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mountainspeak in Canada. The details are still up in the air.
DAD: inexplicably starts singing O, Canada. . .
ME: I'll give you $5 if you get the next line of that song right!
DAD: *mumble mumble mumble* but at least it's mumbling that scans
(Some conversation with MOM ensues, mostly on the topic of wheremountainspeak and I are going to visit.)
DAD: What's the next line, anyway?
ME: 'Our home and native land.'
DAD: What about 'We stand on guard for thee'?
ME: That's later in the song.
DAD: You know, for an almost-second-rate country, they have a pretty good national song. . . thing. . . anthem.
MOM: And they have really impressive military uniforms.
DAD: starts laughing
ME: looks at Mom oddly, as the last Canadian uniforms I saw- RCAF- looked pretty boring
MOM: The Mounties. . .
ME: (without choking or laughing TOO hard) Mom, they're police, not soldiers.
MOM: Oh. Kind of like the carabinieri in Italy?
ME: Yeah, except that the Mounties are competent.
DAD: (laughing) What do they have to do up there?
... I won't go into further detail, except that Mom went on to say that she thought any country that had more fame for its cops and its respect for law than it did for its military might was pretty cool.
I seriously wonder about my genome sometimes.
mountainspeak in Canada. The details are still up in the air.DAD: inexplicably starts singing O, Canada. . .
ME: I'll give you $5 if you get the next line of that song right!
DAD: *mumble mumble mumble* but at least it's mumbling that scans
(Some conversation with MOM ensues, mostly on the topic of where
mountainspeak and I are going to visit.)DAD: What's the next line, anyway?
ME: 'Our home and native land.'
DAD: What about 'We stand on guard for thee'?
ME: That's later in the song.
DAD: You know, for an almost-second-rate country, they have a pretty good national song. . . thing. . . anthem.
MOM: And they have really impressive military uniforms.
DAD: starts laughing
ME: looks at Mom oddly, as the last Canadian uniforms I saw- RCAF- looked pretty boring
MOM: The Mounties. . .
ME: (without choking or laughing TOO hard) Mom, they're police, not soldiers.
MOM: Oh. Kind of like the carabinieri in Italy?
ME: Yeah, except that the Mounties are competent.
DAD: (laughing) What do they have to do up there?
... I won't go into further detail, except that Mom went on to say that she thought any country that had more fame for its cops and its respect for law than it did for its military might was pretty cool.
I seriously wonder about my genome sometimes.
