Being famous in Canada is like being famous on the internet, right?
I think that's right, but she's not in Canada, she's in L.A., so I'm legitimately famous, thanks.
You know, because we're not allowed to know anything about you, I imagine Oggedville is secretly Vancouver.
Naturally, I can neither confirm nor deny.
You learned her national anthem? That's commitment.
I didn't say I got it right. But doesn't everyone know the first two lines anyway?
O Canada,
Our home and native land...
Or is this something only sports fans would know?
Were you at work when you did this?
You shouldn't use your cell phone while you're driving, ogged.
I've used my cell phone while driving while you were in the car, b-dub, and you didn't complain then.
I imagine that ogged's secret location is actually chicago, and this not-chicago business is a clever ploy to throw us off the trail.
I know. I noticed but I didn't want to make a fuss, because you were driving me to and from the restaurant and buying. And, of course, because in person I'm both charming and restrained.
Also, since he was already endangering your life, you didn't want to add to his distraction.
Ogged's presentation-of-the-self on the Internet has always been so sensitive, so witty, so intelligent that I always wondered why the Ex was the Ex...
Now I know...
:-)
sensitive
You misspelled "neurotic".
I had no idea Brad hated the Canadian national anthem so much.
Maybe it's not so much the anthem he hates (it is, after all, superior to our own), but Canadia itself.
Who could hate Candia? Maybe he's on a diet?
I've always thought these lines oh-so-appropriate for a modern national anthem:
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!
Loosely:
Let an impure blood
Water our fields.
It's a good thing the proper etiquette during the playing of the national anthem states that
There is no law or behaviour governing the playing of the national anthem; it is left to the good citizenship of individuals.
Who could hate Candia?
Maybe he hates Candida.
And on the subject of singing and dancing... The Biophysicist and I went to a Persian birthday party this weekend, which was complete with a live DJ, catering and about 75 people speaking Farsi. For a one year old. Ogged never mentioned that Persians have dancing boys. Sexy, sinuous dancing boys who get up on the dance floor and make Patrick Swayze look like a Quaker doing the hokey-pokey. Dark-eyed dancing boys with stamping feet and swaying hips and...
And, of course, there was cake. Four of them, actuaslly, one each for the letters in the birthday girl's name. And lots and lots of kabab-e koobideh, joojeh kabab and kashk-e baadenjaan and chelow and did I mention the dancing boys? Lovely, lovely dancing boys...
If Candida Clauseri, a contestant on Canadian idol, has been to Candia, then this truly is the best of all possible worlds.
Who could hate Candia?
Especially this nice little town.
DE, those Iranians are not my Iranians. In fact, the next time you're at a gauche Iranian party in LA, try asking some of the older folks if they were employed by the Shah as torturers, or informants, or whether they merely served in the armed forces.
To offend them, or because one of the alternates is likely the case?
Ogged, advice this like that is why you'll never be able to replace Mrs. Manners.
Ogged: No "older" folks, mostly computer geeks in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties, Christian immigrants who fled after the Ministry of Islamic Guidance started persecuting Christians in the 90s. [Our host's uncle was executed.] They would have come to adulthood post-Shah. Gauche they may be, but oppressed they were; I imagine that the over-the-top celebration has much to do with that - 'hey, world, we survived!'
You could start a column called Miss Mannered.
Are you sure they were Christians? They could in fact have been Quakers, and that could have been their version of the hokey-pokey.
Oh, the infidels. That's different. (Though executed uncles are the new "my family was rich back in the home country....")
Should one refer to people from Iran as Iranian or is Persian more appropriate? The Jews I've met prefer to be called Persians.
A link to a link, thanks. Are unfogged comments searchable?
I didn't think that the Persian insisters were particularly ass-holeish. Maybe they were afraid of being associated with Iran. My experience was mostly limited to Jews.
Wrong post, Ben. The branes are in this thread.
any time a theoretical physics joke can span multiple comment threads, I'm beaming.
w-lfs-n, you using that as a theoretical physics joke or a kibology joke? Or is there even a difference?
I suspect that some folk wish to distance themselves from the identification "Iranian" since Dubya made the country part of the Axis of Evil. Murricans tend to xenophobia in the best of times, and these aren't the best of times. Anyone remember the poor Sikh who was murdered in CA because he wore a turban? Hell, just after 9/11, my kid's high school told Muslim parents not to send their daughters to school in headscarves, as their safety couldn't be guaranteed.
A Belgian friend of mine reports getting hostile reactions because of his accent, as people seem unable to grasp that Belgium isn't France.
Given the relative insularity of most Americans, the Persia=Iran connection probably isn't readily made, and that offers some social protection.