As a Canadian, I agree with the above, but you have to remember the issues raised in the movie “Canadian Bacon” – winter 12 months a year, maple syrup on everything, and Anne Murray or Gordon Lightfoot required to be played constantly. It’s a brutal existence, but rewarding… If you’re strong enough, and your heart can take all the poutine and maple syrup
Actually, Mahnarch was referencing “Canadian Bacon”. The protagonist, played by John Candy, is watching a hockey game and says “Canadian beer sucks.” And instantly he’s attacked not just by everyone around him, but the players who swarm off the ice. Well played, Mahnarch, even if the comment made me scream in reflexive rage and start pounding the wall. ;-))
At first I read “I don’t feel like bowling right now.”
If being forced to go bowling with your supreme leader is the worst possible burden to be laid upon you by that dictatorial regime, life under these circumstances can’t be too bad.
I first read it as “bowling” too, and wondered how that worked with a hockey stick. But then I thought: Ice hockey, curling, bowling, cricket… They’re all pretty much the same anyway.
I tried my “try to figure out what’s going on without reading the narrator text” game here, and I mistook the “cleanliness sparkles” in panel 3 to be bazooka or sniper rifle sights.
It was pretty funny seeing the bug being able to see the sniper sights (as if that were possible from his point of view) — and even delighting in them, instead of running for his life.
Yes, I saw bazookas. It might have been because last week my nephew was playing with his folded-up music stand as if it were a bazooka, so bazookas were fresh in my subconscious mind.
But it also could have been because the bazookas/pipes in question are drawn with triggers and handles, which I’ve never seen a pipe have before.
I feel that it would be more or less the same if Disney took over the world. Clean streets, buildings in constant repair, infrastructure intact, well-tended gardens… friendly, polite, and excellent service from all stores… terrific food…
We had War Plan Red. I forget what the Canadian plan was. I know it wasn’t an invasion plan, really–it was more a “Stop the USA from turning us into the 51st state long enough to get help” plan.
The Canadian plan to preemptively attack,the USA was “Defense Scheme 1”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1 After WW I, Britain was pretty sure the USA was about to attack it, (and they were doing the planning). A different version was General Richard Rohmers’ book “Exxoneration” about a failed US attack on Canada. I haven’t read that one since the 70s.
And we shall tell them what to do and if they say they wont, we’ll ask again politely, and if they still don’t, we’ll tell them it’s alright, we don’t mean to criticize, but maybe they would consider some form of compromise.
As a Canadian, I agree with the above, but you have to remember the issues raised in the movie “Canadian Bacon” – winter 12 months a year, maple syrup on everything, and Anne Murray or Gordon Lightfoot required to be played constantly. It’s a brutal existence, but rewarding… If you’re strong enough, and your heart can take all the poutine and maple syrup
Canada’s not so bad.
Too bad the beer sucks…
Mahnrach, it is not as if US “beer” is any better though
Actually, Mahnarch was referencing “Canadian Bacon”. The protagonist, played by John Candy, is watching a hockey game and says “Canadian beer sucks.” And instantly he’s attacked not just by everyone around him, but the players who swarm off the ice. Well played, Mahnarch, even if the comment made me scream in reflexive rage and start pounding the wall. ;-))
LOL
Heh… As if the United States being taken over by Canadians would cause all of the United States to experience twelve months of winter!
You clearly never went to Quebec. Yeah our street are clen but they are in such disrepair that we should change our name to pothole country.
Don’t forget Montreal, a city that almost makes Chicago blush.
That Canadian dictator is absolutely brilliant!
I hope your last name isn’t Harper, otherwise that statement is going to make your ego look big.
At first I read “I don’t feel like bowling right now.”
If being forced to go bowling with your supreme leader is the worst possible burden to be laid upon you by that dictatorial regime, life under these circumstances can’t be too bad.
So did I. And I wondered what a hockey stick had to do with bowling.
I first read it as “bowling” too, and wondered how that worked with a hockey stick. But then I thought: Ice hockey, curling, bowling, cricket… They’re all pretty much the same anyway.
Take off, eh? Hoser.
You win the comments today, Pink Floyd.
I just noticed that the Canadian overlord is wearing a giant maple leaf on his head! Nice touch, Adam!
I think that is a maple leaf High Color of Doom.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighCollarOfDoom
High Collar of Doom. Stupid fingers.
FUCK YOU FOR LINKING TO TVTROPES AND PULLING ME BACK INTO THE FUCKING TRAP
I tried my “try to figure out what’s going on without reading the narrator text” game here, and I mistook the “cleanliness sparkles” in panel 3 to be bazooka or sniper rifle sights.
It was pretty funny seeing the bug being able to see the sniper sights (as if that were possible from his point of view) — and even delighting in them, instead of running for his life.
But you still saw bazookas? I just saw a big pile of pipes until I read the text.
Yes, I saw bazookas. It might have been because last week my nephew was playing with his folded-up music stand as if it were a bazooka, so bazookas were fresh in my subconscious mind.
But it also could have been because the bazookas/pipes in question are drawn with triggers and handles, which I’ve never seen a pipe have before.
I feel that it would be more or less the same if Disney took over the world. Clean streets, buildings in constant repair, infrastructure intact, well-tended gardens… friendly, polite, and excellent service from all stores… terrific food…
and an underground complex hidden from view where the workers are flogged daily and twice on weekends.
You must be fun at parties.
We had War Plan Red. I forget what the Canadian plan was. I know it wasn’t an invasion plan, really–it was more a “Stop the USA from turning us into the 51st state long enough to get help” plan.
The Canadian plan to preemptively attack,the USA was “Defense Scheme 1”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Scheme_No._1 After WW I, Britain was pretty sure the USA was about to attack it, (and they were doing the planning). A different version was General Richard Rohmers’ book “Exxoneration” about a failed US attack on Canada. I haven’t read that one since the 70s.
Harper’s not that laid back.
With Trump in office, many of us are wishing for this pipedream…
And we shall tell them what to do and if they say they wont, we’ll ask again politely, and if they still don’t, we’ll tell them it’s alright, we don’t mean to criticize, but maybe they would consider some form of compromise.