Ont. Education Min. calls 'strike' 5-letter word; gets compared to Quayle

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Fri Feb-04-05 03:34 PM
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Ont. Education Min. calls 'strike' 5-letter word; gets compared to Quayle

Edited on Fri Feb-04-05 03:36 PM by ih8thegop

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=5&u=/nm/20050204/od_nm/life_canada_spelling_dc

TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario Education Minister Gerard Kennedy got low marks for spelling and math this week when discussing the possibility of a strike by the Canadian province's teachers.

"I think strike is a bit of a five-letter word in education and that gets people nervous," Kennedy said on Wednesday, according to media reports.

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Critics were quick to call the gaffe a "Dan Quayle moment," in reference to the former U.S. vice-president, who famously made a schoolboy add an unnecessary "e" to the end of the boy's correctly spelled "potato."

"But then again, at least no one put Dan Quayle in charge of educating over a million schoolchildren," said legislator John Baird, of the opposition Conservative Party.

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Fri Feb-04-05 03:36 PM
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1. and on Dan's birthday noe less

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2572192

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Fri Feb-04-05 08:53 PM
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2. HAPPIE BRTHDAI DANN!

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Telly Savalas

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Fri Feb-04-05 11:17 PM
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3. That guy is my MPP and he's alright.

I'm not a big fan of the Liberal Party in general, but Gerard Kennedy is a strong representative of its left wing and is a stand-up guy. He's a lot better than 95% of the douchebags holding elected office in the U.S., so I wouldn't be so quick to pick on him. Everybody makes a little verbal fuckup now and then.

That sanctimonious rightwing prick John Baird, whom the article quotes, as a resident of a glass house shouldn't be so quick to throw stones. He seems to enjoy expensive meals paid for by the taxpayers. Tsk. Tsk.

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