You’ve never watched “Hockey Night in Canada?” that’s the main place I’ve heard it. Though Neurotik is right, “aboot” isn’t quite right, though I can’t really think of a better way to write out how it sounds. Also, sorry mate, but Canadian beer is garbage. It’s slightly better then the garbage the big breweries down here put out, but it’s still terrible.
Happy Canada Day to you from your cousins to the south, BTW
I vote for Monkey’s solution. Let’s try it for more countries!
Mexico? Iraq? England?
Italy?
Effin’ Belgians, that’s wot!
I think I’ll just punish you all by renaming you Canericans. One flag, one country, then everyone can just hate their fellow countrymen.
Carry on
I “babelfished” this and got:
Maudits are these children of their motherland Empalés once and for all on their bell-tower, That they show you their turns, their museums, their town hall show to You native land until having a cast. That they leave Paris, or Rome, or Sète, Or the Vauvert devil or Zanzibar, Or even my bottom, they are flattered some, mazette, the happy imbeciles who were born some share.
my bottom?
OK, I’m from neither America nor Canada, and I first heard the ‘aboot’ stereotype on South Park. But I was watching old Degrassi episodes the other day, and you guys really do say ‘aboot’. I mean, I thought it was cool, the way there are all these American sounding people talking and then they just drop ‘aboot’ into a sentence. But it was definitely ‘aboot’.
Canerican dollars damn well better be green, as God intended dollars to be. And no flora on the flag, por favour.
At best, it’s “abowt”. Or so the American SO says when I say it.
The only person I’ve ever heard say anything that sounded like " aboot" was from the American midwest. Canada!= Fargo.
NoGoodNamesLeft:
I used to feel that way, but my admiration for the French has soared in leaps and bounds in the last 6-8 months.
I think Canada should annex the U.S., pure and simple…They would become part of Greater Canada.
Jovan hit the nail on the head…
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It’s easy to forget about you guys until you go off on another one of your “we are important too” rants.
Plans are underway, it seems.
Go have some back bacon and beer, you hosers. --From the giant manhood of the USA
As for Canadians handling sun, I’ll see it when I believe it.
glove slap to face
…Tanning at noon… …No sunscreen…
Why the defensiveness over “aboot”/about?
More significantly, why the DENIAL of Canadian accents and idioms?
Long before “South Park” came along, I recall how Rush referred to producer Terry Brown as “Broon” (even SPELLING his name that way in album cover credits). The SCTV gang used “aboot” constantly, for comic effect. Heck, it’s long been one of Canada’s most admirable qualities that its people don’t take themselves too seriously, and are quick to laugh at themselves, their institutions and their idiosyncracies.
Sigh… I suppose it’s one thing for Canadians to twit themselves and each other in all-Canadian settings, but another to hear outsiders telling the same jokes or laughing at the same things.
Okay, okay, I’ll translate:
Damned be those children of the motherland
Impaled once and for all on their bell-towers
Who show you their towers, their museums, their town halls
Who show you the native land until you can’t see straight
That they come out of Paris, or Rome, or Sète
Or the devil knows where, or even Zanzibar
Or my ass, they’re proud of it, by God
The happy imbeciles who were born somewhere
That’s not a typo. furiously chugging second cup of coffee I see things after I believe in them. It’s positive thinking run amuk into psychosis.
Right, because only the US is important; anyone else who likes where they’re from and is tired of hearing casual patronization is just an upstart. Keep forgetting.
Indeed. Most of the West would go to Alberta. Yukon would annex Alaska. The South would be renamed Somavut, Arizona and New Mexico the Southwest Territories. The west coast would go to british Columbia, and Ontario would insist on Michigan, Ohio, and New York. Idaho would become the Prince Edward Mainland (the potatoes, you understand), and New England would be divided between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Louisiana would once again be part of Quebec. And Florida and Hawaii would be given to Newfoundland and Labrador, with thanks and apologies.
Bring it.
Daddy pulls the string on the dim light bulb as he hurriedly descends the basement stairs. Box-tops fly like scattered crows as the search for that damn flag and a rusty old rifle frantically begins.