Congratulations are in order – all my trials, lord, soon be over! Today I received a fabulous job offer, and it appears at some point it will require me to move to Canada:
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Dear Mr Tam O'Tellico: Good Day Please I Need Your gent Response?
mark johnson to Tom Cordle
Dear Mr Tam O'Tellico.
Good Day today i am Henry Boss Einstein. i wish to contact on this transition the Canadian Government is organizing a program through Canada Embassy in London, United kingdom, for people to live and work in Canada on permanent basis, with lesser requirements. We were given the contracts as FM Global Company, to look for somebody in Beeffee, Tennessee, who can stand as agent to run the project in your country upon your reply we will send you, Details of how to run the project and your benefit will be Email to you, AS SOON WE RECEIVED YOUR REPLY.
Therefore contact me through my email or Skype if you are interested. Email is (henrybosseinstein9@yahoo.com )
Best regard.
Henry Boss Einstein
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I’m being audaciously hopeful about my prospects despite the fact I received this offer via an Open Salon PM. [Funny – not ha-ha – how something with such an obvious and odiferous odor makes it through the Fabulous OS Spam Filters and into my mailbox, while PM’s from my OS friends frequently and mysteriously end up in my spam folder. But hey, on such a joyous occasion, let us not dwell on such petty concerns.]
Should I be suspicious just because I was addressed as both Tom Cordle and Tam O’Tellico? Or just because my prospective employer actually imagines there is such a place as Beeffee, Tennessee? Nah, I can’t afford to be suspicious, what with jobs being so scarce ever since Republicans got religion and decided to become compassionate conservative job-creators.
Let you in on a little secret – this “Einstein” could get me a lot cheaper if he waited a bit. If Romney wins in November, I’ve already vowed to leave my beloved US of A for the formerly frozen North. I say formerly, because we’re about to pass the tipping point with global warming, and Canada will soon be downright balmy.
I’ve been working diligently on learning to speak Canadian, eh? Oh, if only I had misspent my youth in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula rather than “down under”. As a Yooper, I’d already be Half-Canadian.
I hope the Canadian government is preparing for the mass influx of refugees that will follow a Romney victory. It could well be the largest migration in history, and the refugee camps will be swollen with jaded, whiny ex-pats demanding Starbucks, Perrier, Fritos and Reality TV.
Meanwhile back in the USSA …..
The old blessing/curse says “May you live in interesting times.” It will interesting indeed to see what happens when the neocon chickenhawks come home to roost – thanks to sunshine liberals disenchanted that Obama, inheritor of the worst mess since FDR and opposed at every turn by Teapartian intransigence and hamstrung by liberal sloth and disinterest, wasn’t able to undo decades of supply-side economic thievery in four short years.
I can already hear the howling when these sunshine liberals discover to their horror the price they’re going to pay for throwing away their vote on the Green Party candidate or sitting home on their lazy, whiny asses as they did in 2010. It ain’t gonna be pretty.
Even more interesting will be watching what happens when reality renders its final verdict on the myth of white supremacy, and demographics catches up with tempestuous-in-a-teapot Teapartians, Aynal-retentive Libertarians and wrong-headed Religious Self-Righteous. It will make the First Civil War look like a Sunday School picnic.
With any luck, I’ll be watching the televised revolution from the comfort of my cabin in Wasauga Beach or Vancouver. Ya’ll come and visit when you can, eh?
©2012 Tom Cordle


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Comments
I'm a little hurt I didn't get the same message, though.
On the land of the free
Bring a heavy coat
It's cold there
You'll see
Don't expect them to welcome you
With open arms
Learn to say 'eh with proper
Brit accent
Maybe they'll like you
Show them your charms
Thanks for the offer of the bowl of poutin -- whatever that is -- any chance you could put me up until I find my cabin in the piney woods?
Jack
Shootin' Wingnuts is good target practice, but they don't taste very good
Margaret
You've got a credit card? Say, you wanna take a trip to Canada? I'll drive, you pay for the gas
HUGGGGGGGGGGG
HUGGGGGGGGGGG
Sigh
You didn't get the offer because of where you live -- Boston may be a BFD, but it's no BFE
Jmac
I don't appreciate any references containing the word "bald"
Chicken Maan
Having twice had to endure the rain of Bush the Least, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find our ditzy, degenerate electorate opting for the reign of Emperor Romulus
;-)
'Fraid that particular beauty hasn't contacted me, but I'm sure she will -- after all, I've been told I'm irresistible time and again by others of her cult
Mission
You're poetry in motion -- well at least the motion of electrons
lorianne
Oh, there is a BFE -- it's the capital of Never-Never-Land and right next to the thriving metropolis Freemarket
That's kind of you, but be careful giving candy to strangers
Tr ig aka Captain Minnow
You'll have to check your fishing gear at the border -- your reputation for taking undersize specimens has preceded you -- or was that underage?
