Subject: Re: CANADIAN Twin Peaks on Global
From: keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely)
Date: 1991-03-23, 12:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In a previous article, rcj@caen.engin.umich.edu (R o d Johnson) says:
> >In article <1991Mar23.162615.7008@psych.toronto.edu> davidb@psych.toronto.edu (David Brodbeck) writes:
> >
>> >>Really its just that we're sick and tired of people thinking we all
>> >>live in Igloos, ride dog sleds and our police wear Red dress tunics
>> >>while on duty.
> >
> >The thing is. . . really, I don't know *anyone* who thinks that.  Not
> >one person.  Maybe I'm unusual in that I live a half hour from the
> >border, but I've been around a bit and have never met anyone in, say,
> >Ukiah, California or Springfield, Missouri, who appeared to think that
> >Canada was one big Nelson Eddy movie.  Around this part of the
> >country, Toronto is a popular vacation destination even among people
> >who would never dream of riding a dog sled or staying in an igloo.
> >How about it, Americans?  Can we just stipulate it?  Canada is NOT
> >LIKE THAT.  Don Cherry OK, Bob and Doug maybe, but Nelson Eddy,
> >igloos, huskies, red tunics are right out.  NOT LIKE THAT.
> >OK, that's settled.  Besides, everyone knows it's much more like "Anne
> >of Green Gables." :)

I agree...I've lived in North Dakota, Louisiana, Connecticut, Maine, and Ohio
and I don't know of anyone who thinks that.  In fact, I never heard of it 
until you just mentioned it.  

I mean, though, there are stereotypes everywhere.  What about the typical
American...you know, the one with the southern drawl, wearing a cowboy
hat and boots, like the ones you see on Dallas?

And the typical American tourist...with sunglasses, florid flowery shorts and
a camera slung over one shoulder, resting on the opposite hip, a pot belly.

I mean, does anyone *really* think that is what America is like?

I don't get this stereotyped image of Canada from the Renault brothers.  The
only thing I will agree on is the fake accents.  Because, sometimes it really
bugs me when people try to make a cajun accent.  It is *so* phony.  The 
closest thing I've ever heard to a cajun accent that was not cajun was somebody
from Quebec, Canada...and he wasn't *trying* to sound cajun, that's just the
way he sounded.  But, then again, cajuns supposedly have originated from that
area of Canada anyway....

(I know this doesn't have much to do with Twin Peaks)  

CAN'T WAIT TIL THURSDAY!!!

(I'm going to purposely have to refrain myself from reading this newsgroup 
until I've seen the episode on Thursday, so as not to have all those 
igloo-dwelling Canadians spoil it for me)  :)

Yours,
Keith