FW: Making the rounds in Canada (fwd)

Every so often I get Judaica humor sent to me, in a header full of
Children of Abraham; I'm always flattered.

My co-worker Nick is from Montreal.  Similar thing, here:


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	NV [FZGC:rail@zrqvnbar.arg]
> Sent:	Saturday, September 04, 1999 1:27 AM
> To:	wrsserl_lnhf@zy.pbz; Dina D'Avirro; Thomas Esch; Lisa Ruthig; Hannah
> K. White; Kehl, Katrin
> Subject:	Fw: Making the rounds in Canada
> 
> > Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six
> > days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh 
> > day. He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"
> >
> > God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards
> > through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made."
> >
> > Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"
> >
> > "It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put LIFE on it. I'm going to
> > call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
> >
> > "Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
> >
> > God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth, "For example,
> > Northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while
> > Southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be
> > a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over
> > there is a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to 
> > different countries.  This one will be extremely hot and arid while this 
> > one will be very cold and covered in ice."
> >
> > The Archangel, impressed by Gods work, then pointed to a large land mass
> > in the top corner and asked, "What's that one?"
> >
> > "Ah," said God.  "That's Canada, the most glorious place on Earth.
> > There's beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers, streams and an exquisite
> > coast-line. The people from Canada are going to be modest, intelligent
> > and humorous and they're going to be found traveling the world.  They'll
> > be extremely sociable, hard-working and high-achieving, and they will be
> > known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace.  I'm also 
> > going to give them super-human, undefeatable ice hockey players who will
> > be admired and feared by all who come across them."
> >
> > Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed. "What about
> > balance, God. You said there will be BALANCE!"
> >
> > God replied wisely. "Wait until you see the loud-mouth bastards I'm
> > putting next to them."
> >
> > 
> > (CANADA:  132 years in the same location!  Open to serve you 24 hours
> > per day, 7 days per week.  Now with 3 Territories!|)