From: "John Beamish" 

"Humorous"  --- pshaw!  That's "humourous", my dear
boy, "humourous"!


On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:26:34 -0500, Ad
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> Something about "sharing the load".
>> http://www.uni.ca/country_forget.html
>>
>
> Chuckle. Once willing it's hard to say you've lost that luvin feelin....
>
> I do find:
>
> "So it is a general rule that actors and film-makers arriving in
> Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian.
> Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J Fox,
> William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg and Dan Aykroyd have
> in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer
> British. It is as if in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian
> ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as
> unshakeably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has
> proved quite unable to find any takers."
>
> Humorous...I mean what's it all aboot ? 
>
> Adam

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