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.
Note to removed commenter: I worked with Stephen Harper's father, Joe Harper, in Toronto. He was a gentle and decent man.
ReplyDeleteI 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
ReplyDeleteGerry from Toronto
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?
ReplyDeleteFrom now on, it's perogy all the way.
Looks like you just beat me to the joke. Here is a comment I left on Macleans minutes after your post:
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Dec 3, 2008 10:16
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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
Ukrainians would never throw food around or out. We just commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, genocide by starvation, 1932-33.
ReplyDeleteFood, 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteGod bless the Ukrainians!