Elmhurst bryan

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

HOCKEY DOESNT MATTER AND CANADA DOESNT EXIST ALRIGHT!?!?!?!?

You just blew my mind. All my life I thought it was e l b and it was some lame french thing...

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Brilliant design. Nobody had a fucking clue what it was. No wonder they failed.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Over / under on how many current roster Cubs Mackeyfish can name. I'd set it at 10.5

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UNDER!

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

They failed because English Canadians like baseball much more than French Canadians, and the French Canadians chased all the English Canadians out of Quebec (especially Montreal's Jewish population, whom they particularly disliked). That and ownership conspiring with the commissioner's office to trade up on franchises and kill the market, of course. But sure, blame the hat.

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A bit off topic here, but it has always bothered me that Don Draper's French Canadian wife who was born some time in the forties is named "Megan". Shouldn't she be Francoise or Isabelle or something?

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Don't take it personally.

Yeah, that does seem a little progressive for the '40s. That still would have a time when every francophone girl in Quebec was named Marie or Catherine.

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I once took a road trip into Canada. We stopped at the Citadel in Quebec City to do some sightseeing. I was inside the fortress walls of Old Quebec waiting in a line for a tour. A man walked in with an Expos hat and the tour guide lit up when he saw the hat and the two engaged in an extremely animated conversation about the fate of the Expos, the firing of Alou, moving to Miami, and the team potentially being bought by MLB. The language alternated between English and French, with the tour guide always switching to French whenever he got angry. It went on for about ten minutes, all while a handful of people were waiting to go on the tour. I'm not even sure the man in the Expos hat understood French. At the end of their dialogue the tour guide grabbed the man's hat and tapped the logo saying "Les Expos, we never forget."

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

I thought only her mom was French Canadian and her dad was American... I can't remember for sure...

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Both of Megan's parents are French.

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Must be losing it. I thought her dad was a little old NY jew commie sympathizer.

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Communist, but most certainly French. Passive-aggressive as hell, too. I like the scene where he's like "Bobby is elping me fill my fount-ann pen!" and that little dipshit spilled ink all over Don's white carpet.

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And that man in the Expos hat was Gary from Evanston... and that's the rest of the story.

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Don't take it personally.

He also used to disguise his ignorance for the sport by stating that Bulls fans were not really Bulls fans they were Michael Jordan bandwagon fans and once Jordan left the United Center would be half filled. I always detected that it was a way for him to not have to talk basketball. Very who you crappinish though because he always attempted to qualify who was and was not a Bulls fan.

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About 2 minutes of looking at the morning sports pages. That's all it takes to be Mackeyfish

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