# Canada the insignificant fart in a windstorm! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853 "2006-07-01T07:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/81 "2006-07-02T19:26:12Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > Please read my OP a little more closely before you tell me how nice Canada is or to get the fuck out if I don’t like it. I never said I was not happy here. I have a well-into-six figures family income… Yeah, but that’s like $3.50 American, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Ring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ring)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/82 "2006-07-02T19:32:01Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This is the internet. I don’t believe personal information about anyone. Such cynicism. You should be ashamed. Here, I’ll prove it: E[sup]2[/sup] = m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup] + p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup] When p = 0 E =mc[sup]2[/sup] Res ipsa loquitur I rarely post in the pit, should I have used some dirty words? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/83 "2006-07-02T20:39:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Yeah, but that’s like $3.50 American, right? $3.75…the Loonie’s been gaining heavily on the Greenback of late. 🙂 (actually, the Loonie been hovering around 90 cents as of late, and is forecast to reach parity and beyond within a couple years…something to do with us being a net petroleum exporter and our government running balanced budgets, I believe) ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/84 "2006-07-02T21:35:08Z")
> [@Bobotheoptimist](#): > > I love Canadia. You’re in [Big Trouble.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378054) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/85 "2006-07-02T21:38:56Z")
> [@Ring](#): > > Such cynicism. You should be ashamed. I’m a Moderator. Shame is beneath me. . . or beyond me. . . or something. . . ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/86 "2006-07-02T22:33:00Z")
> [@Chez Guevara](#): > > You’re in [Big Trouble.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378054) Yikes! I’d better avoid **mnemosyne** from now on. Thanks for the heads up, **Chez**! I’ll stick with “America Jr.” from now on… Good thing I’m not the type to go and deliberately aggravate someone like that, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/87 "2006-07-02T23:44:42Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Canadian content even extends to the goddam super bowel ads, for chrissakes! God forbid I should be allowed to see an honest-to-goodness Budweiser commercial. That’s simulcasting, not Canadian Content. If you want to watch U.S. Superbowl ads, you could always lobby whoever bought the Canadian rights to the game… ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/88 "2006-07-03T00:09:13Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > That’s simulcasting, not Canadian Content. If you want to watch U.S. Superbowl ads, you could always lobby whoever bought the Canadian rights to the game… Yup. The point of the simulcast rules are that the Canadian broadcast rights to the game (or any other show) would be rather less valuable if one could flip the channel and watch the same thing on a US channel. So, to enable CTV (or whoever) to actually sell their Superbowl ad time at a worthwhile price, their ads are played on both feeds. If you want to watch the US ads, you can go online. It’s pretty easy these days. Mind you, it is really damn annoying to have to put up with those annoying local car dealership and discount furniture store ads during the Superbowl… ---
**Author:** ![WonJohnSoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@WonJohnSoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonJohnSoup)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/89 "2006-07-03T00:09:49Z")
Now I know that July 1st is Canada Day. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/90 "2006-07-03T00:32:55Z")
> [@Ring](#): > > E[sup]2[/sup] = m[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]4[/sup] + p[sup]2[/sup]c[sup]2[/sup] > > When p = 0 > > E =mc[sup]2[/sup] > > Res ipsa loquitur > > I rarely post in the pit, should I have used some dirty words? I haven’t been exposed to anything so vile and filthy since a clown porn DVD narrated by George Carlin. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/91 "2006-07-03T00:41:24Z")
> [@Valteron](#): > > We have a movie industry but it is a laugh. 90% of what Canadians watch in a week is American movies. Ditto our TV. On the plus side, you have “Trailer Park Boys” and “Corner Gas,” both of which are better than 99% of the shows on American TV. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/92 "2006-07-03T01:07:46Z")
Yes,that was a typo. Thanks for pointing it out. The rest is over-simplification on my part. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/93 "2006-07-03T01:12:29Z")
The Canadian Ft. Frances team pulled the American International Falls team into the river during the cross-boundary tug-of-war a couple of days ago, so I guess that pretty much settles everything. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/94 "2006-07-03T01:50:50Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > I’ll bite - I respectfully submit you are wrong, **Flying dutchman**. > > Canada existed from July 1, 1867, as a self-governing Dominion within the Empire. At various stages along the way, it acquired more and more self-governing powers, until today it is a completely independent, sovereign state. However, that did not mean that a completely new country was created each time Canada acquired new powers. To use the birthday analogy, one doesn’t re-start counting one’s age from the time one gets a driver’s licence, or from the time one is eleigible to vote, or from the time one reaches full legal capacity at age 18 (or 21, depending on the jurisidiction). Those are steps along the way to becoming a full adult, but one’s age still dates from the time of birth, which in the case of Canada, is July 1, 1867. You have just made a very convincing argument with the anology to a human birth. Congratulations, you get first prize. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/95 "2006-07-03T02:09:50Z")
I was going to write a post arguing that the American Revolution was the conception, with the English being the sperm and the French ebing the egg, but it all got kind of weird. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/96 "2006-07-03T02:15:15Z")
I don’t get the point of the OP. The vast majority of countries are probably insignificant on their own. If Canada doesn’t sing its own praises and ensure its own TV shows and films are produced, who will? NZ is only just (last 10 years or so) starting to develop a sense of national pride - let’s be honest, who else will do this? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/97 "2006-07-03T02:18:25Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The Canadian Ft. Frances team pulled the American International Falls team into the river during the cross-boundary tug-of-war a couple of days ago, **so I guess that pretty much settles everything**. Um, not quite. The invasion begins Thursday. We just simply cannot be second in in a tug-of-war of any sort. Hope you enjoyed the Maple syrup and Canadian Tower while they lasted. Whisky to be served atop the Space Needle for 6 months. Canadians welcomed! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/98 "2006-07-03T03:11:00Z")
Amusingly, my daughter was watching the Sunday afternoon movies on one of our local UHF stations, today, and they ran [Canadian Bacon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/). ---
**Author:** ![Carlyjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/99 "2006-07-03T04:09:44Z")
As a Canadian, I’d like to politely cough at this entire thread, then, gathering all of my emotion and ire on the subject into a single movement, shrug. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853/100 "2006-07-03T14:13:22Z")
> [@Ring](#): > > I was born and raised in Detroit, the only place in the continental US where Canada is due south. In the interest of thoroughness on this topic. While researching to respond to the Quebec Separation thread I came across quite a few regions of Maine and one in New Hampshire that can claim Canadian territory that lies due south. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-the-insignificant-fart-in-a-windstorm/362853.md?page=6)