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11-06-2009, 09:49 AM
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#1 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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| Prime Minister.......Gordo?!?!
Quote: Gordon Campbell becomes Prime Minister... in Sports Illustrated
By Bill Tieleman November 5, 2009 09:01 am
"Canadian Prime Minister Gordon Campbell"
Apparently the good folks who write and edit Sports Illustrated magazine have a less than full grasp of Canadian politics – or a wicked sense of humour.
In a short article about the unfortunate death of Vancouver Olympics chair Jack Poole, the American magazine inadvertently promoted BC Premier Gordon Campbell. Here's the full test:
Died... At age 76, of pancreatic cancer, Jack Poole, the Canadian businessman who spearheaded the successful campaign to bring the 2010 Olympic Games to Vancouver," the short article begins.
A real estate developer whose first job was selling brushes and hand cream door-to-door, Poole was picked by Canadian prime minister Gordon Campbell to be CEO of the Vancouver Bid Corp. in 2001.
Two years later Canada was awarded its first Winter Games since 1988, when Calgary was the host. Poole had been receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer since 2007. He died last Friday, hours after the ceremonial lighting in Athens of the flame that will be used to open the 2010 Games.
While Campbell may be secretly pleased, it doesn't say much about the international presence of our current prime minister, good old what's-his-name.
| http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Olym...rime-Minister/ BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHA | 
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11-06-2009, 09:55 AM
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#2 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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lol
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11-06-2009, 09:56 AM
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11-06-2009, 11:09 AM
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#4 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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phew, thank goodness. I came in this thread thinking he wants to run for PM
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11-06-2009, 11:26 AM
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#5 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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SI has a number of writers under their payroll that produce a lot of ill-written articles. I remember them referring to SFU and UBC as UBC College and Simon Fraser College.  | |
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11-06-2009, 12:06 PM
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#6 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Of course! College snow football is, like, the greatest best sport in, like, Canada! And we're sooooooo excited about homecoming, and, like.........
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11-06-2009, 09:00 PM
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#7 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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I don't blame the americans. I don't have a clue about the american political hierarchy beyond the president. Nor do I care anyways.
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11-06-2009, 09:15 PM
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#8 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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Lol. I bet most Americans read "British Columbia" and think it's a country somewhere in Europe.
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11-06-2009, 09:32 PM
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#9 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Originally Posted by Jah Gekko  Lol. I bet most Americans read "British Columbia" and think it's a country somewhere in Europe. | Or they think it's in South America, close to Columbia
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11-07-2009, 01:27 AM
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#10 | | ESKETIT
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lol nubs
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11-07-2009, 03:26 AM
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Most of the people in the world have no clue who the leader of our country is and I bet most people in Canada don't know the leaders of many other countries beside Obama. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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11-07-2009, 03:44 AM
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It's just a stupid typo. Are Canadians that insignificant that they need to make a big deal out of a typo in an American sports magazine?
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11-07-2009, 08:56 AM
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#13 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp It's just a stupid typo. Are Canadians that insignificant that they need to make a big deal out of a typo in an American sports magazine? | no it's not a typo. it's ignorance.
it's like mcleans calling Christine Gregoire the President of the USA.
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11-07-2009, 12:12 PM
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#14 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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"Premiere" would be a typo. "Prime Minister" is pretty far off for a typo.  Posted via RS Mobile | |
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