Well, everyone knows that too much heat kills the genes for self-deprecating humour. Seriously, though, try living in a country where you have winter 9 months of the year, and for most of those 9 months, a power outage or going outside for a walk can kill you. What are you going to do about it? Nothing you can do but laugh (or drink insane amounts of vodka, like another cold country we know of).
Oh yeah, I got an email with a listing of “Things overheard in national parks said by Tourists” - can I post that here, or would that violate copyrights?
Email it to me! Please! Think of where I live!
Ginger
Done and done.
Not from what I’ve seen on CSPAN’s “Prime Minister’s Question Time.”
That’s fine, dear. We know the US ignores everyone.
I think Rick Mercer is hysterically funny.
Moving along, as someone once said: Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States.
Seriously, though, I think it’s probably time we stopped obsessing about the US so much. You always hear things like “We don’t want our health care system to be like the American one!” Why don’t we ever hear things like, “We DO want our health care system to be like the Swedish one”?
matt_mcl, that’s the same thing going on - we, for the most part, don’t know anything about the Swedish one.
Some Americans think we’re all communists or socialists because of our health care system. I think this is why Keifer Sutherland’s career never really came into its full flower.
:rolleyes:
I need a smack.
Canada…why does that name sound SO familiar?
See I’ve lost faith in Texans, at least. I was at the Dodgers vs. Astros game on Friday, and it started to rain, and the roof was open. I remarked to a friend why it was taking them so long, and, she being from California, said “Because they’re Texans.” Lo and behold, a guy behind us, diehard Texan, shouted “Well, we had our own country!”
:rolleyes:
God help us all, I’m moving to Canada. Wherein do I buy me an igloo, Ginger?
I realized it when I flipped through a copy of TV guide. It’s sad…
“well, I think it’s pretty obvious why you don’t have your own country any more.”
or
“You think that once being a country make you so great. Even Utah was a country once.”
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buzzes in Things I should of said to that guy?
“Yes you are correct! You win the Idiot of the Day Prize!”
I really didn’t want my ass to be kicked though. But thanks ITR. I’ll keep those in mind.
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Oh hey, I’ve got an extra one in the back room. Check under the Umingmak and muktuk.
Watch out for Nanuq! He’s a little owly today. No seals were up at the surface so he had to make do with tuktu.
Tuquituq kuyaq nanuk, tuqutuq qaalunaaq!
Great, thanks Ginger! Now where can I buy me some flannel, one of those cool hats, and a “Free Quebec from the Clutches of Canada” sign?
I told ya, in the back! Oh waitaminnit, I have a free touque from a case a’ beer around here somewhere. And I have lotsa flannel - there are flannel trees in my back yard. What tartan do you like best?
And sorry, babes, but “My Canada Includes Quebec.”
Ginger
umm, Wastrel, I doubt that the separatistes would have their manifesto in English…
as for the rest, Mark’s Work Warehouse will have flannel and touques.
Yeah I realized that Northern, but I’m American, so it’s excused. I didn’t even realize Canada existed until today, you know.
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Yet another Texan who doesn’t know that California was also its own country? Shocking!
anyone notice that they tended to stayaway from people in the military? apparantly we (well some of us) seem to be more aware of the rest of the world then the rest of the Americans (civilians). I always try to watch his bit on "this hour has 22 minutes on CBC (CKWS out of Kingston) it is always funny.
p.s.
Since I live in Marina, California, Whenever someone tells me he’s from Texas, I always say, “Oh, you’re from back Easth, huh?”
To tell you the truth, I might end up getting arrested for that. More than a few of them thar Easterners from Texas damn near went into coronary arrest upon hearing that.
Drat. Missed it in preview.
Oh, you’re from back East, huh?"
I have to tell you, alibey, my ex is Army and actually lives in Kingston (as I used to), but is probably MORE clueless about the rest of the world than anyone on that show was.
Send a man across the country, send a man overseas, and he still won’t learn more than he has to.