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April 08, 2005

For Once, Canadians Have Exactly The Right Attitude

Beer truck flips over, destroying tons of brew:

"It is sad," Capt. Scott Logan of the Halifax Regional Fire Service (search) told The Daily News of Halifax. "Chances are they won't recover any of the beer."
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The female driver was pulled out of the cab uninjured — "more frazzled than hurt," according to Logan — letting rescuers focus on the calamitous aspects of the disaster.

"I had a tear in my eye, actually, when I was watching it," said police Constable Mark Hobeck.

Courage. I mean, I wish them courage. It wasn't Courage Stout. Thank God.

Canadians -- at least some of them -- just dropped a notch on my Flouncing Puss-O-Meter.

posted by Ace at 11:25 AM

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I used to work on a beer truck. I remember one afternoon, the Blatz guy -- this is when Blatz still came in the short round bottles, mind you -- pulled out of a parking lot with all of the right-side bay doors open. He, of course, turned left, and about 300 cases of Blatz shattered on the road. The dark cloud was all the glass on the road, but the silver lining was that it was Blatz.

Posted by: Robb on April 8, 2005 12:04 PM

just dropped a notch on my Flouncing Puss-O-Meter.

This is a mistake. Extending any sort of olive branch to the Cannucks is a bad idea. They'll only patiently wait for you to drop it, ask 'are you sure you're done with that?' then snatch it up to whip themselves in an ever so polite self-flagellating orgy of who-am-I-to-judge, what-will-the-international-community-think-of-me recriminations.

No, the inscrutable Canadian mind can't accept such compliments. Best to just keep your foot on their throats. It's the only way to shut up their apologies and self-doubt.

Posted by: Ray Midge on April 8, 2005 12:16 PM

Dude, you have to give credit where credit's due.

'Sides, Canadians are so starved for acknowledgement by their southern superiors I just made an entire nation smile with beaming pride.

I'm all about the love.

Posted by: ace on April 8, 2005 12:20 PM

She flipped a beer truck? That's a serious party foul.

Posted by: Kadnine on April 8, 2005 12:33 PM

Is the UN sending blue-helmeted grief counselors to the scene of the gruesome tragedy?

Posted by: lauraw on April 8, 2005 12:33 PM

A couple of years back it was a flipped truck full of bees.

Amazing how much of a difference one letter makes.

Posted by: Al on April 8, 2005 12:35 PM

Fine, but when they flood this site with their reasoned comments and sensible policy discussions, you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

I, for one, am going to fight them every step of the way. Some of us here still care about needless invective, cruel ad hominems - still love tossing out lengthy, half baked analysis without ever reading the link. I thought you did too. What happened to you man?

Posted by: Ray Midge on April 8, 2005 12:36 PM

Great, the guy with all the D&D/Star Wars references is using a Puss-O-Meter to evaluate others.

Posted by: Ken J on April 8, 2005 12:37 PM

Damn, Ray, if I weren't married...

Posted by: lauraw on April 8, 2005 12:50 PM

this is when Blatz still came in the short round bottles

As an underaged drinker in high school, I used to buy Blatz with the theory that no store clerk would ever suspect anyone under 21 of drinking it.

The theory proved to be true. I got carded at least 50% less than when trying to purchase Bud Light.

I loved those little hand grenade bottles. Too bad they don't make them anymore.

Then again, I can't remember the last time I had a Blatz. Probably college.

Posted by: The Warden on April 8, 2005 12:55 PM

"The female driver was pulled out of the cab uninjured "

But its still a felony rap, right? She can't walk away from this with just a guilty conscience, can she? Oh, the humanity!!!

Posted by: BrewFan on April 8, 2005 12:57 PM

Laura W baby, if your husband really loved you, he wouldn't stand in our way.

Posted by: Ray Midge on April 8, 2005 01:02 PM

[Pssst! Ray! I'll bet the magic watch line will work]

Posted by: BrewFan on April 8, 2005 01:09 PM

Was the driver Canadian? I tend to think so, given her shocking dereliction of duty. No American would have allowed this to happen.

BTW, did you notice the other stories on that page? Apparently some genius was arrested for fraud after he tried to deposit a check worth 4 billion dollars. Man, that's balls. I'm surprised he didn't just go to the US Mint with a delivery order.

Posted by: Blain on April 8, 2005 01:12 PM

Ray, baby

I'm so glad that you're back in full fighting spirit.

Sorry about putting you in the hospital.

I've got to refine that half-nelson trick so that it doesn't end up really hurting people.

Posted by: Lipstick Dynamite on April 8, 2005 02:10 PM

Is the UN sending blue-helmeted grief counselors to the scene of the gruesome tragedy?

But the UN helpers will spend the day molesting canadian schoolgirls and selling drugs, so no real work will get done...

Posted by: SteVe on April 8, 2005 03:24 PM

Lipstick sugar, can't keep a good man down. And me neither. Fight the good fight.

Posted by: Ray Midge on April 8, 2005 03:30 PM

Not very resourceful are those Canucks? Why didn't the Constable just pull out a big fuckin straw? Honestly now...that would've been the sensible thing to do.

Posted by: Wittysexkitten on April 8, 2005 04:13 PM

Damn, Ray. I wish I weren't married either. The war of 1812 is not over.

Posted by: Michael on April 9, 2005 12:18 AM

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