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A) http://www.saskliberal.sk.ca/common/images/home_photo.jpg
B) http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/jan25-02/images/calvertcls.jpg
(the short, as in martin, guy)
C) http://www.skcaucus.com/leader/hermanson.jpg

ILX pick one, based purely on what you see on this thread.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what was the old saskatchewan success story?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Joni Mitchell

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

C, his arms are pumped from lifting heavey government documents!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The first guy just looks like an actor.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

A) He looks like he's still having sex

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

He was, Vic, when that pic was taken.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(he was having sex with C

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I get to ditch work for an hour in order to vote and get paid for it?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going for C

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what about now?
A) http://www.saskliberal.sk.ca/common/images/pg/5.JPG
B) http://ndpcaucus.sk.ca/graphics/calvert_couch_1.jpg
C) http://ndpcaucus.sk.ca/graphics/news_elwin4.jpg http://ndpcaucus.sk.ca/graphics/news_elwin4.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The question is surely 'which tool is least likely to rust?'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I still like A. C looks really scary in that last pic.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it's cuz he has two heads, right?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i know little about this "sas-kat-chew-an" you speak of, nor it's "politics" - but i would have to go with c.
he looks like he will eagerly turn saskatchewan into an aggressive military dictatorship.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the fact he has no eyes in the second picture, Im still going with C while A starts touching himself in public.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys vote on Wednesdays? Things are so k-ray-zee up there!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page12/us1-4.JPG

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

B. He's gone to a factory, thus he'll do a lot for the ordinary man.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A. He looks like Doer's long lost brother. Is he NDP by chance?

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

2C reminds me of cozen so 2C.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm almost gone for the day, but you can be sure I'll be in tomorrow morning to let you know whether or not Saskatchewan has become mini-Alberta overnight.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

NOOOOOOOOO!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I choose the lamp in pic B.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 6 November 2003 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well Horace, are you happy? I'd be feeling ok if I were you.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

B beat C 30 seats to 28.
A got none, not even his own.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Merl Bryck. He'll have to reform the Pikes again I guess.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the 2nd pic of B looks like my pshrink.

the 1st pic of B does look like a Martin Short character. "Gimme a 'C'! A big, bouncey 'C'!"

A is obviously a management type, so he's voted down for that.

C moonlights as a golf coach at the local junior high.

oh! oh! i just can't decide!

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Hermanson's going to get turfed as well (for failing to beat a third term minority gov't). Which is too bad because seeing him and Calvert together has always reminded me of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
And I like cartoons.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Well thats a good result based on pictures alone. A was a dork.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

He got NOTHING. Hahahaha. And the two Liberals who had joined the NDP in a coalition gov't, got cabinet appointments, then got kicked out of their own party and ran this time as New Democrats failed to get re-elected, losing not to Liberals, but to the Sask Party. Proving that the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan would rather be invisible than in government.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Every time I see this thread title, I think of The Vengaboys' "We're Going To Ibiza".

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually the Vengaboys were running for the Western Independence Party in the riding of Porcupine Plains!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Where were Aqua?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Melville-Saltcoats

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet, Hurrah for Rheostatics favorite name!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Saltcoats?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one dude, Del Anderson, of the Western Independence Party got ZERO votes. ZERO!!!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA! Well at least you know he didn't vote for himself at least.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

but that means that he either didn't vote or he voted for someone else (or he may have been a parachute candidate--the riding was Humboldt)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

He probably spoiled his ballot.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

or his pants!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd vote for both. There's a good cartoon there for someone with drawing skillz.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

was that a joke?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

do you know about the bad luck the NDP has had this year with humour?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you traditional don't vote for yourself I thought.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

unless you want to win!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking sides, alien cat eating refernces vs N@z1 cartoons.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Even if I can't spell today I'm serious, its bad form to vote for yourself in these things.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not aware of any troubles the NDP were having. All the more reason to have more cartoons!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't believe in your campaign enough to vote for yourself, why should anyone else?

Maybe customs are different elsewhere, but there's always the photo op on Election Day here where the big candidates go into the voting booths (or drop off their envelopes, here in Oregon). It's hard to imagine that Dubya went into his booth and thought, "Well, I can't vote for myself... Hmm, Gore or Buchanan, Gore or Buchanan... Oh, wait, I'll vote for Nader, he's pretty sensible."

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I apologize for not being able to tell that story in Canadian.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll learn ya.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/photos/cartoon_sask31014.jpg

The cartoon depicts Hermanson dressed in a military uniform holding a long list standing in front of a boxcar. A woman is walking inside the train car under a "NDP Sympathizers" sign.

He says to another woman carrying a mop and wearing an NDP band around her arm that she's "NDP Sympathizer #2,003."

She replies: "But I just wash floors!"

