# Why Can't I Own a Canadian? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771 "2007-12-12T19:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/121 "2007-12-18T04:14:38Z")
Sheesh, animators? Computer-generated models? Reality is much more low tech. Count Floyd has a 2x4 nailed to his back so he can stay upright… ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/122 "2007-12-18T04:52:09Z")
[QUOTE=Barbarian] Sheesh, animators? Computer-generated models? Reality is much more low tech. Count Floyd has a 2x4 nailed to his back so he can stay upright… [/QUOTE] That’s just what everyone tells you. They trot out the prosthesis at the interviews and media events and no-one is the wiser. But the CGI model is the one you see on the news. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/123 "2007-12-18T06:07:42Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] heh… those Canucks have their own version of 133t speak. [/QUOTE] We’re being polite and trying to use common terms that 'Murkins will have heard of. It can get a lot 133ter than this, my southern friend. “Hey, throw that 2-4 and the mickeys in the back and we’ll grab a couple of double-doubles on the way out to the cabin. Are you bringing your bunny-hug? It’s gonna be chilly on the tote road up to PA.” ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/124 "2007-12-18T06:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] “Hey, throw that 2-4 and the mickeys in the back and we’ll grab a couple of double-doubles on the way out to the cabin. Are you bringing your bunny-hug? It’s gonna be chilly on the tote road up to PA.” [/QUOTE] Um… what’s a tote road? ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/125 "2007-12-18T06:20:26Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Um… what’s a tote road? [/QUOTE] It’s what the guys in the Bancroft tuxedos drivin’ the skidders and dozers built. [sub]I think[/sub] ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/126 "2007-12-18T07:03:35Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] “Hey, throw that 2-4 and the mickeys in the back and we’ll grab a couple of double-doubles on the way out to the cabin. Are you bringing your bunny-hug? It’s gonna be chilly on the tote road up to PA.” [/QUOTE] Hey, you got hydro up there? ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/127 "2007-12-18T07:21:30Z")
If you really wanted to make money owning Canadians, you had to get into it early when good breeding stock was available cheap. Now it is nothing more than a pyramid scheme, the only way to make money is to get more people to buy your bred Canadians. Shearing them once a year does not offset the daily maintenence cost. ---
**Author:** ![Idlewild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8491ac/32.png) [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/128 "2007-12-18T11:29:38Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] We’re being polite and trying to use common terms that 'Murkins will have heard of. It can get a lot 133ter than this, my southern friend. “Hey, throw that 2-4 and the mickeys in the back and we’ll grab a couple of double-doubles on the way out to the cabin. Are you bringing your bunny-hug? It’s gonna be chilly on the tote road up to PA.” [/QUOTE] Heh. I bought some hand-dyed silk yarn from a Canadian company and the hank was labelled ‘Two Four’ both because it’s 200 grams/400 meters and with an explanation about beer. Any country where they can find a way to work beer references into yarn sales is good with me. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/129 "2007-12-18T13:19:51Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Hey, you got hydro up there? [/QUOTE] There’s no hydro in PA. You gotta go to Winterpeg or Ontariario and points east for hydro. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/130 "2007-12-18T13:52:31Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] ( **Ginger** - eight years up north equals being born in Newfoundland? Interesting math. 😃 ) [/QUOTE] Well, I’ve been screeched in, drank from a boot, eaten seal meat from a can, and if I laid on the accent you wouldn’t be able to understand me. Oh, and to add to it, I was taught to jig by a Cape Bretoner. ETA: And flipper pie, by jaysus. I’d tried to block it out all of these years. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/131 "2007-12-18T14:22:48Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] ETA: And flipper pie, by jaysus. I’d tried to block it out all of these years. [/QUOTE] **YOU ATE FLIPPER?!** No wonder they canceled the show. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/132 "2007-12-18T14:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] **YOU ATE FLIPPER?!** No wonder they canceled the show. [/QUOTE] Dweeb. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/133 "2007-12-18T18:54:32Z")
And in TBay, ON: shags. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/134 "2007-12-18T18:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] And in TBay, ON: shags. [/QUOTE] We were just talking about that at lunch. Being from Southern Ontario, we called those something else. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/135 "2007-12-18T23:23:37Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] heh… those Canucks have their own version of 133t speak. [/QUOTE] \ Even Cancuks deserve more respect than _that!_ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/136 "2007-12-19T02:20:26Z")
Cancuks? We don’ need no stinkin’ Cancuks! ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771/137 "2007-12-19T21:23:34Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] That’s just what everyone tells you. They trot out the prosthesis at the interviews and media events and no-one is the wiser. But the CGI model is the one you see on the news. [/QUOTE] I’ve written for the man. I know what the CTV colours actually stand for. 2x4. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-own-a-canadian/429771.md?page=6)