# Ask the Canadian Teenager... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685 "2005-03-15T19:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/41 "2005-03-17T01:34:44Z")
> [@Gadfly](#): > > We also need an abbreviation for that. Let’s refer to them as CTs from now on. No! This will cause mass confusion, and panick! CT is the abreaviation for the state of Connecticut. Don’t you see that we can’t have one abreaviation with multiple meanings! ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/42 "2005-03-17T03:09:01Z")
Avril Lavigne… you realize she’s a put-on, right? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/43 "2005-03-17T04:26:24Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Avril Lavigne… you realize she’s a put-on, right? I loathe Avril Lavigne, actually. Her music makes me want to punch a hole in someone’s torso. Around the time her debut came out, I would literally run away screaming when her name was mentioned by a friend. And I don’t think Sum 41 are anything hugely special, although they do make harmless, fun pop. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/44 "2005-03-17T04:27:39Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > No! This will cause mass confusion, and panick! CT is the abreaviation for the state of Connecticut. Don’t you see that we can’t have one abreaviation with multiple meanings! Er… [Ahem.](http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=CT) ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/45 "2005-03-17T17:02:32Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Avril Lavigne… you realize she’s a put-on, right? Eh, she’s okay. I listen to her music occassionally. Is that a crime?? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/46 "2005-03-17T18:28:38Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > Avril Lavigne… you realize she’s a put-on, right? Well, durr! (no offense to my comrade **_dare\_devil007_** ;)) ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/47 "2005-03-17T19:02:12Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Well, durr! > > (no offense to my comrade **_dare\_devil007_** ;)) None taken. Back in seventh-grade, I used to really like Avril Lavigne. But, now, I find her very “blah.” Her music and videos are all the same. I call her music “feel-good” music because I think they’re upbeat and very kiddie-pop-punk. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/48 "2005-03-18T02:33:30Z")
Do you listen to Green Day? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/49 "2005-03-18T03:18:18Z")
I used to live and work there. Is there still a Sam The Record Man up the block from Yonge & Dundas? Or have they been put out of business by HMV? (I worked at Sam’s, and also A&A, which was right next door, but they merged with HMV.) ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/50 "2005-03-18T06:33:10Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > Do you listen to Green Day? They’re not the greatest, but they’re fun. They don’t hold a candle to, say, McLusky. About the Sam the Record Man - it’s still there. Mysteriously enough, the two gigantic flagship stores have managed to stay put, even though HMV has otherwise put Sam out of business. The two stores have their own devoted following (although I prefer Soundscapes and Rotate This). ---
**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/51 "2005-03-18T06:37:29Z")
This isn’t so much a question as it is a demand, you like Rush, right? RIGHT? Being Canadian you’d have to! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/52 "2005-03-18T06:45:19Z")
> [@Duderdude2](#): > > This isn’t so much a question as it is a demand, you like Rush, right? RIGHT? Being Canadian you’d have to! 😉 Hehe, unfortunately not. I accept that I’ll never be able to play bass faster or more precisely than Geddy Lee. But I much, much prefer Pavement’s simple two-guitar rambles and off-key vocals to Rush’s extremely skilled noodling. IMHO, of course. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/53 "2005-03-18T15:36:47Z")
**emekthian** , yes, I listen to Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong’s kinda cute, too. **fishbicycle** , Sam the Record Man is still there. At least, it was the last time I went to Yonge and Dundas about six months ago. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685/54 "2005-03-18T15:52:08Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > a) Moi, je parle francais, but in Ontario francophones are something of a minority. The larger French-speaking populations are further east, in Quebec and some of the Maritime provinces, and among the Metis people in the Prairies. Not only Metis. There are pockets of Francophones all throughout the West, though they are largely ignored by the East. I attended Ecole Plamondon in Northern Alberta. It was NOT a Metis settlement. In fact, one of the predominant groups in central-Northern Alberta is French-speaking descendants of those who migrated from the East over a hundred years ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-canadian-teenager/294685.md?page=2)