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Subject: BS: funny political paties
From: GUEST,Stevie D
Date: 10 May 05 - 03:37 PM

Hi did anyone see that bloke on election night with a plaquard saying he was from the "Society against the unnneccesary use of plaquards".... how funny was that. long live the British eccentric, does anyone else have any funny parties. or if you know this guy, please shake his hand for me....

Subject: RE: BS: funny political paties
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 10 May 05 - 05:11 PM

Here's a funny one




Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: funny political paties
From: Peace
Date: 10 May 05 - 05:18 PM

Years back in Edmonton when Edmonton and Montreal were playing for the Stanley Cup, a Montreal fan showed up at the Edmonton Coliseum wearing a Montreal jersey--and wearing a brown paper bag over his head. He made national TV.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: bobad
Date: 10 May 05 - 07:39 PM

Canada had the Rhinoceros Party for which I voted more than once.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: Peace
Date: 10 May 05 - 08:06 PM

Hey, me too. They are great. One year they were gonna 'clean up the Province of Quebec'; they were gonna "wash it by hand". Another year they were gonna clean up the St Lawrence River. They were gonna build a BIG tunnel under the river, fill it with Montreal's garbage, light the garbage on fire and 'boil the river'. How can ya NOT vote for a party like that?

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: bobad
Date: 10 May 05 - 09:18 PM

Right on brucie

Other platform promises released by the Rhinoceros Party included:

    * repealing the law of gravity,
    * paving the province of Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot,
    * providing higher education by building taller schools,
    * instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages,
    * offering to retrain those constituents who want to become illiterate by enrolling them in a state educational institution,
    * tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, or moving them one metre west as a make-work project,
    * legalising pot. And pans. And spatulas. And other kitchen utensils,
    * building sloping roads and bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could "coast from coast to coast",
    * responding to the energy crisis, reducing energy costs for transportation by moving the cities of Montréal 50km west and Toronto 50km east,
    * abolishing pumping oil out of the ground as that oil is there to keep the earth moving smoothly on its axis and if you withdraw the oil, the whole thing will grind to a halt,
    * abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space,
    * annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory (after the Yukon and North-West Territories) in Canada's backyard, in order to raise the mean temperature of Canada by one degree celsius,
    * replacing the Canadian Armed Forces with clones of Vladislav Tretiak,
    * making bubble gum the national currency, so that it could be inflated or deflated at will,
    * breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that "the little buggers will freeze to death",
    * turning Montreal's Rue Sainte-Catherine into the world's longest bowling alley,
    * adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last,
    * as an energy-saving idea, putting larger wheels on the back of all cars so that they will always be going downhill,
    * selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California,
    * putting the national debt on Visa,
    * declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons,
    * offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montréal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this),
    * painting Canada's coastal sea limits so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times,
    * counting the Thousand Islands to make sure none were missing,
    * running a Penny Hoar (http://www.walnet.org/csis/news/toronto_94/to_life-9408.html) in Toronto on a safe sex platform,
    * running more than one candidate per riding as an MP's salary is certainly enough to support more than one person,
    * exploiting acid rain as an electrical energy source by placing dissimilar-metal electrodes in Canadian swimming pools in order to use them as batteries,
    * making Canadians stronger by putting steroids in the water,
    * banning lousy Canadian winters.

A British Columbia splinter group proposed running a professional dominatrix for the position of party whip, breaking with the province's colonial heritage by renaming "British Columbia" to "La La Land", moving the provincial capital and merging with the Progressive Conservative Party so as not to split the silly vote.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: JennyO
Date: 10 May 05 - 10:27 PM

In the UK, there is the famous Monster Raving Loony Party, started in 1983 by Screaming Lord Sutch.

I reckon we need something like that here in Oz. We're certainly good enough at "taking the piss"! Over the years we have had many single issue parties cluttering up the list for the Senate. I wish I had kept one of the forms with the names - there were some pretty funny ones.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: GUEST,Cats
Date: 11 May 05 - 07:26 AM

Ther also used to be the 'Let's have a' party. Monster Raving Loony Party still exists and , although one of it's founders is now a conservative councillor in East Devon, they do hold the odd seat on local councils, and, some of their more exhuberant policies are now common place, like local radio....

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 May 05 - 08:31 AM

I have been a fervent Rhinoceros Party fan for decades. They rule! Even when they don't rule.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: heric
Date: 11 May 05 - 09:36 AM

I remember them touting their peace treaty with Belgium just before a national election, displaying paperwork signed by Belgium, but I had no idea they actually coerced a case of mussels under threat of war. Too funny.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: GUEST,Stevie D
Date: 11 May 05 - 02:56 PM

the Rhinocerous party sounds fantastic, they should press there policies across the atlantic and look for world domination. i love the taller buildings for higher education, i'm gonna be laughing for days.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: bobad
Date: 11 May 05 - 07:33 PM

Canada also has the Marijuana Party of Canada whose campaign slogan for last year's election was "Let's Roll" and let us not forget the Natural Law Party with it's yogic flyers which never really got off the ground.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 May 05 - 07:51 PM

While driving to work one morning during election season, when there are candidates for local political offices on nearly every street corner holding "Vote for Me" signs and waving at motorists, there was one guy cheerfully waving, smiling and holding up a sign that said "Not Running For Office! Just Like To Wave!"

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: open mike
Date: 12 May 05 - 02:24 AM

i heard a hilarious radio show on th4e day of the UK elections.
there were several goofy political parties mentioned on the show.
I think it was on NPR...maybe Morning Edition or All things considered.

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: mandoleer
Date: 12 May 05 - 03:55 PM

Natural Law Party seems to have sunk in the UK at least. In terms of nuttiness, I quite like George Galloway's choice of Respect as a name for his party. The Raving Loonies have had election victories at local level. The first was by default, as no-one else put up for that ward! But I think he got re-elected next time. And they have won a couple of wards. But there again, aren't all political parties nutty? I mean, do they actually think that we believe what they say, and that they will fulfil promises? And if they don't, perhaps that makes them even more cynical than me....

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 May 05 - 06:43 PM

"Funny political parties"?

Republican!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: funny political parties
From: GUEST,Stevie D
Date: 13 May 05 - 02:31 AM

in 1997 in the U.K there was a party called "New Labour", in hindsight they must have been a joke, what they didnt promise wasnt worth talking about,,, i wonder what happened.