For all my Canadian compatriots.... Happy Canada Day!
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For all my Canadian compatriots.... Happy Canada Day!
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Are you all "ooohhhhh" or "meh" over the "kill and wait" show which is in town at the moment?
Actually I had to hide in the snow this morning when the Local Commissar came to round people up, demanding we don our mucklucks, head down to the hall for donuts and bacon, and wave to the Royal couple in a special patriotic nation-wide satellite uplink special.Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
hmm... should start celebrating Portugal day on cboard too. And don't think I'm alone in here. It coincides with Aussies Anzac day. An "International getting p..ed" contest beats any 1st or 4th of July.
Anyways, congratulations to all Canucks, and all that. Would seem wrong not to say anything.
EDIT: cboard bad words filter is a little over the top. Is it really that bad to say p i s s e d? There's a distinction between vulgarity and obscenity, you know.
LOL... Salem, take a look at a map sometime... Canada is geographically almost half again as big as the US... and there's more than one town...Quote:
Originally Posted by Salem
(But you already knew that... didn't you?)
Their closest stop for me would be a 12 hour drive...
Yes you should...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Given the membership list of these forums... I be amazed if you were!Quote:
And don't think I'm alone in here. It coincides with Aussies Anzac day. An "International getting p..ed" contest beats any 1st or 4th of July.
Yeah! Fireworks and Canadian beer... It doesn't get much better.Quote:
Anyways, congratulations to all Canucks, and all that. Would seem wrong not to say anything.
Oh, so they are stopping at the town with the "fancy" indoor bathrooms. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by CommonTater
Well, since the igloos melted from global warming, we've been experimenting with cement and wood...Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
So, yes, they get "the royal treatment"...
ROFL...
Here's a gem for you...
Right around this time of year Canadian gas station operators get some very strange customers, mostly from the US...
My cousin's favorite was the SUV from Texas that pulled in last Canada Day, complete with ski racks and a trailer with 2 snowmobiles. The driver asked "Where's all the snow"... My cousin answered... "About 2000 miles due north"...
Gotta love it. By lattitude, some parts of Southern Ontario are further south than the northern border of California....
LOL.
I don't think so. I've been to more fun gay parades.Quote:
Originally Posted by CommonTater
Well I believe that we are an equal opportunity programming board here.......;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
It's about CODE... right? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
At least you get a day to celebrate. We have to make do with being 90% of the villains (and about 40% of the non-leading good guys) in movies. :cool:
Didn't you know? It's always Canada's fault.
USA movie criminals either flee to Mexico or Canada.
Conversely, real life Canadians are always trying to sneak in to USA.
Canada always threatens to cut energy when USA doesn't pay. Unfair!
Canada has French as an official language... and french!
Canada's lumber puts everyone out of business.
Celine Dion is a running joke. All other nations pop artists are cultural icons.
Canadians are always trying to tell USA how to run the world.
Canada's Exclusive Economic Zone gets in the way of a certain country fishing rights. Doesn't matter that it's the only country in the world with an EEC smaller than its territorial waters. They are greedy, and that's just it!
Little known fact: the iconic Canadian clothing company Roots, with the beaver logo, was started by Vietnam conflict era American draft dodgers in the seventies (the US continued to prosecute Vietnam draft dodgers until they were pardoned by George Jr in the late 90's, while Canada refused to extradite them).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
No comment.Quote:
Conversely, real life Canadians are always trying to sneak in to USA.
Actually alot of NA regional power agreements involve paying another area to take excessQuote:
Canada always threatens to cut energy when USA doesn't pay. Unfair!
energy off your grid because that's cheaper than stopping generation -- so Ontario, Canada occasionally pays Michigan, USA for the privilege of giving them energy.
If only you knew how much, and how often ;).Quote:
Celine Dion is a running joke.
No comment.Quote:
Canadians are always trying to tell USA how to run the world.
Have not heard about this particular issue before, I presume it involves the North Atlantic banks. Yes, despite our do-good image of the past, we are cut-throats like everyone else now.Quote:
Canada's Exclusive Economic Zone gets in the way of a certain country fishing rights. Doesn't matter that it's the only country in the world with an EEC smaller than its territorial waters. They are greedy, and that's just it!
The Russians are threatening to fight us navy style over Arctic oil reserves, too. Mebbe you & them should combine forces; I don't think we could hold out on both fronts for long.
True, the Canada Goose was blamed for the "Miracle on the Hudson" plane crash a few years ago, and since then it has been open season in some NE US states. The Canadian Beaver is also causing serious problems in ecosystems in South America due to its industrious attitude and lack of predators. Which no doubt is also the case with many Canadian Humans in business in the developing world, heh-heh. If there's one thing we know how to do on a grand scale, it's ruin wilderness while extracting resources.Quote:
Canadian animal species are a scurge upon the rest of the planet.
Mario... why so hostile all the time?
It's a national holiday, usually in the best weather of the year and they have fireworks...
Gees!
From Wikipedia: "Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire."
Hundered years later, to the day:
"Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P."
Just a coincidence or does it symbolize something?
:)
You really need to fix your satire detection gauge.Quote:
Originally Posted by CommonTater
These are all, or used to be not long ago, national jokes. At least as I would hear them when I was living not far from Toronto. One thing I learned from my time there was Canadians great sense of humor. But... there's always exceptions of course.
That was satire?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Better luck next time.
Who let the grumpy grandpa in the audience?
He got here by mistake, he was suppose to turn right for the "parade". :p
LOL... been there, done that, burned the T-Shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
LOL......so how was your Canada Day Tater? I trust you managed to stay out of jail, or being set adrift (that is what you canucks do right?) :p
Pretty quiet actually ... sat around most of the day entertaining friends then the whole bunch of us went to see fireworks and then we hit the hey early.Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
Jail? I don't do jail, thank you very much.
And we haven't set anyone adrift (???) in a long time... :rolleyes:
My bad, everything I know about Canada is from South Park :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by CommonTater
LOL... Not exactly the most reliable source of historical information...Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
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Originally Posted by CommonTater
Haha........well that may be up to debate.
"This is Canada, we only have one road" - South Park.
I promise you, there's more than one... I know this because I live at the intersection of two of them. ROFLQuote:
Originally Posted by AndrewHunter
Any how... today is the 4th... USA's big day... Lets pick on them for a while... ;)
LOL.....Sounds good, I will start the thread.:p
Ah yes, America. Where those who shout "freedom!" the loudest are the ones being actively misled by corporations to support agendas that are taking those very freedoms away.Quote:
Originally Posted by CommonTater
America, where a majority of the population believes in the fairy tale version of reality.
America, where reading has been replaced by television, education has been replaced by entertainment, and where intellectualism is something to be ashamed of in many circles.
Do I sound bitter? Probably. But at least I still have the freedom to express my concerns (for now, anyway...)
... oh wait, did you mean a light-hearted picking on? My mistake, carry on.