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Attention all Canadians!!!

03:25 / 01.07.03

Happy Canada Day!!!

04:06 / 01.07.03

et tu aussi mon amie!

...but I shouldn't post, since I've never celebrated Canada Day, nad have to work all day tomorrow... eh, it beats Victoria Day and Simcoe Day combined!

04:06 / 01.07.03

04:39 / 01.07.03

The Friendly Giant pic brought a tear to my eyes...

http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hgscc/glossary.html

http://www.iam.ca/

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/README.html

http://ccr.ptbcanadian.com/simpsons/

08:11 / 01.07.03

Like Holy Smokes, eh? I got in from Timmy's aboot a moment ago with my late night double-double, and ya' know I'm keeping my stick on the ice these days, and so anyway I spies this thread and knew immediately what it was all aboot,eh? 'Cause today's our nation's day and if you stop to think aboot it, that Cretien is going out with flying colours in my book. I mean, not joining in the war, decriminalizing the herb, and legalizing same sex marriages: fuckin' no doubt aboot it, eh? So break out the backbacon, buy yourself a two-four, and kick back to enjoy the fireworks, eh? And give a cop a donut, fercrisesakes!

[and as an aside, I was talking about the Friendly Giant with my partner only yesterday!]

10:24 / 01.07.03

Kulukukukukooooo.....
[tribute to Great White North Theme song on SCTV]

Here is my personal tribute to Canada, taken from the This American Life web site, half of the description of their show about Canada:

Who's Canadian?
5/30/97
Episode 65

Notes and stories about the Canadians among us. Are they in fact any different from red-blooded Americans? They claim they're not. Skeptical Americans put their position to the test.
Prologue. Passing. The true story of a dinner conversation in which several Americans came to realize how many iconic Americans are in fact Canadian. "If William Shatner's Canadian," one insists, "then I could be Canadian." Another opines that there should be a law against Peter Jennings, a Canadian, from hosting a network news program. (6 1/4 minutes)

11:56 / 01.07.03

Wooohoooo

Have a Beer, Dooooodes!!!

I am so proud, eh!

I am moving to Montreal in about 3 weeks...Wait...

Oh F**K, how do I say that in french?

Foust is SO authentic

12:55 / 01.07.03

O Canada!
Terre de nos aîeux,
Ton front est ceint
de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras
sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter
la croix! Ton histoire
est une épopée,
Des plus brillants exploits.
Et ta valeur,
de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
Protégera nos foyers
et nos droits.

13:51 / 01.07.03

May Tricks: If you want to say it like a real french quebecker its: "J'men demenage au Montreal en trois d'hostie de semaines tabernacle!"

Which means Im moving to montreal in 3 fucking weeks, sonofabitch.
or literally
I'm moving to Montreal in three commmunion waffer weeks tabernacle.

Weehee! Montreal Barbmeet!

13:58 / 01.07.03

RIGHT ON!!!

I am so there Kegboy! (Oops, wrong forum tabernack!)

HAPPY B-DAY, CANADA!!!

Ya know, we are 136 years young!

16:21 / 01.07.03

Yes, and thats only 94 years young American.

17:05 / 01.07.03

Ok, batter me over the head with a stupid stick if you will, but are all bits in canada either english speaking or french speaking, or are there bits of both? If there are, how dya know what to speak when you go into a shop?

Aaaahh... such a relief to let the stupid person out of me once in a while. Happy canada day, you lot! xx

17:46 / 01.07.03

gingerbop: Canda has 2 official languages, English and French. Each province has one or both of the languages as their official language. Quebec is the only province with French as its only official laguage.(and as such has develope such infamous institutions as L'office De La Langue Francais aka the dept. of the french language which has come up with such brilliant ideas such as any company with more than 50 people in it must use french software on their computers even if everyone there is english. All buisness cards must be in french and all signs must have french twice as pedominant as other languages) In theory any Federal institutions (ie post-office,ect..)must be able to serve the public in both official languages. This is rarely the case. In quebec some people cant speak english and in other provinces some cant speak french. Thankfully most will try to communicate with hand signals and flinging feeces

How do you know what to speak: Rule of thumb, in Quebec they speak french but you can have a stumble through conversation in english in most cities (in smaller towns you will be hunted by villagers with pitchforks and torches). Im not sure about the rest of Canada on the speaking french as I speak english.

pointless and uncalled for

17:53 / 01.07.03

What a day to be me. I get to be double proud. Not only am I Canadian, but also British and it's brings a gleeful tear to the eye to see one of our spawn all grown up and clever and bright and talented. Canada has to be one of Englands greatest achievements.

And before you all get loaded, remember to mark in your diaries the new Canadian national holiday. it's going to be on Friday and it's Laura Secord Day.

17:59 / 01.07.03

Laura Secord...mmmm..now I want chocolate

pointless and uncalled for

18:02 / 01.07.03

I got 1812 of them right here.

19:03 / 01.07.03

You all are forgetting the greatest Canadian achievement of all time.....how can you forget the Hilarious House of Frightenstein!!???

19:14 / 01.07.03

Ah that was indeed a great show...sigh.
But what about the glory that was Rocket Robin Hood?

20:20 / 01.07.03

Ah...Great Canadian programming.

Remember Polkaroo? here is a bizarre dude...never talks and appears and disapears at will and undetected....fuck, he is my hero...no wait, that's my lover!

It's Ninja-roo!

How can that not effect a child?

20:40 / 01.07.03

I thought the polka dot door was american?

03:19 / 02.07.03

from the IMDB:
The show was hosted by two, dreary Ontario civil servants and a series of stuffed animals who neither moved nor spoke -- and yet played the starring roles. Much like the Ontario government.

I'm assuming it was Canadian. I never could figure out why they didn't just set a fucking trap for the thing. Drawings of ever-more-elaborate (and painful) Polkaroo traps must have occupied a whole week of my kindergarten life, I'm sure. Snuffleuffagus, on the other hand, looked like he could be a real psycho badass if you tried any sissy bear traps on him. I don't think he was Canadian, btw.

A ringing endorsement of my country is somewhere in there. Happy Canada Day.

06:45 / 02.07.03

Ack! Arggleblarg *hic* Papp..papp...ie anananada Kay? *blurk* scooz m...hon tard fer fee,eh? Hi...ham...hanadian: *belehuh*hurg*blaarr*

[Thump]

Whisky Priestess

12:28 / 02.07.03

(someone): Ya know, we are 136 years young!

Kegboy: Yes, and thats only 94 years young American.

Ah, the Canadian peso ... I have sexually transmitted Canadian-ness and was treated yesterday to endless text messages on the virtues of Canada. Would love to visit, but will settle for a Tim Horton's double-double.

BTW I tried to get some foul Ontario wine with which to celebrate, but failed: the only place I could find that sold any Canadian wine was berkmann.co.uk, and theirs is all from British Columbia. I even went to the Canadian Embassy but they had no idea - anyone know where I can get Ontario's finest in the UK?

12:39 / 02.07.03

Yeah...good day my fellow hungover Canucks.

And here to lend some credibility to Canadian talent... SWOLLEN MEMBERS!

I do not like hip hop much...but I like these guys!

Whiskey Priestess: Ontario Wine? Do you mean the ice wines or like a Jackson Triggs Merlot?