Got to love the Halifax Chronicle Herald's editorial cartoon today. Raylene Rankin, Stompin' Tom and Jay Smith (guitarist for Matt Mays). It's been a difficult few weeks for East Coast music.
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I did neither. It was an honest question. Did it come across as a complaint? Why not just answer it, or are we feeling a little defensive tonight?
Just that there seems to be a growing sense that we see every post the moment it is posted. We want people to help us out - if they find something offensive please report it. Be a part of helping moderate this site.
She earned the politically correct public tributes but privately in our addled minds . . . . . we're all wonderng how big the coffin has to be and glad we're not pallbearers.
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While Cowperson and Silver took some flack for poking fun at Rita's weight, they weren't the only ones.
In a hand written letter from Rita herself:
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Originally Posted by Rita MacNeil
Upon my death, I would want to be cremated immediately, my ashes to be placed in my tea room teapot. Two, if necessary.
She had a good sense of humor about her weight (as a person with a weight problem myself I understand having good humor about it; mind you I do think it's easier to be abnormally underweight than overweight).
A friend of mine posted a story to Facebook that after Rita sang the national anthem during the Jays/Phillies World Series a Philadelphia sports writer wrote that they should have brought her out on a forklift. Rita's response was "if I'm ever asked to sing the national anthem at a Blue Jays game again, I want to be brought out on a forklift, just because".
So I guess my point is, you can forgive the weight jokes, if they're funny Rita would have appreciated them.
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She had a good sense of humor about her weight (as a person with a weight problem myself I understand having good humor about it; mind you I do think it's easier to be abnormally underweight than overweight).
A friend of mine posted a story to Facebook that after Rita sang the national anthem during the Jays/Phillies World Series a Philadelphia sports writer wrote that they should have brought her out on a forklift. Rita's response was "if I'm ever asked to sing the national anthem at a Blue Jays game again, I want to be brought out on a forklift, just because".
So I guess my point is, you can forgive the weight jokes, if they're funny Rita would have appreciated them.
I heard that teapot story on the news last night and I had a good chuckle.
It's a rare Maritimer that hasn't got a good sense of humour, so I'm not surprised Rita could make a joke about herself.
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She had a good sense of humor about her weight (as a person with a weight problem myself I understand having good humor about it; mind you I do think it's easier to be abnormally underweight than overweight).
A friend of mine posted a story to Facebook that after Rita sang the national anthem during the Jays/Phillies World Series a Philadelphia sports writer wrote that they should have brought her out on a forklift. Rita's response was "if I'm ever asked to sing the national anthem at a Blue Jays game again, I want to be brought out on a forklift, just because".
So I guess my point is, you can forgive the weight jokes, if they're funny Rita would have appreciated them.
I appreciate that you posted this. I had thought it was common knowledge she had fun with her weight. I didn't want to fly in here and start a debate defending my joke right away because that would have derailed the thread and I was caught off guard at the offense taken to the remark. Now that a little time has passed - and because you posted this - I thought I'd better come back in and just let everybody know that my comment wasn't meant to be as malicious as it was interpreted.
I love when a Canadian makes a name for him/herself on the international stage or otherwise makes it big - especially when they become stars in the Excited States. Yes, that even includes Justin Bieber. Lots have made it big as actors. R.I.P., Rita, you were a great Canadian who was taken too soon.
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