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 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 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 {Incidentally...so does our beer}
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on. 
H/T Pete H
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
So, What Do Canadians Have To Be Proud Of ?
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9 comments:
Theo, History isn't that hard a subject, even for Canadians: (1) If the US "started" the War of 1812 (since we declared war on England), then surely Britain "started" WW2 (same logic: England declared war on Germany)? (2) It was British forces who burned Washington DC (under the command of Admiral George Cockburn), not the Canadians.
Sorry to disappoint, but baseball was invented in England!!
MikeyP is corect baseball come from the english game of rounders.
But Canadians still suck. So whats the point?
But on the plus side Canadians are thougher than Kiwis.
Anyone can fuck a sheep but it takes a man to do a moose.
The Zamboni was invented in Southern California, so we have to question:
How much more of this list is horse manure?
.... standing, in a canoe.
Also, the colours of the "First American Regiment" are in a museum in Toronto.
Cheers
Greybeard is right. Zambonis were invented by a guy in California to flood his public skating rink and had nothing to do with hockey. Sad but true from an old fart in Alberta.
Fleming was a Scot who discovered penicillin while working at St Mary's hospital in London. From the team responsible for moving it from discovery to product, Chain was German, Florey was Australian and Heatley was English.
Not a lumberjack in sight.
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