yever been in Newfoundland? wheeeooo, its like alabama with a funny accent
Martin Lether King, from Muskoka, could very well have said that Nick. Martin Luther King though, I doubt it. The interesting thing about that story is that the name on the store was supposed to read "Martin's Leather King", but the cheap Inuit labour he hired weren't terribly effecient with English.
farmerman, sprechen Sie Deutsch?
The Soviet Socialist Republic of Canukistan is tolerated--barely--by 'Mericans, cuz we be moral and upstanding . . . an' cuz they're just so damned polite . . .
excuse me
excuse me
i think you stepped on my foot
was i in your way?
excuse me
excuse me
i'm sorry
I suppose I could go back and correct my typo using the A2K edit feature but that would be depriving you of a good time. Enjoy!
Sorry Rick - I did not mean to insinuate that you were. Just wanted to clarify what I was wrote.
We keep apologizing this way.
Sorry Rick I didn't mean to make you apologize again.
No problem Rick, I spelled 'efficient' wrong. No need to correct. See how polite we are?
I don't feel anything in particular one way or another. They're just fellow people.
I'm sorry. Did my apologizing cause a problem?
I sure didn't mean it to.
I'm so sorry.
Can I pay for your dry-cleaning?
IMO Family Guy, The Simpsons and South Park each summarize American feelings about Canada quite well in specific episodes or films.
The Simpson's visit to Canada was the best.
Homer called Canada "America Lite" or somethin'...
Anywho, I found this:
http://ccr.ptbcanadian.com/simpsons/
Quote:After a fight breaks out at the baseball game, Sideshow Mel suggests to sing a song. The Sea Captain recommends "Not a hymn to war like our national anthem, but a sweet soothing hymn like the national anthem of Canada".
The entire crowd then joined hands in the shape of the maple leaf and sang Oh Canada. "Well Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer," said Milhouse. "Except to all of America's problems," said Bart.
Another quote I liked was from a Canadian guy to Bart:
Quote:Oh you'll win her back eh? And B, we're closing in 5 minutes
Here are some clips from that episode (and I think others as well):
http://ccr.ptbcanadian.com/simpsons/media/global.wmv
For what it is worth, Australians love Canadians.
We think you are like us - except polite, quiet and serious.
Well, not like us at all, really. 'Cept you have a proper health system and welfare and such.
And - some of us think, when it comes to not being pushed round by the US, you guys now have all our gonads...
Ay caramba!
Did you want those gonads?
We're sorry. Maybe cav could make something up out of liver and kidney bits?
For those of you who are not aware, remnants of the Wisconsin glacier (the last major north American continental ice cap) still exists on Baffin Island. Global Warming is GWB's preemptive strike to get that Canadian b*****d before it come back to get us.
I'd like to say, for the record, that most Americans realize that Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park are fictional cartoons that exaggerate funny little differences in politics and people, and also I'd like to mention that most men are not really too much like Homer Simpson over here! We don't believe everything just because it's on TV, even though we do act like complete morons at times! Thank you.
Some of us can even find Canada on a map!
the reincarnation of suzy wrote:I'd like to say, for the record, that most Americans realize that Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park are fictional cartoons that exaggerate funny little differences in politics and people, and also I'd like to mention that most men are not really too much like Homer Simpson over here! We don't believe everything just because it's on TV, even though we do act like complete morons at times! Thank you.
Some of us can even find Canada on a map!
I was saying the art imitates life well, not vice-versa.
Edit: the show I referenced was written by canadian Simpsons writers who live in the states.
