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Last updated on August 5th, 2017 at 03:43 pm

Hit this to see a Canadian gazing meaningfully at a low-energy light bulb. Hit this for a close-up view. He is very serious about that light bulb.

(Via Mike M.)

Posted by Tim B. on 05/15/2007 at 10:49 AM
    1. Dincha know they’re engaged Tim?

      That light bulb is his only friend, and it was so turned on the first time they met that it proposed on the second date.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 15 at 11:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. He’s a Canadian; he’s just trying to figure out how to change it.

      Or else he’s just figured out how to change it and now he’s trying to figure out how to write the instructions so the Obama family can understand them…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 15 at 11:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. Yet another faux heroic pose by a self-important lefty greener.  I’m surprised no pigeons landed on his shoulders, but even pigeons know heroes used to pose with swords, not light bulbs.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 05 15 at 11:14 AM • permalink

 

    1. So Canada just got electricity?

      Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 05 15 at 11:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. Let’s give this a shot:

      How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

      Your punchlines, please.  Thanks.

      Posted by SSG Pooh on 2007 05 15 at 11:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. It amazes me that there are still some True Believers out there that haven’t realized that Kyoto is a criminal scam.

      Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 05 15 at 11:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. Not shown in photo: sculptor creating heroic statue of this brave visionary.

      Posted by Merlin on 2007 05 15 at 11:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. #6 Spiny, I had to describe the Kyoto scam to my entire uni class the other day. If I had known, I would have simply handed over order forms for carbon credits. Dammit, I thought they were smarter than they actually are!

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 05 15 at 11:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. That light bulb is powered by one of those 4.5V batteries. You know, the same battery that lit up the lego lights we played with way back in the ‘60s.

      Posted by Observer on 2007 05 15 at 11:57 AM • permalink

 

    1. Lalonde believes these individual changes can have a cumulative impact

      He’s right. More and more people are likely to get get pissed off at him. Dick. Or as they say in Quebec, “Dique”.

      #7: What’s that line from Wodehouse? “He stood there like a statue of himself, subscribed for and erected by a few friends and admirers.”

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 11:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. Christ, dude, it’s a light bulb, not Yorick’s skull.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 15 at 12:08 PM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

      Your punchlines, please.  Thanks.

      Two. One to screw it in and one to point out how much superior the Canadian light-bulb changing system is to the American one.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 15 at 12:10 PM • permalink

 

    1. Christ, dude, it’s a light bulb, not Yorick’s skull.

      Yeah, that pose reminded me of Hamlet as well.  No doubt Yorick in the grave has more common sense and intellect than Lalonde has as a living organism.

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 15 at 12:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. He looks like a moth drawn to a flame.

      Dimbulb….

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 15 at 12:24 PM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

      Well Walter, (he’s from the Maritimes), it’d depend upon how much the boat was pitching out on the Banks.

      Posted by Blue Hen on 2007 05 15 at 12:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio!”

      Posted by mojo on 2007 05 15 at 12:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

      None!  There’s not enough room to screw in a lightbulb.  Plus it’d be WAY too hot for a Canadian in there!

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 15 at 12:35 PM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadian liberals does it take to change a light bulb?
      Just one–s/he holds it in the socket and the world revolves around her/him, thus screwing it in.

      Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 15 at 12:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. Missing thought Balloon: “If only I could remember where I left that tube of KY…

      Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 05 15 at 12:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. #12 Since we’re getting all the Canadian jokes today, I might as well jump in with a traditional one.

      Two. One to handle the bulb and another to go to New York to see how they do it.

      So Canada just got electricity?

      Ah, arrh.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 15 at 12:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. #18-

      Good one, Andy

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 15 at 12:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Looks more like Frankenstein pondering his reanimation.

      Posted by HelenW on 2007 05 15 at 12:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. Ahhh yes, let us remember that we, the other (mostly) English speaking countries have the same kind of people, with the same kinds of affliction. Moronospheria and Bozonea Extremeus.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 15 at 12:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. And while we’re at it, how come it’s just a white guy in the picture. What about the womyn, and the indigenous people (who were here before Columbus arrived; making them, I guess, very old), and the people of color (which includes blacks, latinos, and Asians i.e. all except Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and Vietnamese who arrived after 1980, who are pretty damn hardworking and successful). And unless you can tell me for sure that the guy is gay, there’s a whole other issue right there.

