Happy 136th Birthday!!!

"That was my Super-Duper-Jumbo-Boomer. You owe me one Super-Duper-Jumbo Boomer."

- Cathy Burton, Beware the Fish

"What better way to celebrate the birth of your nation than by blowing up a small part of it."

- Apu

HAPPY CANADA DAY! BONNE FETE, CANADA! Celebrated this Canada Day by sleeping in until 11 a.m., wearing new Smart Set skirt (like me, also...Canadian), eating at Maxim (opened by...Canadians), shopping at First Markham Place (located in...Canada), listening to my newly created Canada Day 2003 CD (featuring...Canadian artists), and blowing up part of our front yard via ancient firework found in the van Ho-ming won from MuchMusic (nation's music station) in promotion of the movie FUBAR (movie from...Canada).

Also read part of the new Harry Potter book (Great Britain... well, we are part of the Commonwealth.)

Must by more exploding bits the next time it's legally available. Oh yes. My day will come.

And now for a song that only a true Canadian can appreciate, an anthem to my home province, a tune dear to my heart, give it up for The Last Saskatchewan Pirate by The Arrogant Worms!

I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
I had a little stretch of land along the CP line
But times were hard and though I tried the money wasn't there
The bankers came and took my land and told me fair was fair
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no
'Hire you now?', they'd always laugh, 'we just let twenty go!'
The government they promised me a measly little sum
But I've got too much pride to end up just another bum

Then I thought....who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone
I'm gonna be a pirate on the river Saskatchewan

And it's a heave, ho, high, ho, coming down the plain
Stealing wheat and barely and other types of grain
And it's a ho, hey, high, hey, farmers bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores!

Well, Mountie Bob he chased me, he was always at my throat
He followed on the shoreline cos he didn't own a boat
But cutbacks were a-comin and the mountie lost his job
And now he's sailing with me and we call him Salty Bob!
A swinging sword, a skull-and-bones, and pleasant company
I never pay my income tax and screw the GST screw it!
Prince Albert down to Saskatoon, the terror of the sea
If you wanna reach the Co-op boy, you gotta get by me

And it's a heave, ho, high, ho, coming down the plain
Stealing wheat and barely and other types of grain
And it's a ho, hey, high, hey, farmers bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores!

Well, pirate life's appealing but you don't just find it here
I've heard that in Alberta there's a band of buccaneers
They roam the Athabaska from Smith to Fort McKay
You're gonna lose your Stetson if you have to pass their way
Well winter is a-coming and a chill is in the breeze
My pirate days are over once the river starts to freeze
I'll be back in springtime but now I've got to go
I hear there's lots of plundering down in New Mexico

And it's a heave, ho, high, ho, coming down the plain
Stealing wheat and barely and other types of grain
And it's a ho, hey, high, hey, farmers bar your doors
When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores!