The Canada Thread

That was all pretty damned funny, but the last line was hilarious. People in t.o. love the Leafs even without Lord Stanley's cup. I suspect if the Leafs ever actuaaly manage to win it, there will be a serious spike of deaths from heart attack in t.o.

Here ya go, Darlin' . . . Dave cooks the turkey. There's a link at the bottom of the text for the "Dave cooks the turkey" sketch, and it opens a new Quicktime player window. I'll keep lookin' to see if i can do better.

Wonderful!
Loved it.
Thanks, Setanta.

MCkenzie posted that "Temperature scale" for reference and I have close experience with some small restaurant in St Johns Newf. We were eating near the outer wall windows and it was foggy and maybe 45 degrees out. They had the windows wide open and everybody seemed to be ok with that. (So we hadda move close to the kitchen).

I too have been selectively listening. Im gonna file these and whoop up an MP3 for the car, they are that good. GREAT!!
Our humore is embodied in such things as "Car Talk" or certain skits in "Prairie Home Companion" although, even PHC is sometimes showing Keilors advanced age.

There was one item by this Newfie Guy ("Jimmie the JAnitor? may have been his stage name). He produced some neat letters to his Mom and they would have him do these as spots on the radio.

I was really interested in seeing Rick Mercer in action, but unfortunately the link provided was temporarily (I think?) unavailable. Or maybe just outside Canada .... ?
So next best thing: try youtube.
This is from 2007:

http://www.jimmythejanitor.com/listen.html#
I've never heard of him. Here's his home page. I can't listen to it, as I can't get whatever plugin is necessary. Maybe you can.

This cross border thing can be a wee bit frustrating. Sorry, it should work as it's CBC's page. Regardless, I'm happy you're liking the show...

Thank-you very much. I love that story.

Here's an excerpt from a few years of the Just for Laughs Festival.

http://www.hahaha.com/

Jeremy Hotz

Shawn Majumder on Canadians in America:

Ha.
That was very funny, Ceili.
As an Australian, you have no idea how much I related.

There have been moments in my o/s travels when, on discovering that there's an Australian present, people have responded with absolute delight .... sort of like they've just discovered a koala in their midst! Aw how cute, an Australian!

Or, once once when I was waiting for a bus in England, I struck up a conversation with a very debonair Indian-English businessman ....
His response when discovering I was Australian?:
"Really? But you speak English so well! No one would ever know!"

I have this feeling that traveling Canadians & Australians might share quite a few similar experiences.

when visiting canada it might be helpful to take some lessons in the newfoundland dialect also . it's an enriching experience !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLuIXwsLDw&feature=related

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire//2011/11/its-time.html
The 2nd installment of an excellent series on Aboriginals in Canada.

When I was up in Vancouver my sister invited me to watch the post production work on her new show "Arctic Air".
It's on CBC on Tuesday nights. I think you Canucks will enjoy it.

http://www.cbc.ca/arcticair/about.html

I've been watching it. Some absolutely beautiful scenery up there. I've never been that far north, one day I hope to see it for myself.

it's a pretty good show, the writer for Arctic Air also wrote a great aboriginal drama called North of 60

of the new CBC shows this year i'm enjoying Mr D the best

Well . . . i hope you're learning something young man.

Adam Beach is a hottie!!
I loved North '0' 60. I used to see a lot of the cast in the neighbourhood. I would bump into Teevee all the time at the local Max store. I haven't seen him in a while, heard he got into to some trouble.. I hope he's doing ok.

Mr. D is so very dry. Too funny!!

So true!!

North of 60 was amazing.