So I watched Little Mosque on the Prarie, and it turned out to be not so bad. It wasn't as politically correct as I feared it might be. There are both redneck whites and moronic Muslims. That surprised me.
The jokes are typically sit-com, but I've heard worse. I liked this one: "My parents never fasted during Ramadan...and they're huge." or "I don't think the Prophet had a telescope from CostCo." or "Let's log on to moonsighting.com and let the starving begin." Okay, these are out of context, but they were okay.
I don't think these are offensive, but let's not forget the Mohammed cartoons.
It got great ratings, better than Corner Gas. Oh, it's battle of the Canadian sitcoms.
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The muslim sitcom has had a little bit of coverage, but no sign of it being on anywhere here yet. They'll be waiting for the reaction.
I watched Corner Gas tonight and liked it - we're on the first series I think, made in 2003.
I know you will think I'm crazy, but the Yasir character is so cute and sexy!...That alone will have me watching next week...apart from the fact that I actually laughed at times. However, I do think Corner Gas is a much funnier and better written show...Of course, Little Mosque needed to set up the situation with its pilot episode. Now that it has, I am certain hilarity will ensue.
JAW fan
Yasir? He's the older guy, right? Not the young imam. Of course. He has a Hamid Karzai thing going on, without the flowing cape.
(I say "older guy". That actor is probably younger than me! ha!)
Yes...cause as you know, older = sexier.
Hope this theory still does not apply when I am 70.
JAW fan
Think positive. The 90-year-olds you will be chasing cannot run very fast.
older = sexier
(bless you, JAW fan)
Just for the record...older only equals sexier if the older person in question grooms. Translation: hair in your ears, hanging out of your nose, and big bushy eyebrows are not turn-ons...nor are socks pulled up to your knees.
JAW fan
Now I'm lost. About the socks. You mean, socks dragging around your ankles are okay? Clearly, I don't know sexy.
Obviously, I wasn't clear...what I am trying to say is that if you are wearing shorts, socks should not be hiked up your leg (and certainly not hiked up to your knee)
Large droopy cotton socks with shorts are OK, nylon or rayon socks with shorts are a no-no. Personally, I prefer that no socks be worn when one is wearing shorts.
And as for sandles, that is another story altogether...unless you have beautiful feet (which most people don't), sandles should be outlawed in public (on the beach and in your backyard is fine...unless you are wearing socks with them, in which case you should be whacked on the head!)
JAW fan (and fashion expert)
speaking of beautiful feet--
I once had a student from vietnam w/the most beautiful feet I have ever seen everytime I had to hand back a paper or correct grammar or (joy!) teach a lesson on footwear in canada, I'd check out those feet...
I'm with JAW on this one. I hate feet. All feet. And I don't want to see them.
In Children of Men, Clive has to wear flip-flops because he can't find any shoes that fit, and there's a long close-up of his feet. They looked too well-pedicured to be the feet of someone living in a post-apocalyptic society, so I assume they used a foot-double, but even if they were really CLIVE's actual feet, I still didn't want to have to look at them.
As far as shorts as concerned, there should be an age at which people should be forced to stop wearing them in public, but I'm not sure what that age should be. I'll work on this. I'm not being age-ist here, but wrinkly old legs never look good. Neither do wrinkly young legs, but they are far fewer of those.
clive's feet...
Stop that now!
you started it
I bet John Locke has beautiful feet...
JAW fan
gasp! what a thought...
JAW fan, you are a devil
Was that a good gasp or a bad gasp?
JAW fan
jl gives good gasp
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