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Flin Flonners are used to taking some ribbing over their town's unusual name, and now a popular Internet site has gotten into the act. The Canada Page (www.thecanadapage.org) uses our community's unusual moniker as the punchline in one of the items on a David Letterman-style top ten list. Pay attention to the fourth item on this list of "Secrets the Canadian Government Doesn't Want You to Know ." 1. There's an 11th province named "Gertie." 2. Cabinet ministers get unlimited use of the Mountie Musical Ride to impress the cool people who ditched them in high school. 3. Every Thursday in the Senate is Free Buffalo Wings Day. 4. There's actually no such place as "Flin Flon." 5. Pamela Wallin and Dini Petty are actually secret agents whose mission is to keep us distracted with entertaining programming. 6. Government research confirms that you don't always have time for Tim Horton's, after all. 7. They kinda made that whole metric thing up for a laugh. 8. Baby seals taste a lot like chicken Ñ and with only half the fat! 9. What, you actually bought that "atmospheric distortion" story for the northern lights? Sucker. 10. Locked in the Parliament bell tower since 1993: the real Preston Manning! The Canada Page is a comical Web site that has received national attention for its witty observations on Canada and its culture.
