MetaChat - Stay in Canada and eat more ice and snow.

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17 October 2006

Stay in Canada and eat more ice and snow. This was just said to me on MeFi. Isn't it the most utterly crushing Amerk to Canuck put down EVER? Fight on, wolverine. What are some of the best and worst put downs you've ever seen on MeFi?

post by: Orange Swan at: 10:08 | 32 comments

Seriously, that's so bad it's good. I really must think of a good way to feature it on my MeFi userpage.

posted by Orange Swan 17 October | 10:25

languagehat is getting his flameout!

posted by sciurus 17 October | 10:37

You Canadians are hogging all the ice and snow while the rest of the world is starving, doncha know.

posted by JanetLand 17 October | 10:55

I seem to have reached some sorta point where snark and flameout actually bore me. I'm hoping it's just a phase I'm going through.

posted by danostuporstar 17 October | 10:56

[obediently gets ice cubes from freezer, puts them in a drinking glass, adds a few fingers of Bailey's]

posted by Orange Swan 17 October | 11:00

You godless snoweating canuckunists!

I'm not sure lhat will get his flameout, though. I don't think this guy has the staying power he claims. (AskMe is probably the fourth place he's asked, and he's already sizing up a fifth. BAM!)

posted by cortex 17 October | 11:11

Either that's someone dhoyting, or that guy needs a lot of therapy.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 17 October | 11:12

poor lhat. :(

posted by sciurus 17 October | 11:17

I'm inclined toward the dhoyting theory, but...

Remember, we don't talk about other MeFi users here. So let's just talk about best/worst putdowns, generally as Orange Swan suggested, or maybe delicious snow and ice recipes.

Miguel once called iconomy "schoolmarmish". I LOLed. I bet ico's wearing one of those "wholesome" frocks right now.

posted by taz 17 October | 11:24

I dunno, maybe it's brilliant. What if even a portion of 30,000+ people send you 5.00 just to move tf on... hive mind cha-chang.

(I feel horrible for not donating yesterday. My excuse: I've never used paypal. or ebay. or irc. I fell off the face of... nonearth... for almost two years and flickr is practically like over my head now :(

posted by auntbunny 17 October | 11:33

I have seriously considered the question asked and given a completely non-trolling answer. I now await a multitude of metafiltarians to recognise my genius and pat me on the back.

posted by seanyboy 17 October | 11:49

[pats seanyboy on the ass]

posted by Orange Swan 17 October | 11:55

Does anyone remember Gilbert Gottfried's rant against Canadians generally and, specifically, maple syrup?

posted by essexjan 17 October | 12:02

no, but "puck-slapping maple-suckers" (and "shatner-stealing mexico-touchers") were two of my favorite simpsons' jokes ever!

posted by crush-onastick 17 October | 12:16

Orange Swan, wasn't it you who was bemoaning the fact just a few days ago that you couldn't find a date?

Well, I happen to know this man, maybe a tad old for you, but plenty going for him, who's looking for a ~~passive brood mare~~ life partner to trot along the path of life's happy destiny with him ...

posted by essexjan 17 October | 12:24

Someone clever needs to get a sock puppet named NHLFan to defend Canada's honor, eh?

posted by jrossi4r 17 October | 12:30

taz, I remember that! I laughed too. That crazy Miguel. He was miffed at something I said to him about his front page posts. Which I later apologized for, but he was holding a wee bit of a grudge and needed to take a little stab at me, I guess. I miss that nut.

Now I'm going to chip away some of Canada's ice and get some cherry syrup and make sno-cones for everyone. No way you crazy Canadians are hogging all of that ice when there are sno-cones to be eaten.

posted by iconomy 17 October | 12:38

The yellow snow tastes like banana pudding pops.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 17 October | 12:39

Orange Swan, that is awesome.
It's sort of painful and sad to imagine him clicking on your profile, looking for something to dis you with...AHA! CANADIAN!

What a clever riff he made on your Location line, "Canada, land of eternal ice and snow."

Hilarious.

posted by chococat 17 October | 13:06

I actually changed that location line *after* he made his inimitable jest;-)

posted by Orange Swan 17 October | 13:13

I had someone tell me that I had "obviously never been in a real relationship." I liked that.

posted by JanetLand 17 October | 13:24

Oh, I'm an idiot.

posted by chococat 17 October | 13:25

Not at all, chococat!

By the way, we Canadians may need to turn to cannibalism when global warming really kicks in. Your name makes you sound delicious. Are you?

posted by Orange Swan 17 October | 13:29

Unfortunately, I can be quite sour.

Yes, we may starve as our ice and snow supplies dwindle. And what will we be then, without even snow to define us?

At least we can be confident in the knowledge that we will be quenched of thirst by the Acid Rain that NFLFan sends us from the great land of plenty.
*rimshot*

posted by chococat 17 October | 13:38

In the interest of Canuck-Yank relations, I will continue to date LunaticFringe.

posted by sciurus 17 October | 13:47

sciurus, you are the reason why the terrorists have won.

posted by mike9322 17 October | 13:52

The Canada Song

posted by Otis 17 October | 13:59

I once lost a game of euchre to a Palestinian/Israeli team. Just think of their power if they could only join together!

posted by sciurus 17 October | 14:07

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by taz 17 October | 14:22

I once was told to STFU in Metafilter. I had to google it, as I had no idea what it meant. . .but now I'll STFU.

posted by danf 17 October | 14:40

So let's just talk about best/worst putdowns, generally as Orange Swan suggested, or maybe delicious snow and ice recipes.

I was too late to the party to try and get him to call us commies or to threaten to burn down the whitehouse again.

posted by Mitheral 17 October | 15:38

Ooohh, Bailey's just came out with mint and caramel versions!--saw them in the duty-free in the Dublin airport, and then on a bar when I came back to NYC.

posted by brujita 17 October | 23:45

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