# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 80
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1581 "2013-06-28T22:59:06Z")
I hope the music centre can be saved. ☹ ---
**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:** [June 29, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1582 "2013-06-29T02:41:13Z")
15 degrees. The widows are shuttered and the furnace is on: again. I’ve “officially” turned the furnace off three times now, only to capitulate and turn the hydro-sucking beast back on again. And the pool? Pfffff. I may never swim this summer. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1583 "2013-06-29T13:58:59Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 15 degrees. The widows are shuttered and the furnace is on: again. > > I’ve “officially” turned the furnace off three times now, only to capitulate and turn the hydro-sucking beast back on again. And the pool? Pfffff. I may never swim this summer. I always feel terribly ashamed when I have to turn on the heat in my room in June. (My room is in a basement, so it can get colder than the upstairs part of the house.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1584 "2013-06-29T16:37:56Z")
[Meanwhile in Calgary…](https://twitter.com/RobinsonMegan/status/351008718302900224/photo/1/large)I don’t recall Godzilla stopping by, but it wouldn’t have surprised us last week. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1585 "2013-07-01T12:54:02Z")
Happy Birthday to our home and native land!! ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1586 "2013-07-01T13:04:10Z")
A Happy Canada Day! And a wonderful Moving Day to our Quebecois fellows! ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1587 "2013-07-01T13:28:05Z")
Happy Canada Day everyone!! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1588 "2013-07-01T14:04:07Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > A Happy Canada Day! > > And a wonderful Moving Day to our Quebecois fellows! It’s Canada Day, [not Moving Day](http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/moving-day-replaces-canada-day-in-quebec-best-buy-ad) :mad: Not for me, anyway. I’m staying put. 🙂 ---
**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 1, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1589 "2013-07-01T15:38:37Z")
Happy Canada Day everyone. I hope you enjoy the day. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1590 "2013-07-01T16:25:11Z")
Enjoy your Dominion Day. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1591 "2013-07-01T16:38:14Z")
“Dominion Day?” {Looks it up.} Yeah, we don’t do that any more. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1592 "2013-07-01T17:13:42Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > It’s Canada Day, [not Moving Day](http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/moving-day-replaces-canada-day-in-quebec-best-buy-ad) :mad: Bah, it is Moving Day and a regional phenomenon such as the Great Upheaval deserves some recognition (plus it is funny watching all of my facebook friends lose their shit over that news story).🆒 > [@](#): > > Not for me, anyway. I’m staying put. 🙂 Good for you! Moving sucks! Moving on Canada Days sucks harder!😃 ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1593 "2013-07-01T17:41:02Z")
The city of Toronto has planted a bunch of saskatoon bushes in our neighbourhood and they’re just getting ripe now. It seems such a shame for the berries to go to waste, so I went out yesterday and picked a couple of pints. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1594 "2013-07-01T17:59:42Z")
I’m trying to put together [The Great SDMB Canada Day Play-list!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16431525#post16431525) - all suggestions welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1595 "2013-07-01T18:01:58Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Enjoy your Dominion Day. Wow!😕 You really are “lost in the mists of time” as your location says! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1596 "2013-07-01T18:04:28Z")
Come to think of it, last night’s supper involved steak with [Montreal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal) steak spice, [Waterloo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo,_Ontario) Dark beer and [saskatoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon) berries for dessert. All that was missing was [Nanaimo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanaimo) bars and a [dildo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dildo,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador) and we would have had Canada covered from coast to coast! ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1597 "2013-07-01T20:41:39Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > The city of Toronto has planted a bunch of saskatoon bushes in our neighbourhood and they’re just getting ripe now. It seems such a shame for the berries to go to waste, so I went out yesterday and picked a couple of pints. Yum! This pleases me. Cosmic justice has been served. Yummy berries have also been served! 🙂 Sucks to be all the people who don’t know how good they are! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1598 "2013-07-01T22:04:42Z")
In other news, Toronto’s embarrassing mayor [inspires art](http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2013/07/01/rob_ford_story_inspires_toronto_artists.html). ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1599 "2013-07-02T00:51:47Z")
Spent Canada Day Weekend paddling about on Superior. Good times! ---
**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 2, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/1600 "2013-07-02T01:02:43Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Wow!😕 You really are “lost in the mists of time” as your location says! Not necessarily. A friend refuses to call it Canada Day, and still refers to it as Dominion Day. His reasoning? “‘Canada Day’ is a dumb name for a national holiday. There is no ‘United States Day’ or ‘France Day’; we should celebrate the day we lost our colonial status and became a self-governing dominion. Hence, ‘Dominion Day.’” Looked at that way, I think he’s got a point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=79) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=81)