Robin Williams To Sing "Blame Canada" @ Oscars

mwillis was the first of those who deluged us with this story: Robin Williams is set to sing the South Park song "Blame Canada" at the Oscars. There's been some...discussion as to who would actually sing the song (I just can't understand why Anne Murray ^[?] refused *grin) but it appears Williams will be the man of the hour. I might even watch this time.

Comments

Censorship

[Rupert]

Will Cyber Patrol be blocking oscars.org?

Comments from a Canadian..

[citizenc]

OK, to set the record straight, I, myself am Canadian. I was born here. Raised here. And live here. Now, I read posts and news stories about people thinking that the song "Blame Canada", and the South Park Movie in general offended us Canadians somehow. Let me tell you, that isn't true, at least from what I've seen.

Sure, the film itself revolves around Canada attacking the US in stupid ways, (be afraid of our hockey sticks, dammit!) and I was laughing the whole way through it. My father, who watched it with me, and who HATES the series, was laughing just as much as I was.

Now, it's true that some Canadians (mostly the up-tight ones) will find offense to the song. But if they don't like it, they can just change the channel. However, I know that -I- will be front and center, singing along, and througly embaressing myself in front of all my friends! =)

(But only if I'm drunk ;)
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The yahoos at Yahoo did it again... :)

[cmat]

If you skim to the end of the third paragraph, you'll see the phrase "...Canada-bashing...". What I want to know is:

What the heck sort of Canada bashing is done in that entire film? Sure Canadians were depicted as looking REAL odd... *hehe, do I really look like THAT?* but in general the only people that were poked fun at the whole time were americans... Looks like the writers at Yahoo need to open up...

Chris

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Re:The yahoos at Yahoo did it again... :)

[Dredd13]

I feel the need to point out, once again, that Yahoo doesn't WRITE the content on its news site, it comes in off "the wire" from news agencies around the world.

Re:blame Hemos

[Zak3056]

Okay, I cant resist this one.... moderators, note, this is HUMOR, not flamebait! :)

"Blame Hemos"

Times have changed, Slashdot is getting worse!
It's full of trolls, not articles, where's the 'News for Nerds?'
Should we all blame Taco? or blame that guy Jamie?
Or should we blame a chick named Natalie?
No! Blame Hemos! Blame Hemos!
With those creepy book reviews, and the bitch named JonKatz too!
Blame Hemos! Blame Hemos!
We need form a full assault, it's Hemos' fault!

Was this story really necessary? :-)

[Skald]

You know, I'm not one to be all uptight about what stories "belong here" and all that stuff... but don't you sort of wonder how many "Blame Canada" stories we need?

Just a thought. :-)