Canadian souveniers

[Hoofbeat Racer]

anybody need anything from the Great White North that you can't get at home? Got some room in the suitcase. Nothing says Canada like a good ol $23 tin of Skoal or a $15 6-pack of Canadian eh?

[Johnny Canuck]

Mark they make Canadian on a big line in Golden Colorado.. that's why they call the company Molson/Coors
LOL there are things you can get here that you can't get in the States (Contrary the the popular belief that you can get ANYTHING in the good ol US of A) But unless you are Canadian you won't miss Smarties, Hawkins Cheezies, Laura Secord Chocolates or Stanfields underwear, anyway. And we ain't gonna get a Mercury truck in your suitcase.

[Casey 65]

Harsh John, very harsh... comon, cut us Merkins a break...

[ezernut9mm]

cheezies are goooood.

[Johnny Canuck]

hmm . as luck would have it I got this in email today.
sounds a bit like the old CarToons guy who used to insist all great inventions were Russian, and I usually just delete this kind of nationalist dogma, but but here it is FWIW


So, What Do We Canadians Have To Be Proud Of ?





1. Smarties



2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp



3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.



4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll , ON



5. Lacrosse is Canadian



6. Hockey is Canadian



7. Basketball is Canadian



8. Apple pie is Canadian



9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers



10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts



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 .. We got bored because they ran away. Then, 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. EVER. (We got clobbered in the odd battle but, prevailed in ALL the wars)



14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.



16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.



17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.



18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
(That's more information than I need!)



19. We know what to do with 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 ink blotter and the telephone. Also 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. We have coloured money.



25. Our beer advertisements kick ass {Incidently...so does our beer}

BUT MOST IMPORTANT !


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.




Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!

[ezernut9mm]

oh yeah, well we created the missionary position...thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7JWqFt ... re=related

[Johnny Canuck]

LOL "you sound like you have peanut butter stuck in the roof of your mouth"

Exactly.

And the Zamboni was invented in Los Angeles.

[Max]

You numbskulls didn't invent the current form of Baseball. The origins of modern American baseball came from Britain. You's guys were looking over the fence and made up your own game.

I will give credit to the Blue Jays though. They're playing some good ball as of late (the Americans on the team anyway).

[Johnny Canuck]

After the Zamboni thing I would put most of the list down as "Suspect".

I would think the Japanese have as legitimate a claim on Bas-a-baw

[Max]

Bottom line is we invented the internet. Without that, nobody in this world would know what they did or didn't invent.

[Alan Mclennan]

We have Smarties!, you lot oughta give yourselves an upper cut!, save this for Slickstock!

[Johnny Canuck]

Better bring 'em with ya is you want to mix 'em in your Vegemite in the morning Macca. You can't get Nestle's Smarties in the yew ess of eh.

Max... didn't the same guy invent global warming? I hear he gets his inspiration from hotel room hookers...

[Casey 65]

this thread makes me think of Billy Shakespear (who wasn't canadian) that wrote a book called...

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

[Max]

Max... didn't the same guy invent global warming? I hear he gets his inspiration from hotel room hookers...

Well YOU try and find a hooker that likes cold hotel rooms...

[Johnny Canuck]

that would most certainly get me one of these

[ICEMAN6166]

can you Canucks still buy the 5 gallon per flush toilets or have they stopped selling them there too?
we really hate the low flow garbage they sell in the stores here.

[Johnny Canuck]

Haven't seen them in a while in new construction Ice, they may still be out there in the reno stores tho. American Standard Cadet 3's flush like a damn on 6 litres tho.

Gerry I think this thread just went down the toilet.

[Max]

All threads should have a beginning and an end.

[jeepbut]

Mark, I will bring you a Canadian souvenir. It is a book called " Would you lend your tooth brush?" It is about habits and statistics of Canadians. Thanks, Lyman.

[Max]