Thursday, March 13, 2008

We are somewhat awesome!

They've changed it online, but in the paper the headline for this story was:
Canada's shaking things up a bit.
I dunno – still feels insufficiently qualified. A tad? A tinch? Within proscribed limits?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of that classic ONION headline, "Perky Canada has own laws, government" (might be paraphrasing).

Except that your example is Canada politely writing about itself!

Jason Ball said...

a "tinch?" Have you been hanging out with Paul?

Anonymous said...

Check it:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tinch

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