Why I love Canada, land of the maple leaf.

Don't count on the rationality. At present there is a Bushie clone aboard as the Canajun Prime Minister named Stephen Harper.

Canaduh!
Canadians.....
17. Play really boring sports alone: i.e. jogging, hiking, biking, rowing, skiing.

oooh, deb, I LOVE it: matriotism, yes! Germans are patriots, because they live in the Vaterland, but Russians must be matriots, because they live in the Rodina, Mother Russia. Yes, things are much clearer now.

I've been promulgating the theory that New Zealand is you guys' Canada, like Canada is our New Zealand. You Ozzies and we Yanks are the manic, nutty ones, and the Canucks and Kiwis are the calm, polite, reasonable counterweights to the respective usses.

Don't mind Chumly, he was probably the victim of one of them exchange programmes in the cradle, by fairies or selkies or something.

dadpad wrote:

Canaduh!
Canadians.....
17. Play really boring sports alone: i.e. jogging, hiking, biking, rowing, skiing.

What! Where's the hockey?

10. Avoid disagreement or argument.
11. Stick together and speak English.

I like the fact that you can step on the toes of Canadian on a subway train, and they will move out of your way and apologize.

SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch
3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down
4. Baseball is Canadian
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Apple pie is Canadian
9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers butt
10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts butt
11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back... past their 'White House'. Then we burned it... and most of Washington.
12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered
to Germany.
13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere.
EVER.
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over a half hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.
16. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.
17. We don't marry our kin-folk.
18. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
19. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
20. A Canadian invented Superman.
21. We have coloured money.
22. Coffee Crisp
23. We don't bomb our allies
24. Our elections only take one day
25. We invented zambonis

BUT MOST IMPORTANT:
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.

Got this as spam; can't vouch for all the inventions or historical accuracy (Just me being polite....)

Because it's not like it's a real country?


And because they talk funny, eh?


And because Beth is there?