Shatner has become very entertaining in his later years. He has developed a genuine sense of humor about himself and his public image. Have you seen his talk show? Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:37 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Really? Turn about if fair play. Can we make them take William Shatner back? > > > From: "John Mullan" > >> Canada takes a very dim view of Americans coming into the country and >> doing >> any work. They may have been determining if what you were there for was >> "work". >> >>> From: Stan Halpin >>> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 8:12 PM >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> Subject: Re: OT - Canadian photographer denied entry to USA >>> >>> As Paul said, it works both ways. In the mid-to-late '90's I was a >>> co-chair >>> of a NATO research committee. We put together a Workshop (the >>> presentations >>> from which eventually became a book; and thus is world peace achieved). >>> My >>> Canadian colleagues in the group organized and hosted the workshop at >>> Canada's counterpart to West Point in Kingston Ontario. So I went early, >>> hung around New York's Finger Lakes district visiting relatives, then >>> drove >>> my rental car to Kingston via I-81 north, then the Macdonald-Cartier >>> Freeway >>> back southwest. A nice trip expect for the border crossing into Canada. >>> "Why >>> are you here?" the boarder guard queries. "To attend a NATO Workshop at >>> the >>> Royal Military Academy in Kingston" I replies. I fully expected a >>> "Welcome, >>> glad to have you here!" Instead I got a half-hour interrogation, careful >>> scrutiny of my official U.S. Army travel orders, my official invite to >>> the >>> workshop on official Canadian Government stationary, my passport, my I.D >>> card, etc. I don't know if it was because I wasn't wearing a suit, if it >>> was >>> the beard, if it was my coming in from upper NY even though I was based >>> in >>> Kansas . . . Maybe he was having a bad day. But my colleague who flew >>> directly from KC via Toronto had a similar experience in Toronto, and he >>> is >>> cleancut and appears to be much more trustworthy. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
