Tuesday, September 20, 2005
A Very Special Centennial Event
CENTENNIAL SMACKDOWN ! Sunday September 25 - ONE DAY ONLY
At the Brandt Centre
WWE (Whiner's Wrestling Entertainment)is proud to present a once-in-a-lifetime explosion of fury in honour of Saskatchewan's 100th Anniversary.
A GRUDGE MATCH AS OLD AS
THE PROVINCE ITSELF!
TEACHERS VS. FARMERS
CAGE-MATCH !!
Watch in amazemant as the STF's and the NFU's toughest customers fight to the finish to determine once and for all who is the most hard-done by and least appreciated by society.
The winner of this match will go on to the national finals, where they will square off against Quebecers and fishermen as they vie for the coveted Canadian Sadsack Cup!
IF YOU MISS THIS, YOU BETTER BE DEAD OR IN JAIL!
AND IF YOU'RE IN JAIL, BREAK OUT!
THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE REPEATED!
TICKETS ARE SURE TO SELL OUT, SO RESERVE YOURS TODAY!
posted by Mentok @ 12:49 p.m.,
3 Comments:
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At 7:53 a.m.,
Liam O'Brien said...
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ah yes... we often have the "Teachers versus fishermen" squareoff out here...
Teachers have been losing ever since the 1950s era nuns left the schools...
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At 8:22 a.m.,
Mentok said...
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At 8:33 a.m.,
Mentok said...
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I imagined that might be the case, so it's interesting to have you confirm it.
This piece was inspired by a recent letter to the editor by a farmer complaining about the current Regina city workers strike, but virtually identical letters have run whenever teachers, nurses, judges, university profs etc. even think about job action:
"These people are ungrateful. I'm a farmer and I'm losing money. How would people like it if farmers went on strike and then you would have no food? No one appreciates what us farmers go through to grow your food. This job action is inconveniencing me and its a slap in the face to farmers who are barely getting by." etc etc etc etc etc...
So I read this rant and thought: how much longer will we in Saskatchewan have to endure 'the poor farmer' as the standard of society?
No matter what your level of education, skill or enterprise, if you are doing better that those poor,poor farmers, you're supposed to feel bad about it. I think this attitude holds us back.
The other side of the coin is that my wife is a teacher, so day and night I hear about how teacher's allegedly suffer more than any other educated profession. It is distinctly unhealthly for me ever to try to argue the point ;-)
