Haydain Neale, 1970–2009
Transit City and Transit Cities
Peeve Patrol
Newsstand: November 23, 2009
The Making of a Medley
Overheard on the 211 bus, Montreal, highway 20, direction Ouest.
Sandy-haired teen: At the last Just For Laughs, this comic told this joke. He said:
"I travel in America and people ask me, 'what's the story with Toronto and Montreal?' So I tell them, it's like you have two brothers. One is an accountant. The other is a womanizing alcoholic."
And before he gets to the end of the sentence, the crowd starts cheering, so he tells them "Well I guess we know which one you are."
He swears he tells the same joke the same way and gets exactly the same reaction in Toronto.
Red-hoodied teen: Why? People in Toronto think they're the womanizing alcoholic too?
Sandy-haired teen: No. Toronto knows it's the accountant. And it's really proud it's not the womanizing alcoholic.
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ahhahaahahahahahaha!!!!!!
too true!
ex-montrealer
Why are they both male?
Because it would be weird if your brothers were women.
Not *wrong*, necessarily.
But probably distracting.
Interesting. An anecdote in uTOpia also paints Toronto as male to Paris' female.
sadly, the accountant's kids seem to have picked up on the habit of going downtown on friday night, binge-drinking in the entertainment district, hitting on women inappropriately from their honda civics, blaring really loud bad music, and snorting lines in bathrooms at after parties.
the womanizing alcoholic has seen some better days, but it's in a program now and looks a lot better.