Smelma_Kayak: /obscure?

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Bill Frist: Barricaded Gunman: Not to be all partisan and all, but I just can't picture Obama or Biden falling for this.

Even moreso, I can't imagine their STAFFS STAVES falling for it and letting the call take place at all.

FTFY.

Sorry, pet peeve.

nelbuts1: Seems to me that she is not the only one who they have tricked. So guess Bill Gates and all the others are dumb, hicks, etc. etc. etc. too. Oh I forgot because she is a REPUBLICAN that makes her DIFFERENT.

Get a life you morans.

FTFY

A: Some people said in the last days and I thought that was mean that you weren't experienced enough in foreign relations and you know that's completely false. That's the thing that I said to my great friend, the prime minister of Canada Stef Carse.

P: Well, he's doing fine, too, and yeah, when you come into a position underestimated it gives you an opportunity to prove the pundits and the critics wrong. You work that much harder.

FAIL

whargullible

JohnBigBootay Although it's embarrassing she fell for it, I don't condone this sort of thing and I'm not gonna listen to it.

yes, it's hilarious that she didn't catch canadian PMs name, but al gore fell for the same prank in '99 on rick mercer's talking to americans. he said he looked forward to working with prime minister jean poutine.

Girl_in_Vegas: God damn it cyberquog, that actually made me laugh so hard I peed my pants. Further, it was totally worth it.

Bravo, Sir. Bravo.

/changing underwear.

God damn it cyberquog, that actually made me laugh so hard I peed my pants. Further, it was totally worth it.

Bravo, Sir. Bravo.

/changing underwear.

I was suprised Palin didn't catch on, especially a couple spots where they seemed to give it away, so they could get her angry reaction.

But she just kept going along, like she "knew all about it"

Seems the two fellas conducting the prank call brought it to an end because they probably felt ashamed they had exposed Gov. Palin as far beyond not-too-bright. In a way, it's not funny that a person this close to possbily being President can be so unworldly. And let's face it, if Obama has some skeleton in his closet , and McCain gets elected, Palin probably would be President of the United States at some point.

Now think about that for a moment. Funny Time is over.

THe average $8 hour pizza hut phone-answerer might have had enough common sense to detect a dishonest person than Gov. Palin did.

Russad: This comment must be pretty embarrassing for you. I'm going to go ahead and quote it to make sure it gets full exposure.

Oh noes! I called the troll stupid! What was I thinking? How shall I ever live with myself?

I am ruined forever! Forever, I tell you!

[cringe]

I know who Johnny Halliday is--he's the biggest rock star in France--it's people in his native country who don't know who he is. To tell the truth, I only heard of him recently myself. Think: Robin Williams (the musician, not the comedian) or Cliff Richards.

A big star can be known by a billion people or two in Asia and completely unknown to most of us North Americans.

I didn't quite get the name Steph Carse when a clip of this aired on the evening news and I still don't know why he was selected by the prankers--there is an artist named Steph Carse (with a bilingual website--but Adobe Flash Movie Plugin isn't working well with Google Chrome--I can't even get it to download with Firefox for some reason.)

I think Steph Carse may have been promoted to Prime Minister of Canada because Harper really blew his chances of gaining seats in Quebec by playing to his redneck western Canadian WASP base by cutting funding to the arts.

In Quebec arts means culture and culture is used in the anthropological sense of the word so it means French and French means gimmee, gimme, gimme or you die.

So it was a political jibe which rhymes with arse. As an after-thought, it may also be a jab at Stéphane Dion, the hapless and professorial Liberal leader who is hated in nationalist circles in Quebec for being a federalist--not quite as hard line as Jean Chrétien but the major driver behind the Clarity Act which laid down the law on a legal separation of Quebec from Canada by referendum after the last rather misleading question. But Americans know all about referendum questions designed to confuse the majority of voters.

Probably the best joke in the whole lot and totally incomprehensible unless you are a French Canadian or are at least obsessive-compulsive enough to Google words and names you don't know.

Good one, les boys. That's almost as good as the guy who punked the Queen of England.

Radio pranks seem to be a spécialité of French Canadians. It's like all of that Juste pour Rire gags stuff. One of my favourites had a guy dressed like Jesus walk out onto a canal to fetch a soccer ball. They did it the same way they do it for the tourists who visit the Sea of Galilee--plexiglass just under the water.

It's a much simpler gag than most but I liked it.

Steph Carse has a website. I don't know anything about him because I can't see his website. You tell me who the Hades he is.

Actually, he's a musician.

http://www.stephcarse.com/

You can see his Achy Breaky Heart Dance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8uqkgwXihg

Or his Pagliachio:

http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/12415

Pagliachio!

Gesundheit!

Apparently he is a cible populaire. I guess the fake President isn't the only one who has a lot in common with him. Sarah Palin is a bit of a butt herself.

Of jokes.

I meant of jokes.

Not to put lipstick on a pig or anything, but you have to admit all of the world's cartoonists, comedians, satirists and mockers are praying for McCain to win as indemnification against the tragic crash of the market in Dubya jokes.

I'm still chuckling over the Steph Carse joke (now that I get the reference, several webpages later). It's the perfect French jeu-de-mots. It's a pun (in English); it works on two or three levels at least; it's barbed against more than one target, including the audience, the jokers, the butt of the joke and the other butt of the joke (Stephen Harper, Steph Carse, Anglos, Pepsis, Steph Carse's music and fans, possibly Stéphane Dion). It even works as a crude pun in English while meaning very little as a joke unless you know French Quebec politics, culture and music.

These guys can think and talk circles around your simple linear Anglo-American brains, my sons. Let them laugh at you--it's better than letting them laugh up their sleeves like you're some kind of backwoods retard. Er....

Revenons à nos moutons.

They'd have your head off and in a bag before you knew your throat was cut.

If you think that is bilingual and multicultural, you should see Acadie Man. There are literary figures there that comparative literature scholars have not found words for yet.

People who are essentially bilingual (from early childhood to adulthood)--and not just accidentally bilingual (as anyone who learns a language after the age of reason--like me)--can play with two or more languages like James Joyce does in Finnegans Wake. Back and forth between six layers of meaning in a single word. Probably more than six, but there are places the unilingual and unicultural minds can not follow--like hidden dimensions beyond the usual three of space and one of time.

Steph Carse is the Céline Dion of Quebec.

Oh, that's enough.

I don't even know the guy's music. Why should I make fun of him?

Ach, I forgot this went green!

I want to post some of the most failicious things about this interview, for non-Canadians and non-French speaking folks

1. Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience. Canadians noted with derision that she claimed our border with Alaska made her experienced in Canadian policy. I think the only leader from Canada she's met is the guy who runs the Yukon, a territory of 31,000 hearty people that is right next to Alaska.
- The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, just got reelected TWO WEEKS ago and even though our election was quite boring, this was still duly reported in all of the international press. He's also a Conservative and sort of in love with Bush/Cheney ideas and style, and he's got to be pretty choked that Sarah Palin can't even get his name right tonight. He's been in power for two years now, and he hails from the province Palin probably had most private sector dealings with in negotiating her pipeline - Alberta. She really, really, really, really should have known that one.
- The Prime Minister/Premier (they mean the same in French - premier ministre) of Québec is Jean Charest. Anyway, I forgive her, mostly, for being confused about Jean Charest. He is only the Premier of Canada's second-largest province and is important for a serious U.S. politician, who is interested in the leaders of the provinces that border the United States and/or economic/trade policy, to be roughly familiar with, kind of like how a Mexican Presidential candidate should probably know who Bill Richardson is. His province is also partly in the Arctic, so she should have some familiarity with other Arctic-bordering jurisdictions... Now, this brings up the other issue: why the hell would any Premier of Québec be going to Palin rallies?

2. Sarah Palin knows fark-all about France:
- Faux-Sarko: "I was elected in France because I'm real". HAHAHAHAHA! No. Sarko is the exact opposite of working class you-betcha style. His style is more, "The little people are so beneath me."
- I have never heard of a Parisian who hunts. Warning bells!
- Marcel, the guy with bread under his armpit, oui: Should be mega-warning bells. This is just the radio host mocking Parisians as well as Sarkozy and Palin now.

3. The jokes in French were brilliant:
- "Frank L'Ouvrier", Sarko's assistant, means "Frank the Manual Labourer", a takeoff on that Joe the Plumber thing
- Stef Carse, the name they gave her for Stephen Harper, is this god-awful country singer who covered Billy Ray Cyrus's "Achy Breaky Heart" in French in the 90s. It's hilarious because Harper is sort of perceived as a wannabe American/Bush-style cowboy
- Richard Z. Sirois is a Quebec humourist, mostly on radio
- "On pourrait tuer des bébés phoques aussi", we could kill some baby seals as well. From the popularly perceived (outside Canada) "barbaric" hunt of seals. In Canada, people do not really care except PETA types. Still it is a general standard impression here of people getting all butthurt about killing things in a brutal way.
- "du rouge à lèvres sur une cochonne"- Lipstick on a pig is the translation straight up, but "cochonne" in French means like... incredibly nasty in bed. They basically called her a dirty ho with the implication she'd do anything in the sack, the filthier the better.

3. She has no idea how to deal with foreign leaders, OMFG.
- How appropriate is it for a Vice President to inform a President of France that she and McCain "love him"? Before they're in a close relationship, should she really introduce herself as "This is Sarah"?
- How many foreign leaders would really make a "LOL, Don't bring Cheney! He'll shoot me in the face!" in the first conversation between them? Plus saying his wife is hot in bed?.. Really.
- Almost all of her responses to Sarko were complete non sequiturs. Why can't she have a conversation? Wouldn't she want to ask HIM anything?

4. She's sequestered from her own coverage in the press:
- Unfamiliar with the actual state of the race. The polls are tightening? Or, does she actually believe her own press people? Or, would she lie to foreign leaders about it?
- "I seen a bit about NBC even Fox News wasn't an ally, an ally, sorry, about as much as usual." Despite the maybe limited access, she didn't disagree that Fox is basically the Republican Party's media arm.
- "I love the documentary they made on your life, you know, Hustler's "Nailin Palin." Is it possible she hasn't heard of the video?!?!

Anyway, this will give Canadians (most of us are glued to this race) grounds to feel absolutely politically superior over Americans for... months. Maybe even years. We still relish the fact that one of our comedians got George W. Bush to say our Prime Minister's name was "Jean Poutine" in 2000. Note that most of the jokes require knowledge of American and French politics to be amusing, so this will further inflate egos. Most of our politicians are not stupid, although many are morally compromised, douchebags or drunks, so this sense of superiority is actually somewhat justified on our part.

Sarah Palin... for inflating our national Smug Index, we thank you. We will present you with one seal club. Come and beat a baby seal to death any time.

i actually feel kinda bad for the staffer who let the call through

Macinfarker: Trig

When you really think about it, you come to the realization that Trig is the *only* member of the Palin family who hasn't said or done anything stupid.

I just peed myself a little listening to that, and not from laughter.

With respect to everyone's caller ID comments, ever heard of blocking caller ID? Aka *67 with some telephone companies.

Good lord, some of you are as dense as Palin.

To the resident genius who thought most Canadians couldn't tell a French Canadian accent from a French one: FAIL. Miserable and utter failure. They are very distinct, and it is a very small minority of born and raised Canadians that cannot tell the difference. It's like the difference between Margaret Thatcher's accent and John McCain's. Both are speaking English, but it's exceedingly easy to tell which accent is American and which is British.

Because of this prank I now know what 'pnwed' really means.

brantgoose: Steph Carse is the Céline Dion of Quebec.

And here I thought that Céline Dion was the Céline Dion of Quebec.

Mordant: Figures all you libs would stand by and laugh as her first amendment rights are trampled like this.

Actually that would be 4th amendment, and I am still laughing.

Stepqhen:

Let me start by saying that I already voted for Obama here in Texas. A big part of me really wants this to be fake. I am so tired of America being the butt of jokes around the world.

Other than the fact that Sarah Palin is American,
can you tell me how this makes fun of the "home of the brave"?

Lighten up Francine.

Having said that I would fark Sarah Palin every which way.
She's hot in a school marmish kind of way.
I'd fark the fundamentalist Christian out of her wipe myself on her drapes and head off into the night.

WorldCitizen: In the background after she starts to hand the phone back to her aids, does Palin say that it's a radio station in France? After they said they were a radio station in Montreal? Please tell me I heard that wrong.

No, I heard that clearly too. She thinks Montreal is in France. Holy Shiat.

/Posting from Toronto, England

log_jammin: i actually feel kinda bad for the staffer who let the call through

Apparently they arranged the call over a period of five days and were vetted through secret service and others in her staff, so I don't feel sorry for the staffer, I feel sorry for all of them, including Palin, for being so stupid. I can't imagine how something this farked up could happen. The way the campaign should have handled it was to arrange a time in advance and then had HER people call HIM to arrange the call instead of the other way around. What a bunch of morans.

stpats: With respect to everyone's caller ID comments, ever heard of blocking caller ID? Aka *67 with some telephone companies.

Good lord, some of you are as dense as Palin.

They had to call manny times to get this set up, and left their phone number.

Someone in Palin's organization should have figured that 514-xxx-xxxx was not the same thing as 0-11-33-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx.

They also mentioned on a tv interview this morning that they dealt with someone who used to work for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Good lord, some of you are as dense as Palin.

With all due respect, I think this statement applies more to you than to the others in this thread.

P.S.: They're supposed to be on CBS tomorrow morning to explain all of this.

