Canajan, eh?

[xsbank]

A friend from Oz sent this:

CANADIAN, eh?


So, What Do Canadians Have To Be Proud Of?


1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.

4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 -Ingersoll , ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers

10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts

11. In the war of 1812, started by America , Canadians pushed the Americans back...Past their 'White House'. Then we burned it... and most of Washington... we got bored... because they ran away, so we came home and partied... go figure.

12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to
Germany.

13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or
withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER.

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American
mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing...but showed up
just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's
surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.

19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk.

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and, short wave radios that save countless lives each year.

22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to
tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have coloured money.

25. Our beer advertisements kick ass

BUT MOST IMPORTANT!

24. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.? OOOoohhhhh Canada !!

25. And we don't bomb our allies. Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.

Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!

I AM CANADIAN !!!

[tiggermoth]

Absolutely, GO CANADA!!!

Now, here is some more:

A Little Canadian Humo(u)r,

Forget Rednecks, here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about Canuckians

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,you may live in Canada.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Canada.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in
Canada.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Canada.

If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Detroit for the weekend, you may live in Canada.

If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Canada.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Canada

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you may live in Canada

If you can drive 90 kms/hr through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Canada.

If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Canada.

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Canada.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,you may live in Canada.

If the speed limit on the highway is 80km -- you're going 90 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Canada.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Canada.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter,
and road construction, you may live in Canada

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Canada.

If you find 2 degrees 'a little chilly', you may live in Canada

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all
your Canadian friends & others, you definitely live in Canada

[Meecka]

I am SO PROUD to be a born and bred Canadian!!! We rock, there's absolutely no doubt about that!!!!!

[Elliot Moose]

Yay for us! While being prouder that anybody of the fact that we invented the terms "double double" and "two four" there was one mistake in the original list:
http://www.zamboni.com/story/story.html

[Chickaddd]

Hoser

[Rowdy]

J'adore Canada!!

Even the damn frogs

You couldn't pay me enough money to move stateside.

[Meecka]

hey rowdy...

Ribbit Ribbit mon ami!!

[Sulako]

What do we have to be proud of?



Avcanada!

(and the metric system and beavers and stuff)

[Rowdy]

Three simple letters...

D H C


I'm gonna catch hell for that from all the beech bums I work with

[The Old Fogducker]

Hi Folks:

Ever so slight correction on this item....

4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 -Ingersoll , ON

Good old "Cheese Town" is my home town.... also Carl Millard and a few other aviators. Haven't been back in a very long time.

Just about 5 miles east of Ingersoll is Beachville. That's where the first recorded history game of baseball was played.

I don't know if it still says it on the "Welcome to Beachville" sign as you drive along the old number 2 highway, but "Beachvillians" were quite proud of that fact. I used to walk that road almost every weekend while fishing for Carp along the Thames River.

Regards,
Fog

[sameasyou]

A couple of corrections. No. 5 Lacrosse was invented by Canadians.? I thought it was invented by the native people. As for number 17 that HBC "owned" 10% of the land.Who "sold" it to them? I think "stole" or "pillaged" would be a better term

[Dust Devil]

Football was originally a Canadian sport as well.

[shitdisturber]

A couple of corrections. No. 5 Lacrosse was invented by Canadians.? I thought it was invented by the native people. As for number 17 that HBC "owned" 10% of the land.Who "sold" it to them? I think "stole" or "pillaged" would be a better term

It was given to them by a grant from the King of England; you can argue til you're blue in the face about the validity of that grant but that's how it was done in those days. The kings in Europe doled out land as they saw fit and the original inhabitants weren't considered in the calculations.

[200hr Wonder]

Velcro was invented by a Swiss man by the name of George de Mestral

[Check Pilot]

Heeeeey Fog -- ya still down in that warm water world?

Retirement is gettin' closer from what I hear.

[The Old Fogducker]

Check Pilot:

Yup, darned mosquitoes are a real bother out on the balcony at 0130 .... sure can ruin a nice rum.

More on the other topic via internal mail.

Fog

[pilatus4life]

one problem! HBC has recently been sold to the americans! what happens when they come back and claim that land as theirs. think about that.


ok i know it wont happen but what if, say good bye to the st. laurence area and toronto!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!

[bandaid]

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BRI-A3vakVg

[lilfssister]

I like this one better:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=h1CwZgb_i ... re=related

[Rowdy]

A couple of corrections. No. 5 Lacrosse was invented by Canadians.? I thought it was invented by the native people. As for number 17 that HBC "owned" 10% of the land.Who "sold" it to them? I think "stole" or "pillaged" would be a better term

The natives or first nations people are ALSO canadian

Correct me if I'm wrong.. but didn't "Canadian" come from them as well?

[Meecka]

I just thought of another one today, while trying to get into my car


If you've ever had to defrost your car door locks with a hair dryer.

[shitdisturber]

A couple of corrections. No. 5 Lacrosse was invented by Canadians.? I thought it was invented by the native people. As for number 17 that HBC "owned" 10% of the land.Who "sold" it to them? I think "stole" or "pillaged" would be a better term

The natives or first nations people are ALSO canadian

Correct me if I'm wrong.. but didn't "Canadian" come from them as well?

You're not wrong. I believe it was Samuel de Champlain who misinterpreted what they were telling him and the name stuck.

[niss]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1jG58nghRo

[sprucegoose]

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRf8m3pl ... re=related

[F,D and H]

I was serching YouTube for the add with the american guys bugging the Canadian dude about being a pelt trader and where is his fur and then the hot chick walks out of the bathroom...can anyone help