Friday, September 16, 2005
Mulroney / Macdonald Monkey Chart
Much of the controversy surrounding the new Mulroney book seems to revolve around the fact that (gasp) he said swears.
Much has also been made about the fact that Brian compares himself to Sir John A.
Egotistical? I beg to differ. Let's see how Canada's two greatest PM's stack up using my patented Monkey Chart™ method:
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| Biologically, member of the family Hominidae, "The Great Apes" | Ditto |
| Life-long unrepentant alcoholic | Recovering alcoholic and Nyquill addict |
| Non-smoker | Ex-smoker |
| Spoke Gaelic | Uses profanity |
| Loving father of a mentally-challenged daughter | Loving father of Ben Mulroney |
| Notorious liar, manipulator and smooth-talker | Ditto |
| Recruited maritime separatists and Quebec soft nationalists into his cabinet | Recruited Quebec separatists and maritime soft nationalists into his cabinet |
| Hung a Western populist | Failed to hang a Western populist |
| While drunk, allegedly vomited during a public speech | While loaded on Nyquill, allegedly passed out into a bowl of soup at a public dinner |
| Was embroiled in a corruption scandal involving rail transportation | Was embroiled in a corruption scandal involving air transportation |
So there you have it. If you take into account ordinary human failings (which none of those drunks and half-wits in the media ever do), Mulroney and Macdonald were so much alike that you could hardly fit a hair between them.
posted by Mentok @ 9:47 a.m.,
2 Comments:
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At 8:03 p.m.,
NL-ExPatriate said...
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Dam I'm almost a Prime Minister?
I'm Humanoid
I drink
I smoke
I swear (Irish ancestry)
Smooth Blogger[self proclaimed :)]
God help my kids
I have secessionist leanings
I hung my cat because my neighbor phoned the SPCA and I had to tie her up.
I lived in Quebec
My father worked for the now defunct Newfoundland Railroad.
Nah will never happen I'm a born and Bred NL'ian!
Maybe the President of the Republic of NL? LOL -
At 7:40 a.m.,
Liam O'Brien said...
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LOL. It's air tight!
