A rant by: JoeQuimby

You may have all seen the recent advertisements talking about how great the metis people are, they're on TV, and i think there are billboards. They're pretty cheezy, but i guess they get the point across.

What caught my attention was the little ininity symbol on all of the ads (Its the little bowtie looking loop). For the longest time I've been noticing infinity symbols on cars, and I was always curious why people had them as bumper stickers, or hanging from the rear view mirror. After these commercials i now realize that the symbol must represent Metis people. My thoughts of an underground math organization taking over the world were disolved when i found out that this is the metis symbol.

My question is, Why do they get to claim that symbol. Where was I when they started allowing people to use well known symbols to associate with themselves? I woulda totally taken the infinity symbol, or maybe PI, or #, that would be cool.

So i thought, why not? I've always wanted to have a symbol to represent people of my descent, but i could never come up with a clever design.

So From now on, people like me that are canadians with russian/german descent can use '#' as our sign. I was kinda torn between '@' , '$' and the batman symbol, but I figured the number sign is really easy to type, just hold shift and press 3 and you can now say:

"I know a # guy, he's really cool"

Instead of:

"I know a russian/german Canadian, he's really cool"

It's a good thing i got in on this now before all of the other symbols are taken.

So, if you've gotten this far in my rant without hitting the back button you either have a stupid sense of humour like me, or you've got nothing better to do. If you don't have a sense of humour, please don't take me seriously, i just thought it was interesting that the metis use the infinity symbol, i now know what the symbol means when i see it on cars, though it may confuse me on my next math test.

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