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May. 29th, 2001 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geekchickThis article is both hysterically funny and truly sad at the same time.
Mining the depths of American ignorance of Canada has yielded prime time gold for the satirical TV news show ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes,'' produced by Nova Scotia's Salter Street Films and aired by CBC. Probably the most popular and certainly the most outrageous segment is Mercer's ''Talking to Americans.''
Preposterous questions are put to unsuspecting Yanks - who ramble cluelessly about whether Canada should become part of North America (university student: ''I don't know.''); should continue the national voting system of dropping pine cones or birchbark into ballot boxes (Louisiana man: ''At least you are ecologically sound.''); or whether Canada should keep its navy despite being landlocked.
Mining the depths of American ignorance of Canada has yielded prime time gold for the satirical TV news show ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes,'' produced by Nova Scotia's Salter Street Films and aired by CBC. Probably the most popular and certainly the most outrageous segment is Mercer's ''Talking to Americans.''
Preposterous questions are put to unsuspecting Yanks - who ramble cluelessly about whether Canada should become part of North America (university student: ''I don't know.''); should continue the national voting system of dropping pine cones or birchbark into ballot boxes (Louisiana man: ''At least you are ecologically sound.''); or whether Canada should keep its navy despite being landlocked.
