166 thoughts on “Attention, Canada!”

1. Yep and AL Gore invented pants too.
   Does it really matter who the hell invented basketball? Next thing, you Canucks will be taking credit for inventing baseball. This has turned into a “I’m right, you’re wrong” kind of thing when it was supposed to be all in good fun. Besides, if we really want to be technical about it – the only TRUE americans and canadians are the Indians. We’re all just a bunch of transplanted Europeans, Africans, and Asians, with a few Pacific Islanders. American or Canadian is just where you were born. It’s a state of mind. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud to be an American. I love my country and most of the liberties it allows me. But, when asked their heritage, most people will answer “I’m German, Irish, Norwegian and English.” or whatever countries your ancestors hail from. No one is 100% American. Or 100% Canadian. You hail from Canada. I hail from America.
   “I’ve got nothing against America; it’s a great place to visit when I want to shoot guns off in an old Civil War cemetary (I’ve got some Washington DC Republican attorney friends, they actually encourage gunplay when vacationing at their Pennsylvania farm), eat an obscene amount of food for $6.99, or buy overpriced and nasty water-beer. ”
   And I’ve got nothing against Canada. It’s a great place to visit if you want to, um, if you want to, um…..yeah.
   😉

2. Al Gore invented pants?! Jeez, he should have been able to buy his way past the electoral college with his royalties.
   If you want to get all technical about origin we’re all transplanted Africans (by most estimates Native Americans arrived between 10-30 kya. Sorry, anthropology major in university, can’t resist urge to wallow in my personal obsessions). Unless those Mars Society whackos (or visionaries, if you will) are right, in which case all life on Earth is transplanted ancient Marian or comet life.
   Incidentally, the day I show any enthusiasm for baseball is the day you know body-snatchers are among us.
   Hrm. This is going to seem like I’m just looking for further argument, but I’m going to assume that you’re reasonable and ask it anyway (our discussion so far prompted me to recall this question, I have wondered about it for a while).
   In history class at school what does the US teach was the outcome of the War of 1812. I remember talking to an exchange student from Alabama who was certain that America had won that one, based on her high school history teacher.
   By the way, the answer to your “[Canada’s] a great place to visit if you want to, um, if you want to…” is ‘get drunk.’ Canada’s a great place to visit if you want to get drunk. Also, to watch merchants sweat with delight when you brandish your stable currency. 🙂

3. Honestly, I don’t remember what is taught as the outcome to the war of 1812. History class was freshman or sophomore year in high school and that was 13-14 years ago.
   I took US History in college (and it went thru the Civil War), but again, I don’t remember what is taught. And I believe all my syllabi are in my mothers basement back home. When I hear War
   of 1812, I think of Tchaikovsky’s Overture that is played with Gusto by the Boston Pops on the 4th of July.
   Wish I could be more help – maybe someone who can remember that far back can answer it for you.
   As for getting drunk. That’s what you can do in Wisconsin. For cheap. $20 gets you verschnickered AND pays for pizza, taco bell or Perkins afterward. Especially on Mondays. College bar back home as $.25 tappers. 4 glasses of beer for $1.

4. Let me get this right. the lil dude from star trek TNG made and maintains this website?
   Wow Theres TNG repeats on bbc2 for ages. He was well flirtin with whoopi goldberg
   Mike
   Scotland Uk

5. Yes, MikePepsi, Wil made and maintains and posts almost daily on this site.

6. Hockey wasn’t invented in Canada. It was invented in Norway…. but the first official game happened in Montr

7. 25 cent beer may sound good to you ‘Mericans, but that’s still a sizeable portion of my grad school savings with the exchange rate. 🙂
   We used to have $1 beers but after a few incidents involving members of the football team urinating on the bar they decided it wasn’t a great idea.
   Mmmmmm….. beeeeeer…. I’ve got to go….

8. Hey, Canada hasn’t got ALL of America’s film work – they’re sharing it with us AUSTRALIANS!

9. Nod. If the script calls for winter head to Canada, if it calls for summer head to Australia. 🙂

10. blame canada

11. blame canada

12. Canada kicks ass at hockey. Its our sport not yours U.S! And if u say its ur take this into prespective WE’VE won gold in OLYMPICS in 2002. Kicked your ass. And the captain of red wings is canadain so HA! i laugh in your face u.s. never ever say hockey is an American sport.

