She is a force! Of both talent and Canadian government funding gravitas known as “CAN-CON” (essentially the government pays you to not be American). Ergo, only in Canadia and Belgium can “Judith from HR” become a multi-platinum selling artist while emitting the stage presence of a woman waiting in a lunch hour cafeteria line. That’s RITA and we should all LOVE her for it.
However, as accepting as Canadians are, they make up for it in cruelty because her Canadian street name is “Eat A Big Meal”
She hails from BIG POND, Nova Scotia and is the Celine Dion of Eastern Canada. Still think you want to fuck with Rita? If you do then get ready to fuck with P.E.I. , Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and 40,000 beers. Oh and no one has a job in this part of Canada so you’ll be “bottled” over the head by coal miners (who worship her) in the middle your PowerPoint presentations at work, or while putting the kids to bed or in the middle of Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, I thought so…
Here’s Rita in action compliments of someone with a TV set and Hi-8 camera.
Or check out this tear jerker – A tribute to Sailor Moon featuring The Rita.
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man, she looks like my grandpa
02.07.08 at 1:51 pm
she looks like my grandpa
02.07.08 at 1:51 pm
ya don’t say?
02.07.08 at 1:52 pm
this is awesome +1. pay you to not be american..best description of cancon regs ever!
02.07.08 at 1:54 pm
Hahaha
She looks like the fatsuit that Schwartzenegger wore on Total Recall…
02.07.08 at 2:01 pm
rita macneil has scared me since childhood. fuck you, cbc.
02.07.08 at 2:07 pm
Can-con is a joke. If you suck, you stay north of the 49th and cash in the can-con bucks. Everybody knows Canadian comedians (& the jews) run NYC. They’re tricky bastards, cause you can’t pick them out of a crowd of the regular God fearing Americans, but here’s a tip. If someone holds a door open for you or says “thank you” or “please”, that son-of-a-bitch is a God-damned comedian. “but mr.wilson, how can I tell if I’m reading a Canadian joke”? Easy, they spell “colored fella” like this “coloured fellow”.
02.07.08 at 2:48 pm
My friend Mark lived near Big Pond and worked at Rita’s restaurant (imaginatively named “Rita’s Tea Room”). The front doors on that motherfucker are H U G E.
02.07.08 at 3:25 pm
i have this weird childhood memory of channel surfing with my parents…our cable was all fucked up and the CBC was sort of showing on two consecutive channels, and at that moment Rita McNeil was singing or whatever so my dad just explained to me that she needed two channels to fit on the screen. man that’s weird. i don’t remember her being that freaky looking.
02.07.08 at 4:56 pm
so…horny…can’t breathe
02.07.08 at 5:29 pm
LMAO @ “Judith from HR.”
02.07.08 at 7:12 pm
shit like Rita Mc Neil has no equal in the states. If you grew up in Newfoundland and had to live with the shitty CBC and then grew up and moved to LA, you would never be able to even begin to explain her to your friends.
“Is she fat like Rosie?” No, she’s actually way bigger.
“Oh so she’s an opera singer?” No, not that either.
“Why do people like her?”
I guess we are lazy?
02.08.08 at 2:33 pm
At least she appeared on Trailer Park Boys, and helped harvest a field of pot.
02.08.08 at 10:46 pm
she was on tpb? fuck, must’ve missed that. for those who haven’t watched that great show, put that in your netflix queue immediately. it’s reality-style (ala reno 911) except based in a trailer park and everyone swears like a sailor and always hammered and/or stoned.
favorite tpb quote:
assistant trailer park supervisor randy: “hey, boys! we got a complaint that someone was gettin’ high and drunk and playin’ space in the middle of the street!”
trailer park resident ricky: “yeah, US! i’m fuckin’ stoned right now! you got a problem with that?”
02.09.08 at 9:19 pm
Double-barreled shit cannon pointed right at your head.
02.10.08 at 1:04 pm
Eat A Big Meal is a very strange phenomenon indeed. I’m Canadian and find it embarrassing that she’s popular. She looks like a rotting jack-o-lantern with a wig and a necklace sitting in the middle of a round table, 4′ tall by 4′ round, with a floor-length table cloth. And she sounds like someone’s grandmother making fun of an opera singer. I just don’t get it.
12.21.10 at 10:54 am