# Help me become a Canadian! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537 "2002-11-19T15:53:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/41 "2002-11-20T20:28:41Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m looking into going somewhere less… you know… No, I don’t actually. Care to expound? > [@](#): > > I’d like to say I’m officially a member of the cool country to the north and not the one I am in now. Hm. P’raps this should be re-titled “The Love-It-or-Leave-It Thread”. Say, do me a favor once one of y’all gets yer round tuit. Take Alec Baldwin with you when you go - he promised he’d leave and he ain’t gone yet! ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/42 "2002-11-20T22:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \* > **Step number one would be to stop calling it Reindeer Land. We don’t like that. Step number two is to become very very polite; shake any accent you have is number three.** Considering we don’t even have Reindeer, probably a good idea. I have however heard Canada called Beaver-Land. For a couple of reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/43 "2002-11-20T22:59:55Z")
**Kn\*ckers** you just want to see Enterprise before everyone else dontcha? Hey, thats reserved for me and **carnivorousplant**. Its hard enough competing for Enterprise thread starting rights… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/44 "2002-11-20T23:51:20Z")
OK, Wearia, you start next week. We will talk about what no one else has seen with mysterious, cryptic remarks:“You know the first thing they did.” “You mean the ship thing? That was bogus” “No, no the other thing” “Oh yeah, that was cool.” ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/45 "2002-11-21T00:29:12Z")
Why do Canadians screw doggie style? - So they can both watch the hockey game… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/46 "2002-11-21T05:47:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*OK, Wearia, you start next week. We will talk about what no one else has seen with mysterious, cryptic remarks:“You know the first thing they did.” > “You mean the ship thing? That was bogus” > “No, no the other thing” > “Oh yeah, that was cool.” \*\* Actually I was just joking, but thats about the best idea I’ve heard all day. See **Kn\*ckers**? The guys with the early feed have all the fun :D. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/47 "2002-11-21T16:27:49Z")
OK, I miss out by three points on the test and this morning my boss gets a padded envelope from Canada with “Pour a vec on Avion” stamped on it. I know that Napoleon, that nasty French guy, called England “Perfidious Avion”, but WTF is a vec and why should it be poured on English speakng people? ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/48 "2002-11-21T17:48:19Z")
I (a canuck) missed qualifying by two points, mainly because I haven’t finished college yet. Getting a degree would give me another ten pionts or so, then I’m a shoe in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537/49 "2002-11-21T17:54:52Z")
I scored a 73. I would have gotten higher but I don’t have any job prospects up there currently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-become-a-canadian/137537.md?page=2)