Finally, the gub'mint is aware of the Canadian menace

[PDH]

Well, if we are being metaphysical, no one's perceptions really match up with reality.

What if my perception is that my perceptions doesn't match up with reality?  I sense a slippery slope here, and I don't mean a Greasy Yi, either.

[Berkut]

I think someone has a chip on their shoulder when it comes to people in authority.

[grumbler]

Of course. Just like your perception of border crossing does not really match up the reality of border crossing.

Well, if we are being metaphysical, no one's perceptions really match up with reality.

Wrong.

Exception noted.

[Neil]

Of course. Just like your perception of border crossing does not really match up the reality of border crossing.

Well, if we are being metaphysical, no one's perceptions really match up with reality.

Wrong.

Exception noted.

Thank you.

[Oexmelin]

This day in history:

May 24th 1942. In the United States... When the Royal Canadian Air Force's 115th Fighter Squadron lands at Alaska's Annette Island, a US Customs officer refuses to let the pilots out of their planes until they pay duty on their arms and equipment. It takes a message from Secretary of State Cordell Hull granting the Canadians Distinguished Foreign Visitor status to permit them to enter American soil.

Source: La Seconde Guerre mondiale au jour le jour.

[Neil]

This day in history:

May 24th 1942. In the United States... When the Royal Canadian Air Force's 115th Fighter Squadron lands at Alaska's Annette Island, a US Customs officer refuses to let the pilots out of their planes until they pay duty on their arms and equipment. It takes a message from Secretary of State Cordell Hull granting the Canadians Distinguished Foreign Visitor status to permit them to enter American soil.

Source: La Seconde Guerre mondiale au jour le jour.

Yeah, well 65 years ago today Alanbrooke had dinner with Winston Churchill during which Churchill was critical of FDR's plan to broadcast a message to Germany on D-Day and positive concerning the war in the Pacific.

Still, it goes to show you that customs people the world over are as petty as it is possible to be.