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Padma
Oct 21, 2002, 09:36 AM
SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?


1. Smarties (the original M&Ms)

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

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

4. Baseball is Canadian

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers butt

10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts butt

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, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. 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.

14. Our civil war was a bar fight that 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. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds 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. Canadians invented Superman and developed the comic strip Captain America.

***************BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY!***************

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

Oh yeah ... and our elections only take one day.

HotDog Fish
Oct 21, 2002, 06:20 PM
Yah I got this in an E-Mail once...and thank god for #24

Sim_One
Oct 21, 2002, 08:58 PM
I didn't know the first 8 were true. :goodjob: Do you mean that baseball, basketball, lacrosse, apple pie, hoceky, etc. were all Canadian inventions?

Rout
Oct 22, 2002, 07:55 AM
im pretty sure apple pie belongs to the old world.

gr8ful wes
Oct 22, 2002, 08:03 AM
This thread reminds me of that whole RedSox Yankees Suck thing. They define themselves by the success/failure against the Yanks, who coul generally care less.:p

Cloudyvortex
Oct 22, 2002, 03:45 PM
To a Southron, a Canuck is a Yankee on steroids. :rolleyes:

Since when have I thought of myself as a Southron? :eek:

goododa
Nov 02, 2002, 12:22 AM
Originally posted by Sim_One
I didn't know the first 8 were true. :goodjob: Do you mean that baseball, basketball, lacrosse, apple pie, hoceky, etc. were all Canadian inventions?

well im pretty sure lacrosse and basketball are Canadian inventions.

Furry Spatula
Nov 02, 2002, 12:26 AM
lacrosse was actualy and indian sport (north american indian). If i remember my grade 10 canadian history correctly, they consisted of giant games in which many people were killed in fights and they went on for days. But basketball was definatly Canadian. I remember getting in a big debate about that wiht someone. A canadian invented it while in a US university if i remember correctly.

muppet
Nov 03, 2002, 05:57 AM
Originally posted by Padma
SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

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

:D :D

Lefty Scaevola
Nov 03, 2002, 02:54 PM
Originally posted by Padma
SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?
3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down

4. Baseball is Canadian

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

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



Don't the Canadians ever do any WORK.

brrrrrett
Nov 04, 2002, 10:39 AM
1. Smarties (the original M&Ms)

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure Smarties came from Rowntree's, a Quaker company from the North of England. Which may explain their presence in Canada.

newfangle
Nov 04, 2002, 06:14 PM
No no, rest assured everything was invented in Canada. EVERYTHING!!

Sim_One
Nov 04, 2002, 07:10 PM
Wow I guess they really do have something to be proud of. :goodjob: