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(Stuff) Interesting William Shatner wants. To be. The Prime. Minister of Canada. What sort of. Person thinks that. An ex-actor has what it. Takes to lead. A country   (stuff.co.nz) divider line 87
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Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 05:17:18 AM  
Their GDP is almost as big as California's.

 
Sun God [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 05:38:21 AM  
Nice try. You might as well substitute James Doohan or Elisha Cuthbert. Or Erica Durance.

 
steveo 2009-02-21 05:39:33 AM  
1. Governor General is a "mainly ceremonial" position
2. Shatner doesn't have the time to be Governor General
3. Shatner wants to be Prime Minister

ergo

4. Being Prime Minister requires less time than a "mainly ceremonial" position

 
Bathia_Mapes [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 06:33:36 AM  
How about Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser?

 
shivashakti [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 07:52:16 AM  
If elected, his first act will be to put guardrails around every swimming pool.

 
Isotope 2009-02-21 08:00:46 AM  
Sun God: You might as well substitute James Doohan

Now THAT would be interesting. Change Canada's government to the Weekend at Bernie's model....I like it!

 
mikemoto [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 08:12:55 AM  
Couldn't be any worse than the NDP controlling the government, eh.

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 08:18:24 AM  
Bathia_Mapes: Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser

Thanks for the outing. It's so hard to tell Canadians from normal people. They should be forced to wear some sort of identifying mark.

 
Isotope 2009-02-21 08:22:01 AM  
co-conspirator: Bathia_Mapes: Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser

Thanks for the outing. It's so hard to tell Canadians from normal people. They should be forced to wear some sort of identifying mark.


According to my wife, they all look like accountants. So long as you don't mind some American accountants getting lumped in with the Canadians, this makes it pretty easy. =P

 
friendinpa [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 08:27:44 AM  
Denny Crane, eh?

 
eddyatwork [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 08:40:17 AM  
[Dr. Emmett Brown is doubting Marty McFly's story about that he is from the future]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's VICE-President? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
[closes the door leaving Marty outside]

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 09:04:47 AM  
co-conspirator: Bathia_Mapes: Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser

Thanks for the outing. It's so hard to tell Canadians from normal people. They should be forced to wear some sort of identifying mark.


A tuque?

 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 10:14:29 AM  
steveo: 4. Being Prime Minister requires less time than a "mainly ceremonial" position

There are a lot of ceremonies. A lot.

 
ochobit 2009-02-21 10:19:27 AM  
William Shatner should be prime minister of the world.

 
Psumek 2009-02-21 10:20:32 AM  
Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

/wouldn't be surprised if I'm wrong
//American
///Molson and a hockey puck is on the flag right?
////TIMBITS FTW!!!

 
GWShenlong05 [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 10:23:10 AM  
Psumek: Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

No, he really doesn't. A sitting MP can simply vacate his or her seat to accommodate the PM.

 
Phil Herup 2009-02-21 10:23:44 AM  
He can appoint George Takei to be in charge of the Gay Olympics in Montreal.

tbn2.google.com

 
Phoenix_M 2009-02-21 10:25:00 AM  
ex-actor?? when the hell did Shatner retire from acting?

 
Roblmw241 2009-02-21 10:28:35 AM  
I can't get behind that.

 
MisterLoki 2009-02-21 10:29:40 AM  
Phoenix_M: ex-actor?? when the hell did Shatner retire from acting?

1962

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 10:40:15 AM  
If you don't vote for us, do we not cease to exist?

/I can hardly wait for his speech at the political KKKHHHAAAAANNNNNN-vention.

 
Triaxis 2009-02-21 10:54:08 AM  
Ronald Reagan wasn't just an actor, first he was a Captain in the US Army. I'd say he had far more life experience than the Al Franked types that just think they should be elected on name recognition and their ability to spread the party poison.

 
ilambiquated 2009-02-21 11:00:15 AM  
He should stick to poetry.

 
RminusQ [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:03:32 AM  
If this means no more Priceline commercials, he has my vote.

 
NCP69 2009-02-21 11:04:32 AM  
william SHATner is canadian? now i hate him more...

 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:08:56 AM  
He doesn't want the job so much as he just wants to negotiate the salary.

 
bychance 2009-02-21 11:12:21 AM  
img.photobucket.com

 
bychance 2009-02-21 11:13:59 AM  
www.decodog.com

oh well.

 
entropic_existence [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:50:38 AM  
Psumek: Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

Not necessarily, in fact the post of Prime Minister isn't even mentioned in our Constitution and, like most Westminster Parliamentary Democracies, much of what we consider "normal" government operation is governed by a lot of conventions, traditions, and unspoken rules.

The way it works right now is that the PM is the leader of the Party that forms the government. So to become PM in any real way he would need to become the head of a political party and his party win the majority of seats in the election.

Technically there are other ways to become PM but they have never (or have only rarely) happened.

 
UnkleKrakker 2009-02-21 11:51:03 AM  
Leslie Nielsen's brother Erik (new window) had been the Canadian deputy defense minister and deputy PM in the '80s.

Not a single Police Squad moment to show for it either.

 
Redscum 2009-02-21 11:58:55 AM  
entropic_existence: Psumek: Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

Not necessarily, in fact the post of Prime Minister isn't even mentioned in our Constitution and, like most Westminster Parliamentary Democracies, much of what we consider "normal" government operation is governed by a lot of conventions, traditions, and unspoken rules.

The way it works right now is that the PM is the leader of the Party that forms the government. So to become PM in any real way he would need to become the head of a political party and his party win the majority of seats in the election.

