I think what you meant to say was "Please don't invade us again, because it would be a real shame if anything else happened to that pretty little White House you've got down there in Washington..." :-)
All kidding aside, the reason that the presidential swearing-in ceremony is held outside (even though it's January) is because the White House rebuilding wasn't completed in time for the 1816 ceremony, as I understand it.
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Date: 2008-07-04 12:59 pm (UTC)Check the score-card, buddy. I think you'll find that we are at least even, if not up one. 8)
(Which is not at all to say that I don't echo your sentiment, and that the ambiguity of the authorial voice in your statement is charming.)
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Date: 2008-07-04 01:52 pm (UTC)I think what you meant to say was "Please don't invade us again, because it would be a real shame if anything else happened to that pretty little White House you've got down there in Washington..." :-)
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Date: 2008-07-04 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 04:00 pm (UTC)Or, as your fellow Canadian Blogtard (http://blogtard.livejournal.com/) once said to me:
"Hey, if you can find us on a map, come and get us."
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Date: 2008-07-04 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-04 04:59 pm (UTC)All kidding aside, the reason that the presidential swearing-in ceremony is held outside (even though it's January) is because the White House rebuilding wasn't completed in time for the 1816 ceremony, as I understand it.
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Date: 2008-07-04 06:17 pm (UTC)We know not to fuck with Canada.
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Date: 2008-07-04 07:39 pm (UTC)Well, we were planning on making a run across the border tomorrow to do a bit of grocery shopping, but I don't think that counts.
(And it'll kinda depend on the amount of traffic at the border crossings, anyway... 'cause I'm think it may be bad enough to not bother!)
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Date: 2008-07-05 02:55 am (UTC)Suprisingly... a friend of mine from Chicago... didn't... :D
Didn't change my love of the song though!! :)