Flab: stpats: With respect to everyone's caller ID comments, ever heard of blocking caller ID? Aka *67 with some telephone companies.

Good lord, some of you are as dense as Palin.

They had to call manny times to get this set up, and left their phone number.

Someone in Palin's organization should have figured that 514-xxx-xxxx was not the same thing as 0-11-33-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx.

They also mentioned on a tv interview this morning that they dealt with someone who used to work for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Good lord, some of you are as dense as Palin.

With all due respect, I think this statement applies more to you than to the others in this thread.

P.S.: They're supposed to be on CBS tomorrow morning to explain all of this.

No, it's you who will be joining the others for making assumptions. I didn't say anything about them leaving or not leaving a number. I commented on blocking caller ID, specifically to those who were commenting "WTF doesn't anyone in the Palin camp have caller ID?". They don't appear to know much about the subject of caller ID.

Preston Preston: Russad: This comment must be pretty embarrassing for you. I'm going to go ahead and quote it to make sure it gets full exposure.

Oh noes! I called the troll stupid! What was I thinking? How shall I ever live with myself?

I am ruined forever! Forever, I tell you!

I suppose you could spin it that way. That's probably preferable to admitting that you were too busy frothing at the mouth to get the joke and made yourself look stupid in the process.

Hint: telling a joke and trolling are different things.

Cliche_Guevara: A premier is not the same as a prime minister. A province's premier is the equivalent to a state governor, like Sarah Palin for instance.

That's a convention we've adopted in the English parts of Canada, but it's not literally true. They are equivalent; "Premier" really is the French equivalent of "Prime Minister." You don't see Quebec newspapers saying "Prime Minister" of Canada, they say "Premier" of Canada. (At least the couple of times I've skimmed Quebec newspapers. . . I don't speak French.)

Outside of Canada, you see the terms used interchangeably quite often. For example, I've seen NYT articles refer to the Prime Minister of France as "prime minister" and "premier" within the same article. (Which must have been doubly confusing for people who only vaguely understand that France has both a president and a prime minister.)

She's Definitely Sucking.

One stop shopping.

Is the media basically ignoring this? Nothing on Drudge (well duh), and a blurb on Foxnews.com spinning it as "Palin in 2016?" but I haven't seen anything else.

Alan_Metcalfe: One stop shopping.

AHAAHAHAHAHAHA!

Haha, nice.

I wonder if Lovely Carla and whatshisname have heard this yet...

Preston Preston: Oh noes! I called the troll stupid! What was I thinking? How shall I ever live with myself?\

riiiiiight.

you lose, be a man and own it.

mesohorny: Oh man haha it was Ok funny but not hilarious funny
These guys screwed up a awesome prank call. Why didnt they talk dirty to her in a sweet french accent? Like "is this line private? Ok uhmmm You know i have many many luxury yachts and hotels maybe we can get together sometime wee wee" I watch you on tv late at night when my wife is out you know wee wee?

and this is why their hilarity is in the news today and yours is, well...on fark.

If you listen really close at the end, immediately after she asks for the call letters of the station you can hear her say "For chrissake..." Take the Lord's name in vain much?

bobbette

Nice insight. Thanks for taking the time to write all that.

This really doesn't interest me at all. I don't care about Sarkozy and making Palin look dumb is like shooting fish in a barrel...dead fish.

/make Hillary look stupid

Prank or no prank, what's sad is as Gov. of Alaska, she doesn't even know who Canada's prime minister and his deputy prime ministers are.

Haha. Hey, how did it go when they called up Joe Biden and tricked him?

gilgigamesh: Ignominiousbob: She just earned my vote.
Please enlighten us what exactly about that sorry incident gave you your epiphany.

Being a big fan of ignominy, how can I not vote for my soul mate? I was on the fence until now, but this episode closes the deal.

Scary scary stuff... why mccain why!? Embeddable flash of call on Entertonement below, with script and innuendoes explained.

Sarah Palin pranked on the Masked Avengers

Kenwhat: bobbette:
She claimed she could see Russia, not Canada. Not only that, but most Canadians can't even tell you the difference between a French and a French-Canadian accent, so why the hell would an American?

I'm pretty sure just about any Canadian can hear the difference between:
"Zat zere, over zere" and
"dat dere over dere".

Most of us Canadians suffered from many years the fate of cruelly being taught by federal mandate the wrong damn french in school. What little we did absorb would be just about useless in Quebec.

I am, however, now fully fluent in cereal-box french. Gratis Prix!

/Tabarnac, it's a seperatiste plot!

If your Canadian and you can't tell the difference between Quebecois and Francais you are a moron. It is like Ukranian and Russian, very different....