1 I'm sorry, I'd have more to say, but I keep locking up from cognitive dissonance every time I put the words "Canada" and "culture" together in the same sentence. I've made it to "export" twice, but suffered 501 errors both times.

2 If we can't make fun of short people, fat people, and Canadians, then what good are they?

3 Well, I am an American living and working in Canada for the past 8 years -- close enough? And I'm pretty hefty around the middle, too, if that helps.

I was not aware of the Canadian angle to Harlequin romances. My mom went through those things by the dozen every month. After she passed away, we packed her collection up to give to one of her friends who also loved the things. We filled a good-sized rental truck completely, and still had a few hundred left over. Literally thousands upon thousands of the things. No idea how she could stand to read them.