Raffi Balmanoukian wrote:
As one of our former PMs (Trudeau) opined about insults directed at
him (by Nixon): "I've been called worse things by better people."

Reminds me of Piggy Muldoon's (past NZ PM) famous comment.

In reply to a journalist's question about a supposed brain drain from NZ
to Australia. He said he wasn't concerned because migration from NZ to
Australia was improving the average IQ in both countries.

Of course Graham would rather see NZ immigrants as some sort of
freeloaders, whilst NZ worries about losing their best and brightest to
us. So which is it?

Now excuse me. The flagS outside my house need adjusting.

I guess having the US overshadowing you so closely does rather put a
different tint on the whole patriotism nonsense.

I'm sure you will have heard this one before, but for the entertainment
of the Aussies:

Some years ago a Canadian newspaper ran a competition. Along the lines
of "As American as apple pie", the contestants had to complete the
phrase "As Canadian as .....".

The winning entry was:


"As Canadian as possible under the circumstances."