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Canadian Politican Olivia Chow's Green House Tour

Krupo says...

Desperate for relevance, Canada's Commie-Pinko NDP party is trying to recast itself as a 'orange' green party (their traditional party colour is orange). Hence this ad. For a political 'viral ad' of sorts, it's so 'non-slick' it's kind of slick, if that makes any sense.

Olivia and her husband are both Members of Parliament - her husband Jack Layton being leader of the federal NDP party.

For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian politics, we have four federal parties, one of the four being devoted to destroying the country (I'm not being a partisan or anything - they want Quebec to seceed and be its own country).

Having mentioned the Bloc Quebecois, the others are the NDP (as you see in the vid - the most 'left wing' of the 'big four'), the Liberals (middle of the road/centrist), and the Conservatives (yep, right wing).

We also have a Green Party, which irritates the NDP and the Liberals to no end, as they've been stealing about 5% if the votes in the past few elections, enought to spoil a race here and there - they haven't, however, won any seats in Parliament yet(?).

The ladies love Ben Affleck, even when he's really drunk

theo47 says...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Losique#Ben_Affleck_interviews

A well-known staple of Box-Office with Losique are the interviews she conducted with American actor Ben Affleck. For every occasion, he would drop into a corny stereotypical French accent (rather sounding like France French, not Quebec French), acting as if they were already in a sexual relationship ("All you wanna do is have sex all the time. You don't wanna talk, you don't wanna hold me..."), teasing Losique to her uncontrollable amusement, making her sit upon his lap, hugging her, going on about Montreal and the Quebecois ("Québécois libres!"). He would, with accent, make statements imitating stereotypes of criticisms French-speaking people and foreigners have of Americans.

Known for an affection for Montreal, Affleck showed a certain level of knowledge of Quebec in these humorous encounters. He once went into a zany story where he likened the affairs of Quebecers to the heroic struggle of a French cheese liberating itself from an English cheese ("I am French and I be free!"). He would also speak of an admiration for Quebec nationalism icon, former Premier of Quebec René Lévesque, jokingly stating that he thought of legally changing his name to "René Lévesque" (he repeated this to the crew of Flash, an Quebecois entertainment television show). Unknown for years by most Americans, one of those segments, filmed in 2004 during promotion for the movie Jersey Girl, gained substantial fame as a viral video on American and international internet blogs. On September 20, 2006, a Google "Affleck+Losique" query returned aproximately 80,000 hits.

The Office-The Dwight Scrute/Jim Halpert Relationship

dobie says...

Did you know that the rights have been bought to produce a Quebecois version of the Office? I think there's a European version as well, but I'm not sure.




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