"Harry Crun" <HCRUNMAPSON@charter.net> wrote
> "Helen Ramsay" <r@hotmail.com> wrote
> >Speaking of the frozen north ... I've
> >watched an American soap for umpteen
> > years and I kinda let it slide when one of the characters made what I
> > thought was simply a mistake when he spoke about Canada a few weeks
ago.
> > I'll be writing to the programme today though because the same
character
> > made the same comment today so it was NO mistake. I could hardly
believe
> > my ears when he said, "I'll gladly pay for your one way ticket back to
the
> > PROVINCE of OTTAWA." !! Jeesh! Really! Don't they research these
things?
>
> Well, they're Merkans, aren't they? As Ambrose Bierce put it, "War is
God's
> way of teaching Americans geography." They haven't been at war with
Canada
> for donkey's ages.

I hadn't heard that Harry. Now that it mention it, it makes perfect sense
:)

Cheers,  Helen
hramsay at cogeco dot ca