I wouldn’t normally write this, but after receiving my ninth invitation to an Ellen Page based group on FaceBook today I felt it was time. What is it with Nova Scotians (mostly Haligonians) feeling the need to tell everyone how they know or met Ellen Page? I mean come on people, yes, she’s famous, but you’re taking it more than a little too far. I recently heard someone on Hollis Street blathering on about how they saw E. P. once on Barrington, and acting like they’d known her forever. Then there’s the people using her like a walking tourist brochure, this may just be me, but I wouldn’t want to visit a city just because of one person who lived there. It’s time to grow up Halifax, give the girl some space.
This article appears in Mar 27 – Apr 2, 2008.
I saw her at Trident one time. Pabst Blue Ribbon!
And don’t forget Peter North. Isn’t he from Darmouth?
FYI matt, I think your GGGgrandfather is on tourism Nova Scotia ads in busshelters in Toronto now.
Peter North was from the Spryfield area, not Clayton Park, but if you want to take credit for a guy who got his start in porn by sucking cock and taking it in the ass, go for it. Pabst Blue Ribbon!
yeah, I’m not 100% sure matt, but the ads are portraits of famous nova scotians who “came to life” in nova scotia or something and i think one of the names I noticed was alfred fuller. the best ad they had was the green street sign that said “donairs” and pointed east.
When I was a kid, we had a regular Fuller Brush Man who used to always leave free samples. It was such a simple concept and millions of housewives (back in the 60s) were hooked. That’s a pretty cool relative to have, Matt.
The funniest Ellen Page stories come from the people who seem to know her better as time goes on and as she gets more famous. Two years ago, they thought she was talented, now, they were best friends with her in high school, or they used to babysit her. And Peter North is actually from Kline Heights, or “Spryfield Junior”.
I think Ellen Page is Ginger.(*kidding, in case anybody thinks I mean that)
Ellen Page used to babysit Ginger.Juuuuust kidding.
I’d be all “What did I do at work today? I flamed the SHIT out of Ellen Page, that’s what.”
Hahaha… funny, qwerty!
You got SERVED, Ellen Page.Sorry, last 10 minutes of work… bored out of my freaking skull.
PS I’m a HUGE Ellen Page fan. Well, I’m medium-sized, but my fanhood is huge. I didn’t eat french fries for a whole month after the Oscars as a sign of solidarity. Now I call them Juno fries.
“Spryfield Junior”? I assumed that everything past where Cowie Hill started going up was Spryfield (don’t want to insult anybody in “Armdale”, ha ha) Or do you mean that it was so long ago when he was here that Spryfield was just starting out?
oh yeah, Pabst Blue Ribbon!ps, I’m an Ellen Pager as well (thats what TRUE fans refer to themselves as). I may not have watched Xmen3 to the end, but I still enjoy her performances up to now…Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Kline Heights is before Cowie Hill on the Parade Of Sights tour of Outer Spryberia, up the hill beside Needs.
I think Ellen is doing a great job to bring attention to this region.
FUCK OFF GINGER.She’s an actor. She acts in movies. She’s not some tartan-clad fiddle fuck anne of green gables-type tourist attraction.YOU ARE A LOSER, GINGER.
I love how everyone knows so much about Peter North
Hah, funny..i grew up in the kline heights area. Er, Armdale. And please, let’s not bring spryfield into this. I had no idea Peter North was from the hood..it’s great to see a porn starring cock sucking butt jockey represent!
I think the whole Ellen Page phenomenon is not unusual. We have a history of being proud of our local talent and have a tendency to want to let the rest of the world know where she’s from. I think that’s an inferiority complex on our part as bigger cities like Toronto and Montreal get a lot more attention on the international scene. We have a lot of great talent in this area (not just Halifax either) but unfortunately, it’s hard for a lot of this talent to get noticed and we do get the odd exception (like ellen page). On the other hand, we can get a little crazy with our local fandom (just to name a few like Joel Plaskett and Matt Mays) and I believe it’s more of a symptom of the lack of support from bars and talent agents for real talented musicians and artists. We need another shakedown in the music industry (like the early 90’s) to expand our horizons a little and not just cheer for the guys who get radio time.
Ellen Page is on SNL again tonight, folks. Let’s watch it and recover the memories of the good times we never had with her, when we all went to separate schools together.
