Gratitude for input

[thebitterguy]

Thanks to everyone who replied to the earlier query about Yanks & NYC.

It was spawned by this article in the Toronto Star (yes, you have to register. Deal.) that indicated that there's a resentment towards the heart o' the nation from the further capillaries.

I guess you're lucky, down in the Holy Republic, that you have a number of cities (as rdansky pointed out) of significance down there. All we've got is TO, and maybe Vancouver.

Otherwise, you've got Montreal and Montreal wannabe Quebec City acting like two cities under siege from each other as they desperately vie to produce the next winner of Star Acadamie. Then there's Calgary and Edmonton glaring at each other across the prairies, this year even lacking a hockey season to release the homo-erotic tension.

And Ottawa, the bureaucrat of the nation, pince-nez and bow tie, fingers stained with red ink while university students surge across the bridges to hull every weekend night, returning with a trail of vomit dripping from their shoes.

And poor, sweet, slowly dying Kingston, wasting away like some gangrenous limb. Without Queens, really, what would that sweet, sad city have?

Comments

Re: You haven't heard about Hull?

[umario.livejournal.com]

I'm the communication rep, sort of - I do our web write-ups for our projects.

We're too small a group for a dedicated comms guy - but NRCan must have needs.

You kinda need an in with the gov't to get into the gov't... it ain't easy, I just got lucky that I knew someone who knew someone, and the first someone had known mama bitter before she knew papa bitter.

http://www.jobs-emplois.gc.ca/jobs/index_all_e.htm - for all gov't jobs.

poor suckers, they still live in quebec. i just pity them - until i realize dey can get beer at de depanneur (not de convenience store).

i think it'll be a while before i figure out how to be funny in my writing again.

Re: You haven't heard about Hull?

[thebitterguy]

You kinda need an in with the gov't to get into the gov't... it ain't easy, I just got lucky that I knew someone who knew someone, and the first someone had known mama bitter before she knew papa bitter.

I know YOU. YOU'RE in the government.

I know mama bitter, too, come to think of it...

[umario.livejournal.com]

But I don't hire. In fact, at the end of March, if I don't succeed in my application for my OWN job, then I have no job.