Comments on: Hey Sir Paul, we didn’t really mean all that about the seal hunt

By: brewnoser

brewnoser — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:00:44 +0000

Well, we were all set up, complete with trebuchet, to fling seals over Ton’y Donair and on to Surpaul’s stage. But the unexpected happened – the Newfoundland Store was sold out!! So we shot over a few groupies. One, from California, made it (they were heavier than a typical seal, so most landed well short on the stage). I hear she even got an autograph.

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:04:29 +0000

Newcomer, I too toiled in academe and understand that.

By: thenewcomer

thenewcomer — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:45:12 +0000

You know this belly-aching about identity really struck me too, when I first arrived. And in academia it is a thousand times worse. The identity of immigrants, of aboriginals, of acadiens, of Torontonians, polar bears, etc etc. All grist to the dissertation mill. What are we feeling? What is it like, to be the wonderful me? Oh, it is all so in-te-res-ting.

That stuff about the seal hunt and PM was fascinating.

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:22:13 +0000

Dick, you don’t that’s for sure

Sean, hahahaha, that’s good.
I was so disappointed that there wasn’t. We looked so kissy arsed not to, especially after the rhetoric spouted previously

By: Sean Wraight

Sean Wraight — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:32:48 +0000

I honestly thought someone would club him on the head with an artificial leg…

Quite frankly though, I thought there would have been a modicum of protest with his appearance in Halifax. In fact it kinda shocked me when there was not. But then again people were probably afraid to protest “the cute one”.

I bet there was lots of disgruntledness and muttering though. Tis the Canadian way.

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:01:52 +0000

Who listens to celebrities anyway?
“Hi, I’m a plumber, let me tell you how you should manage your forests.”

By: gifted typist

gifted typist — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:46:20 +0000

Allison, Canada is one of those countries that defines itself by what it is not: American.

Barbara, Paul MacCartney and Pups.

By: barbara

barbara — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:19 +0000

Well, I certainly did not forget about the crawling on the ice snuggling seal pups photo op. I don’t have any particularly strong feelings about the seal hunt either, but I can never forgive the man for Wings.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:05:20 +0000

d’oh!

*that’s the greatest part.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:04:40 +0000

Yes, Canadian national identity is a very strange beast. Other countries probably do not talk about their own identities nearly as much, its inherent. Where as we ponder and question…but the greatest part.