# Damned Canadians. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 12, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437 "2004-11-12T19:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/21 "2004-11-13T01:11:14Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **Ex** ol’ buddy, you know I like you enough that I’d give you a beer if you showed up at my house and might even let you use my tools, but I gotta disagree with you about blaming the Canadians for the snow. [In this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=285448&page=3), post #118, you admitted to making policy decisions based on what makes sense rather than making decisions consistent with past practices or something like that. Using **sense** in the work setting is known to cause ensuing catastrophes the likes of which humanity has never known. Has _Dilbert[sup]TM[/sup]_ taught you nothing? Blaming the Canadians indeed! It is you who has brought this and probably impending doom to all humanity. Nothing good ever comes of using sense in the workplace. Let this be a lesson to ya. 😛 I admit resposibility for nothing. _Nothing_, do you hear? The Canucks did it. I have to blame somebody, and they’re the obvious target. Seriously, what kind of bunch of horrendous slackers can’t control their own weather? I’m ashamed of my Canadian heritage. > [@Elenia28](#): > > Well, you sure screwed up. It’s a half a freakin inch of snow, and my snowman is going to have some serious identity problems. Well, yeah. But it’s a half inch on my fargin’ _deck furniture_ and also on my danged _grill_. You know you don’t want to be all up in my grill. I don’t even want to talk about the flower boxes my dad made for my girlfriend. I was going to put everything away tomorrow, but the stinking Canadians just had to screw me. > [@Elenia28](#): > > Upstate NY is…is…holy crap, I’ve forgotten the word. Yes! Temperate. That’s the word. > [@SteveG1](#): > > New York doesn’t get snow all year, they get about a month of 100+ heat at 100 percent humidity. You are both correct in your different ways. This is a fine place to live. Hot and sunny in summer, beautiful foliage in the fall, cold and snowy (it’s not all bad) in the winter, and dank and muddy in the spring. Um… scratch that last bit. It’s just that I wasn’t… you know… _ready_. Danged Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/22 "2004-11-13T01:13:01Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > Twas a beautiful late fall day here on the Prairies. Snowing out east, is it? > > [Nelson Munz] > HA ha! > [/NM] Cold, breezy, and absolutely beautiful in Toronto. So there. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/23 "2004-11-13T01:16:00Z")
Oh yeah, I’ve just had a lot of beer, so I’m much happier now. Beer: another thing the Canadians seem to think they invented, but it was really the Egyptians or somebody thousands of years ago. I like beer. It makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/24 "2004-11-13T01:34:17Z")
They invented it… _We_ perfected it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/25 "2004-11-13T01:37:48Z")
Yeah, you perfected it. Explain Molson products to me then. That’s just the swill that got smuggled down here durin Prohibition. I swear, that stuff is just as embarrasing as Budweiser (the American kind, not Czech lager). ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/26 "2004-11-13T01:39:37Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Yeah, you perfected it. > > Explain Molson products to me then. That’s just the swill that got smuggled down here durin Prohibition. > > I swear, that stuff is just as embarrasing as Budweiser (the American kind, not Czech lager). OUR BEER IS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY AND I WILL NOT HEAR ANOTHER WORD. _sticks fingers in ears_ ---
**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:** [November 13, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/27 "2004-11-13T01:45:28Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > But it’s a half inch on my fargin’ _deck furniture_ and also on my danged _grill_. Ohhhhhh. I thought you said it was snowing. I hadn’t realized you meant that it was “snowing”. Half an inch, huh? Wow. Let me just fetch a pen and paper so I can write home about that. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/28 "2004-11-13T02:25:27Z")
YeahwellIhavetowipedownallmypreishablestuffandputitallintheshedbutIhavetobecarefullbecausesnowmeltsandI’llhavedrainageissuesandthewoodwillrotand… I’M NOT READY! I can take two feet in January, but a half-inch in the beginning of November catches me out. Poopyheaded Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/29 "2004-11-13T02:33:58Z")
Wuss. 😉 And we’d appreciate it if you’d keep your damned [global warming](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20041112/sc_nm/environment_arctic_dc) to yourselves, too. :checks: Nope, still not enough to pull out the skidoos…or the toboggans…or the skis… :sighs: ---
