Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site arizona.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!budd@arizona.UUCP (tim budd)
From: budd@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: RCAF remembered
Message-ID: <4639@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 13:58:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: arizona.4639
Posted: Wed Sep 14 13:58:39 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Sep-83 01:17:24 EDT
Organization: CS Dept, U of Arizona, Tucson
Lines: 32

Laura creighton's note which mentioned the Royal Canadian Air Farce
stirred a few long repressed memorys for me.

I spent 21 years (they were the first 21 so i counted them carefully)
living in Bellingham, a little town just south of the border (Canadian
border, that is).  Actually it's just south of that famous monument,
the Peace Arch, which commemorates the fact that there hasn't been
a war along that border since the infamous "pig war".

Also the Peace Arch contains those memorable words "children of a common
mother".  (I've always wondered how the English took that,  you know
"well, she wasn't great, she wasn't bad, she was just sort of a common
mother"), anyway, i digress.

There not being NPR at that time, and my only other choice being american
AM drek (or worse, Canadian AM drek), i spent a lot of time listening to CBC.
Now the odd thing is that in all my listening to the RCAF (the aformentioned
Royal Canadian Air Farce), i never once thought it was FUNNY.  Occasionally
I would chuckle, or giggle, but never belly laugh type stuff.  Perhaps
Canadian humor is something you learn, instead of being born with.  Or
perhaps only Canadians are born with it.

(one further digression - my wife tells of her family watching a british
sitcom in london with an english family.  First the english would laugh
uproarously at something they (my wives family) couldn't find funny, then
tables would be reversed and my wives family would all crack up at something
the english didn't find funny at all.  humor is funny that way).

Haven't heard CBC in a long time.  You there up in the great white north, can
you tell me if barbara frum is still doing "as it happens?"

(mumble grumpf - trailing off into a blur of memorys)