{"id":1499,"date":"2007-09-01T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2007-09-01T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T05:57:00","slug":"write-your-own-punchline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"Write Your Own Punchline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh man<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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The beaver is one of Canada’s national symbols and now a senior Liberal wants to make the puffin the symbol of the country’s self-proclaimed natural governing party. <\/p>\n

Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff says the industrious little seabird — with its black and white plumage, distinctive striped beak and orange feet — is a “noble” creature that exemplifies Liberal values. <\/p>\n

“It’s a noble bird because it has good family values. They stay together for 30 years,” Ignatieff said Thursday outside a Liberal caucus retreat in the Newfoundland capital. <\/p>\n

“They lay one egg (each year). They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement<\/span>. … They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell. <\/p>\n

“This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: <\/em><\/strong>Saw this “puffin rap” on facebook which was written by former Iggy co-chair Alf Apps:<\/p>\n

What’s all this huffin’
”bout the aristocratic puffin?
Is it so absurd
That a Newfie bird
Could point the way
To a brighter day?<\/p>\n

Have the mighty Grits
Completely lost their wits?
Or does Iggy simply see
What might yet be
If Canadians start to flap
About the way the Tories crap?<\/p>\n

It is surely an affront
To watch the Tories grunt
Take Kyoto’s abrogation,
A too public evacuation!
Or their election spending cheat,
How utterly indiscrete!<\/p>\n

Such partisan poo
Compared to Avian doo
However uncouth,
Is now Canadian truth.
And the Libs new mascot
Is just so so hot!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh man… The beaver is one of Canada’s national symbols and now a senior Liberal wants to make the puffin the symbol of the country’s self-proclaimed natural governing party. Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff says the industrious little seabird — with its black and white plumage, distinctive striped beak and orange feet — is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}