Not all words that begin with “al” came from Arabic. Alphabet comes from the first two letters in Greek, alpha and beta. Those in turn come from The Phoenician aleph and beth. No Arabic to be seen.

I’m pretty sure that Montreal has the same rail system as Ottawa, and it’s just as reliable and efficient, too!

Don’t forget the driver’s license website that was 3 years late and went from the original budget of $600 million to $1.1 billion. For a website. That didn’t work properly. A lot of people’s pockets got lined there.

I moved here two years ago, and needed to replace my Ontario driver’s license with a Quebec one. I went to the website and requested an appointment to do this.

I got a reply 2 weeks later saying that they would inform me of the date of my appointment in 5 months. That’s when they would inform me of the date, not when the appointment would be.

And the revised health website sounds like it was going the same way.

I learned classical Spanish, not the pidgin dialect he seems to have picked up

– Basil Fawlty, referring to Manuel in “A Touch of Class”

I think a banana peel was a polite stand-in for a piece of dogshit, that wouldn’t gross people out too much.