Tuesday, October 19, 2004

You gotta be kidding!

The CBC's The Greatest Canadian top ten list has just been announced. I can't believe it. Don Cherry is on the list. Say what? The CBC fired him a while back. How is it possible that a list that included Pierre Trudeau, Frederick Banting, Tommy Douglas, Lester Pearson, John A. Macdonald could also have Don Cherry. Apparently, 140,000 Canadians voted for him. I have to say that this is bizarre and disturbing voting behaviour, Canada.

What is he know for? The answer: Ugly shirts and a loud mouth.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

AND no women in the final ten, IIRC.

As much as I am occasionally amused by Grapes, I was equally appalled to find him in the top ten.

(Okay, okay, I'm amused by his sartorial splendour...)

k
kmatthews@golden.net

zydeco fish said...

Yeah, surely Nellie McLung ought to have made the top ten. As for Mr. Cherry, I do find him amusing sometimes, but really.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Shatnerian also comments on The Greatest Canadian today.

k
kmatthews@golden.net

zydeco fish said...

Interesting, but who is Shatnerian? he had a lot more to say than i did, that's for sure. Oh, and I guess it's spelled McClung, not McLung.

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Anonymous said...

He's a guy...in Verdun...who writes a blog.

katherine
kmatthews@toutes-directions.com

zydeco fish said...

oh, ok. i thought maybe you knew the guy. i wonder if that is a star trek reference.