MajorChode
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Mon Jun-14-10 05:48 PM
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I haven't been here for about 20 years or so. The speed limit is 100 and gas is a buck ten. Other than that it's almost just like the US. Amazingly they drive on the same side of the road and almost speak the same language.
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KamaAina
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Mon Jun-14-10 06:03 PM
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1. Um, you do know that's 100 *km/h*, right? |
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Edited on Mon Jun-14-10 06:04 PM by KamaAina
(aboot 62 mph)
Americans get more tickets that way...
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MajorChode
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Mon Jun-14-10 06:14 PM
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2. Pffft, next you'll tell me they sell gas by the quart. |
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Mon Jun-14-10 06:37 PM
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3. Well, yes, actually, they do |
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but they call it a "liter". Silly hosers.
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Mon Jun-14-10 08:13 PM
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4. And their national anthem is great...... |
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Oh Can the cow.... fantastic!
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Tue Jun-15-10 12:14 PM
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Grey
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Tue Jun-15-10 01:11 AM
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6. That's spelled Eh? by the way. |
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Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 01:22 AM by Grey
sorry, didn't mean to be picky.
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rurallib
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Tue Jun-15-10 01:18 PM
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10. but, but it's pronounced 'ay' - maybe this is the french spelling? |
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Tue Jun-15-10 11:12 AM
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Oh yeah, and their beer is awesome, too!
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Wapsie B
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Tue Jun-15-10 12:20 PM
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Were it not for a conniving redhead in Calgary I'd probably be living up there right now.
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Tue Jun-15-10 03:04 PM
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11. It's the only place I've ever been where I was treated better when they found out I wasn't Canadian |
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Edited on Tue Jun-15-10 03:05 PM by Burma Jones
In the suburbs of Quebec City....I was getting gas or something, struggling with halting French (my companion at the time....SHE was the francophone), and was getting the stink eye attitude until the guy saw my Maryland plates on the car and then he asked me, in good English, in which part of Maryland I lived since he had been a student at College Park.....He explained to me he thought I was from Ontario and that was why he just let me try to communicate in crappy French. For the rest of that trip, I tried to speak French (and I got much better at it as the days went by) in as Southern an accent as I could muster without sounding ridiculous.
Anyway, I love Quebec and the rest of Canada too
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