Wednesday, December 03, 2008

News Flash: PM Plans to Perogy Parliament



A thewaytheBallbounces exclusive:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper intends to perogy Parliament. That's right, in the great Western Canadian tradition, he will be serving up a hot, yummy dish of conciliatory Ukrainian perogies.

The Liberals, Bloq, Greens, and even Jack Lenin will find them irresistible!

And that's the way the perogied Ball bounces.

6 comments:

BallBounces said...

Note to removed commenter: I worked with Stephen Harper's father, Joe Harper, in Toronto. He was a gentle and decent man.

Anonymous said...

I find this blog entry a howl. As a Ukrainian Canadian & a Conservative supporter, I think the world would be a much happier place with a plate of good hot Ukrainian Perogies. :) Mmmmmmmmm :P

Gerry from Toronto

BallBounces said...

Gerry from Toronto: I'm going to take your spelling of perogy as authoritative and update the blog headline and contents accordingly -- or should that be accordionly?

From now on, it's perogy all the way.

Asian Cha said...

Looks like you just beat me to the joke. Here is a comment I left on Macleans minutes after your post:

http://blog.macleans.ca/category/travel-from-the-magazine/
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An option that the GG and Canadians in general might still consider:

perogy parliament: to show your dissatisfaction with the quality of political leadership by throwing Ukrainian dumplings at a legislature

Anonymous said...

Ukrainians would never throw food around or out. We just commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, genocide by starvation, 1932-33.

Food, especially bread, is reverent and respected. As for the peroging of the Parliament, maybe just a serving of varenyky/perogies with smetana [sour cream] for each well-behaved MP. There are enough Ukrainians on the Hill to recommend which church or community group to order them from.

BallBounces said...

Thank God for Ukrainian church groups -- both Catholic and Orthodox, and, I believe, there's an Eastern Rite Catholic segment as well. I used to attend services of the Eastern Rite Catholics at the big Roman Catholic Basilica in St. Louis MO.

God bless the Ukrainians!

"... nothing intellectually compelling or challenging.. bald assertions coupled to superstition... woefully pathetic"