I saw EP in Juno and thought she was fantastic. But I agree that treating EP as our key to the world stage is kinda pathetic. She’s a person, a talented one, not a Monorail.I was intensely embarrassed by the Rodney video. Since we were talking about regional inferiority complexes, WHY WHY WHY, if Maritimers feel insecure about how we’re perceived by outsiders, do we continue to go out of our way to perpetuate such a slack-awed yocal image of ourselves to them?? THAT AIN’T HELPING, FOLKS!And Cranky and Poop, what’s wrong with cock sucking and taking it in the ass?? Your mothers and grandmothers love them both!!
Theres nothing wrong with cocksucking or anal sex if you’re gay/bi, quite anoyher sotry if you’re straight and doing it for money, which is what I was getting at. Of course, I should have known better than to mention it without the obligatory “but theres nothing wrong with that” disclaimer.Ellen should have avoided SNL, but it was probably good for a mortgage payment so what the hey.
Cranky, very good point. Now that I understand, I’m with you.Poop, people who use the word “class” don’t have any. And “kike” sort of speaks for itself – sort of a “redneck” word really. Your grandmother is ashamed of you. Very ashamed. Crying in fact.
You leave poop alone you rude classless, judgementely person.
Poop, I swear to fuck I was reading that asshole’s posts yesterday and thought o myself “That guy must do nothing but play warcraft 24/7”. He is so simple and black and white, he really comes across as someone with zero life experience.
I’d love to knock your fucking teeth out buddy.
Now qwerty, I confess that the past couple of days I have been logging onto this site a few times and amusing myself while my partner and the kids are out of town. But as I review the site, it seems that you are by far one of the most frequent posters, going back at least several weeks. Who sits at the computer garnering no life skills 24/7? Hmm?And if you see “black and white” in my posts you must have very poor reading comprehension. I’d say inflexibility is more your thing – you just come out every so often and rip some new poster a new one, and refuse to acknowledge any part of their argument, then continue to fling your little insults at them long after they have moved on.It’s nice and safe to spend your behind that monitor isn’t it? MMmmmmmm, all those yummy young billy goats coming along thinking they can post here and have a little fun. You’ll show them!The world can’t get you if you get them first, right? The pretty girls can’t judge you if they can’t see you, huh? The boys can’t toss you aside if you don’t let them near you in the first place, hmm?
..and like i said, excuse you. Only rednecks resort to pulling the mother/grandmother card. Thanks for coming out though, asshat.”people who use the word “class” don’t have any” -you need to get out of the basement a little more. My grandmother was a very intelligent woman with a lot of class and poise but she would have put a maggot like you in his place. Think whatever you want about me, but calling out my grandmother is just plain spineless.
Poop I’d return the compliment but it’s not very satisfying to punch out the two or three rotten stubs you have left in your weathered old gums. Shame really.
Jam, you’re revealing quite a bit more about yourself than I think you intended to in your closing sentence.Not that I have to justify ANYTHING to you, but yes, I have had alot of free time in the past few weeks – this is an annual occurance for me. Due to a number of reasons, my workload is temporarily light, so I have free time when I’m at work. I like to make the most of it, because it will be over soon.I don’t like you. I think you are well spoken, but ill-informed, yet you try to present yourself as some kind of authority despite the fact that everything you say is sophmoric at best. I like when people have opposing views, it’s interesting, but I don’t like posers and you, little man, are a complete and total poser.
Pioop you silly fuck, I didn’t anything about whether your grandmother had class. I sadi that YOU must not – “class” is one of those words that a well bred person does not use.Can’t anyone around here READ?
Well qwerty this entire discussion has centered around an issues of pure opinion – there is little to be “informed” about on either side of the argument, so I don’t really know what your assessment of my informedness is based on.And I’m not presenting myself as an authority – I am an expert in my own field, just like everyone else is an expert in their, and in other areas I dabble. If my recycling of good ole Dr. Phil wit n wisdom – “take responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming everyone else” – is sophomoric, so be it. I see no indication that you have anything more sophisticated that that to offer. Most of your comments are just name-calling attacks that offer nothing constructive – despite what you’re saying, “opposing points of view” do not appear to be something you enjoy after all. If you did you wouldn’t so frantically try to shut them all down.