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's hard to imagine that Stephen Harper went into his booth and thought, "Well, I can't vote for
myself... Hmm, Martin or Duceppe, Martin or Duceppe... Oh, wait, I'll vote for Svend Robinson, he's pretty sensible."

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

We got more then two parties in Canada so its a little easier. They do the big dropping the ballot in the box and whether or not they vote for themselves you never know, but if they do say who, its usually an independent.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

when do they say who? and you believe them?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

x post there.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

At that moment as they are leaving, and I believe them cause they never vote for another party.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

mr. noodles, i slightly misread your above post about "big droppings" in ballot boxes and laughed my ass off. thank you.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

explanation for the cartoon, just before the writ was dropped (that's what it's called when we announce there's going to be an election--in Canada, the sitting gov't can call an election whenever they damn well please, and they usually go for the minimum 28 days notice) the NDP revealed that they had acquired (two years ago) a list that the Sask Party was keeping of EVERY publice employee with ties to the NDP with the implication that once the Sask Party took gov't there would be a purge.
I saw the list. I made copies of the list (because I'm the newsroom brat).

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So the cartoons were sensible then.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

so the NDP circulated an internal memo via email encouraging its supporters to come up with "creative" ways of spinning this.

it was eerily familiar of another internal memo leaked this past summer where an NDP staffer was asking supporters to use "whatever creative flimflam" they could muster to convice "Shrub" to open the borders to Cdn beef.
He was fired for calling the Prez "Shrub" which is pretty lame.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi. I voted for the New Green Alliance in Moose Jaw North. (My vote accounted for 1.5% of the total votes he recieved. His total votes accounted for 0.84% of total votes recieved.) It was the first time I ever got to vote for anything. I mostly just wanted to vote.

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

In my country, we would consider that an awesome reason to get fired. Or at least, I know I would put it on my resume and land myself a cushy book deal because of it.

Also, dk! My Moose Jaw connection! You're back!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

You're thanked on my album, dk. E-mail me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, the guy who got fired is from your country. Texas even. His wife is a semi-famous mystery novelist. Semi-famous because she's famous in Regina, but then again, I'm famous in Regina and all I do is ride the bus.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

D K, only 66 other people voted for Marcela Gall. I honestly applaud your vote. I didn't vote (cuz I don't recognize Canada as a sovereign nation free from rule of monarch), but if I had, I probably would have voted against the Sask Party by voting for the NDP.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I e-mailed you!

I don't live in Moose Jaw right now. I miss it so much. The things in it, mostly. Every weekend when I get to go home I take the first exit off Hwy. 1 just so that I can drive up Main Street.

The excitement of living in a big city has so, so faded. It's very unfriendly and I still feel like I'm just visiting for the day to go to the orthodontist when I'm driving up 12th, under all of the glass buildings but without the just-tightened braces feeling.

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

But my vote was totally unmotivated by anything good! It was mostly just a friendly gesture. 'They're good people. If I'm voting, it might as well be for them.'

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you been to the Mad Greek's on Main St? I was there, uh, in Sept. It was awesome. My new favourite MJ restaurant!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The menu is a little sparse. I've been there twice and neither time was very satisfying. I'd rather just walk across the street to Samir's Donair.

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I've lived in Regina I've been spending way too much eating out. I blame Dave Margoshes. Can you introduce me to him?

― d k (d k), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Whee, OK, something I e-mailed you about has suddenly become clear, dk.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably.
I have his number somewhere and I've had a beer with him once.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, so I made a joke in the office about how I voted for myself as a write-in candidate and that I did better than the guy who got zero and they're all, like, believing me and telling other people. And these are TRAINED newspeople!!!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you are at the LP, aren't you?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually answered the phone Long-Player once, because I am a long playa!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't vote (cuz I don't recognize Canada as a sovereign nation free from rule of monarch)

This is the lamest excuse ever, yo.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 November 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

one dude, Del Anderson, of the Western Independence Party got ZERO votes. ZERO!!!
turns out, he had officially withdrawn from the race a week or two ago, but the ballots were already drawn up.
so he may have received votes, but they would have been considered spoiled.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 6 November 2003 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

FYI: Elwin Hermanson, leader of the opposition Sask Party during the election, who failed to topple the NDP gov't twice, resigned as leader today.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

is that good¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Lorne hasn't gotten back to me yet about the CDs I sent him.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i was very, very ready to send a letter to the Regina & Saskatoon dailies a week before this vote saying 'I live in BC, and happen to be following this election. hermanson's rhetoric sounds just like gordo's, and he is fucking this province over. don't be stupid; leatn from us!'. i didn't end up sending the letter, but i was SO happy to hear hermanson et al were toast.

Gordo eats soylent green, it's true.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 20 November 2003 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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