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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

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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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(...) As in, the game of 'baseball'? Or the game of 'cricket'? Or perhaps 'rounders'? For many years the story went that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, NY U.S.A. back in 1839. However the more recent prevailing belief is that a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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