Haha..you fucking degenerate prick. taking a break between animal porn and butt picking are we? You know, it must be pretty embarassing, slinging shit with a 28 year old female on a message board. Is this what you do with your weekends when your “partner and the kids” are away? Don’t you have any friends? Sad, buddy..i hope my life never becomes that stagnant. And for the record, i could probably kick your ass.
Poop, are any of your posts actually related to the bitches? You just seem to come here and throw around a lot of crass, racist language and say things like you’re gonna beat people up etc, which is fine – it’s a bitch board – but there is really no other content in your posts, which makes me wonder what is the point?For the record my wife and kids are away for the weekend with a bunch of the girls and other kids, and the husbands are all taking it easy on our weekend off. Where are your friends?
Wow, you’re boring.The thing is, I don’t like you. We can snipe back and forth all day (as you seem WAY too inclined to do), but the fact is – I don’t like you, I don’t like what you say and I think you’re arrogant and deliberately inflammatory, just for the sake of it. I think you’re a short, immature, insecure, guy. Like I said, we can do this all day, but I’m not going to because it’s boring. There are people here – whether they agree with me is immaterial – who are much, much more interesting than you, people who, despite my fundamental opposition to everything they say, I enjoy talking to, even arguing with. So go ahead and take the last word – I really don’t care, because I don’t like you.
last words don’t matter when you know you are right, but i’ll gladly take the opportunity to shoot down yet more of your lame attempts to reclaim some sort of upper hand.qwerty all things you accuse me of are equally true for you. you are here 24/7 making incredibly nasty and inflammatory remarks to a lot of the people. you respond almost obsessively to every single post, and you get told off for being such a rotten piece of work, all the time. but you clearly can’t handle having a bit of it thrown back at you.you’ve kept it going long after i’ve left the computer to go do more productive things, and when i come back you have left more gems for me to play with. thing is you reply within MINUTES, no matter what time of day i happen to log on. seems you never left the computer for the past two or three days.you’re an ugly person. for the record, i’m not talking physical.
Right now, probably nursing a hangover like me. I spent most of my weekend with them..no different than any other weekend, i might add. Funny you mention that my posts are unrelated, because since you’ve shown up here, all you’ve done is try and start shit with people. I don’t hate you though..you need a little entertainment and let’s face it, you’ve been pretty lonely over the weekend! I don’t log in to make threats about beating people up, that’s never been my intent. But when you insult my late grandmother who i was extremely close to, yeah..you’re fucking right i’d like to smash you, and i’d enjoy every second of it. Now if you’ll excuse me, i have a hangover to nurse.
…and I’m going to go finish my laundry and go grocery shopping. I hope nobody claims my absence as a victory, like you got the best of me or something hahahahahaha.
Poop, my oringinal responses ot all of the bitches were pretty on-topic. I don’t like the way that fat people lash out at thin people, or insecure country folk lash out at supposedly more “sophisticated” big city folk, and blame blame blame instead of just fucking delaing with their issues.My subsequent posts have been in response to qwerty’s hysterical rantings.My response to you and cranky about buttsex and cocksucking was purely a joke, and you’re quite right, my escalation of the-time honored “your mama!” to include grandmothers was probably too much, given that many people’s grandmothers may no longer be around.Drink lots of tomato juice.
Um, who the fuck are you? Why don’t you go back to your mother’s basement and play another 8 hours of warcraft.(Excuse you, but my grandmother had more class than your entire redneck family, you fucking kike.)
i’ve got to say that when i wrote this i had no idea it was going to get so far out of hand, fighting with people online about homosexuality and warcraft? what the hell?
T.A no worries there are a few here that like to do that. Its their thing i just ignore it.
Yeah TA, it didn’t begin in this thread. My sincere if somewhat aggressive reply to another Bitch was not well received and resulted in a flame war, which then followed me to this thread when I posted a fairly innocuous response to your thoughts. And then I made a crass joke, thinking it was in the spirit of some of the other crass stuff flying around, and it wasn’t well received either.Apparently I am the Devil. Actually I’ve never used message boards before and am finding myself quite amused by the sort of weird artificial intensity of it all.But in any case, qwerty, poop and and I are all BFFs now and we’re going to help out at the soup kitchen together in the morning.