[78-L] Happy (ho hum) Canada Day

[David Lennick]

simmonssomer wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:56 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Happy (ho hum) Canada Day
> 
> 
>> Just remembering that the first Happy Canada Day greeting usually came 
>> from
>> Robert Angus.
>>
>> Yes friends, the year is half over already (or half full, if that's your
>> philosophy)! And all across Ontario, people are lining up for free meals 
>> at a
>> chain of Chinese restaurants. Block-long lines, six hour waits. Seeing as 
>> the
>> weather is iffy and most public events in Toronto have been cancelled 
>> because
>> of a walkout by garbage collectors, this is about as exciting as it gets, 
>> eh?
>>
>> dl
> 
> The walkout creates some problems for certain items on the menu such as
> Chow Mein.

You mean since nobody's putting garbage out, ingredients are in short supply?

(Rimshot)

dl

>  (Yes..I have a friend who actualy orders it when we go out to dinner with 
> him. I try to pretend that he intruded on our table uninvited
> but by now the waiters have us pegged so I order twelve birds cooked alive 
> on-a stick just to get back into their good graces.
> 
> Al Simmons
>