coming into work saw a lot of maple leaf flags going up

simple ..stark..beautiful...

a flag that stands for fair play ..not win at any cost.

we don't have to be loud to be proud.

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have a good one.

 

Randyj: I was in Ottowa for last year's celebration. If you remember, it was cold and very, very windy. They could'nt get the fireworks up because of the severe winds. Bummer. I was looking forward to them. We had an excellent meal in a local restaurant not far from the beautiful capitol buildings. I hope you have better weather this year. God Bless Canada and keep her safe from harm. Enjoy your celebrations. F-3 Brien A Connecticut Yankee

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-Jun-02 AT 02:02 PM (EST)]"We Stand On Guard For Thee"

Over the years,I have had the pleasure of celebrating Canada Day in:
Calgary,Victoria,Vancouver,Edmonton,Swift Current,Toronto,Ottawa, & London England.

Some day I would like to be Celebrating Canada Day in the Maritimes.

Canadian Symbols include:The Beaver,The Moose,The Mountie,The Maple Leaf,Maple Syrup,& a guy in charge that can't speak either official language.


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love to have ya down here Dennis!

Enjoy it out there..I'm breakin out the Stompin Tom

"C-A-N-A-D-A..just listen to the wild goose call
In Canada we get to see them all."

Be proud. We are richer than we realize.

 

>"We Stand On Guard For Thee"
>
>Over the years,I have had the pleasure of celebrating Canada
>Day in:
>Calgary,Victoria,Vancouver,Edmonton,Swift
>Current,Toronto,Ottawa, & London England.
>
>Some day I would like to be Celebrating Canada Day in the
>Maritimes.
>
>Canadian Symbols include:The Beaver,The Moose,The
>Mountie,The Maple Leaf,Maple Syrup,& a guy in charge that
>can't speak either official language.
>
>
>[link:www.lonelyplanet.lycos.com/north_america/canada/destfacts.html|I'm
>Canada... Come Up And See Me Sometime]
>
>Hop In Your Ford and Cruise the Boulevard.
>
>[link:www.transcanadahighway.com/|The Trans-Canada Highway]
>
>Dennis: Speaking of the guy in charge that can't speak either language reminds me of this one.

There was a French/English speaking fellow from Quebec who applied for a job out in Alberta but the English only speaking boss on the job did not want to hire him. So he devised a test to outsmart the Quebecois fellow so he would'nt be charged with discrimination. He asked the applicant to represent the number 9 without using numbers. The Quebec man said: "Oh dat is easy" and he took a piece of paper and drew three trees and showed it to the foreman. The foreman asked "what is this". The applicant laughed and said: Sir can you not see dat "tree, plus tree, plus tree, is nine?"
The foreman just scratched his head and thought to himself: I have to get tougher with this guy.
So he hands the paper back to the Quebecois guy and says "ok, represent the number 99 this time". The applicant just smiled and took the paper and smudged each tree and handed it back to the foreman. The foreman looked at it and said "what in the heck is this"? The Quebec man says: "Can't you see dat dirtytree, plus dirtytree, plus dirtytree, equals 99"? The foreman throws up his hands and thinks now I really have to get tough!
So he hands the paper back to the applicant and says: "now represent 100!" The guy from Quebec scratches his head now, and thinks for a moment, and makes a little dot under each tree and hands it backs to the foreman. The foreman shakes his head and says in sheer exasperation: "Just what is this"? The applicant says: "oh, dis is easy to see. A little dog came by each tree and he did his business so, a dirtytree and a turd, plus a dirtytree and a turd, plus a dirtytree and a turd equals 100!"
Needless to say the French/English speaking guy from Quebec got the job.
FTE and all Canadians, we in the United States salute you!
Have a safe and enjoyable Canada Day on Monday. F-3 Brien.

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How did you know I have Stompin'Tom Music?

Stompin' Tom Connors....A Proud Canadian

Hits include:
Bud The Spud
Roll on Saskatchewan
Sudbury Saturday Night
Gumboot Cloggeroo
Blue Nose
The Moon-Man Newfie
Tillsonburg
The Ketchup Song (Catsup for our American friends)




Other songs I like

"Farewell to Nova Scotia"



Anything by the Irish Rovers


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Dennis.he is a true folk hero

he travelled the land and sang about it

He tells us we should never feel inferior..Canada is a great country and he knows it .and so do I..just doesn't suffer from the hype.

he worked on the east coast boats...picked tobacco in Ontario and worked out west.

he has saw more of the country than we probably ever will.

to quote him

"My father was a bluenoser and my fathers father too
my mother was a bluenoser and my mother mother's too.
we live in Nova Scotia were the sea and sky are blue
and when you call us Bluenose we're gall dang glad you do!"

pretty much sums it up for me. At least from this side.

We give our resources to the world. We get back mostly disrespect.

I don't care.

 

Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians on this site!

You guys are so quiet(nationally), we sometimes forget you're up there!

Have a good one!

Chuck

 

Happy Canada Day All, I still have another hour over on the west coast. I was very impressed to see all the canadian flags out today but I don't understand why they have to come down.

 

That's just it, THey DON'T have to come down.
Oh ! July 2 in Mountain Daylight Time


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Our Local paper puts out a 2 page print of the flag so its about 3 feet by 2 feet and so many people had them in there windows. Its makes a canadian very proud.

