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  1. 04-22-2002, 04:13 PM #1
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    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.

    24. Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Phil Hartman, Dave Foley, Scott Thompson, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCullogh, Mark McKinney, Bare Naked Ladies, NickelBack, Sarah McLachlan, and all the other bands, actors/actresses, singers, etc. that the US claims as their own.

    BUT MOST IMPORTANT!

    25. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit
    your hands with mitts on. OOOoohhhhh Canada!!

    Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
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  2. 04-22-2002, 04:14 PM #2
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    lacrosse r0x0rz !
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  3. 04-22-2002, 04:18 PM #3
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    Originally posted by lafunk
    Bare Naked Ladies
    No further reason is neccessary to commence hostilities.
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  4. 04-22-2002, 04:30 PM #4
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    Originally posted by lafunk
    7. Basketball is Canadian
    woah, what? as someone from indiana, i was offended by your claim - but then i looked up nesmiths biography, and found that it's TRUE!!!!!

    James Naismith was a presbyterian minister of Scottish descent and Canadian upbringings. He invented basketball, or a very different look-a-like game, to entertain a majority of rugby and football players during the winter season.
    ok, canadians rule. enjoy it, you'll be annexed into the us soon enought
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  5. 04-22-2002, 04:38 PM #5
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    Yeah..A Canadian University Advisor tried to convince me to goto Mcgill Cause of those reasons.....nope.
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  6. 04-22-2002, 05:27 PM #6
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    Originally posted by TallGuyLittleCar
    Originally posted by lafunk
    Bare Naked Ladies
    No further reason is neccessary to commence hostilities.
    LMAO
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  7. 04-22-2002, 06:23 PM #7
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    sesame street was what really put Canada on the map though!
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  8. 04-22-2002, 06:54 PM #8
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    lol

    Canada rocks!
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  9. 04-22-2002, 08:10 PM #9
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    Originally posted by lafunk
    1. Smarties
    search for this list, it's been posted before and i can tell you thatsmarties are NOT canadian, they're english, ask mr rowntree!!!





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  10. 04-23-2002, 02:48 PM #10
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    that canadian list .. um... thing

    there are many many things on this list that make me sad to be canadian - but mainly the fact that most canadians judge how great it is to be canadian by how we can claim heir to popular american pass times and products. Very LITTLE of what we hold dear to Canadian "culture" was funded, believed in or supported by Canada or Canadians until OTHER countries TOLD us it was cool.

    Like:

    - although the writer of superman was brought up in toronto, he lived in cleavland when he conceived superman and the comic was about an all AMERICAN super hero and the american comic book company made him into a legend.

    - even though Tim Horton was a canadian hockey star and started the doughnut shops it is owned and made rich by Wendy's Hamburgers in the U.S. (just ask mr joyce how many complaints and law suits Mrs Horton has made against the company)

    - The Bare Naked Ladies suffered an incredible "drought" and weren't getting play in Canada until they got really popular in the U.S. and then everyone here was claiming them as national heroes.

    - And baseball... yeah.... russians had a game that was similar so did the english... but the 1839 game in Coopertown NY seems to be the first real one... maybe there were some "candians" there however you must remember :

    - confederation was in 1867... so those "Canadians" that pushed back the americans and burnt the white house in 1812... um... they were known as THE ENGLISH back then.

    However the beer thing for the mitts... very true! Corona is so thoughtful that way.


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  11. 04-23-2002, 02:54 PM #11
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    welcome to flashkit smOOks

    nice garden !!

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    Originally posted by aversion
    Originally posted by lafunk
    1. Smarties
    search for this list, it's been posted before and i can tell you thatsmarties are NOT canadian, they're english, ask mr rowntree!!!
    heres the list http://www.durtydan.com/ddcc/proudcan.html
    there are 30 reasons

    heres one(only 23 reason here) with a rebuttle http://www.papmag.net/cgi-bin/fronte...e=story&sid=68

    and a chiuaua can kick mr rogers ass
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  13. 04-23-2002, 05:59 PM #13
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    TOM GREEN!!!

    he's from Ottawa!
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  14. 04-23-2002, 06:28 PM #14
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    Originally posted by lafunk
    9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
    Long live Mr. Dressup!

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  15. 04-23-2002, 08:14 PM #15
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    uuhhh, and we own the US in hockey!!
    gooo Team Canada!
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  16. 04-23-2002, 09:00 PM #16
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    as for the whole "1867 british colonists thing":

    -william lyon mackenzie started a revolution against the "Famlily Compact" (a group of nasty brits who inbred and didn't let anybody else rule) WHO WERE BRITISH ! ! ! !

    -americans get drunk from smelling our beer
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  17. 04-23-2002, 10:09 PM #17
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    Originally posted by madgoat253
    -americans get drunk from smelling our beer
    thems some pretty serious fighting words buddy. What beer have you got to put up? are we talking taste? or potency?
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  18. 04-23-2002, 10:45 PM #18
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    Originally posted by madgoat253

    -americans get drunk from smelling our beer
    canadians, americans AND australians fall over drunk when they even see english cider.


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  19. 04-23-2002, 11:08 PM #19
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    I'm American

    I'll down pint after pint of english cider(cider, seriously)

    What the f**k is Crispy Crunch/Coffee Crisp
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  20. 04-23-2002, 11:31 PM #20
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    LMAO!! Hahahaha. That is so funny!! "We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on."
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