      Posted by Merlin on 2007 05 15 at 12:59 PM • permalink

 

    1. Why do leftists always refuse to use persuasion?

      I think they like violence and force myself.

      No wonder socialism killed 100 million last century.

      Posted by Rob Read on 2007 05 15 at 01:45 PM • permalink

 

    1. Damn, I didn’t think Max Headroom was real.

      Posted by G Hamid USA on 2007 05 15 at 01:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. Playing a bit of pocket pool with his other hand, looks like.

      Posted by Achillea on 2007 05 15 at 02:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. fake but accurate

      Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 05 15 at 03:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. Christ, dude, it’s a light bulb, not Yorick’s skull.

      “Alas, poor Wattage. I knew him, Edison.”

      I use some of these and the claimed wattage conversion factor of 4X+ is really closer to 3X. Don’t believe what’s on the box.

      Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 05 15 at 03:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. Forget the bulbs–polar bears are drowning on Neptune–and it’s all Chimpy McBushitlerburton’s fault!

      Posted by rightwingprof on 2007 05 15 at 04:34 PM • permalink

 

    1. #20. Wimpy Canadian. Phew, are you guys in for an ‘electronic pasting’ today. At least there will be no alluding to the sexual preferences for the Ovine variety of animal, as happens with New Zealanders. (LOL).

      Posted by BJM on 2007 05 15 at 04:44 PM • permalink

 

    1. #11 Dave S – My immediate thought, too. Let’s hope – or at least Wimpy, you hope – this bill is “not to be.”

      Posted by Dminor on 2007 05 15 at 05:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. It only takes 1 Canadian to screw Canada, including the damn light bulbs!

      OT – can I humbly suggest that we not do the typo correction posts, given the following assumptions:

      1. We all know “we” know how to spell, and will not look down on anyone of ourselves for not previewing correctly
      2. This is not a spelling competition
      3. It will save a post and Andrea’s neurons
      4. Mistakes happen – let’s not be too hard on ourselves.

      Just a thought – but I see at least 1 of these posts in every thread and just don’t see the need, seeing we are all friends here.

      AMIRIGHT?

      Posted by peter m on 2007 05 15 at 06:18 PM • permalink

 

    1. The subject of this individual’s adoration is Bill C-288, which is

      “An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol”

      The Act is delightfully filled with ambiguous instructions suitable for future disputations. It also removes from Parliament the responsibility to directly act upon the Protocol: it’s the government’s task to do the job and report indirectly on it’s accomplishments.In preparing to implement the provisions of this law, once it passes final reading in the Commons, the Environment Minister has offered the following impact statement as a prelude to enforcing the Kyoto Protocol, full report here.

      I would suggest that this is of similar importance.

      Cheers

      Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 15 at 07:14 PM • permalink

 

    1. Far too reasonable METER P!

      My fingertips work at near the Shannon Limit of information transfer, therefore errors may happen.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 15 at 07:22 PM • permalink

 

    1. contemplating light bulbs .. the 21st century’s response to contemplating belly button lint..

      Posted by missred on 2007 05 15 at 07:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. To folloow up on mr. heinrichs manouveur:

      The Conservative party’s government is a minority one and this bill was introduced by the Liberal party, which normally runs Canada and are not adjusted to the fact that they are not now in power. It really stinks. However, they are still in control of teh Communist Broadcasting network of Canada (CBC) and the media and universities. But not the talk radio stations.

      But I digress.

      The Liberal party it was that signed up to teh Kyoto Protocol, and did nothing about it, possibly because itr was impossible.

      The beauty of the Parliamentary system is that future governments are not bound by acts of parliament because they can sinmply rescind them. So meaningless petty-foggin.

      Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 15 at 07:33 PM • permalink

 

    1. Alas poor Yorick, I remember his glow….

      (Hamlet)

      Posted by Bonmot on 2007 05 15 at 07:46 PM • permalink

 

    1. #10, Paco,

      Once again, you’ve made my day.  Great line from Wodehouse!  Cracked me up.

      Posted by saltydog on 2007 05 15 at 07:53 PM • permalink

 

    1. MADE IN CHINA
      INSTRUCTIONS:
      Careful lift box tear cheeks apart insert in hole.

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 05 15 at 08:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. I reckon he’s contemplating how he’ll look with a Peter Garrett tonsure. Or is auditioning for the role of Fester in the Canadian remake of the Addams family, with added social conscience:- “The Multiracial Addams Single Parent Family, Featuring Gay Gomez”.

