947...We're Number Ten!!!

More importantly, we are ahead of the Americans who finish fifth from the bottom.

The category is an important one and yet another reason to carry a Tim Horton's coffee mug, a Canadian flag and a hockey stick when travelling outside of The Great White North.

We finished number 10 on the www.OnePoll.com list of best male lovers in the world.

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Number one was Spain btw; the Germans finished last in the survey of 15,000 women, a scientific survey I may add, using slide rules, calulators and pie charts. Apparently what did the Germans in was that they are too smelly. England was second worst, too lazy and the Swedes third worst, too fast.

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327...Better Sex Makes Better Workers

I was flipping through The Local, a Swedish rag that I am wont to read and I noticed the headline

Better Sex Makes Better Workers

Well, that piqued my interest. Ann-Christine Andersson Arneten is a Phd candidate at the University of Gothenburg and says that “Either you come home to something that gives you a possibility to rewind and recover, or you have a relationship that makes you more troubled,”

Some of the results of the five-year study involving about 900 men and women were obvious. Men like to get something something a lot a lot, quanity over quality whereas women like quality over quantity. If the getting is good, the working is too.

Also obvious was the fact that women thrived at work when they were in great relationships; did not thrive when in bad relationships. Men were different. The highest stress level for men was when they were in in-between, in the middle, type relationships. When a relationship was good, no stress and when a relationship sucked, same thing, stress free. It was the effort involved in the in-between deals that stressed out the boys.

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250...Go Away Bob Rae

Sri Lanka said "hi" and "bye" to Bob Rae in the same breath yesterday.

Reuters reports that the Sri Lankan government felt the Liberal Party's foreign-affairs critic was pro Tamil Tigers, the separatist movement in the country. Mr. Rae said Sri Lanka's government had reached "ill-conceived and defamatory conclusions about me," and said his record showed he had spoken out against the Tigers during his prior involvement in the peace process.

Mr. Rae said he was stopped on Tuesday night when he reached the immigration counter in the company of two Canadian High Commission officials. "The government of Sri Lanka knew my views, and granted me a visa," Mr. Rae said in an e-mailed statement. "I have flown a very long way only to be told the door is firmly shut."

Being rejected by the Sri Lankan's puts Mr. Rae in good company. Recently it rejected Britain's attempt to send a special envoy to the conflict and refused to grant Sweden's foreign minister entry in the closing stages of the war.

Could have been worse; they could have let Mr. Rae in and then thrown him in jail, eh?

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