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To: stribe30 who wrote (124499)	9/22/2000 6:04:25 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570289

RE:"Actually.. I would have to say Peter Jennings might be your most famous Canadian.. yes.. that guy who does the ABC Evening News." I know who Peter Jennings is...but don't care. Celine is a local here. She sings better too. RE:"I blame Bush for not KNOWING the PM's name.. <g> Gore sure does." Sure, after they made fun of Bush, Gore found out real quick. The fact that anyone would base their opinion of a candidate on such an incident doesn't say much for the electorate. But that's the way it is. Jim

To: stribe30 who wrote (124499)	9/23/2000 3:13:06 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1570289

Scott, I blame Bush for not KNOWING the PM's name I think Bush was vaguely recalling the name from one of the pre-debate drills, but then he thought: "Naw, they would not elect a Cretin to be prime minister of Canada. We did, but Canadians are supposed to be smarter than us" Joe

To: stribe30 who wrote (124499)	9/25/2000 6:21:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1570289

OT blame Bush for not KNOWING the PM's name.. <g> Gore sure does If someone had asked me "What is the Canadian PM's name I would have been able to answer correctly after thinking about it for a few seconds to a minute. However if someone asked me to comment on a statement the PM supposedly said and used the wrong name for the PM and I was concentrateing on making a good response to the comment I likely would have fallen for it, and not have realized the error I was making. Poutine may be "a fancy french word for a snack made up of fries, cheese and gravy", but few people in the US know that. I took two years of French in HS and I did not know that. (but I never did get good grades in French class). Poutine sounds like it could be the name of a French or French Canadian politician. It would be easy to miss it if you where not paying careful attention and did not expect anyone to try to pull that kindof trick. Tim