Good point, Gareth. Canada, alas, is distressingly close to the USA, so you can just imagine what we have to put up with, eh? Tourist season is especially bad. They come pouring like lemmings across the border at Detroit, Niagara Falls, and the other crossings...eating like pigs, causing multi-car pileups on the TransCanada and the 401, pestering everyone with questions like "Where are the igloos?" and "Do you all speak French here?". They assault our livestock and our underage girls. They shoot anyone who looks like an Arab or cuts them off in traffic. They make fun of our money and claim that the only real money is the US Dollar (even when it's sinking like a stone). They try to make us feel guilty for not supporting their international aggression on a more frequent basis, and mistake our flag for a gas station logo. They have a vague notion that we are under a Communist administration of some kind. They are in open contempt of our armed forces and our legal system despite the fact that we repulsed them handily in 1812-14 and outlawed slavery before they did, without having to kill 350,000 people first in order to decide the matter. They are living proof that nothing exceeds like excess! (Grin)

- LH