Surreal

On a lark I googled "Greenbush Ontairo" and the first link to be returned? A news article from the Taipei Times.

What. The. Hell?

Sure enough, its about my home town and the characters that inhabit it.

In the back of Greenbush General Store, in the heart of a tiny village an hour south of Canada's capital Ottawa, the locals get together twice a day to chew the fat over coffee and the odd cigarette.

What they are talking about should be enough to make Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and the local member of parliament, Joe Jordan, gag on their own coffee as they mull the next election, likely this year.

"Those Liberals, they're nothing but a bunch of [expletive deleted] crooks," came the opening volley from store owner Floyd Salmon.

Yep, that's home all right. The funniest part about all of this? Taipei Times is published in Taiwan; Taipei is the capital city! Apparently Reuters didn't have better sources to go to for this article. Weird.

Second link was a Wikipedia entry and here it is in its entirety:

Greenbush is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario.

That is what I expected to find. Basically a stub saying "people live here". Not a piece quoting some of the best political minds Greenbush has to offer in a newspaper from halfway around the world.

Surreal.