Hey Canada! Could you please change your countries name to Canadia?

In My Humble Opinion
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I was talking to some friends the other day and somehow the subject went to a friend of ours (Chris) who’s Canadian.

Durring the course of the conversation I slipped and said: "You know he’s from Canadia? (Kan-naid-ia) I meant to say he’s Canadian but somehow I fucked it all up.

Anyways, since then me and my friends have decided we like the name Canadia alot better. So will one of you folks up there see what you can do to have your country’s name changed?

Thanks in advance.

Hell you never know, Ann Coulter might like you guys better if you do… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Well, if we can get Ann on our side… done!

Frankly, I was wondering if we could stick an “I” in front somewhere so that the good ol’ boys can (mis)pronounce it with a long “eye” sound, like Eye-raq and Eye-ran.
Maybe Can-eye-dia. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I say Canadia all the time…I’m just hoping it will catch on, sorta like Santorum and Hi Opal!

-Tcat

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Please don’t do that, it would screw up the joke.

What joke? This joke:

How did Canada get its name?

Well, there were 3 guys sitting around in a snowbank, and they had to figure out what to name this new country they were in. They happened to be playing Scrabble, and they had a bag of tiles. They decided to pick the letters out of the bag to name the country.

The first guy reaches in and pulls out a tile. He looks at it, and says “C, eh.”

The second guy does the same. “N, eh.”

The third guy pulls out his tile. “D, eh.”

And that’s how Canada got its name!

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My brother loves to mess with people who don’t know much about Canada.
He went on vacation to Arizona a few years back and encountered a group of such people. He told them all about what it’s like to live in an igloo, and that he rode a caribou to work every day. They bought it, no questions asked. :smiley:

At a small convenience store there, he handed the cashier a Canadian Tire “bill” as a joke. Not even noticing the “this is not legal tender” note on it, the cashier admired our “currency”. My brother told him that the mustachioed guy on it with the cap and scarf was our president. Again, his words were taken as gospel. I never laughed so much. :smiley:

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I often refer to it as “Canadia” as well when I’m outside of its fair borders, partly as a joke and partly to see if people will start to think that’s how it’s actually pronounced.

(I get far fewer funny looks than I expect. It seems that there is some uncertainty about it.)

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Canadia?! All this time I’ve been calling it Canuckistan! :smiley:

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About six years ago, my then-girlfriend, now-wife was talking to the new boyfriend of a friend of ours. He was from Canada.

In the process of teasing him about how we were going to annex his country, she called it “Canadia”.

For which I have ever since teased her.

OK, it was funny if you were there.

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Well, you know what happens to all those Eye-countries. For some reason they tend to be considerd Evil. :wink:

Shakes, maybe you could start calling Canadians Canadans instead.

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Is there any language out there in which Canada is known as Kanadia?

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I’m with you guys on this one. I’ve been calling it Canadia for a long time now, and I was far from the only one. Maybe that’s because I grew up in Michigan though.

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Sorry folks, but Soviet Canuckistan cannot go changing its name every time some loopy American thinks it would be a good idea. :wink:

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That’ll be a surprise to all those Eye-talians… :smiley:

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Some loopy American? I resemble that remark! :stuck_out_tongue:

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In Soviet Canada the name changes you!

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You remember WWII, don’t you?

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My brother’s been calling it Canadia for years. Won’t he be disappointed to learn that he’s not the first to do this!

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Whenever my dad orders Eye-talian dressing for his salad, I ask him if that’s the one that comes from Eye-taly.

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From my experience, you can tell if someone is from Canada by how they pronounce Newfoundland.

I and every other Canadian I know say “Newfunl’nd”.

Everyone else in the world says “New-found-land”. :smiley:

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There’s a novelty song (I think by “Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie”) about the joys of Canadian National Identity.

The chorus begins, “We’re Canadian/From Canadia…”