Huh, must be some Albertian in-joke. Brings to mind Swedish cultural hero Bellman. (Based on eighteenth century bard Carl Michael Bellman.) His stories often go something like this:
A Dane, a Norwegian and Bellman were stuck on a desert island when one of them happened to find a bottle with a genie in it. The genie gives them one wish each, and the Dane says "I want to go home", and the genie says "It is done", and the Dane goes poof and disappears.
Naturally, the Norwegian also goes "I want to go home", and goes home in a puff of smoke.
"It's lonely here without those guys", says Bellman. "I wish they'd come back."
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