# Determining If Someone Is Canadian... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072 "2014-10-21T21:16:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/161 "2014-10-31T04:46:13Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > There were like 200 people at the games. That’s the entire population of my high school for half of the time I was there, so being a crap turnout is a strange idea. \>\_\> (I think it was up to 400 when I left.) But, yeah, sports aren’t nearly as big a deal to anyone who’s not on one of the teams. (And Reach was as big as sports were at my school.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2014, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/162 "2014-10-31T19:35:05Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > No homecoming, let alone a homecoming king or homecoming queen where I grew up in southern Ontario. > > There were varsity letters for high school athletes who played on a certain number of competitive teams, but sports were not a big deal as they are in the USA. I got my varsity letter for being on the Honour Roll (top 5% of students academically, or whatever the hell the criteria were). But I agree - sports were nowhere near as big a deal in my schools as they are in the US. A bunch of kids played a bunch of sports because they were interested in them/good at them (including having a curling team). I don’t think anyone planned to go anywhere with their high school sports participation (except maybe to a university team). They were basically hobbies. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/163 "2014-11-01T13:37:04Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > > [@jsquire](#): > > > > Simple test: ask them who the Canadian PM is. > > > > If they reply “Stephen Harper”, they’re well-informed Americans. > > > > If they reply “Stephen Hareperrr”, they’re Canadian. > > From the Maritimes. Oh c’mon, that’s someone coughing up phlegm. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/164 "2014-11-01T13:38:54Z")
He wasn’t coughed up. He was duly [del]expectorated[/del] elected. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/165 "2015-03-06T20:12:39Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > But would you want your daughter to marry one? :dubious: > > > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > > > It looks rather as though she will. It’s confirmed! She will! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/166 "2015-03-06T20:47:03Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > It’s confirmed! She will! Congratulations, eh. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072/167 "2015-03-07T02:19:46Z")
I haven’t read the entire zombie but --------- usually I cal them a “%&\*# @#& %&#?@!” If they apologize, they are Canadian. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/determining-if-someone-is-canadian/702072.md?page=8)