canada rulez LAND OF THE FREE

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Jan 22 1918

Manitoba, Canada film censor board decides to ban comedies, on the grounds that they make audiences "too frivolous".

 

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and yeah yeah i know at the time the US was making the moves to engage in history's greatest exercise in retardation AKA "Prohibition".

 

[FalseTodd]

ACTUALLY ALEX THAT CONINCIDES WITH AMERICA'S MOVE TOWARD THE PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL WHI-oh.

 

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"if only, somewhere, there were a country where you could get drunk and watch Tommy Boy!"
--Cindy McFlapperson, ca 1920s

 

[Demonspell]

Prohibition was as misguided as the Patriot Act, but those Manitobans showed remarkable foresight in predicting banal and shrill Hollywood "comedies"...