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Well, NOT involuntarily becoming a countertenor is DEFINITELY a better move.

Agreed ... BIG time.

And to our Canadian friends - the check for an EPIC 80 system with the EP-600 upgrade went out on July 1. That seemed appropriate.

And Chess, I was aware your independence day was not an American Independence day. Yours was made official in 1982, if memory serves. One of the primary provisions was Canada no longer needed to work through England's Parliment.

I was scratching my head a bit to figure out which day mattered the most. 1867 was when Canada was granted "home rule", ie the ability to operate our own federal government. Only a few things (eg. constitutional changes) still required approval from the British parliament. We were still a monarchy in every respect, with the Queen or her representative (usually the representative, natch ) forming and dissolving each parliament.

In 1982 our constitution was modified so that we we became fully independent from the British parliament but still remained a monarchy, sharing our Queen with Britain and the other Commonwealth countries. We still require royal assent to change our constitution and each successive government serves at the pleasure of our Queen (King).

In theory, I believe we could adopt our own "uniquely Canadian" Queen/King. Jean Chretien was obviously pushing for the job, and we all live in fear of having Celine Dion rise to royalty. I'm still hoping for Shania Twain but she spends even less time in Canada these days than the Queen of England (and Canada, and...).

EDIT -- I missed one important step. Between 1867 and 1932 we had our own government but the British government could also impose laws on Canada, and our laws could be struck down if they were deemed to be inconsistent with British laws. In 1932 we were granted legislative independence, ie Britain could no longer impose laws on Canada, and our laws were no longer required to be consistent with British law.

Hold out for Shania - Just think about an American president telling her "no" during negotiations ...

OK, that sounds like a plan. We replace Stephen Harper with Shania Twain, boot the Liberals, and run a minimalist government whose leader is welcome anywhere in the world even if we are NOT providing them buckets of aid money.

Get all that done, and I will petition to get Pennsylvania to be made Canada's 14th province/territory ...

Sounds great. I have wanted to live in PA ever since I drove through there on a rally 20 years ago. After I watched Striking Distance, I was hooked for sure...

We can donate Philadelphia ro New Jersey. Striking Distance was a decent flick - and showed a lot of the real Pittsburgh.

It also has Sarah Jessica-Parker in her "pre-facial surgery" natural look.

I am putting this project into your hands - as soon as Shania is queen, let me know...

Sigh--my Zippo is not one of the usual style. I've got one of the fireplace lighter Zippos (6 inches long, skinny). I left that one on top of the car when we were getting ready to leave to go camping. It skittered off after about a quarter of a block. Now it has a number of dents in it from the road, and nothing even ran over it!

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I've got one of the fireplace lighter Zippos (6 inches long, skinny).

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must.....refrain.....from.....making.......joke!! seriously though, i've got my grandfather's Zippo from WWII and that thing is only barely weathered. i wish everything was built like those things! for starters i'd still have my '82 F-100 pickup (R.I.P.). sniff sniff