Would that be Hamilton. I’m pretty sure that it has the most doughnut shops per capita, just not 100% that they’re tim horton’s.
Seeing as we’ve digressed into some wonderful trivia, how about this?
There are two areas of US territory (other than Alaska) that if you wanted to reach by land require you to pass through Canadian territory. They are…?
Answers tomorrow if not correctly answered today
Cheers Mike Abbotsford, BC
One is Point Roberts, WA, an absurd appendix of land sticking below the 49th parallel. I fondly recall going there with a carload of other male teens in the 70s, to see softcore movies at a drive-in.
Yes, there is (or was) a Tim Horton - he was a hockey player, of all things.
Rodd Hill is correct (Pt. Roberts) but thatwas easy for you, as on a clear day you probably can see it from Victoria!
A portion of Minnesota’s Northwest Angle is blocked off from the rest of the state by Lake of the Woods.
Are Newfies really that slow?
Is Red Green really that funny?
How long until Quebec breaks away?
No.
Yes. Perhaps you need to have spent some time in Duct Tape Country, er, I mean, cottage country, to realize this… but I kow someone who swears that her uncle could be Red Green’s twin. And it’s true: you can hold almost anything together with duct tape: backpacks, shoes, glasses, the roof of my trailer… Oddly enough, it doesn’t work particularly well on ducts.
Probably a long time. Every time Quebec gets close to actually separating, enough people there realize what they’d lose by separating that the proposal does not pass.
That being said, if a stable supranational political system evolved in North America (involving cession of sovereignty upwards, similarly to the European Union, rather than a simple extension of the existing United States of America), I suspect more people in Quebec would be in favour of separation. But by then “separation” would mean a lot less.
Then again, I’m assuming that people will behave rationally about this. As we all know, however, nationhood is a matter of the heart as well as of the brain; so given an appropriate goading incident ot two at just the right time, they might go for it… Heck, it almost worked the last time.
I’m sure matt_mcl has more to say about this…
In a recent poll, whether they described themselves as federalist or sovereignist, something like 80% of all Quebecers announced that they were thoroughly sick of the whole business and wished that the government would deal with important things instead of this tripe.
I was glad to see somebody ask about the Friendly Giant. He had one of the great kids’ shows, and I know adults who watched him regularly. (I wasn’t a regular, but if I happened to have the TV on …)
There’s a pretty nice story about him I heard somewhere years ago. A little boy was out trick-or-treating one Halloween, got lost, and knocked on a random door for help. His parents were at home phoning around frantically when the kid showed up unattended; all they saw was taillights going away. The boy insisted so much that the Friendly Giant brought him home that the parents, not believing a word of it, took him out to try to find the house again. He spotted it, and Friendly answered the door.
I thought it really took somebody special to rescue a lost kid and drive him around looking for home, and to leave without looking for a bit of credit.
“Look up. Look waaaay up, and I’ll call Rusty.”
:wally