      As to how many Canucks it takes to change a light bulb, it depends where they’re from; from Ottawa, only one, but the lightbulb really has to WANT to change. From Quebec, “change your own feelthy lightbulb, you englees pig goat hamster.” Saskatoon, “what’s a lightbulb eh? We got wicks”. Vancouver, “why change it? We prefer the dark- we’re trying to be a socialist Seattle”.

      Ah Canadians, like Northern Hemisphere Kiwis. (But less likey to steal your Commodore and molest your cat).

      Posted by Habib on 2007 05 15 at 08:39 PM • permalink

 

    1. #40 The old “chinese insructions”.
      Did you ever see the instructions on a Scorched Peanut Bar wrapper?

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 15 at 08:41 PM • permalink

 

    1. #42 🙂
      Something to do with flaps?

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 05 15 at 08:48 PM • permalink

 

    1. #39 Salty: Wodehouse is the Master.

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 08:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. #43

      Correct. It said to tear them apart.

      Now, that’s enough of that!

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 15 at 08:51 PM • permalink

 

    1. That bulb looks pretty dim.

      And the CFL he’s holding isn’t very impressive, either.

      Posted by Dave S. on 2007 05 15 at 08:52 PM • permalink

 

    1. Vancouver, “why change it? We prefer the dark- we’re trying to be a socialist Seattle”.

      Habib, you got it mixed up.  Seattle is emulating Vancouver, not the other way around, eh?

      Also, you are repeating yourself with “socialist Seattle”; it’s better to say “”socialist = Seattle”, eh?

      (Thus speaks a displaced native of NW Washington (Whatcom County), raised right near the international border with Canuckistan.  Eh?)

      Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 05 15 at 08:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. kae

      How’s the tooth…well not the tooth but the ho?…Ummmm, never mind.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 15 at 09:02 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hi El Cid
      Tooth/hole is aching. Head is aching. I haven’t slept properly for two nights (at most 2 hour kips between pain awakenings). Even with Nurofen and Panamax.
      I have an appointment with my GP today. At 2:30.
      His receptionist is a comedian.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 15 at 09:05 PM • permalink

 

    1. #41: I’m going to start printing Habib’s stuff out, and when I get enough of it, I’m going to have it all printed on acid-free paper and bound in blue morroco with marbled endpapers. Posterity demands no less. But what title shall I have stamped on the spine (in gold letters, of course)?

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 09:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. And speaking of medical humor:

      “Doctor, it hurts when I do this!”

      “So, don’t do that.”

      (Hope you get to feelin’ better, kae)

      Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 05 15 at 09:38 PM • permalink

 

    1. #33, I agree. Either check posts first, or just let typos go – except maybe for really bad ones like leaving crucial letters out such as the ‘o’ in count, when an apology might be in order.

      Posted by ilibcc on 2007 05 15 at 09:40 PM • permalink

 

    1. #49 kae: What you need is a cup of Gastrointestinal Delight of the Orient: hot tea with a very healthy splash of Southern Comfort and a twist of lime. After a few of those, even if your pain isn’t gone, you won’t care. Guaranteed to make you fizzy with joy.

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 09:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Not much of a lightbulb if you have to take it out into the sunlight to see it.

      Posted by Contrail on 2007 05 15 at 09:54 PM • permalink

 

    1. #33: Well . . . Ak, then.

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 09:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. #53 Thanks Paco.
      I’d be into the Bundy Rum, but I used the last of it on a cake.
      And besides, there’s the DIEt I’m on.
      *sigh*
      (I do have a near-full bottle of Southern in the pantry…)

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 15 at 10:00 PM • permalink

 

    1. #56: I do have a near-full bottle of Southern in the pantry

      W-h-a-t? Don’t you know that the stuff will evaporate right through the cap? And diet, is it? A slim little bit ‘o nothing like yourself, that the wind might blow away like so much dandelion fluff? To the pantry with you, now! Go!

