First off, NO this is NOT an American/other country bashing post. It is simply here to amuse Canadians who know how true these are, and to maybe teach others a thing or two about what's "normal" in this country :)
I just thought that this was quite interesting.... Things we may have never known about Canada!!!
I went ahead and deleted the things I thought were unappropriate for the site. If you've seen this list before, and think the ones i removed weren't THAT bad, well, go ahead and post em on a different post. I just didn't wanna take the chance gettin an otherwise great post deleted for a few things :)
SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF...EH..?
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
10. Tim Hortons
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.
19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, 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.
Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!
Have anything not mentioned here? Why not add to the list! I AM CANADIAN!!!
----------------------------------------------------
You Know You're Canadian When.......
1. You stand in "line-ups" at the movie, not lines.
2. You're not offended by the term, "Homo Milk".
3. You understand the sentence, "Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my poutine".
4. You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.
5. You drink pop, not soda.
6. You know what it means to be on pogey. 8. You can drink legally while still a 'teen.
9. You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.
10. You don't know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap place to travel with good cigars and no Americans.
11. When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it instead of telling them to stay out of it.
13. You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
14. Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.
15. You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
16. You know what a Robertson screwdriver is.
17. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
18. You know that Thrills are something to chew and "taste like soap".
19. You know that Mounties "don't always look like that".
20. You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly".
21. You know that the Friendly Giant isn't a vegetable product line.
22. You know that Casey and Finnegan are not a Celtic musical group.
23. You participated in "Participaction".
25. You wonder why there isn't a 5 dollar coin yet.
26. Unlike any international assasin/terrorist/spy in the world, you don't possess a Canadian passport.
27. You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, and color.
28. You know the French equivalents of "free", "prize", and "no sugar added", thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.
29. You are excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.
30. You make a mental note to talk about it at work the next day.
31. You can do all the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's "Skin-a-ma-rinky-dinky-doo" opus.
32. You can eat more than one maple sugar candy without feeling nauseous.
33. You were mad when "The Beachcombers" were taken off the air.
34. You know what a toque is.
35. You have some memento of Doug and Bob.
36. You know Toronto is not a province.
37. You never miss "Coaches Corner".
38. Back bacon and Kraft Dinner are two of your favourite food groups.
39. You use "elastics", not rubber bands
40. Your "SO-rry", not sawry
41. Your Mother is your Mum, not your Mom
42. You know the words of "The Star Spangled Banner" from all the hockey games you've watched on TV
43. You see "Dunh da Dunh da Daaah" and immediately think of the "Hockey Night in Canada" anthem
44. You honestly believe Smarties are better than M&M's, and can taste the difference
You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click hereScroll all the way down to read replies.Show all stories by Author:  22433 ( Click here )
Spring is coming |
