No Diefence today, but rather some internet fun/Canadian political wankery:

So, I was futzing around looking for something to do online when a URL popped into my head from some years back:

www.urban75.com

Now this is a wonderful webpage on its own thanks to the game Downing Street Fighter.

It's pretty much what you think it is. But I wen't and tried another wonderful timewaster today that I had never tried before: The Cossack Love Calculator!

Basically it gives the liklihood of a match between two individuals based solely on thier names. Having rapidly run out of pop culture celebrities whose coupling liklihood I would be amused to see predicted, I went to the politicians:

Disclaimer: I hold no responsibility for the below results they are just an amusing list arbitrarily selected:

Margaret Thatcher and...

Tony Blair: 36.5%

Tony Blur: 57%

Tony Benn: 37%

Clement Atlee: 55%

Which led me to other mis-matches behold my Canadian Lesbian Politician Couplometer:

Kim Campbell and:

Sheila Copps: 48%

Flora MacDonald: 56.5%

Libby Davies: 58%

Maureen McTeer: 67% (Incidentally both made thier first foray into federal politics at the same time, political bedfellows if you will)

(Current PC leader) Tracy Parsons: 37.5% (One Tory who, according to a computer applet, doesn't think that Kim is particularly cuddly)

Rona Ambrose: 48%

Dianne Ablonczy: 56.5%

Laureen Tesky: 77.5%

Which got me thinking about Prime Ministers and their wives/significant others. I got the info either from Wikipedia or, in the case of Dief, Joe, Pierre, and Marty Muldoon, memory. I tried to go with maiden names as often as possible:

Stephen Harper and Laureen Tesky: 76.5%

Paul Martin and Sheila Ann Cowan: 36.5%

Jean Chrétien and Aline Chainé: 17.5%

Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell (I should have used this earlier, but what the heck) and:
Nathan Divinsky: 87.5%
Howard Eddy: 89.5%
Hershey Felder: 88%

(Wood Nymph Indeed!)

Martin Brian Mulroney and Mila Pivnicki: 63%

John Napier Turner and Geills McCrae Kilgour: 90%

Pierre Elliot Trudeau and:
Margaret Sinclair: 91%
Deborah Coyne: 93%

Charles Joseph Clark and Maureen McTeer: 83%

Lester Bowles Pearson and Maryon Moody: 93.5%

John George Diefenbaker and:
Edna Brower: 93%
Olive Freeman Palmer: 88%

Louis St. Laurent and Jeanne Renault: 94.5%

William Lyon MacKenzie King and Joan Patteson(Singificant 'Female Friend'): 90%

Richard Bedford Bennett and (Rumoured Squeeze) Agnes Campbell MacPhail: 67%

Arthur Meighen and Jessie Isabel Cox: 64.5%

Robert Laird Borden and Laura Bond: 75.5%

Wifrid Laurier and Zoe Lafontaine: 85.5%

Charles Tupper and Frances Morse: 56.5%

Mackenzie Bowell and Harriet Moore: 95.5%

John Sparrow David Thompson and Annie Affleck: 70%

John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Mary Bethune: 90.5%

Alexander Mackenzie and:
Helen Neil: 75%
Jane Sym: 56.5%

John Alexander Macdonald and:
Isabella Clark: 81%
Susan Agnes Bernard: 78.5%

Conclusions: Prime Ministers, paragons of family virtue, get around. Reagan was the only divorced President. We've had two Divorced PMs with 3 divorces total.

Nobody wants to visualise Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair...

Sorry.