Dragaera

Canadians (was OT . . . too damned many things to list)

Fri Aug 23 06:30:23 PDT 2002

On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 09:00 PM, Sean wrote:

>
>> At 05:57 PM 8/22/2002 -0700, Sean wrote:
>>> Steve Simmons said:
>>>> Oh, Canadian jokes.  Now *there's* a topic we can all agree on.  :-)
>>>>
>>>> I'll start: William Shatner.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hands off Bill!  He's a Canadian cultural Icon, the grandfather of 
>>> the
>>> Canadian School of Over Acting, the progenitor of alien - human 
>>> couplings
>>> and a role-model for egomaniacs around the world.  Why, without him,
> there
>>> would be no Michael J Fox, no Dan Ackroyd, Jason Priestly, Corey 
>>> Haim...
>>> hmm.  Ok.  So maybe we would all have been better off without him.
>
> Steven Brust asked:
>> What's wrong with Dan Ackroyd?
>>
>>
>
> Did you see Blues Brothers 2000?
>
> Ok ok, so Dan doesn't belong on the list, being an icon himself.
>

Coneheads the movie wasn't the pinnacle of cinema, either.