O, Canada...

Notabot · Post by **Notabot** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:18 am

I'm calling you out, Canada. You think you’re so great. "Ooo, look at us! We got the animated toys before you. We’ve got Classics 2.0 and you still don’t! We get to watch new episodes of animated a week before you. We invented IMAX! We have great monosyllabically named bands like Rush, Moist, and Thor! We gave you both Kirk and Scotty. We’re the best, eh?"

But it’s not all roses and maple syrup, is it? Need I remind you that it was you who unleashed upon the world Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive? It was you who brought about both Eugene Levy and butter substitute. Howie Mandel, Pamela Anderson, and Shania Twain all hail from within your massive borders. Your bi-lingual everything, your Newfoundland time zone… Not so proud now, are we?

And yet, for the following things, I must indeed thank you:
Leonard Cohen
Corner Gas
The Stanley Cup
Skinny Puppy (particularly Ogre)
NoMeansNo
Kids in the Hall
Alex Trebek

You are a fickle mistress, o neighbor to the north. Who can know you, for you are like the wind? Will your next export be atrocity or excellence? What shall become of thee, o Canada?

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:20 am

At least you don't have the Welsh next to you.

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:13 am

inflatable dalek wrote:At least you don't have the Welsh next to you.

i think Whales is great, its where my sociology teacher hails from and im thinking of going to uni there

and at least your no-were near Grimsby

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:37 am

What's wrong with Shania Twain and Celine Dion?

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:44 am

Canada gave the world Nathan Fillion and Jewel Staite. That's enough to warrant forgiveness for pretty much anything.

slartibartfast · Post by **slartibartfast** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:59 am

Mets-en.

I was thinking of moving to Canada, TBH. I've been wanting to go somewhere new, and it's at the top of the list at the moment... I get the impression that I'm not the only person thinking though, 'the new eldorado' or something isn't it?

Sixswitch · Post by **Sixswitch** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:23 pm

inflatable dalek wrote:At least you don't have the Welsh next to you.

Yeah, imagine the feeling of overwhelming inferiority you'd have to live with if that were the case... Poor Dalek.

-Ss

Notabot · Post by **Notabot** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:33 pm

Civ wrote:What's wrong with Shania Twain and Celine Dion?

Looks like we got us a Maple Sympathizer!

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:03 pm

Sixswitch wrote:Yeah, imagine the feeling of overwhelming inferiority you'd have to live with if that were the case... Poor Dalek.

-Ss

See, it's that sort of self delusion that makes the Welsh a scary people.

Blitzwing · Post by **Blitzwing** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:45 pm

Ooh... am I the first Canadian to reply to this? Awesome! Wait... do I have anything to contribute to the thread? No.... sadly...

*Runs off to play with Universe 2.0 toys*

Oh I got something... we also brought you the likes of Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and John Candy. The next great Canadian comedian will be Russel Peters... do people in the States know about him? Or is he just popular here?

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:21 pm

actually the british brought you mike myers he had a scotish father and was born in scotland (please dont construde my reply to this as an endorsement of canadaphobia)

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:09 pm

electro girl wrote:actually the british brought you mike myers he had a scotish father and was born in scotland

Born in Ontario to parents from Liverpool.

First rule of nitpicking is, perhaps unsurprisingly, to get your own facts right.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000196/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers_%28actor%29
http://www.filmreference.com/film/35/Mike-Myers.html

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:16 pm

thats the last time i get facts from my dad (yes that will throw them off) he told me his dad was scotish

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:17 pm

electro girl wrote:thats the last time i get facts from my dad (yes that will throw them off) he told me his dad was scotish

He was probably foxed by the utterly convincing accent as Fat Bastard.

Notabot · Post by **Notabot** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:51 pm

Blitzwing wrote:Oh I got something... we also brought you the likes of Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and John Candy.

Not sure if you're defending your country's honor there or playing Benedict Arnold.

Jim Carrey just about made my "Evil Exports of Canada" (EEoC) list up top. Meyers and Candy, however, both almost made my "Good Things from Canada" (GTfC). So, in my eyes (which is what matters), your defense is slightly better than a push.

Do mounties use guns?

martyboy70 · Post by **martyboy70** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:25 pm

inflatable dalek wrote:At least you don't have the Welsh next to you.

Could be worse you could have the English at your arse end.

Ravage · Post by **Ravage** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 4:31 am

I am going to see Rush next week!

Blitzwing · Post by **Blitzwing** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:21 am

Notabot wrote: Do mounties use guns?

Yeah, but they prefer to use tasers.

electro girl · Post by **electro girl** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:38 am

martyboy70 wrote:Could be worse you could have the English at your arse end.

yeah sorry about that. think our nations can be friens instead of feuding like the U.S and canada?

Hawkeye · Post by **Hawkeye** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:45 pm

you leave the newfoundland time zone out of this! we need that extra half hour headstart for drinking purposes on new years.