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!
You darn Canadians are coming here and taking all the good jobs away from our Mexicans!
What makes the other Smarties taste different and by some opinions better than ours? One reason is given as everywhere else can use Cuban sugar.
... lots of cute girls.
“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.”
You might as well, as Baseball is English! :)
It was invented by the English at the end of the 19th century as a gentler alternative to cricket for ladies to play. Jane Austen references it in her 1798 novel ‘Northanger Abbey’ whilst describing her character Catherine Morland:
“It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books.”
;)
By the standards on this list the US could reasonably claim to be the victor over the Spanish Armada. (We appreciate our neighbor to the north. Great friend & ally!)
I thought “Smarties” were British. Possibly the worst candy ever devised. An 8th rate M&M.
That list is actually correct, 1812 was started by what they call warhawks in the US.
Because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
For the record, I love my American neighbors and stand up for them against idiot socialist Canadians all the time, and would happily defend the constitution when the time comes.
The state of our medicine is a sad affair, I keep telling people we need to privatize, and I think they want to lock me up and throw away the key.
Wrong, while the Canadians won a battle against Americans in 1812 they did not push us back to the WH and they did not burn the WH and Washington. The British burned the WH and in the end got their a** handed to them just as they did during the Revolution.
Shhh...Careful! The haters will call you a liar for posting the truth.
The region was known as Canada from the mid-sixteenth century onward.
Ever had poutine?
9. Mr. Rogers is dead so that’s no big deal.
So is Mr. Dress-Up.
12. Shouldn’t brag about having ANY French population.
Beats Mexicans any day of the week.
Yeah, it's not like we need Canadian oil..
*The place is full of mutant Frenchmen who try to secede every two seconds
The last vote was in 1995. Before that it was 1980. Now there isn't even a movement.
*Rioted over losing a hockey game
We only riot over basketball, football and baseball games.
You know what I'm talking about. As a nation.
tim horton? sawdust donut.
french canadians? so rude and stinky not even the germans wanted them.
That's an odd assertion. "Standard Time" or "Railroad Time" came into use in England long before it caught on in North America. Sir Standford Fleming was born in Scotland and later moved to Canada, if that's the individual you mean. You might have been on firmer ground claiming Simon Newcombe, born and raised in Newfoundland, which later annexed Canada. < /s tag for the irony impaired >
Simon Newcombe, of course was barely literate when he immigrated to Boston as a very young man. He obtained at position as a lowly computer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory. He took advantage of his opportunities and rose to become the most famous scientist in the United States and recognized worldwise as the premier astrometrologist.
Newcombe more or less invented what we now call "mean time" as in Greenwich Mean Time and Universal Time or UT. He is often and incorrectly imputed to have said "Man will never fly." What he did say, in 1903, ironically, is that it did not seem likely that a flying machine using conventional materials and a coal fired steam engine would ever be practical. As a matter of fact, when the Wright Brothers proved him "wrong" a few months later, they used a gasoline engine, which they had made by recasting a commercial gasoline engine's cases in aluminum.
Of course, had he stayed in New Foundland, he might be remembered today as a revered middle school mathematics teacher.
I think that's if you count hulls, not ton(ne)s. Canada had a lot of ASW assets, but was mightly light in capital ships. The bulk of the work in reducing the former number three to scrap iron was done by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.
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