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To: High Grader who wrote (9615)	5/13/1999 3:51:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Americans & Canadians The last time I returned to Canada, through Toronto Airport, I needed to exchange some U.S. dollars to post bail for my car. (Don't get me started on airport parking) Anyway, since I only needed a few dollars, I used one of those airport places. The person cheerfully exchanged my money and in a friendly manner welcomed me to Canada and asked how long I'd ever been here before. I must have appeared American, or maybe it was just the U.S. currency. In Ireland, I was asked by some German tourists to pose in front of a wall so they could have a 'local' in their photos. Cheers, PW.

To: High Grader who wrote (9615)	5/13/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Carole Olkowski	Respond to of 62549

If I wanted water , I'd ask for water! Old Canadian Beer parable. Carole

To: High Grader who wrote (9615)	5/13/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Thomas Scharf	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 62549

Not only is Oly lousy beer, but they once had the world's worst advertizing agency. How else do you account for a couple of ad campaigns with slogans like: "It's the water" and "NO BEER on the bar is better than Oly!" (I agree, I'd rather have No Beer than drink Oly) The latter is the one that finally turned Oly from a growing regional brewer back into a local product hard to find outside Washington. Talk about stupidity in advertizing. That one ranks right up there with GM marketing a car called the Nova in Latin America. ("No va" in Spanish means "it doesn't go")