You will have a great time. It is a great city to visit. Do hope you like to eat.

Do visit the old city while you're there, Dan.

So will this forthcoming post be printed in English and French? I think that's the law there.

Well, I'm jealous. Good food. Good weather - they're still skiing there you know, don't forget to bring your boards.

“I will be posting something that should prompt a fair amount of conversation (cue enigmatic smile).”

Is it about Britney Spears. Is she about to do a full frontal for Play Boy? Could it also be that Salma Hayek is apologizing to the world for glorifying the Marxist idiot Frida Kahlo?

For the true Drudgian effect, your "Developing..." should have been in caps.

Dan -

Interesting, I look forward to hearing how your two panels went. What's a GMO?

Carolina

"Genetically modified organism." Cornstalks with tentacles and a beak.

Hmmmm...Montreal. My favorite city in the world. It's still pretty freakin' cold though.

Tip for the tourist: avoid the smoked meat sandwiches.

I always liked the fauberg on St. Catherine's too. I miss the "Old Munich" for it's sheer surrealism.

Honestly, old montreal is a tourist trap. Thought the basilica de Notre Dame is worth seeing. I prefer up by Rue Prince Arthur for dinner (just NE of the McGill campus. In the summer the restaurants are open air and the street is closed to traffic so it's a nice stroll between the bars and restaurants.

If you want to feel really old, eat at Peel Pub.

Prediction: you'll come back having spent far more money then you thought, a touch hung over, and smelling of ciggie smoke. And you'll be hungering to go back for more.

Yeah, the Faubourg Ste.-Catherine has- or did have a few years ago when I was last in Mtl., and I presume it hasn't changed much- the world's greatest food court, where you can eat delicions Thai, Vietnamese, Moroccan, you name it, food for half what it would cost in a sit-down restaurant. Yum.

And do they still give you back your GST and PST on hotel bills/durable good purchases (that you are bringing back)? Doesn't work for any food/liquor purchases though. :-) PQ was good about giving you their tax money back (as opposed to ON).

It's a crap load of money if you have a hotel bill. They used to have forms at duty free on the way out of Canada (you used to be able to get the money right there but I don't believe they do that anymore).

Just make sure every receipt has the store name/tax ID (some smaller shops have an ink stamp for their receipts if you ask).

Frankly, since their total response to the world's terrorism problems was 'it's not our problem' I will not spend monye in Canada. I used to vacation frequently there, being less than 60 miles from the border.

No longer. Not dollar one, until Canada redeems itself.

Once you have finished in Montreal perhaps you would care to visit its twin UK town Rotherham. If you can imagine what a virual Montreal would look like in 8 colours and with a fried cpu you should get the idea. Oh and you need to add a lot of dirt. Last week I was given the option of a day trip to Rotherham or a course of chemo. I'm on day 3.
Regards
Cass

Bithead,

Is there anything rattling around it that little head of yours other than xenophobic vitriol?

Get a grip. The Canadians are not our enemy. Neither are the Spanish, the Germans, the French, the Mexicans, or a hundred of other nationalities who have a legitimate disagreement with how our government has responded to the terrible events of 9/11. For that matter, neither are the 60% (and growing) of US citizens who disagree as well.

Now, let's hope Dan has a nice time visiting our friends to the north.

s/60%/50%

For that matter, neither are the 50% (and growing) of US citizens who disagree as well.

Explain to me how not spending my money someplace to express my despleasure, is xonophobia.

And which ear are you pulling your numbers from?

http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm

Interesting. I'll have a look at who owns the site when I get time tonight.

Meanwhile, my other question remains unanswered.
Let's put a finer edge on this; I'm trying to see where you draw the lines.

For example, to your way of thinking, should I be forced to spend my entertainment dollars at a Concert that is a fundraiser for the Democrats?

...should I be forced to spend my entertainment dollars at a Concert that is a fundraiser for the Democrats?

I never suggested that you should be forced to spend your money on anything. Hopefully you can follow the following analogy:

Let's say someone proclaims "I refuse to buy anything from a Jewish merchant." While I don't think that that person should be forced to spend his money at a Jewish owned store, I think it's legitimate to call that person anti-semitic.

See the difference?

And, no, I'm not accusing you of being anti-semitic. It's just an illustritative analogy. MmmmmK?

But there seems a major difference between dealing with a whole country that way vs dealing with a race that way, particularly given the motivations in each case, don't you think?

As to the Polling report site:

http://www.pollingreport.com/terror.htm

Oh for crying out loud, he's not boycotting Canada because it's Canada, he's boycotting it because he's displeased with Canada's action. There's no parallel there at all.

That said, Bithead, you might want to explain how you can say "their total response to the world's terrorism problems was 'it's not our problem'" when there are Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan right now.

Right. The analogy only goes so far. I meant to make clear that while I disagree with his boycott, I'll defend his right to spend (or not spend, as the case may be) his money where he wants to.

Badly worded. Should have said "their response in total", which implies a summing action.

Have you learned NOTHING?

http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2004/03/i_have_become_e.html

Will there be a ISA post-mortem post? Your ISA convention-goer readers would appreciate it.