“he (Ed: he being Binns) announced once that a vacancy in senior management should be filled by an “Islander” - a shadowy faction within the population whose activities mirror the Masons to a certain degree.”
I am guessing that Al did not mean to say that Binns thinks that “Islanders” are a shadowy faction within the population whose activities mirror the Masons to a certain degree.”
Strange, as I have never found anything mysterious or secretive about the concept of what makes a person an “Islander.”
26 Aug 2005 at 09:01 am | #
Thank you for illustrating the humourless element so well. Next you will illustrate the chippy element. Keep scanning for violators of your unwritten law.
26 Aug 2005 at 09:30 am | #
Not at al humourless Al, in fact I had a good chuckle when I read your comment. Certainly not chippy either. I did find your comparison to a secret society somewhat strange, as Islanders have never been hesitant to explain to me why I can never be deemed an Islander.
For the record, I have equal contempt for the same attitude I have experienced in other places. The good folks from Ontario sneering at anyone not from Ontario, people born and raised in Vermont who will not trust anyone born elsewhere, the people from the North Country of NYS who have no tolerance from Southerners, the ‘good ol boys’ from S. Florida who exclude any but one of their own, some of the valleys and hollows of NS, and the list goes on an on.
Small communities everywhere (and PEI is nothing more than a small community which has provincial status) exhibit a similar trait. That is is common elsewhere does not make it right. I don’t like it, but I understand it.
26 Aug 2005 at 09:42 am | #
I forgot to put my happy face at the end of the above. Sorry. I will be good. But Vermonters are right.
OK - that is done - but then here is the test which makes it Masonic. Who is an Islander?
1. A resident of any island
2. A resident of PEI
3. A person born on PEI
4. A person born on PEI and accepted by people who are both #2 and #3.
Once you have answere reread Mr. Binn’s release and see if it still makes any sense.
26 Aug 2005 at 10:13 am | #
Al, not much Binns says makes sense - tho he does say it so nicely with his happy smile. I believe number 3 is correct.
As a child of a Vermonter I would pass the test in Vermont - and Vermont is one of the places I seriously consider as where I would like to spend my drooling years.
26 Aug 2005 at 10:23 am | #
...mumbling “cheddar...cheeeeddaaaarrrr...”
So if it is door #3, are you excluded from Binnsie’s concern over the effect of an absence of CBC in PEI society? Frankly, I really think there is only one Islander as the further west you go, the more people to the east are not “real Islanders”. That one guy on Cape North wearing clothes woven solely of irish moss, eating fiddle strings for supper...he’s the real one.
26 Aug 2005 at 10:50 am | #
are you excluded from Binnsie’s concern over the effect of an absence of CBC in PEI society?
Depends entirely on how he thinks I voted (or will vote). ...or rather how Peter MacQuaid thinks.
26 Aug 2005 at 10:55 am | #
That certainly would make the cheddar on the otherside look cheddarier long-term.
01 Sep 2005 at 03:23 am | #
You are right .
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