Blame Canada

Maybe it was inevitable that someone out there would plot revenge against the United States for having created The Weather Girls and stuck their megapopular tune “So Many Men (So Little Time)” deep into the psyche of anyone who heard it.

Hey, that umbrella looks subversive to me!

But it was, of course, the Canadians — those same sneaky folks who gave us Pamela Anderson, Anne Murray and even Peter North, a porn star whose legendary endowment has left many an American man feeling inferior — who found a way to turn that same weather from whence the literally-larger-than-life singers got their name against us.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the folks at Raindrops, a seemingly innocuous umbrella maker out of Toronto who just happen to market a line of rain gear which succinctly — if not politely — offer up the typical reaction to a rainy day.

Of course, the real version doesn’t blur out the word. And while it’s an amusing sentiment, it also could result in some adults having to explain why the grouchy man stomping through the puddles has a very bad word on his umbrella. “Because they were all out of the nice Miss Piggy one you have,” I can just imagine a frazzled mom replying.

So that’s how it’s to be, Canada? We allow a group of animated, foul-mouthed children from South Park, Colorado to sing an off-color tune about you in an R-rated movie intended for adults (and send into the world the gayly melodic tunes of two plump women) and you retaliate with obscene raingear?

Well, we didn’t want to break out the big guns, but you have forced our hand. Do not say you weren’t warned.

"Can I see Canada from my window?"

That’s right, she’s all yours now. No take backs!