— Musings —12.17.2010 02:04 PM
Just now at the Monarch Tavern
So there we were at Charlie and Tenio’s annual Gentlemen’s Lunch, having a festive time, and all of a sudden – what to our astonished eyes should appear, etc. – a nasty political scrap over by the bar!
I am reliably informed the fellow from Northern Ontario was not victorious.
photo © WK
Come on! That is an awesome photo! Well done sir.
It is also very cool the Chretien is at The Monarch. Looks like a good way to spend a Friday afternoon.
This photo is awesome on so many levels!
They are thousands of progressives looking at that picture who are wishing he’d just done that 15 years earlier! LOL
Priceless. If it were auctioned on a day when I had money to spend, I’d spend it.
Makes a great Christmas Card
Geeeze, the one Friday I don’t get a veal sangwiche & eat it up the street at the Monarch this happens!
Dang!
LOL Brilliant!
JC is exercising a lot more self-control than I ever could.
Wow man JC has one hell of a grip! Hope he squeezed really really hard. The old sleeper hold never fails.
Just two ordinary guys doing what ordinary guys do…..most ordinary folks can relate and feel pretty good about that photo.
That’s why both these guys were so successful…..and why Mr. Ignatieff is…well….not!
You are half right.
Ah, the Shawinigan handshake!
Ah… vintage Chretien. Makes me grin from ear to ear.
he has $90 million in his pocket too?
wHAT A SPOT. i WISH i HAD A PENNY FOR EVERY VEAL SANDWICH AND BEER i HAD AT THE mONARCHMAny years ago. Would have loved attend. Is the veal place still next door. Eleanor CaplaNS SON HAD HIS FIRST RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE ON THE 2ND FLOOR AT THE MONARCH. WOW COULD THOSE WALLS TELL A FEW STORIES
just showed this to my husband and his comment was “Ah, the good old days.” Then followed with a suggestion to you Warren to go for a matched set and see if you can get Harper and McGuinty to complete your collection.
Ah, yes.
“The Shawinigan Handshake”, there can only be One.
Yeah, nothing screams funny like assaulting an antipoverty protester *GROAN*. I’ll remember this the next time Liberals claim to be compassionate, thanks for posting this.
I guess your memory will not include Harris enjoying the joke.
There is NOTHING better than putting paid to self-important dweebs.
I looked at this a second time. It looks like JC is popping a zit 🙂
There is a regrettable lack of the Shawinigan Handshake on Parliament Hill these days.
Agreed. The “Calgary Stampede” is more of a lifestyle choice than a devastating finishing move, and the “Harvard Shuffle” just makes me miss Chretien all the more.
Now, had a Conservative PM committed assault and battery on a citizen in a public place, followed up by a gang tackle from the PM’s security detail; I doubt you lefties would be giggling about it.
I am impressed with your debating skills.
Jim: I’m impressed with how much you can really miss the point. When you pick your knuckles off the ground and start to breathe with your mouth closed, come join civilization, and reality.
There is no Shawinigan in Steve’s handshake. His wife, OTOH, can do the Shawinigan with her little finger.
Too Funny!
I’m sure there’s a bunch of folks in Walkerton, along with the families and friends Dudley George and Kimberley Rogers, who would be rolling on the floor laughing if they could see this.
Or maybe not.
Thanks Iris, I appreciate your comment. I know it’s just guys rough-housing but, can’t help but remember some of the people who suffered under Mr.Harris.
Too bad the Ontario Liberals and the Federal Liberals can’t get along so well. So far, the Premier has dumped one cabinet minister because he has been recruited by Iggy to run federally. The Toronto Star is reporting that Iggy is trying to recruit at least half a dozen Ontario Liberal MPP’s including 5 cabinet ministers. The Premier is not amused.
Fools be those 5.
music to the PC ears I’m sure. The LPOC in-fighting in public virus might just morph to the Ontario Liberals. I’m wondering though from the Liberals, does this make Ignatieff’s team brilliant recruiters or doe it make McGuinty look weaker?
Did he choke the 407 back from Harris?
FEAR the Shawinigan Grip of Death! 😀
This ranks up there with “pepper steak”. I never voted for him, never will vote for his successors, but I smiled when he treated that sanctimonious little ass the way he deserved.
Not sure why JC would want to ham it up with a two-bit thug.
Is it the irresistible lure of the golf courses next summer?
I hear Osprey Links is pretty cool… if you’re not a fish in Lake Nipissing.
Iris:
Like it or not, that “two bit thug” was elected by Ontarians (some of whom you probably know) to two majority governments. Mike Harris’s egregious policies and his government’s record made me a liberal and had a profound influence on my political outlook. Harris is only infamous because loads of Ontarians plugged in his chainsaw.
@ Lipman. The Ontario voters were fine with the OPP killing Dudley George. The Ontario voters were fine with the poorest of the poor being thrown out of their homes to freeze on the streets as a result of the welfare cuts and the end of rent controls. . Ontario voters started to become alarmed when reasonably well off people started to die because of cuts to basic water and food safety regulations. When Harris finally quit politics to spend more time with his wife and kids, there was dancing in the streets. Just do a quick Google of “Kimberley Rogers” and then tell me what a fine humanitarian this guy was.
Iris, if you read the posts you will see that the “guys”are largely focussed on the political jokester aspect of the photo with no interest or thought to what actually happened when Mr. Harris was in power. People still don’t get what happened. If you were older, had suffered an illness, say cancer, exhausted your savings,lost your job, you had to practically strip yourself of any asset you might have had, including paid up funeral costs. Even this was considered a “cashable asset” and had to be liquidated if you expected to get any money through the welfare system. My husband could barely make himself ask prospective welfare clients about the funeral expenses never mind the other humiliations visited on them. To this day I remember Kimberly Rogers…what woman could not?
Thank you for your comments.