I wrote about the OLF at Blogcritics. I figure why not expose them to an international audience. You can read it here.
What I've noticed is that people are past getting angry over the OLF. Now it's plain entertaining. Fun for us and sad for them I suppose.
One comment elicited this response from Adam Enright. It was so funny I posted it here as well:
The Emergency Meeting of the L'Office Québécois de la Langue Française
At the last emergency meeting of L'Office Québécois de la Langue Française to discuss the latest threat to their culture, all the members were fired up to get there early.
After arriving in the morning in their Japanese cars, they shared a breakfast of Belgian waffles, Spanish omelettes, Mexican cornbread and good old Tim Horton's coffee. While eating, someone admired Présidente-Directrice Générale Madame France Boucher's outfit, including new Italian shoes and her nice new Hong Kong-made purse, and everyone laughed when she said she bought the purse at Walmart. . . and admitted she got her skirt while on vacation in Florida!
They chatted about Amy Winehouse's performance at the Grammys and Monsieur Guy Dumas mentioned that last night he went to see the new "Rambo" move, version française of course, at the American-owned AMC Theatre downtown . . . after eating at Boston Pizza. He said had not slept well because his teenager kept playing her Jay-Z and Kanye West CD's in her bedroom too loud.
With breakfast done they moved to their new boardroom decked out in Ikea furniture and a Honduras Mahogany boardroom table to start their emergency meeting. Madame Marie Gendron fired up the Sony projector and her Toshiba Laptop to present a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation on how a handful of English signs at McKibbin's Irish Pub were destroying the French culture.
That's brilliant.
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