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You Might Be From Saskatchewan If... (Vol 2)
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You Might Be From Saskatchewan If... Volume 2 / Carson Demmans, Jason Sylvestre. 2.5 stars
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I won't bother getting this for my Dad, who was from Sask, then, but hasn't lived there since 1957. It ought to have been at least a 3 or so for someone from a neighbouring province, I would think, to be funnier to someone from it.
I grew up there, so I was definitely disappointed.
LibraryCin wrote: "I grew up there, so I was definitely disappointed."Yes. Anyway, late yesterday evening I called my parents (3 hour time difference) and they told me that they are downsizing their things and to put any money I'd spend on Christmas gifts for them toward my kids, so even if it had been great, I wouldn't have bought it for them.
Curious - where is your dad from in Sask?
Rosthern was were he was born & raised, RJC where he went to high school (his dad had to teach there until he redid his university mostly by correspondence, so moved away after my dad did his first year at U of Sask so he could be paid better at a public high school in Alberta.) His parents were refugees from the old country. My dad didn't learn English until he went to school for grade 1. Everyone in the stores and at church, etc, spoke 18th C German. Even in the 1970s the congregation of his family's church there sang in 4 part harmony--a musical group of people!How about you?
Wow! I don't think we had any family in Rosthern (though I've been through it), but Dad had an aunt or uncle in Hague. I think that's the name of it, and I believe it's near Rosthern. I grew up in Southern Sask in Gravelbourg. Mom and Dad are still there and I try to get home once or twice a year.
I don't know if I've ever heard of that town, but I was once in Swift Current, the summer we drove across the prairies to visit my parents' relatives, see where they grew up, etc. This means if there were signs for it on Hwy 1 at that time, I'd have seen them if I was sitting anywhere except the way back of that station wagon, when I would have been slouching down with my feet out the back window.For all of you who were born after the heyday of the station wagon (before the advent of the minivan), there would sometimes be seats you could put up in the way back (aka back back--whatever people where you lived called the part behind the back seats) that were sideways and probably not very safe even with seatbelts.
My dad grew up in/near Swift Current. Gravelbourg is about 1-1/2 hrs SE of Swift. There is now a sign pointing to G'bourg from the #1, but that was probably only put in sometime in the past 10ish years or so. Maybe 15, but the sign was only put in after I moved away 26 years ago. You would also have to have been further east of Swift to see the sign had it been there at the time.
LibraryCin wrote: "My dad grew up in/near Swift Current. Gravelbourg is about 1-1/2 hrs SE of Swift. There is now a sign pointing to G'bourg from the #1, but that was probably only put in sometime in the past 10ish y..."Right, and we would have taken 2 different routes--one on the way to Manitoba (where my mother grew up) and a different one on the way back. I have NO idea which way we went each time as it was long ago and far away. This was the year the FIRST Stepford Wives movie came out, so possibly before you were born. My youngest brother turned 3 a couple of months after we got home from this six week excercise in torturing a rebellious 15 year old who would have been happy and stayed out of trouble if she'd been left at her cousins' house in Calgary (just saying, although I wouldn't have seen so many places). I wasn't super rebellious, just against my dad and certain school teachers (so I wasn't a golden child, either).
Oh! I'm not sure when the first movie came out, but I do suspect that may have been before I was born! Just looked it up: I would have been 2 or 3, depending on what month (more likely 2)! Sounds like I might be your youngest brother's age!
LibraryCin wrote: "Oh! I'm not sure when the first movie came out, but I do suspect that may have been before I was born! Just looked it up: I would have been 2 or 3, depending on what month (more likely 2)! Sounds l..."Yes, or his wife's. He turned 3 about 2 months after we got home. He used to imitate the Fonz with the thumbs up, and, as the baby of the family, was very cute (well, now he's a screen actor, but when he was a kid he wanted to be the next Wayne Gretzky).
This is a book of comics that probably should have been funny for someone who grew up in Saskatchewan, but I didn’t laugh. A few of them made me smile, but that was about it. It was ok, but not as good as I had hoped.