This is too funny!

In yesterday's post, I put up a link sent me by CAPT H regarding Canadian plans to send soldiers to Darfur, Sudan, to help the African Union troops in their peacekeeping role. This sparked a comment from Damian of Babbling Brooks, to which I responded in email, and he responded... and, well, it's a classic piece of Northron-Southron one-up-manship characteristic of the two english-speaking peoples inhabiting this continent... Rather than make you read from the bottom up, I've set it up so you just read normally...

Damian said:

Name: Damian
Email Address:
URL: http://www.babblingbrooks.blogspot.com

Comments:

Ummm, not to be too much of a spoilsport, John, but the scuttlebut is that the CF will be sending about 150 troops (mostly officers) to advise the African Union on how to do the job in Sudan. While I'm glad we'll be contributing anything (and at a meagre 150, we'll be 150 ahead of any other western nation as far as I know), I don't suffer from any illusions as to the impact of this deployment, should it ever even come about (there's a national government falling in Canada right now, for those who don't follow politics in the Great White North).

Debbye at Being American in T.O. has a round up posted.

I responded:

I'm just keeping my Canadian readers (especially CAPT H) happy knowing that I pay some attention to them...

You know how you Canajuns are... always wanting us Southrons to notice, so you can flounce away!

8^D

Damian responded:

Ahem. I don't flounce. I do an Iditerod to work everyday, where I cut down trees and make maple syrup. I club seals over my lunch hour for kicks and spare change. My wife farms a thousand acres of hardy northern wheat and also ranches wood buffalo. We let local wolves raise the kids.

As far as Southrons noticing us, well, you'd have to pull your heads out of
your own...navels first.

LOL,
Damian

After which I asked Damian if he minded if I posted it - and of course, he didn't.