Just a thought
Hey Folks –
Listening to NPR today I heard some guys talking about how Israel had secretly bombed Syria a while back (fairly old news by now) supposedly to obliterate a nookyoular facility the dreaded North Koreans had helped them build. They discussed the questionable evidence that the square building (there was a square building in North Korea too) that disappeared from commercial satellite pictures really was a nookyoular facility, and they suggested that the strike was actually intended to send “a message” to Iran.
But that wasn’t what I was interested in.
What struck me was that here these guys were, discussing that one sovereign nation had “secretly” bombed another sovereign nation, and not really much resulted from it. Is that strange? Apparently, neither Syria nor Israel, or anybody else who knew about it thought to mention it, much less raise hell about it. Hmmmm . . . it got me to thinking.
You know, it used to be that a good ol’ American could vacation in Canada at a discount. One dollar brought a lot more than one funny-looking Canadian dollar – boy!! You could play the slots forever!!
Now, those damned hockey-players are strutting around giving us only 97 of their goofy-looking cents for every one of our red-blooded greenbacks (can you say “Al Kaida-lover”?).
Well, here’s the solution: we should secretly bomb their damned mints off the face of the earth (verifiable only by commercial satellite pictures). Neither the Canadian nor American governments will mention it; things will go along as if nothing has happened, and the Canadian mints will get the message and return the exchange rate to the correct level.
Months from now those same NPR guys can consider whether the square buildings that disappeared from their Google World programs were actual government mints or just Wal-Mart stores.
In the meantime, we can start making our regular trips to Canadian casinos again, enjoying a proper, respectful exchange rate.
If not – if they are stubborn – we can always get Israel to bomb a hockey rink.
- Uke Man
Listening to NPR today I heard some guys talking about how Israel had secretly bombed Syria a while back (fairly old news by now) supposedly to obliterate a nookyoular facility the dreaded North Koreans had helped them build. They discussed the questionable evidence that the square building (there was a square building in North Korea too) that disappeared from commercial satellite pictures really was a nookyoular facility, and they suggested that the strike was actually intended to send “a message” to Iran.
But that wasn’t what I was interested in.
What struck me was that here these guys were, discussing that one sovereign nation had “secretly” bombed another sovereign nation, and not really much resulted from it. Is that strange? Apparently, neither Syria nor Israel, or anybody else who knew about it thought to mention it, much less raise hell about it. Hmmmm . . . it got me to thinking.
You know, it used to be that a good ol’ American could vacation in Canada at a discount. One dollar brought a lot more than one funny-looking Canadian dollar – boy!! You could play the slots forever!!
Now, those damned hockey-players are strutting around giving us only 97 of their goofy-looking cents for every one of our red-blooded greenbacks (can you say “Al Kaida-lover”?).
Well, here’s the solution: we should secretly bomb their damned mints off the face of the earth (verifiable only by commercial satellite pictures). Neither the Canadian nor American governments will mention it; things will go along as if nothing has happened, and the Canadian mints will get the message and return the exchange rate to the correct level.
Months from now those same NPR guys can consider whether the square buildings that disappeared from their Google World programs were actual government mints or just Wal-Mart stores.
In the meantime, we can start making our regular trips to Canadian casinos again, enjoying a proper, respectful exchange rate.
If not – if they are stubborn – we can always get Israel to bomb a hockey rink.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hey Tom,
Good article. BUT you'd better watch out as some Canadians may be bombing Las Vegas. I just read in my Las Vegas Advisor that recently one casino in downtown Las Vegas was giving Canadians 67 cents for one of their dollars. Others were giving from 97 cents up to $1.02. Now this could really start a war, don't you think? Sondra
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