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I've been unhappy with most of my columns lately (and flu-ey, to boot, this week), but I was pretty pleased with Thursday's about Craigslist. OK, it suffers from a slight case of fish/barrel syndrome; but on the other hand, who else is going to write this stuff (in a newspaper) these days?
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Dominican lesbian midget is one of your finer efforts.
Posted by Hannibal Lectern | May 16, 2009 6:12 PM
Posted on May 16, 2009 18:12
I was actually kinda disappointed--the punchline I originally intended there was "And by 'Dominican' I mean the Catholic priestly order, not the country."
Posted by Colby Cosh | May 16, 2009 6:14 PM
Posted on May 16, 2009 18:14
Just to be pedantic:
Why do you write "the country"? Depending on whether you accent the 2nd or 3rd syllable, Dominican can refer to a citizen of the Dominican Republic or the island of Dominica.
Posted by Dr. Weevil | May 16, 2009 8:20 PM
Posted on May 16, 2009 20:20
Well, you can't be overpedantic when you're going for a joke. But, yeah, actually the only "Dominican" I ever knew personally was from the commonwealth, not the hundredfold-larger republic that occupies the nicer half of Hispaniola.
Posted by Colby Cosh | May 16, 2009 10:45 PM
Posted on May 16, 2009 22:45
Should have just ducked the confusion and said he was Congolese.
Posted by Lord Bob | May 17, 2009 1:08 AM
Posted on May 17, 2009 01:08
I don't get it. I thought the Catholics had a fag problem not a lesbian problem
Posted by David | May 17, 2009 9:34 PM
Posted on May 17, 2009 21:34
Maybe in a modern political economy one must run a news/humor/whatever section as a loss leader, so that one has political firepower in reserve to preserve one's right to run moneymaking businesses like ads. My impression is that DAs avoid picking fights like this even with dinky little community newspapers heavily supported by adult ads, more or less as one might expect from the "never argue with someone who uses ink by the barrel" family of proverbs.
Posted by William Newman | May 18, 2009 5:37 PM
Posted on May 18, 2009 17:37
That's right no one else is shooting fish in a barrel because most people are too blind to see how.
My advice: reload and keep firing.
Posted by Robert Seymour | May 19, 2009 9:21 AM
Posted on May 19, 2009 09:21
Hey, Weevil, I thnk you're doing well even to have heard of the island of Dominica. Although who can ever forget their rousing national anthem. All together now: "Dominica-nica-nica! S'en allait tout simplement, pour faire chanter chanson..."
Posted by ebt | May 19, 2009 12:10 PM
Posted on May 19, 2009 12:10
At this point my theory is that these lines are a result of a National Post co-branding deal with Mad Libs.
Posted by Ryan Cousineau | May 27, 2009 5:46 PM
Posted on May 27, 2009 17:46