Mounties to Marry
Frank and Kenneth sat at their computers, variously intent on reading the online news that caught their attention.
"Oh, isn't this romantic!" Kenneth said.
Frank responded with "hmm?"
"It seems* that two boy Mounties have fallen in love and intend to get married this summer."
"That's sweet. I suppose the news report is filled with bad puns and doubles entendres?
"Inevitably. Asking a journalist to avoid a pun is like asking the wind not to make waves."
"Let's see — they're more like calvary than cowboys, but I suppose…."
"Exactly! The news story says:"
"We've heard the bad puns, like 'Brokeback Mounties' and all that. Actually, I think it's quite funny," said [Const. David] Connors[, the man affianced to Const. Jason Tree]. An RCMP spokesman said the marriage shows the law enforcement agency is open to all of Canadian society.
Even in the small Nova Scotia fishing town where the officers live, residents couldn't care less about the marriage.
"There's nothing wrong with that. If they can't find a woman, they go for the men," one resident joked.
Another just said: "It doesn't matter."
"Well," Frank responded, "I guess we'll know we've arrived and it really doesn't matter when it's no longer a headline story. Until then, I suppose stories of weddings and saying it doesn't matter are the next best think."
"And in this picture of them riding in their car with their uniforms on they look so cute. I wonder if it's a panda car. We'll have to ask Chris."
"What a shame that they didn't pose on a horse riding off into the sunset."
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*"Two gay RCMP officers plan to marry this summer", CTV.ca, 21 May 2006.
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on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 at 16.07
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That "if they can't find a woman" is presumptuous. Still, isn't it something that the people of a small Nova Scotia fishing village exhibit a fine willingness to be accepting, at least to live and let live? A person might expect they'd be provincial, yet they're cosmopolitan in an unpretentious way. Bless them.
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on Tuesday, 23 May 2006 at 16.20
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Presumptuous maybe, but presented more in the article as a friendly gibe, which I'm willing to believe. It can be a sensitive thing trying to tell the difference, but presuming it was a friendly gesture, it says something about how far their neighbors have come in comfort and acceptance that they venture such a joke.
Overall, the tone of the comments and the way that the journalist chose to present the story are both delightfully positive.
Yes on the e-mail; more via the same channel.
on Wednesday, 24 May 2006 at 19.40
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And in this picture of them riding in their car with their uniforms on they look so cute. I wonder if it's a panda car. We'll have to ask Chris."
who are frank and kenneth that they're asking me these things?
not that I would know anything about panda cars, of course. perish the thought.
but police vehicles in Nova Scotia are prolly called "cop cars" or "police cars". "Panda cars" is a UK locution (from days when they were black and white I suspect).
the headline to the mountie story when I saw it first was "They Always Get Their Man"
— chris/trawnapanda
on Wednesday, 24 May 2006 at 23.15
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Well, of course it was. "They always get their man" would be my guess for most popular headline for this story — each editor no doubt thinking it terribly witty and original.
Frank and Kenneth are friends of yours; Friends of Dorothy, too. Occasionally they discuss issues of the day. They have a category of their own listed at the right if you can find it. Someday I need to alphebetize that list, I guess.
on Monday, 29 May 2006 at 19.34
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Social Neanderthalism
Herewith a lovely new phrase — so useful in these days of thoughtless social conservatism — brought to my attention by Pam.* The story itself was interesting enough, about how the conservative Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has told his par…
on Monday, 29 May 2006 at 23.41
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In Canada we tend to think of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver as the centres of gay life and progress. It's interesting, then, that it is in rural Nova Scotia that, in 2005, the first same-sex marriage in the Canadian military took place (at CFB Greenwood), and now in 2006, the first gay marriage in the RCMP. We've obviously progressed a long way beyond "don't ask, don't tell."
on Tuesday, 25 July 2006 at 23.35
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