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July 24, 2002

Canada, Eh?

Have you ever seen Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans? Well, last night at the keg party (thanks to the gracious host Will, or Walt, I don't quite remember his name) a few of were playing the card game Asshole. Apparently the American version has strange rules, one of them being able to ask a trivia question in order to give away your last high card. The question I asked was "What's the capital of Canada?" The three people I was playing with just stared at me. Then they began rattling off every Canadian city they could think of. Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto. One guy insisted the capital of Canada is Ontario. He started to get angry when I informed him that Ontario is not in fact a city at all.

These aren't uneducated street urchins I was playing with either. Two of them go to Brown University (an Ivy League school), and the other one goes to Carnegie Mellon. Keep in mind that Microsoft hires only the best and brightest. After talking to these guys, if I had any MS shares I would have sold them by now.

00:00 | America

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