Proud to be Canadian

[thebronze]

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 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.

[fv432]

Cool the bronze where do i sign up lmao

[tiger205]

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!)

Hmmmmm, I wonder who they tested that out on...

[Saracen]

And "Spin", if that list is to be beleived .... 

(Penicillin - Alexander Fleming - Scottish)
(Velcro - George de Mestral - Swiss)

[thebronze]

And "Spin", if that list is to be beleived ....   ;)

(Penicillin - Alexander Fleming - Scottish)
(Velcro - George de Mestral - Swiss)

Both Canadian citizens living in Canada

[Saracen]

> Both Canadian citizens living in Canada

Must have been a long commute, Fleming did the research at St. Mary's Medical School, London University.

[oz]

FACT!! the Whitehouse was burned down by the royal north British fusiliers, as an ex member of the royal regiment of fusiliers ( north ) this is an important part of our proud history and of our battle honors, the Canadians were present during the battle but did not burn-down the Whitehouse although they did burn other public buildings.
thats not a slate against Canada, i was very proud to serve and fight alongside the cannucks on more than one occasion.

( things cannucks are good at from my own experience )
1  fighting. ( and by that i mean close quarters battle )
2 drinking. ( they know how to party )
3 singing! ( strange but true )
4 humour.
5 professionalism.
6 able to fight in the most adverse conditions.
7 pride.
8 not taking prisoners. ( rather a dead martyr than a live insurgent )
9 get ordnance on target ( very good at that )

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

FACT!! the Whitehorse was burned down by the royal north British fusiliers,

Don't be broadcasting that fact, you'll have the animal rights folks after you ::)

[oz]

no problem pat, we,ll burn those buggers as well..........

[Ex_Pat_Tanker]

lol!