O PC Canada

[unclehobart]

Group Seeks to Take 'Sons' Out of 'O Canada'

By Randall Palmer

OTTAWA (Reuters) - It's time to make ``O Canada'' politically correct, striking the phrase ``thy sons'' from the country's national anthem, a women's group said on Monday.

The Famous 5 Foundation, named after five women who won the right for women to become Canadian senators in 1929, launched a campaign on Monday to change some words of the anthem.

The group says the current wording excludes the daughters of Canada, and it is pushing for legislation to change the song, the first lines of which read:

``O Canada! Our home and native land!

True patriot love in all thy sons command.''

The foundation, which started collecting signatures at a new Famous 5 Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, says the line should read ``all of us'' or ``all our hearts.''

``Parents of children in Canada don't call their girl children 'sons','' foundation president Frances Wright said.

Just a couple hundred feet (meters) away, however, a random Reuters survey of a dozen Canadians watching the ceremonial Changing of the Guard on the Parliament lawn turned up nobody interested in changing the wording.

``I think that it's tradition, and we should just stick with it as it is. It's Canadian culture and history,'' Torontonian Cathy Vander Voort volunteered.

``I don't think it's sexist. It's history,'' said Marilyn Else of Toronto. ``Change isn't always good,'' said Lynn Anne Anfield of Cherry Valley, Ontario, who said she did not feel excluded.

Back at the monument, however, Aldo Cimpello signed the petition. ``It's just logical that it should be specific, and I guess the times have changed,'' he said.

But officials said Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien has no intention of moving on the file for now. ``Changing the words of the national anthem is not something we're looking at at this time,'' spokeswoman Marianne Goodwin said.

The anthem was actually written in French, Canada's other official language, in 1880. The French version avoids the gender problem by referring to ``terre de nos aieux'' -- ``land of our ancestors.'' The current English wording is based on an approximate translation done in 1908.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010731/od/anthem_dc_1.html

 

[Professur]

More ****ing idiots with nothing better to do with their time. I say we round 'em up and make them clean up the highways or summat like that.

 

[Fuser Man]

Goddamn bitches! Just leave it alone!

 

[unclehobart]

I think the 'O' in the title needs to be changed as well. Only women can experience the big 'O' and I find it to be blatantly sexist and anti-male.

 

[Q]

...and I thought it was bad when they changed the words on Star Trek

 

[Professur]

It was.

 

[Gonzo]

pardon my ignorance, but, exactly how many women FOUGHT to gain freedom for Canada? just think, in a few more years men will be in cages & women will do all the reproduction by themselves-only milking us occasionally-the irony is:they'll still have to fix our dinner

 

[Professur]

Jeez, Gonz, read a history book, willya. Canada NEVER fought for it's freedom. It still recognises the power of the throne.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by Gonzo
-the irony is:they'll still have to fix our dinner

hmmm, wonder if we can get Purina to start manufacturing MAN-Chow®

 

[HavoK]

Those dunces have nothing better to do than that??? Unbelieveable, and I thought only the stupidest of people lived in the US...boy was I wrong. Mmmmmmm, Man-chow, does it taste like beef, I hope it tastes like beef....Mmmmmmm

 

[Professur]

It'll be something like steak-and-liver. After all, it'll be women preparing it.

 

[Q]

It'll only be steak and liver flavored...the actual contents include: hooves, butts, wankers and horns, ground to a fine consistency and reconstituted into exciting shapes men just love!

 

[trinity1]

I found this little tidbit involving our PC friends up north:

This insider list of newly discovered viruses should convince all Canada readers to never, ever download anything to their hard drive:

BOBBIT VIRUS: Removes a vital part of your hard disk then reattaches it.

POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS: Never calls itself a "virus," but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VIRUS: Terminates and stays resident. It'll be back.

GALLUP VIRUS: 60 per cent of the PCs infected will lose 38 per cent of their data 14 per cent of the time (plus or minus a 3.5 per cent margin of error).

AIRLINE VIRUS: Your PC is in Halifax, but the data is in Singapore.

FREUDIAN VIRUS: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

ELVIS VIRUS: Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self-destructs. Later it will resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.

TORONTO RAPTORS VIRUS: Makes your 486/50 machine perform like a 286/AT.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS VIRUS: Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in the reviews, but you still love it.



"O CANADA"

 

[Professur]

Originally posted by Q
It'll only be steak and liver flavored...the actual contents include: hooves, butts, wankers and horns, ground to a fine consistency and reconstituted into exciting shapes men just love!

You keep that up, and I'll be down there for dinner.

 

[Q]

*Now available in MAN Chow lite* for the less active men in your life
*Also available in MAN Chow senior* complete with viagra

 

[Professur]

Just so long as there isn't a muff-flavoured version. We all have to eat enough of that as is.

 

[Fuser Man]

Originally posted by Professur
Just so long as there isn't a muff-flavoured version. We all have to eat enough of that as is.

LOL

Some of them make you want to quit doing it (DAMN girl when was the last time you washed?)

and others are just heaven.(the young ones)


Talk about getting off track!

 

[trinity1]

This sums things up nicely for this off-off topic

Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers
Till I talked to your daddy, he say
He said "you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin
Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways"
I met a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder
Oh, the times I could reminisce
Cause the best things of lovin' with her sister and her cousin
Only started with a little kiss
Like this

See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school
And your feet flyin' up in the air
Singin' "hey diddle diddle"
With your kitty in the middle of the swing
Like you didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn't me she was foolin'
Cause she knew what she was doin'
And I knowed love was here to stay
When she told me to

Walk this way
Just gimme a kiss
Like this

Schoolgirl sweetie with a classy kinda sassy
Little skirt's climbin' way up the knee
There was three young ladies in the school gym locker
When I noticed they was lookin' at me
I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady
Till the boys told me somethin' I missed
Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor
So I gave her just a little kiss
Like this

See-saw swingin' with the boys in the school
And your feet flyin' up in the air
Singin' "hey diddle diddle"
With your kitty in the middle of the swing
Like you didn't care
So I took a big chance at the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn't me she was foolin'
Cause she knew what she was doin'
When she told me how to walk this way
She told me to

Walk this way
Just gimme a kiss
Like this!

 

[Q]

Coming soon to a store near you! Muff flavored MAN-TREATS!!

 

[trinity1]

Whoa,
if you're the cook, Q and this is your own recipe...
hell: Florida here I come!!!!!!!!!!!