Although I am a dual citizen this is a shout out to all the cool Canadian things… Some of which only true Canadians will understand.
So, what do Canadians have to be proud of?
1. Smarties.
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp.
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 coulda kicked 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, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied…Go figure..
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.
14. Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an 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. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth’s surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo. (Ever heard of prairie oysters?)
20. We don’t marry our kin-folk.
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
23. A Canadian invented Superman.
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
24. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada!!
Oh yeah… and our elections only take one day.
Happy Canada Day!
July 2, 2008 at 11:15 am
Didn’t know it was Canada Day… or that there even was a Canada Day!!! Fascinating list (I question the “baseball is Canadian”) — but it’s still not enough to make me want to move there. I remember one thing in particular about Canada: their Grape Nuts cereal really tastes unbelievably awful – nothing like good ol’ U.S. Grape Nuts!!! So, when are you coming to Lacey for a visit???
July 3, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I am deeply disturbed by your propaganda machine. Silence your lying tongue hoser!
July 4, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Come on Mike, really, never heard of Canada Day… What rock have you been under? Really, the nation of Canada is quite offended.
I too agree that the Grape nuts feels like something that should be fed to a horse.
And i think you are right in the fact that the baseball tradition may be a stretch to attribute to a canadian. I guess we will give it to the British just to be fair.
As far as a trip to Lacey I do not know as of yet. Any info on the dates of that campout?
July 4, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Brittian, propoganda machine? Remember that you sleep with your Canadian wife. I would watch what you say about the nation…
March 10, 2012 at 10:53 am
iPad guenstig in Altenstadt…
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