My partner had a brilliant idea - throw them a curveball and hang out a Canadian flag. I burst out laughing, something I haven't done in, oh, a month. I had the mental picture of them all congregated, en masse (oops - that's French, non?), on the sidewalk in a forehead-slapping realization that...
"Oh.... they aren't GAY, they're C A N A D I A N !"
But sadly, what may have worked a year ago is a non-starter now. The vicious health care debate has exposed the Canadians of having a working healthcare system. A better system. A socialist system. And to think... they seemed so nice. Well, we aren't having any of that, thank you very much. So the Canadians are now on the shitlist, with the French.
Merd.
