Evidence that we'd be better off keeping our "eh?" jokes to ourselves

(To say nothing of our Canadian bacon/Soylent Green comments.)

Even an especially polite people must find it a pain in the ass sometimes, having the geo-historical bad luck to be the first country north of the US.

Still, they've been tolerably good sports about our smokestack industries creating north-drifting acid rain, our broadcast radio and television swamping the airwaves along the most densely populated part of their country, and so on.

Most Americans have taken comfort--what little there is to be had, at least--in the thought that most other countries distinguish between our current government, with its witless bullying and know-it-all-ism on the international stage, and American citizens in general who (we imagine that they suppose) are still a fairly likeable bunch.

Our government may think that "global warming" is "junk science," that it's intellectually respectable to teach creationism alongside evolutionary theory, that blastocysts have the same moral and legal standing as a 50-year-old Parkinson's patient, and that preaching abstinence is the best way to halt the runaway spread of AIDS in Africa--but surely, we tell ourselves, surely our friends to the north know that we, John and Jane Q Citizen of Anytown USA, have a little bit more on the ball than that.

Well, maybe yes, and maybe no. Or maybe it's just no.

As a test, I invite you to share this excruciatingly painful--yet undeniably, lethally funny--bit of humo[u]r from the CBC, smuggled down across the border inside a case of Cialis by some Medicare recipients from Duluth.

Note: p3 strongly recommends that you do not watch this clip while drinking anything you wouldn't want to come out your nose, or with friends from other countries whose good opinion of you you'd like to hang onto a little longer.

I suppose there are worse things that Canadians could think of us than that we're a pack of well-meaning, under-informed, over-opinionated blowhards--candidates for (or worse, descendants of) the Golgafrinchan "B" Ark--although, honestly, nothing comes to mind at the moment.

(Tip of the George M. Cohan Stars and Stripes Top Hat to Ceeb for bringing this one to our attention.)