Boy does this show suck.
BTW, you need to do a little bit of fact checking on some of your stats. Baseball is believed to have originated in England in the 1700's. The 1838 game cited is dubious at best for proof positive.
Posted on 11/27/2011 9:50:44 PM PST by buccaneer81
And They Say Canadians Don't Brag.....
So, what do we Canadians
have to be Proud of?
1. Smarties (not sold in the USA )
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
(not sold in the USA )
3. The size of our footballs fields, one less
down, and bigger balls.
4. Baseball is Canadian - 1st 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 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 who
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 human in under 3 minutes.
(More information than we 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 and the telephone.
And short wave radios which save countless
lives each year.
22. We have ALL 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
... as does our beer.
26. Our Country is the only one to have plastic money bills in 2011
AND MOST IMPORTANT ....
The handles on our beer cases are big enough for hands with mitts on.
Oh..... Canada !
Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day!
Pass this on if you're proud to be Canadian!
Like saying the helicopter was invented by DaVinci.
Canada didn’t exist until July 1, 1867.
Boy does this show suck.
BTW, you need to do a little bit of fact checking on some of your stats. Baseball is believed to have originated in England in the 1700's. The 1838 game cited is dubious at best for proof positive.
Could be, so what's your excuse, eh? ;-)
I’m trying to educate poorly informed Americans about a neighbor that they often deride and disrespect, which has and does help the US.
Native Americans were running around actually playing lacrosse before there was a Canada. So how exactly is it a Canadian invention? If that list gives you a warm fuzzy about being Canadian then more power to you.
BTW, I am an American.
What’s the world’s record for taking down your igloo every spring?
“Agreed. And 95% of the US sheeple are clueless to the fact that we get more oil from Canada than any other source.”
Right. Fllowing the Iran hostage incident, and the world oil scare which resulted, Canada set about resolutely to develop oil from their vast tar sands reserves in Alberta, and stuck with it.
The US started work on our vast oil shale reserves, but eventually stopped.
Both cases initially involved government-private industry partnerships, but today the Candian venture is profitable, and is private industry.
And in the mid 90s Canada has a big budget deficit, but started cutting spending, and is now in fine shape, while the USA muddles along, increasing the annual and cumulative deficit, instead of reforming government giveaways and spending.
The Canadian dolar has grown stronger, while the greenback shrinks.
“Agreed. And 95% of the US sheeple are clueless to the fact that we get more oil from Canada than any other source.”
Right. Fllowing the Iran hostage incident, and the world oil scare which resulted, Canada set about resolutely to develop oil from their vast tar sands reserves in Alberta, and stuck with it.
The US started work on our vast oil shale reserves, but eventually stopped.
Both cases initially involved government-private industry partnerships, but today the Candian venture is profitable, and is private industry.
And in the mid 90s Canada has a big budget deficit, but started cutting spending, and is now in fine shape, while the USA muddles along, increasing the annual and cumulative deficit, instead of reforming government giveaways and spending.
The Canadian dolar has grown stronger, while the greenback shrinks.
Spot on !
When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?
Do suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast?
It’s the candy and milk chocolate, so tell me when I ask!
When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones last?!
...never forgot that commercial...
You left out the Pig War.
You might be able to add “pulling your country out of the Kyoto protocol” to the list, soon...
1. Big deal. We have In-N-Out.
2. Crispy Crunch WAS sold in the USA, but the distributor went bankrupt so what does that tell you?
3. The CFL is propped up by the NFL now so there you go.
4. The game played in 1838 had 14 men on a team, so if that’s baseball you might as well go back to Rounders and say the game’s English.
5. Stolen from the Indians.
6. Stolen from the Europeans.
7. A Canadian, working for Americans in the United States, invented a game with peach baskets, nine men on a side, with passes made by rolling a soccer ball on the floor. An American, Lambert G. Will, added nets, dribbling, and the rest is history.
8. Apple pie goes back to the time of Chaucer.
9. Mr. Rogers is dead so that’s no big deal.
10. Says who?
11. We burned Canada first so there.
12. Shouldn’t brag about having ANY French population.
13. I believe the Canadian provinces were part of the British Empire, in fact there was the Battle of Quebec fought during that conflict. Although that was a victory for the Crown, who lost the war?
14. Never heard of the The Rebellions of 1837 I guess.
15. See number 14.
16. Fleming was Scottish.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company is NOWHERE near the world’s oldest company.
18. Ed Gein could do it faster.
19. So do we.
20. Canada allows cousins to get married, sorry!
You mean quinzee bozo.
Gimme a Molsons.
Diseased blankets were intentionally given to Indians in Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company to try and kill them all off. No large case of this ever occurred in the US.
If the arrival of the railroads intimidated our Western and Plains Indians they weren't afraid of them for long. Not so in Western Canada. It was estimated that some Western Canadian tribes took more than a decade before they would cross railroad tracks.
Some more Canadian history for them to brag about.
Canada: A country that can’t decide if it’s the US or Britain. A country where...
*People go to the US for medical treatment
*The US props up its economy
*The place is full of mutant Frenchmen who try to secede every two seconds and say “Eh?”
*Natives who live on welfare and lead all crime statistics
*Thinks they burned the WH even though Canada didn’t exist until 1867
*Has no equivalent of the First Amendment
*Rioted over losing a hockey game
Yeah, I am so jealous. But then I remembered that this is a troll thread.
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