Appy St. Jean LaBatt, esti!

Eddie Arzouian

I want invite you to my feu. We get togeder and burn all de Inglish sign L'Office de la Langue Francaise collect during the year. Den we hold hand and sing Gens du Pays, tabernac...


Vive le Quebec!

Vive le Quebec pauvre!!

Long live Pauline Marois!!!

It being a long weekend here in La Belle Province, I have to bow out for awhile. Save your posts until I get back...

Uboat

Hey Mr. Journalist,

"For awhile" is one of most well-known grammar no-nos. "For awhile" is redundant, because "awhile" implies "for a while". So you are saying "for for a while."

Just say, "I have to bow out awhile." I'm not even a writer and I know that.

And yes, I have nothing better to to than nitpick you. Go ahead, quote me for the next 100 posts. I have nothing to add, just criticize you because you are everything to me. All I do is sit here and wait for your next post. I'm like Patrick, no substance.

Quote me, quote me, quote me! I want to see that line in all of your posts from now on, just like the bear suit quote. I just can't get enough of that one!

Good day sirs.

Van de Wille

What a silly and insulting thread.

Eddie Arzouian

Says the guy of Belgian descent liivng in the US.


Since I am half French-Canadian and my family has been here since 1648 and built much of the town I live in not to mention many of the churches around here at a loss, since my great-grand uncle was a Chief Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeals (you can look him up in the Larousse, Gustav Lamothe) and one of his ancestors, Pierre Antoine de La Mothe Sieur de Cadiilac founded Detroit (des etroits), (they named the cars after him BTW), I think I can say whatever I damn well please about the St. Jean.

We have family photos of three great uncles dressed in their sheepskins with their staffs and lambs when they led the religious, not political, parade of 1900 1902 and 1903.

You want to give me Quebec history lesson, PaddyBoy?

Do you think all Quebecers approve of how the St. Jean Baptiste holiday has been appropriated by Quebec nationalist for political purposes? They do not.

Eat your fries and mayo....

Van de Wille

You really should watch out when you decide to teach me a lesson, whether it's journalism or Quebec roots. My family arrived in Quebec in the mid-1600s, and has a large city in the Montreal area named after it after my grandfather's brother was mayor of the city for, oh, 36 years. I can count 3 justices of the Quebec Superior Court, one head justice of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal, even two deported "patriotes", to mention just a few notables. You really ought to be more careful, judging my family background based on my last name, given your own is less than pure-laine. And not everyone approves of everything, but your epithet-laden fun-poking at the French is just tasteless.

velomane

Eddie et Vlaanderen,

Vous êtes comiques avec vos platitudes, alors continué, ça m’amuse beaucoup.

Van de Wille

Continuez, tu veux dire.

velomane

Oui, c'est ça. J' écris pas souvent en français.

Salut,
Michel

Van de Wille

Pas de probleme. Moi je maintiens mon francais en jouant au scrabble en-ligne. Quand meme du bon francais pour quelqu'un de Winnipeg (bien que ma femme soit de la...).

Yojimbo_

Who is this Eddie character and why does he post so much meaningless information on this site?

It's even starting to bore me, and I'm a new member so I haven't been exposed to it as much as everyone else.

peloquma

Allez donc faire de la politique sur un autre site.... Eddie, mon père pisse plus loin que le tien, ma queue est plus grosse que la tienne... criss de baby boomer à marde.


This is completely tasteless and once again the product of the same old person. No wonder you are banned across the land. I agree 100% with the previous post.

Eddie Arzouian

OK, tabernac.


Patrick I'm trying to believe your history but like everything else you say, it is difficult to do...

Van de Wille

...and like everything else I say, the effort is worth it. Complete truth. You should stop thinking you're better, smarter, more experienced, more pure-laine, than everyone else. And length of family history in Quebec is no excuse for a silly and insulting thread that has nothing to do with cycling.

Eddie Arzouian

Living in Illinois, did you even know it was St. Jean Baptiste Day?


If you love Quebec so much, come live here with the rest of us and deal with its problems.

Why don't you address the Legacy Foundation issue? Staying clear of that one, aren't you?

I don't blame you given your earlier statements, which were erroneous.

You said the by-laws were unimportnat.

What has the Foundation done in 14 months? They have ONLY written the bylaws. Now that they are done they tell us NOW they can begin to do something.

So, it turns out those bylaws were pretty damn important, since they couldn't do anything without them or so it appears. Whaa have they done in 14 months?

Where is the annual report of the foundation promised by Kinash in December 2004? When he said the bylaws would be ready "shortly" in October 2004 did he mean nine months later...? Nine month to write what you called unimportant boilerplate? How long will it take to do the tough stuff?

When will they ever get to the partner, donor and sponsorship search they were mandated to do in Bill Kinash's Annual Report of 2003?

Do you really think dishing out the legacy in little drops of $20,000, just enough for one, maybe two small projects will accomplish anything? Will it change anything? Will it better development? One extra project, how will that change anything?

Their approach to the problem is mindless, unimaginative and simplistic.