ccdarling
No, but you have to bring the club soda
You should stick to tweeting, sweetie, that better suits your lack of character
ccdarling
No to worry, I didn't take your comment any more seriously than I did Baltimore's
To get the message, you must live in BFE
Did you know, for instance, that the annual tuition for a Canadian to attend McGill, which Harvard tries to imitate by calling itself the "McGill of the South", is only $5000? That's worth a lot, eh?
Warm regards,
Pandora
It looks like you'll have to travel to England before moving up north.
You may be right, however. If we don't get with it, we'll wind up with a mormon creep for pres. No offense to the mormon crowd, but I prefer my presidential candidates be not just mouthpieces for the corporate underworld.
You've made me laugh yet again, Tom--wryly and drily.
R
@Linda: I wouldn't mention such a thing here at OS if I were you. You'll end up with an OSian retreat on your hands, a real refugee camp! LOL
Would you like help with the furniture?
cc - clubbing baby seals is optional, but eating poutine is mandatory.
Libby - while our Conservative govt is obnoxious, it's pretty far left of anything in the U.S. No talk of trying to repeal gay marriage, abortion or the universal healthcare.
I will take the whole Tory cabinet over anyone running in the Republican nomination.. even those that drive their family to canada with dogs on top of their car.
"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, eh?"
"All my exes live in Quebec" etc.
It won't work.
Then again, what with the ice melting up there and the frozen sheet of the Political Shelf here, it may prove to be one more opportunity to learn how to fish.
--r--
RTD!!
(SUNSHINE LIBERALS -- PLEASE THINK OF THE SUPREME COURT AND VOTE FOR O.)
So many comments -- so little Tam! I'm out of pocket at the moment, but thanks to all for commenting. This is definitely a case where the "ehs" have it -- and we only wish we did. Let's here it for Canadian Exceptionalism.
For the record (remember when songs used to come on records?), I'll still be able to write cowboy songs because Canada has lots of cowboys AND a few buffalo. I think I may be a bit long in the tooth for actual cowboyin', tho -- or as we used to say "Get off the stove, Grampaw, you're too old to be ridin' the range."
(no cabins in Van., really, but some great rustic cabins on the Gulf Islands - short ferry ride away)
Tom, keep in mind there are some things we don't have up here. Once an irritable Customs official was arguing with some young Canucks at the border depot station. (I believe they were trying to detain them). For some reason she said,"Well y'all don't have Disneyland in Canada!" I got to lean over and say, "Yeah, that's true, but we have healthcare."
Nearly missed my plane over that one.
Been reading your stuff for a while now, but today I have been compelled to join this site just so I could leave this comment. One of your comments to a comment has really bothered me:
"Baltimore Aureole
You should stick to tweeting, sweetie, that better suits your lack of character"
It seems to me you prefer preaching to the choir rather than enter into honest debate. Anyone with a dissenting point of view is met with derision, chastisement and general ass-holish-ness. Why not convince Baltimore he/she is wrong? Because you know he is right. You have no argument so you prefer snarkiness. Pretty small of you.
Truth be told, Obama did inherit a mess, this much is true. He is not to blame for everything that's wrong. But let's look into some of his deficiencies. He signed NDAA. He did not close Guantanamo Bay. The wars continue. Fast & Furious. A health care law that is a joke. Sounds a lot like Bush, doesn't it? That's because they are the same. The candidate running in this election is Robamney. The outcome is the same either way.
So, in closing, you may continue to feed your ego with accolades and chastise dissent, but the revolution is real and palpable. And it will not be led by a politician.
I was trying to keep this light -- at least for me -- and if you have been around here awhile, you know BA is the king/queen of snark, so my response was apropos. Tit for tat, you might say.
And speaking of you might say, you said of this election:
"The outcome is the same either way"
Such a false equivalency isn't really deserving of a response, but if you really think Obama and Romney will, for instance, appoint the same sort of judges to the Supreme Court, given the opportunity, I can't say much for your grasp of politics or reality.
Well, at least you got the first part of your handle right. As for the rest, methinks you should call yourself Ill-uminutty