      Posted by paco on 2007 05 15 at 10:07 PM • permalink

 

    1. Paco, I’m not a fan of southern.
      I do have some juniper juice in the fridge – and some tonic…
      alas, no ice.
      er, no, better not, already blown the diet eating greek style yoghurt – it’s all I could get down! (No chewing). When I shrink more I’ll be able to have the occasional spirit…
      (flattery, Paco, will get you everywhere…)

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 15 at 10:11 PM • permalink

 

    1. Well lady kae,

      Southern, you say…that happen to have the word Comfort somewhere on the label? Agree with paco (if you haven’t already) to the pantry. Ummm except do watch the meds in the mixture…lol.

      I do hope your pain disappears.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 15 at 10:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oh sure, paco…let me shoot my fingertips off here….as you gloat.

      Juniper is good…with or without ice, for medicinal purposes, of course.

      Posted by El Cid on 2007 05 15 at 10:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Lightbulbs.. WHAAAT? They’ve been talking about lightbulbs?

      I’ve just replanted all the bloody Gladdies and all that other crap. Wifey could not see how that was going to affect global warming or save the planet, but I reassured her thus:

      It’s true darling I heard and saw it on the telly and read it on the internet

      I must not believe everything I see heard or read.
      I must not believe everthing I see hear or read..

      Posted by Pickles on 2007 05 15 at 10:36 PM • permalink

 

    1. “Now, y’see, twenty years ago these here bulb trees grew us some monster bulbs.  Yep, them were some beautiful bulbs.  Spotlights, some of ‘em – you could see ‘em a mile off when they were lit up.  Sure were pretty.  Now, though, we’re lucky if we get these here dinky little bulbs.  It’s that glowball wormin’, y’see.  Too hot for th’ trees.  It’s also gettin’ hard to get your hands on a good load of polar bear manure, ‘cause they’re drownin’ and all, so the trees go hungry.  Gore said so, and he oughtta know, bein’ a politician and all.”

      Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 05 15 at 11:50 PM • permalink

 

    1. He’s warming to the Gorebulb?

      Posted by egg_ on 2007 05 16 at 12:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. I bought a low energy bulb once – for a desk lamp.  I think it was about 5 or more years ago.  Never bought another one because the useless thing didn’t produce enough light to see by.

      Posted by Janice on 2007 05 16 at 12:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb?

      One, we just have to get him to stop playing with that damm Zamboni machine first.

      Posted by phil_b on 2007 05 16 at 01:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb?

      Depends on how many ministries they have to go through first.

      Posted by CraigC on 2007 05 16 at 02:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. #8 Ash

      Spiny, I had to describe the Kyoto scam to my entire uni class the other day. If I had known, I would have simply handed over order forms for carbon credits. Dammit, I thought they were smarter than they actually are!

      I remember the fun of being right wing on campus. (Is that like driving while black?) It was a great impediment to meeting girls – not that you’d be concerned about that, Ash.

      Posted by Muzzie Zapper on 2007 05 16 at 03:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. #67 – Once you’ve had a jack booted, right winger in the sack, you never look back. The only thing not conservative about us is the orgasms we provide.

      Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 05 16 at 03:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. CFL’s are of limited use in Canada because they don’t burn bright when it’s cold out.

      And you need outside lights to keep criminals away.

      How many Canadians does it take to screw in a light bulb?

      Well first you need the national action comittee on the status of light bulbs An unelected representative who’s wildly partisan to speak out on light bulb gender issues.

      Then you need a human resources and light bulb audit to make sure all the light bulbs are representative of our light bulb import policy because we could care less about domestic light bulbs.

      Then you have to deal with a light bulb blocade from the first light bulbs, where old light bulbs who don’t want to light up will shut down roads or rail lines and demand more tax money for nothing.

      Then our MSM’s will worry about a light bulb backlash and introduce light bulb sensitivity training.

      Lightbulbs have to be offered in English and French even though more Canadians each year don’t speak either.

      At this point everyone will have forgotten they were even supposed to change the light as there is so much else thats more important to do.  And everyone will die because global warming will mean the snow will melt 3 days earlier.

      Posted by hollingshead on 2007 05 16 at 12:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. More proof that goreble worming is no different from the Dutch Tulip Bubble… it all starts with bulbs…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 17 at 01:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Kae’s tooth update: diagnosis = dry socket.
      No wonder it was hurting like buggery.

      Posted by kae on 2007 05 17 at 05:23 AM • permalink

 

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