it online, check it out.
[re=248102]GlennBecksFelch[/re]: I wonder if every country in the world has such a comedy category involving their southern neighbors, like the Ask a Mexican column here. Do the Peruvians have Ask a Chilean?
[re=248090]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Why can’t we be the hot, young Brazilian model that she’s also fucking? The one named Jesus.
[re=248102]GlennBecksFelch[/re]: I used to watch “Royal Canadian Air Farce” (or “22 minutes?’) just to see “Rick Mercer Talks to Americans”. Definitely the funniest thing an otherwise barely-funny comedian ever did. So much stupid. (Some of it was obviously set up, but still, yuks!)
Also Red Green came on just after. Channel 2 out of Vancouver in Canada City is one of my favorite channels.
I’ve watched Corner Gas,and you,Wonkette,are no Corner Gas.
[re=248115]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: You mean (stretching arms out) the one who’s hung like this?
Did you catch that line about Canadian (sic) geese? Seriously, we might need to go to war with Canada to make them take back their geese, which have taken up permanent residence in Massachusetts. There’s a gaggle of them (always wanted to say “gaggle”) living in the grassy area of the off ramp from Rt. 2 to Rt. 128, and last year a couple of them showed up where I work and wouldn’t let us in the door. I mean these are some seriously hostile geese.
“The deliciously snarky Wonkette.com” sounds kinda gay, to be honest.
[re=248038]PAbitter[/re]: You take that back! We do have a Canadian girlfriend, and her name is Kady O’Malley.
[re=248167]jagorev[/re]: So is Kady O’Malley going to become our Canadian correspondent?
[re=248153]yellowdogdem[/re]: Finally the truth comes out! There were Canada geese on the grassy knoll???
You’ll be happy come summer – when our geese will require a passport to head South. I’ll bet half of them, at least, will choose to stay here. Also.
I’d give Kady a Loonie if she gave me a Tooney – if you know what I mean -
Eh? where’s the labatts?
Canada is a country? I thought it was our largest northern city.
[re=248208]bitchincamaro[/re]: That is a common mistake made by Americans. It is in fact a part of Sarah Palin’s Empire, along with Russia. She took it over after driving William Shatner from the battlefield in 1992.
[re=248066]WIDTAP[/re]: The queen dissolved parliament so they couldn’t get rid of the government. This has been so successful that I expect the GOP will soon use this maneuver to dissolve Congress so that Obama can’t get anything done.
“Good natured”? Jeez, y’all are losing your edge, eh?
[re=248117]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: “Congratulations, Canada, on saving your national igloo!” “We [Amurricans] demand that Canada stop the barbaric practice of leaving the elderly on ice floes to perish!” “We demand that Canada stop bombing Bouchard!” ZOMG hilarity.
of course, I’m sure Kady is plenty familiar with the “Buffalo Wishbone”.
I bet she’s missing the “fast ferry” from Toronto to Rochester, now that that closed down. Now what do you do if you’re in Toronto and you really want to get to Ra-cha-cha in a hurry, eh? For some white hots and a garbage plate, say.
Ah, Canada — where they have real money and top-flight peanut inspections.
I’m going to Vancouver in a few minutes! Oh wait, it’s the lame Washington Vancouver.
Is the Canadian Press where Terrance and Phillip work? Eh?
I just read about that on this blog….
http://muckbreaker.blogspot.com/2009/02/northern-exposure.html
http://muckbreaker.blogspot.com/2009/02/northern-exposure.html
And finally:
Yes we Canada!
[re=248230]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: The Canadianese term we use in polite company (i.e. amongst ourselves) is “prorogued.”
I love Canada. Can we make love to them with South Carolina’s stimulus?
Don’t be fooled. Canada controls the Blackberries. This is your only warning.
[re=248253]snideinplainsight[/re]: or to see Wegmans
[re=248031]Dreamer[/re]: Don’t forget, when Obama is in Canada, he eats beaver treats. The start of a great relationship.
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