"If I had 70 cents for everytime I heard that... I'd be in Canada."*
UPDATE: The plural of ski is spelled skis. that is not as fun to type as skiis. plus, the "ii" look like ski[i]s. like it or leave it people.
i got the best bloomberg today**. this french canadian dude (homme) was saying that some trade was awesome (magnifique); so good, in fact, it was the "greatest thing since... carving skiis." now. i'm no awesome-ologist, but i can think of a couple of things that are better than carving skiis. i understand sliced bread's not all that special either, but even that's better than carving skiis. mainly because i don't know what carving skiis are. although, i guess it'd be pretty cool if you could actually carve with carving skiis. now that i'm really thinking about it, maybe the phrase for the best thing EVER in recent history should just be "this is the greatest [fill in the blank] since bread sliced by carving skiis."
ahhh. now i just need to sit back and watch this filter into Canuck-US vernacular. take that william saffire, eh?
*seeing how I work in FX/finance, i feel compelled to be slightly more rigorous and point out that the recent rally in the loonie has effectively changed this statment to "if i had 81.67 cents for everytime i heard that..." but a) 80 cents on the dollar is getting closer and closer to just being a dollar, and there's no way someone would give you a nickel for every time you heard that (whatever "that" may be), so there's just no way they'd give you eighty-fucking-cents, my friend. get over yourself. jeez. you're not right that often, so stop rubbing it in. and, b) who wants to think about a world where a currency refered to as The Loonie is at parity with the "Strong is the New Weak" US Dollar?
**the best bloomberg since....well, since bloomberg became the first mayor whose name is also a verb.
