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WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?
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WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?
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 kicks Mr. Rogers ass
10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..
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.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
20. We don't marry our kin-folk.
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.
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
24. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
Sorry everyone, but I'm really bored. I need something to do to keep me from doing my homework...
'Bob gets drunk in a park alone and gets arrested for getting in a fight with a group of teenage girls.'
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'Are Canadian and US accents different? Bah!! That's like asking if people from New Zealand and Australia have the same accent!!! Noo!! We pronounce sooo many things differently. We even say the letter 'a' differently.
Me: 'How come every time we talk, the subject of my mum using drugs comes up?'
James: 'It doesn't.'
Me: 'It does though.'
James: 'Yeah, it really does.'
(Ten minutes later.)
James: 'Ha! Your mum on drugs!!!' '
OUR ACCENTS!!! WE CAN BE PROUD OF OUR ACCENTS!!!
Damn, I'm so bored.
Me: 'How come every time we talk, the subject of my mum using drugs comes up?'
James: 'It doesn't.'
Me: 'It does though.'
James: 'Yeah, it really does.'
(Ten minutes later.)
James: 'Ha! Your mum on drugs!!!'
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alright, i'm willing to believe that but can you ive me some examples?
~A little less conversation, a little more action~
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Standard Canadian English (except in the province of Newfoundland) is very similar to General American, and it doesn't vary much from place to place. Two features that can help identify Canadians are their pronunciation of /ay/ and /aw/, and a tendency to use rising pitch at the end of some statements as well as questions.
To American ears, the Canadian pronunciation of about often sounds like aboot, but this is only an illusion. Because the more familiar pronunciation of /aw/ is articulated with the tongue in a low position, and because it raises to a mid position in Canadian English when the vowel precedes the voiceless obstruents listed above, speakers of other varieties of English will immediately detect the vowel raising, but will sometimes think that the vowel has raised farther than it actually does, all the way to /u/, which is a high vowel--hence the mishearing (and not-quite-right imitation) of this pronunciation as aboot.
Canadian raising is especially rampant among natives of Toronto, who also have a unique way of pronouncing the name of their city.
For some sound clips lol you can go to:
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html
Me: 'How come every time we talk, the subject of my mum using drugs comes up?'
James: 'It doesn't.'
Me: 'It does though.'
James: 'Yeah, it really does.'
(Ten minutes later.)
James: 'Ha! Your mum on drugs!!!'
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well said, indubitably.
'ow'
- Rob after dislocating his shoulder skocking
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i've got the ultimate reply to this one....LARGES FRENCH POPULATION THAT DIDNT SURRENDER TO THE NAZI'S!!!!! YEAH CANADA
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French is so awesome... so are French Canadians... It's all good.
'Jenna, trust me, the lightning will not bite you.' - Robin
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joule is something to be proud off
I like my bird! - Dave Pauls
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It was clever :)
'Jenna, trust me, the lightning will not bite you.' - Robin
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wow, i just realize that you said that one earlier...sorry about that...i thought i was being origional :(
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Yeah, but it's cool that you knew! I'm surprised at how many people don't know anything about Canadian history... It's sad.
'Jenna, trust me, the lightning will not bite you.' - Robin
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