13. Hi-I’m from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. (for the U.S citizens reading this, it’s a city of about 670,000 people. A little on the small side, but alot of fun and full of heritage buildings downtown and around the city. Traffics awesome, since I live just inside the city, yet it still only takes me 15 minutes to get downtown. The city attracts alot of stars since J-lo and Richard Gere just finished a movie here, as did Harrison Ford. There seems to be alot of U.S people that don’t really have a clue about us, since all the jokes of the 80’s have come back to haunt the majority of us. First off, we’re ALL Americans since it’s the continent that we share. Second, it’s truly annoying to always here U.S people saying “howz it goin eh?” All the talk of back bacon, toques etc. etc. What the Hell man?! That’s all humour started by Canadian Comedians in the 80’s on a skit called the “Bob and Doug Mackenzie Show.” It’s NOT the way the majority of Canadians speak, or what we all do! Right now, its August 1st, 2003, and in Winnipeg, the temperature in Celcius was 31 degrees today! Spring, Summer and Fall are hot days in alot of Provinces in this Country. It isn’t all snow and “igloos.” Usually, people from the U.S coming here for the first time are surprised as they drive through the city and see that it is no different than anywhere in the states. Brand new Vehicles, sky rise buildings, state of the art transit, very hot women, GREAT Beaches-(Victoria, Grand Beach and Patricia Beach are only three that come to mind) Playboy Magazine featured GranD Beach in the late 90’s, President Jimmy Carter, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, etc. etc. etc. have all been here and loved it-and the average Canadian will tell you that Winnipeg isn’t even on THERE map for the top 5 Canadian cities! The thing that blows me away, is that when I visit the states, and people find out I’m Canadian, they start talking to me like this “Oh-howzit goin eh? Nodoubt abowtit eh? You guys live in igloos up there? Got phones up there? God man! Give it a huge break already guys! Currently, Winnipeg has one of only two state of the art research labs in North America, we’re home to the Winnipeg Goldeye Baseball team, and the CFL’S Winnipeg Blue Bombers. (Incidentally, the CFL has been around for 100 years guys. Much longer than the NFL. Forget about Hockey for a second. A Canadian invented the game of Basketball, a Canadian came up with the comic book hero Superman, and some of the best musicians in the world come from Canada. All this howz it going eh? stuff comes from the accent of the people living on the coasts of Canada. The equivalent of Mountain people or deep southerners in the states. Sprry to be so winded, but I am not looking to trash the U.S or build Canada up to seem better. Just wanted some of you out there to know that we’re no different than our U.S neighbors. (We don’t have a huge military, because there really is only 30 million people living in Canada compared to 10 times this in the U.S! California probably contains the population of Canada. The other thing is, instead of being English speaking/spanish speaking in terms of divided demographics-we’re more or less split between English and French speaking, with a smattering of every other nation. Crime is relatively low-HealthCare is FREE-AND YOU CAN PURCHASE A HERITAGE HOME IN WINNIPEG WITH 5 PLUS BEDROOMS, 4000 SQ. FEET ON 5 ACRES OF LAND FOR $150,000. So-even if this letter doesn’t help my fellow “Americans” in the U.S to better understand us, life here is awesome.

14. Canada is going to drag the your Americans asses throught the dirt and afterwords they will resemble something along the lines of your washed up career

15. I am Canadian – and I am proud of it.
    This is a good example of why the rest of the world can’t stand Americans; read all the comments.
    I am sure you would try to conquer Canada….just like Iraq (now the U.S. military is dragging their poor men home in body bags). Good luck! We have heart that would kick your ass. Get an education, loser!
    “OH CANADA!
    …OUR TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE!” (not like the American dictatorship [with Bush] bringing the U.S. to war on a lie).

16. What’s Crackin! – Just need to go Play Bingo – for my Online Bingo Habit! But I cannot Find a Good Bingo Online website to cover my bingo addiction!

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