I LOVE YOU, CANADA. LET'S SHACK UP TOGETHER.

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You give the world so many wonderful things:

* Rick Mercer
* Poutine
* Sloan
* Nardwuar The Human Serviette
* Moe Berg (the singer)
* Leonard Cohen
* Atom Egoyan
* Bruce McDonald
* The Smugglers
* Barenaked Ladies
* SCTV
* Tim Hortons
* ... and so many more things too numerous to mention!

There are so many wonderful things that have come from Canada, that I can actually forgive you for Pamela Sue Anderson and Alan Thicke.

I can actually go to Taco Bell in Canada and get fries! NACHO CHEESE FRIES! How goddamned brilliant is that? And your Kit Kat bars are actually made with Nestle chocolate, not that shitty Hershey chocolate they use here in the States.

Plus, you are smart and funny and open-minded and tolerant and POLITE!

I want to move in with you and have several illegimitate love children with you. I will shave your legs, I will make the bed for you, turn down your sheets, and make you fresh coffee in the morning.

Come on, baby. What do you say?

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Moe Berg is still around?

What's he been up to these days?

(And what's with all that leg-shaving business?)

--p!

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3. The Canucks will understand.

One-Sided Story, Track 7.

[Logiola]

2. mmm chocolate

It's true.. i have always found it disappointing getting similar chocolate bars in the states and finding out that it is dark chocolate and not milk chocolate.. also, your smarties are just sugar while ares are candy covered milk chocolate (kind of like m&ms but better..

oh yeah.. your lays chips have Olestra, the Ingredient that causes anal leakage.. in canada, it is banned...

[justinsb]

4. What About

* the Kids in the Hall
* Mike Myers
* William Shatner (I know but he's still funny)
* Jim Carry
* Rush and Neil Young
* Superman (originally a Canadian Comic Strip)
* Insulin (Invented in Canada)
* Kinda the telephone (Bell lived in Nova Scotia when he invented it)
* Lorne Michaels (original producer of Saturday Night Live) and Dan Ackyroyd
* Basketball (invented in Canada by a Canadian who later moved to the US)
* UN Peacekeepers (a concept introduced by Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson)
* Margaret Atwood
* Electric Light Bulb ...Henry Woodward invented the electric light bulb in 1874 and sold the patent to Thomas Edison
* JAVA  ...the  programming language invented by James Gosling in 1994
* Jetliner ...the first jetliner was designed by James Floyd in 1949
* Music Synthesizer ...invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945
* Newsprint ...invented by Charles Fenerty in 1838
* Walkie-Talkie ...invented by Donald L. Hings in 1942
* Wireless Radio ...invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in 1900

Hardly a comprensive list...there's much more, but don't want this to go on forever

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5. There you go!

See? All the more reason I need to shack up with Canada!

[offcenter]

6. And

they probably invented shacking up too. :)

[firebee]

7. Go to Niagara Falls...

Stand on the bridge between Buffalo, NY and Niagara, Canada. When you're on the bridge over the Niagara Falls, look south to Buffalo and then look north to Niagara. Now tell me... which place looks like a better place to live?

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8. I think maybe we could date, but still see other countries

After all, they also gave us:

Ann Murray
Celine Dion
Alanis Morrisette
Funny 'oo' words
Windsor :scared:


...see?

;)

[alexisfree]

9. lol

windsor hahhahah that it scary...

[SnowBack]

10. HEY! I grew up in Windsor!

For a town of 200,000 it's always been very progressive... When the rest of Ontario supported the Regressive Conservatives for many years, Windsor elected NDP members of Provincial Parliament...

I think it's probably the only city in Canada that you can get an American daily newspaper delivered (The Detroit Free Press)

And it's the only city in Canada that you can look NORTH to the United States... The poor people of Windsor are trapped living across from Detroit... You try that! :scared:

Then again, I moved away as soon as I could... and haven't lived there in almost 20 years... :evilgrin:

[ilovenicepeople]

11. You forgot Brian Adams

The most famous Canadian that I ever tripped(by accident)"Sorry for spilling your drink,oh it's you,well I guess I'm sorry for not being sorry."("Buy your own drink.") "What did you say?" I said, "your a dink!"
Moral of this story:Alcohol turns me into an asshole:beer: :silly:

[FlatJack]

12. thank you...

I hope we can live up to that in the future.

You can tell a lot about a society by looking at their grocery store parking lot. I never realized this until I moved back to Canada from the US.

I lived in many US cities, often grocery carts were left to roam freely in the breeze. It seems a minority of American communities use the "grocery cart" gather area (whatever they're called). Too many unpack their groceries and leave the cart where it stands.

When I returned to Canada I'm proud to say that most Ontario grocery stores where I live people take the time to put their cart away before driving off. I think it speaks of active participation in a community, that they're not just an island unto themselves.

Just a random observation of someone whose lived equally parts on either side of the border and loves both countries.

FJ