 

I'm keeping mine up

I have never seen as many maple leaf flags up as I have this weekend

Every year more appear.

Particularly among the younger set..

its always great to celebrate your country.

happy 4th USA..another of the greatest.

 

Happy Canada to all

 

O, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs 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 ***

10. Tim Hortons kicks 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, 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 bar fight 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 Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds 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. A Canadian invented Superman.

BUT MOST IMPORTANT!

24. 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.

I AM CANADIAN

 

I don't write them, I just post them.


CANADIAN JOKE #1
A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm.
His friend Doug stops him and asks, "Hey Bob! Whacha get the case of beer for? "I got it for my wife, eh" answers Bob.

"Oh!" exclaims Doug, "Good trade."

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CANADIAN JOKE #2
Did you hear about the war between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia?

The Newfies were lobbing hand grenades; the Nova Scotians were pulling the pins and throwing them back.

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CANADIAN JOKE #3
In Canada, we have two seasons...six months of winter and six months of poor snowmobiling.

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CANADIAN JOKE #4
One day an Englishman, an American, and a Canadian walked into a pub together. They proceeded to each buy a pint of Labatt Blue. Just as they were about to enjoy their beverages, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away from him in disgust. The American fished the offending fly out of his beer and continued drinking it as if nothing happened. The Canadian picked the fly out of his drink and started shaking it over the pint, yelling, "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU LITTLE BUGGER.

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CANADIAN JOKE #5
A Quebecer, staying in a hotel in Edmonton phoned room service for some pepper. "Black pepper, or white pepper?" asked the concierge. "Toilette pepper!" yelled the Quebecer.

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CANADIAN JOKE #6
An American, a Scot and a Canadian were in a terrible car accident. They were all brought to the same emergency room, but all three of them died before they arrived. Just as they were about to put the toe tag on the American, he stirred and opened his eyes. Astonished, the doctors and nurses present asked him what happened. "Well," said the American, "I remember the crash, and then there was a beautiful light, and then the Canadian and the Scot and I were standing at the gates of heaven.

St.Peter approached us and said that we were all too young to die, and said that for a donation of $50, we could return to earth. So of course I pulled out my wallet and gave him the $50, and the next thing I knew I was back here." "That's amazing!" said the one of the doctors, "But what happened to the other two?" "Last I saw them," replied the American, "the Scot was haggling over the price and the Canadian was waiting for the government to pay."

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The End - Eh?

Oil Shortage, An Explanation ... Finally!!

There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in Canada. Well, there's a very simple answer...nobody bothered to check the oil.

We just didn't know we were getting low. The reason for that is purely geographical.

All the oil is in Alberta and all the dipsticks are in Ottawa.


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ONLY IN CANADA


1. Only in Canada......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

2. Only in Canada......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

3. Only in Canada......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

4. Only in Canada.....do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

5. Only in Canada......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

6. Only in Canada......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in Canada......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first place.

8. Only in Canada......do we buy hot dogs in packages of twelve and buns in packages of eight.

9. Only in Canada.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

10. Only in Canada......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

You know you're from Canada when ...

1. You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.

2. You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

3. The mosquitoes have landing lights.

4. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

5. You have 10 favorite recipes for moose meat.

6. Canadian Tire on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.

7. You live in a house that has no front step, yet the door is one
meter above the ground.

8. You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.

9. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.

10. You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.

11. You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.

12. The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.

13. At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.

14. The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.

15. Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.

16. You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.

17. You head south to go to your cottage.

18. You frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the bears won't prowl on your deck.

19. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

20. The major parish fund-raiser isn't bingo it's sausage making.

21. You find -40C a little chilly.

22. The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freeze.

23. You attend a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your Sorrels.

24. You can play road hockey on skates.

25. You know 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, almost Winter and Construction.

26. The municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.

27. You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.

28. You perk up when you hear the theme from "Hockey Night in Canada".

29. You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your Canadian friends




CANADIAN TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART (IN FAHRENHEIT DEGREES)



70 above Texans turn on the heat and unpack the thermal underwear. People in Canada go swimming.

60 above North Carolinians try to turn on the heat. People in Canada plant gardens.

50 above Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in Canada sunbathe.

40 above Italian & English cars won't start. People in Canada drive with the windows down.

32 above Distilled water freezes. Lake Superior's water gets thicker.

20 above Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, and woolly hats. People in Canada throw on a flannel shirt.

15 above Philadelphia landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Canada have the last cookout before it gets cold.

0 degrees People in Miami all die... Canadians lick the flagpole.

20 below Californians fly away to Mexico. People in Canada get out their winter coats.

40 below Hollywood disintegrates. The Girl Guides in Canada are selling cookies door to door.

60 below Polar bears begin to evacuate the Arctic. Canadian Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.

80 below Mt. St. Helens freezes. People in Canada rent some videos.

100 below Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Canadians get frustrated because they can't thaw the keg.

297 below Microbial life no longer survives on dairy products. Cows in Canada complain about farmers with cold hands.

460 below ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero in the Kelvin scale). People in Canada start saying, "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below Hell freezes over. The Leafs win the Stanley Cup



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