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Originally Posted by Martian
Dude, I think it was more in reference to the fact that you're our immediate southern neighbours. Y'know, like Mexico is for you guys.
You obviously weren't in Canada long enough. Come back, drink a beer, smoke a joint and relax...
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What he said. Immediately understood by myself as just that.
And um.... 4 yrs? ya, what Martian said.
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Originally Posted by guyy
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I miss CRAP. Now that was an acronym!
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Impressive knowledge of your northern neighbours! (the USA to our Mexico?)
I loved CRAP. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Alliance :
In 2000, following the second of the two United Alternative conventions, the party voted to dissolve in favour of a new party: the "Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance", a declaration of policy and a new constitution. The new party's platform was a mixture of the PC and Reform platforms, but since former Reform members dominated the party, it was largely seen as merely a renamed and enlarged Reform Party. Former PM Brian Mulroney called the party "Reform in pantyhose", and some opponents referred to the party as the "Reform Alliance" to enforce this perception.
Media covering the convention quickly pointed out that if one added the word "Party" to the end of the party's name, the resulting initials were "CCRAP" (humorously pronounced "see-crap" or just "crap") even though it, like the Bloc Québécois, didn't actually have the word party in its name. When it became clear after a few days that the joke was not going to subside, the party's official name was quickly changed to the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, but was almost always called simply "the Canadian Alliance" or "the Alliance". However, the "CCRAP" nickname was still used by its opponents.