Steve;
Happy Thanksgiving to you sir, I hope all is well with you and your clan on what's looking to be a nice day out west here.
Well where does one begin with a response sir!
When I looked up Valnorg the Ornary and the Battle of Away, it also made references to some opening skirmishes such as the clash of "You look strange and your mother dresses you funny" and of course culminating with the little known battle on the beach head of "You folks kindly bugger off now".
The latter of course set the passive aggressive tone for Canuck "niceness" for the next several centuries, which if one reads between the lines in our history shows we really weren't all that nice, just acted that way to cover up for it all.
Perhaps it was accented by our founding fathers who were mainly semi-sober Scotsman eventually meeting for a drinking bout in PEI and coming up with the confederation concept during an ale run?
Thanks for the laugh Steve, am still enjoying your book too by the way.
All the best to you all and Happy Thanksgiving.
Dwayne
