DID YOU HEAR ABOUT XLIII

Did you hear about .........................

1. Canada's new slogan to encourage U.S. tourism?
2. The guy who worked in the fire hydrant factory?
3. The nurse who worked in the anorexia ward?
4. How the Hindu mystic was cheated when he asked for a pound of foie gras?

Answers:

1. Canada - It's Not Just for Draft Dodgers Anymore 
2. He could never find a place to park.
3. She ate 10 dinners a night.
4. The heavy-thumbed butcher weighed down upon the Swami's liver.*

*"Way Down Upon the Swanee River, ................"
Opening line of a famous American folk song by Stephen Foster