# The American-Canadian International Relations Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684 "2013-07-27T17:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/21 "2013-07-28T22:28:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I referenced Canadia instead of Canada and some Canuck lost their shit. > > (America - American. Canada - Canadan? No. Canadian. Therefore the country should be Canadia.) I agree but it gets worse than that. I have been blasted for referring to their rogue Air Force as ‘Canadian Geese’. Oh no, those are ‘Canada Geese’ according to some militants. I don’t care what the dictionary says, it is a stupid name and my term stands but I will modify it to be even worse than that if this keeps up. The U.S. launches drone strikes on foreign countries because we like to do things the most expensive way possible. Canada, in its infinite practical sensibilities, has launched these large and highly aggressive shit-bombs on us for decades and they have the gall to complain about the term we use for them. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/22 "2013-07-28T22:39:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You racist bastard! 🙂 I like beer. We get along great. They consider me an honorary Canadian. At the office, I often have act as a translator when we have calls with the home office. > [@Ibanez](#): > > Trivial, but when are Americans going to realize you can put a lot more than just ketchup on your French fries ? > > I remember vacationing Virginia, asking for vinegar for my fries. The lovely waitress brought malt vinegar. No the vinegar you clean stuff with, the white vinegar, have any ? > > No, y’all from Canada ? Also, they taught me how to eat french fries. One friend used to keep white vinegar in his car, so he’d have something to put on his chips when we went to the local English pub. None of that malt stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/23 "2013-07-28T22:57:30Z")
You want a Caesar with those fries? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/24 "2013-07-29T00:27:51Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I doubt it. They are probably just rounding up resources before they do a sneak attack en masse (remember the time when they burned down the White House?). > > I always say that Canadians are the greatest security threat to the U.S. bar none. They look and act almost exactly like regular people and they blend in extremely well. You could have a group of Canadian spies hiding in plain sight right next to you and you wouldn’t ever know unless they slip up and made some weird reference that a normal person would never make. They try to lull us into a false sense of complacency and solidarity until hello, there goes D.C. again. Wait, I think I see one walking down the street right now. I will be right back. “Could”? “Try”? One of the larger Canadian cities, by population, is Los Angeles. This is not an accident. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/25 "2013-07-29T01:47:36Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Should we even get into the fact that the country is not America, but the United States of the (continent) America? 😃 That’s why whenever someone says something about the United States, I snark back, “Oh yeah? Which one!?” ([see official name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico)). > [@Leaffan](#): > > You want a Caesar with those fries? :pukey smiley: Wars have been started over less. Spoilin’ nice clams. Give it to us raw and w-r-r-riggling; you keep nasty tomato-clam-vodka juice. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684/26 "2013-07-29T02:09:05Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I referenced Canadia instead of Canada and some Canuck lost their shit. > > (America - American. Canada - Canadan? No. Canadian. Therefore the country should be Canadia.) I saw Greg Proops (as you’ll recall, a frequent guest on _Who’s Line is it Anyway?_) headline a standup evening in Calgary once. He did the same thing–remarked on how nice it was to be in “Canadia”–and I’m sure he knew exactly what he was doing. Sure enough, an audience member corrected him. Proops promptly put the heckler in his place, before segue-ing nicely into an extremely funny routine in which he compared the US and Canada. As you might expect, Proops was diplomatic, and neither country emerged the winner. The audience loved it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-canadian-international-relations-thread/664684.md?page=1)