Dinner Theatre

Well, there was a dinner, and it was quite good, but I think they were using the term “theatre” too liberally.
The dinner was a buffet and the selection was good. I still feel quite stuffed from it. The “play” was called “Only in Canada, Eh?” It was basically a compilation of a whole bunch of Canadian songs. No plot or character development. Only songs. I recognized most of them, except the eight sung by one gentleman. In the second act this guy came out and acted like he was famous and sang four songs I had never heard of. He repeated this again in the third act. Talking to other people I found out he was famous, but apparently out of my circle. Has anyone reading this heard of Alfie Zappacosta?
Because this was the office Christmas party, we had an American from the head office tag along. During the first intermission a lot of people talked to him. I guess we wanted to see the American’s opinion of Canada. I think we just demonstrated an inferiority complex.
We talked about the stuff Canada has done to Americans. The show “Talking to Americans” was brought up. The Rick Mercer “Jean Poutine” question to George Bush. My boss pointed out that we’re 100 times worse with our own politicians. I seem to recall someone having our Prime Minster in a headlock threatening to give him noogies. We really don’t take our politicians too seriously.
Mind you, I also thing it is cool that our previous PM had no problem throttling protesters that got to close to him.