Please pick up a 2-4 of Crystal and a box of persians. Wilma’s cousins from Tarawna will be there and wants to try them.
I don’t think you get how it works, but CBC didn’t lose hockey because they lacked funding. Hockey made money for the CBC, and they did not need or receive funding to keep it.
By all accounts, CBC entirely lost hockey because their executives just flat-out bungled the negotiations. You can found a thousand insider reports online and they all say the same thing; Lacroix et al. assumed they had a divine right to broadcast hockey and tried to dictate terms that seemed to be mired in the past, something that is pretty typical of CBC.
How can you speak and not have an accent? Only mute people don’t have accents.
Hush, RickJay is in denial.
Yeah, because there are accents in Sign too.
Do you mean their Bellingham Costco cart?
Localisms, rather.
Actually, no, there are accents. African American signers sign differently than white signers, men sign differently from women, and, yes, there are regional signs…
Ask them about grade school. If they say “When I was in Grade 8…” they’re Canadian, if they say “…Eighth Grade” they’re American.
Likewise, ask about high school - if they say “When I was in Grade 9…” or Grade 10, 11, or 12 they’re Canadian, if they say “When I was a freshman…” or Sophomore, Junior, or Senior they’re American.
(I don’t know about anybody else but I have never heard those terms used here.)
Definitely not. I need to think about what they even mean when I hear them.
If you’re watching a TV show set in Kansas, and there are mountains in the distance? Those mountains are Canadian.
Austin Powers paraphrased: “You know what’s remarkable is how much England looks in no way like Southern California,” cue desert background.
Or it doesn’t have to be Canada just the wrong place. Like movie Washington DC with skyscrapers (tallest non-monument building: 329ft/100m). Also skiing in Denmark.
They also use grades 10, 11 and 12 in conjunction with sophomore etc in the US. At least where I was.
Now I’m trying to picture what arrangement of socks and toques a naked man would be sporting. 
I wasn’t sure I’d get away with that, even as a joke. 
From the Maritimes.
The Canadians in the crowd know what HNIC is, even if they aren’t sports fans.
Well, you used “eh” correctly - you pass.
The Barenaked Ladies even have a song about it - “Grade 9.”
We were watching “The Flash” last night, and noticed there was a Bay store in the background of the mall that is supposed to be in the US. Oops!
Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior (along with “homecoming” and “varsity”) are phrases I know solely as stereotypical code words spoken in films about teenage kids from small town America (involved somehow in football).
Now get out there, win it for the home team, and give 110% cuz Brad finally asked Sandy out to the prom and these are truly the best days of your lives!
I have a friend from Vancouver and the only way you would know he was Canadian is that he has a tendancy to say “eh?” when he’s had a bit too much beer. 
My favourite is still in “The Long Kiss Goodnight” (with Geena Davis) when they’re walking around “New Jersey” and there’s the big ole Honest Ed’s sign lit up in the background.
Same with “Homecoming King” and “Homecoming Queen” - do those exist anywhere in Canada?
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.
High school sports are almost nonexistent. Sure, there’s a football team, and a basketball team, and a soccer team perhaps, but no one goes to the damned games. I remember being let out early on Fridays to attend football games in grade 12. There were like 200 people at the games.