Myths About Canada

And just what is wrong with that?



Canadians are just like Australians.

(Except kept in the fridge for later on.)

"Americans are benevolently IGNORANT about Canada,
while
Canadians are malevolently well INFORMED about US" J B Brebner

Hey! You didn't copy and paste this bit, now didcha?

You fibbin' in your profile?

Blame Canada Lyrics

South Park

Sheila: Times have changed
Our kids are getting worse
They won't obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It's Canada's fault!
Sharon: Don't blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the damn cartoon
And now he's off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to **** myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: It seems that everything's gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Copy Guy: They're not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer rich and true,
Instead he burned up like a piggy on the barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hullabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
For...
The smut we must stop
The trash we must bash
The Laughter and fun
Must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before somebody thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus!!!!

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Blame-Canada-lyrics-South-Park/9E94B82AED5BC99248256DD600151A00

And the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLJVRvLNKI

Canadians have a gene that can render fats benign.

Canadians know the secret of doing it in a canoe

Beaver is a food group to a CAnadian.

Canadians have 23 different words for snow ,but have no word for "nice wether"

The American language contains numerous euphemisms related to Canadians and the people and places which deal with Canadians.

The practice of using these euphemisms is likely to have originated with the magical belief that to speak the word Canada was to invite Canadians; a common theory holds that Canadians are a taboo subject for most Americans for precisely this reason.

Could you give me some of those euphemisms and explain the second part?

Sorry, what blacks from what Islands?

You're quite the early bird, Mame! Mornin to ya :-D

Morning to you, too... only it's night here and I can't sleep. Why're you up?

"Canada is a collection of ten provinces with strong governments loosely connected by fear"-Dave Broadfoot

Quebec is one of the ten provinces against which Canada is defending itself--Carl Dubuc

" I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian"- Laurence J Peter

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshal McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians the United States has produced."--Anthony Burgess

"There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for the Canadian cause."-W A Deacon

Perhaps the most striking thing about Canada is that it is not part of the United States.--J BBrebner

A Canadian is a fellow who has become a North American without becoming an American--Arthur L Phelps

To agree to disagree,to harness diversity,to respect dissent, perhaps this is the real essence of Canada- Robert L Perry

Two american boys wer fighting one drew a line in the sand and said step over that line if you dare.

the other chap said nu uh I like it better over here and Canada was born.

Hey folks...just found a bunch of Rick Mercer's "Talking to Americans" videos at youtube.

The blacks from the West Indis--you know, Antigua, Nevis, St. Kitts, Barbados, Jamaica . . . maybe there aren't a lot of them in BC--but there are enough in Tarana that they have their own annual festival . . .

. . . Caribana . . .

There are four seasons in Canada: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Construction.

"Canada could have enjoyed:
English government,
french culture
and American know-how
Instead it ended up with
English know-how
French government
and American culture---John Robert Colombo

I'm a night/early morning lurker

I figured as much ... there are next to no black people out this way, especially on the Island. It's so regional. You have many Somalians in TO, but we probably have the largest Iranian population in Canada. We also don't have many Irish here, but we do have a fair chunk of Brits. And didn't most of the Scots settle in Ontario back in the homesteading days (my great-great grandda being one)?