Banada - In this we worship the ban

Banada: A period in Canadian history where everything is banned. This is a dark period where moderate bans which contribute to progress are taken over by zealots banning everything from oxygen to rollerblading. Blame Canada turns into Ban Canada. Canada is eventually banished.

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A vignette -

I had barely gotten over my Just Desserts fiasco, when I got a call from a source who informed me of a protest taking place at The Square. The Square was where all the demos usually took place. The first time I had heard about demos in The Square, my friend invited me to a flower demo, I thought she meant they would be demonstrating their flower arranging skills, but rather they were protesting flowers. I could never smell a rose the same way after that demo.

The Square was packed. All wearing thongs. Men and women. A woman with a bullhorn chanted "Keep your thongs off our bodies". What are they protesting this time? I asked my source. Cheap labor was her reply. A lone woman in the corner carried a sign that read: Road side thongs, not road side bombs", "Diana sees every demo as an opportunity for a peace rally" was my source's reply when she saw I looked confused.

I felt like rushing to a pun. "We're not surrounded by throngs of demonstrators, we're surrounded by thongs of demonstrators," I couldn't help myself. This is what 6 years of watching Smutty Girls had done to me. My source defying stereotype, quipped "Punny, very punny, get it?" I did. Suddenly I felt threatened. My source could pun. The pun is mightier than the sword. But why feel threatened, we were on the same side, weren't we?

Suddenly, I heard a voice. "Aren't you the writer who wrote about sarongs made in Thailand for Girly spot magazine ? "Again, how did a stranger know this about me?"
"It was a good project" I shot back in a futile manner.
"Have you even been to Thailand?" He asked.
"No." The truth was I didn't even know where Thailand was and I had never even met the woman for whom I wrote the story but I had to defend myself or it was quickly going to turn into sarongs of demonstrators.


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