Wild moonlight fills the whole courtyard;
Drop by drop falls the crystal dew.
One by one the moving stars appear.
The fleeting glowworms sparkle in dark corners.
The waterfowl on the riverbank call to one another...
-- Tu Fu (713-770), "Summer Night"
How many
Canadians
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Twelve. Four to form a Parliamentary study committee to
decide how to solve the problem, one Francophone to complain
that I didn't translate this joke into French, one Native
Canadian to protest that the interests of Native Canadians
have been overlooked, one woman from the National Action
Committee On the Status Of Women to say that women have been
underrepresented in the process, one to go over the border to
the Niagara Falls Factory Outlet Mall and buy a new bulb and
not pay duty on it on the way back, one to actually screw it
in, one to collect taxes on the whole procedure so the
government can afford it, one to buy a case of Molson for
everybody to drink, and one to drop the puck....