**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:** [November 13, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/30 "2004-11-13T02:40:05Z")
So what you’re trying to say is that the real problem here is you? Stop projecting your problems onto others and take control of your life, man! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/31 "2004-11-13T03:00:25Z")
I now have a name to link to my problem, and that name is **Gorsnak**. Hoser. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/32 "2004-11-13T03:02:54Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Well, yeah. But it’s a half inch on my fargin’ _deck furniture_ and also on my danged _grill_. You know you don’t want to be all up in my grill. I don’t even want to talk about the flower boxes my dad made for my girlfriend. I was going to put everything away tomorrow, but the stinking Canadians just had to screw me. Why do you put your grill away? Doesn’t it have a metal hood? Just BBQ all year round, in snow, in rain, in sunshine. If we had to wait for good weather to use the grill, we’d get about one steak and one beer-butt chicken a year. Grilling in one’s parka and moccassins just adds to the manliness quotient, of going out and foraging in the elements. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/33 "2004-11-13T03:04:50Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > OUR BEER IS PERFECT IN EVERY WAY AND I WILL NOT HEAR ANOTHER WORD. _sticks fingers in ears_ Sorry dear, I have two words for you : Labatt 50. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/34 "2004-11-13T03:25:26Z")
Oooh, beer butt chicken. Beer butt chicken rules. You guys still don’t seem to understand the importance of the smoke, though. You are desperately in need of an edumaction in the American art of barbecue. I don’t feel bad about slagging the Canadians, by the way. They’re free to slag me back, and they hate me anyway. They just figure I’m yet another pain-in-the-ass New Yorker who just came up to Montreal to get drunk, tear things up, and harrass the strippers. I’ve never done that, but it’s been known to happen. I don’t even really mind the cold and snow either (as long as it obeys the rules and doesn’t come until Thanksgiving, **Gorsnak** ). I absolutely _love_ the kind of winter that **trupa** described. The kind of winter where you inhale and your nosehairs freeze together kind of sucks. ---
**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:** [November 13, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/35 "2004-11-13T03:27:42Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > I don’t even really mind the cold and snow either (as long as it obeys the rules and doesn’t come until Thanksgiving, **Gorsnak** ). What the blue blazes are you on about now? Thanksgiving has been and gone a month past! Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/36 "2004-11-13T03:36:55Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > I don’t feel bad about slagging the Canadians, by the way. They’re free to slag me back, and they hate me anyway. They just figure I’m yet another pain-in-the-ass New Yorker who just came up to Montreal to get drunk, tear things up, and harrass the strippers. I’ve never done that, but it’s been known to happen. In other words, a tourist. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/37 "2004-11-13T03:39:22Z")
Just want to point out that in spite of being 30 miles north of **Exgineer** we didn’t get even a bit snow today. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/38 "2004-11-13T03:41:08Z")
I guess it means you were under the protection of the Canadian Shield 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/39 "2004-11-13T03:43:39Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > What the blue blazes are you on about now? Thanksgiving has been and gone a month past! Sheesh! There’s your problem – snow is not authorized to be serious about falling until after Thanksgiving. It ain’t our fault that you crazy Canadians insist on celebrating it a month early – and therefore authorizing the snow to fall a month early! Sheesh: a little thing like holiday management of weather control, and trust them crazy British North Americans\* to screw it up! (On a related rant, “ridings”? Given the climate, shouldn’t you elect your M.P.'s from “sledgings” or “skiings”? :p) - Your document of independence is entitled the British North America Act, so that’s the right name. Live with it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437/40 "2004-11-13T03:46:55Z")
> [@detop](#): > > I guess it means you were under the protection of the Canadian Shield 😛 Ah, that explains the thing hovering in the sky. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-canadians/274437.md?page=3)