Technically there are other ways to become PM but they have never (or have only rarely) happened.


I still would've thought you'd need to be a sitting MP to be a party leader, never mind Prime Minister, and I'm a Brit.

/shows what I know about politics

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-21 11:59:34 AM  
I'm sure he'll have the First Nations support.

i78.photobucket.com

 
Psumek 2009-02-21 12:01:10 PM  
entropic_existence: Psumek: Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

Not necessarily, in fact the post of Prime Minister isn't even mentioned in our Constitution and, like most Westminster Parliamentary Democracies, much of what we consider "normal" government operation is governed by a lot of conventions, traditions, and unspoken rules.

The way it works right now is that the PM is the leader of the Party that forms the government. So to become PM in any real way he would need to become the head of a political party and his party win the majority of seats in the election.

Technically there are other ways to become PM but they have never (or have only rarely) happened.


Okie doke. So sorta like the US system, but doesn't need to be elected by the masses just his peers. Makes sense.

 
Captain Straight Edge 2009-02-21 12:01:14 PM  
Sun God: Nice try. You might as well substitute James Doohan or Elisha Cuthbert

i157.photobucket.com

I'd let her expand my deficit.

 
varmitydog 2009-02-21 12:05:57 PM  
I'm sure that "The View", "Larry King Live", "The Tonight Show" and "The Daily Show" are all frantically trying to book him as a guest at this very moment. Of course, they would have done the same thing if he up and declared himself to be the "real" queen of England.

 
Public Call Box 2009-02-21 12:08:15 PM  
Uchiha_Cycliste: Their GDP is almost as big as California's.

Soooooooo how's your banking system working out for you?

 
Admiral Digby 2009-02-21 12:08:43 PM  
Better choice than Taliban Jack .

( I'd love to see Iggy and Harper actually work together - y'know , for the common good of my country ? )

 
funmonger 2009-02-21 12:25:58 PM  
Admiral Digby: I'd love to see Iggy and Harper actually work together - y'know , for the common good of my country

Fark Layton AND Pedobot Sweatervest.

 
Redscum 2009-02-21 12:30:55 PM  
Psumek: entropic_existence: Psumek: Wait doesn't he need to get elected to Parliament before he can even be a candidate for PM, or do I have really no clue how the Canadian system works?

Not necessarily, in fact the post of Prime Minister isn't even mentioned in our Constitution and, like most Westminster Parliamentary Democracies, much of what we consider "normal" government operation is governed by a lot of conventions, traditions, and unspoken rules.

The way it works right now is that the PM is the leader of the Party that forms the government. So to become PM in any real way he would need to become the head of a political party and his party win the majority of seats in the election.

Technically there are other ways to become PM but they have never (or have only rarely) happened.

Okie doke. So sorta like the US system, but doesn't need to be elected by the masses just his peers. Makes sense.


To get elected as an MP it would just be a single constituency anyway, hardly the masses. They could just be put in a safe seat if they needed to be elected.

 
Santo Ralfo 2009-02-21 12:32:16 PM  
shivashakti: If elected, his first act will be to put guardrails around every swimming pool.

that was in very bad taste
and very funny


\am I the only one who got it?
\\yeah, I'm sick

 
Frank Flopsmack 2009-02-21 12:40:31 PM  
But he's a SHAMAN...
www.rockpapershotgun.com

/linked hotter than Flameshock (Rank 9)

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2009-02-21 12:56:35 PM  
ochobit: William Shatner should be prime minister of the world.

THIS.

Bathia_Mapes: How about Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser?


How many times have any of those assholes saved the planet? Okay Aykroyd once.

 
Super Chronic 2009-02-21 12:59:39 PM  
co-conspirator: Bathia_Mapes: Leslie Nielsen, Michael J Fox, Dan Aykroyd or Jim Carrey for that matter? Or maybe Howie Mandel, Rick Moranis, Tommy Chong or Brendan Fraser

Thanks for the outing. It's so hard to tell Canadians from normal people. They should be forced to wear some sort of identifying mark.


No, no, you can tell by the mouths:

philzine.files.wordpress.com

 
NYZooMan 2009-02-21 01:03:25 PM  
Stupid old joke is old and stupid.

 
Bacontastesgood 2009-02-21 01:08:49 PM  
shivashakti: If elected, his first act will be to put guardrails around every swimming pool.

Why? So it will be easier to recover the corpses of people who drink themselves to death?

 
Bacontastesgood 2009-02-21 01:12:20 PM  
Dang. He's 77. He looks so much better than McCain, who's only 5 years older.

 
braedan 2009-02-21 01:26:28 PM  
So, tell me future boy, who is Prime Minister of Canada in 2010?

William Shatner!

William Shatner? THE ACTOR?
Who's the cabinet minister? Mike Myers?

 
Hollerin Charlie 2009-02-21 01:34:22 PM  
Well, if Ted Kennedy can have a career in the American Senate, why not?
Having the Priceline Negotiator running the show, I will so be vacationing in Canadia. "Shh. Now there's a good girl."
\could totally see the Shat sitting across the table from Obama
\\would be totally like Picard vs. Kirk!

 
Sique 2009-02-21 01:39:42 PM  
Isotope: Sun God: You might as well substitute James Doohan

Now THAT would be interesting. Change Canada's government to the Weekend at Bernie's model....I like it!


hehe!

 
some_beer_drinker 2009-02-21 01:41:52 PM  
TJ hooker? in my government? it's more likely than u think.

 
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