Leaving behind a thank-you note
Posted: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:56 AM by Daily Nightly Editor
Filed Under: Brian Williams



Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor


After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.


Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.

For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.

Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.



sauce: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/a...26/2213393.aspx
The comments Americans posted are just as touching <3

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I want some of those canada gloves, they are so damn cute!!

nice post, Abercrombie.

Yeah, the Canadian Brian Williams was superb, so much more 'real' than Ron McLean.

Still can't get over how bad that Gil Lebreton article and apology was

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Originally posted by yankeeBaby I want some of those canada gloves, they are so damn cute!!

i feel so dumb for missing my chance to buy them. i should have bought like a million of them. they sold out in a week. i would have made a ton of money reselling them or even giving them as gifts to people from out of the country.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess i feel so dumb for missing my chance to buy them. i should have bought like a million of them. they sold out in a week. i would have made a ton of money reselling them or even giving them as gifts to people from out of the country.

I wonder how much they go for... I have 2 brand new in adult small/medium...

I couldn't count how many times I saw a full bin of them here.

The 2010 jackets just like mine are now bidding on ebay for $600 and up, crazy shit. 'Even got harrassed about mine in Montreal and Ottawa

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Originally posted by Ravemontreal Once I took a piss in front of everybody at Stereo. Put the garbage under the mixer, and did it right there while people were dancing and screaming. people thought I was playing with the mixer but I was playing with my zizi.

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Originally posted by Enjoy a classic from the aria days: me: are you on TA? girl: uhhhh... im on speed

Image courtesy of the City of Toronto.

During the climactic men's hockey game at the end of this winter's Olympics, Toronto was united by a lot more than enthusiasm for sports. As this graph of the city's water usage during the game clearly shows, Torontonians were also remarkably synchronized that night in the timing of their trips to the washroom, with massive spikes in water consumption to coincide with each intermission in play and a huge dip in usage following Sidney Crosby's winning goal. This was almost certainly due to toilets, citywide, flushing, and not flushing, in unison. Bladders were straining together all over Toronto. It brings a tear to the eye.

Similar graphs showing water usage in Edmonton and Winnipeg have already made the news―but this graph, from Toronto Water, our city's water-supply agency, is the first evidence we've seen of game-time washroom synchronicity specifically in Toronto.

We imagine a graph of beer consumption during the game would show pretty much the inverse, if what happened afterward is anything to go by.

http://torontoist.com/2010/03/durin...ak_the_seal.php

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so the sledge hockey team lost to Japan today....no gold medal for Canada....hopefully bronze.

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