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Re: Little late in celebrating Canada Day, but oh well
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Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:49:32 GMT
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Sorry to call you up on this one
4. Baseball originated in the UK. Cardiff in Wales (where I live - Hooray)
and Liverpool in England.
(unless I've been lied to all these years) Apart from that, yeah Canada is
cool
--
James Stacey
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www.minifig.co.uk
#925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado
"David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message
news:GzAsto.AxH@lugnet.com...
> Found thins whilst cleaning up my e-mail...
>
>
> So, What Do Canadians Have to Be Proud Of?
> l. Smarties
> 2. Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp
> 3. The size of our Football Fields and one less Down
> 4. Baseball is Canadian.
> 5. Lacrosse is Canadian.
> 6. Hockey is Canadian.
> 7. Basketball is Canadian.
> 8. Apple pie is Canadian.
> 9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass.
> 10. Tim Horton's kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass.
> 11. In the War of 1812, started by Americans, Canadians pushed Americans
> Back..... past their "White House". Then we burned it.... and most • of
> Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was
> insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran • away,
> so 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.
> 14. Our Civil War was a barfight that 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....but showed up just in • time
> to get caught.
> 16. We knew plaid was cool, far before Seattle caught on.
> 17. The Hudson's 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.
> 19. We still 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, the telephone
> and 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. BUT MOST IMPORTANT
> The handles on our Beer Cases are big enough to fit your hands
> in.....
> With Mitts On.
> OOOOHHH CANADA!!! Oh yeah, and our Elections only take one day.
>
>
> Dave
> -who still loves being Canadian :)
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