Why do Americans take the piss out of Canadians?

[cantdog]

I like curling. And cake donuts.

 

[Dumpling]

I like curling. And cake donuts.

Are you jealous we got Tim Hortons eh!

 

[Xelebes]

Well, Y'know, I've been to Monctin and Goose Bay and St.Johns and Vancouver BC. and up the Frazier. I have been to Kodiak Island and Juneau, I enjoyed a gathering of Canadian nurses and american sailors at Esquimalt(sp) (I can still see her face, I named a daughter after her...) on Vancouver Island; I have trraversed the inland waterways from SE Alaska to the open North Pacific ( I don't recommend it). I regularly 'chat' with a dozen people, male and female in Canada, so, don't bullshit me.

Canada is in trouble. Not only with an identity problem, but with a political/philosophical/ psychological conflict and a protestant/catholic conflict which is tearing the nation apart.

Aside from in inferiority complex for the dynamic economy of the US, the leftist 'rabid econuts' that wish to let the petroleum rot in the ground rather than fuel homes for electricity and let the timber rot on the ground instead of becoming lumber to build homes, well, yeah, Canada has a few problems.

Worse, much worse, are the statistics of the disintegration of the 'moral fibre' of Canadians, with high suicide rates, very high drug addiction rates, extremely high prescripted drug addiction rates. All the numbers are on a steep downtrend and not even rgrham will dispute that. Or if he does he is really an idiot and a demogogue.

amicus...

Thank you for sampling the stew. Now try the rest of it.

The Vancouver area is our version of San Francisco so do please take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Xelebes]

Oops. Missed the dry humour. Needs more hyperbole and a little more sass.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

Two big reasons why Canada deserves love:

1) Kids in the Hall
2) The Frantics

 

[cloudy]

Two big reasons why Canada deserves love:

1) Kids in the Hall
2) The Frantics

Kids in the Hall - ahh, yes.....my children have them to thank for me always looking at them through the tines of a fork, and pretending they're in jail...

...and, pinching their heads off

 

[shereads]

What an enjoyable thread. For the first time ever I wish I had seen more episodes of South Park, but the killed Kenny in the few I did see, over and over again. And the Simpsons, still have never seen a single episode of that, but then, other than news and movies and West Wing, since the demise of STNG star treck next generation, there is very little that attracts me.

What is desperate wives all about? I saw some flap on television about a blonde and a black football player, but what's new about that?

Tee hee, some of my best friends are Canucks...

amicus, inevitably amicable when bare bushes are bristling about.

(alliteration for free)

The Simpsons is the great American novel with unfortunate hair.

The show gets better and better, so you can leap in at any time. Still, it's tragic that you missed "Day of the Jackanapes", with Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) as Sideshow Bob (Shakespearean-trained actor forced to earn a living as the loin-clothed apeman sidekick to a TV clown).

In prison for attempting to murder Bart Simpson, Sideshow Bob appears before the parole board and explains the disturbing new tattoo on his chest:

DIE BART DIE.

"That's German for "The Bart The."

In a chilling reanactment of the houseboat scene from Cape Fear, paroled Sideshow Bob kidnaps the Simpson family and forces Bart to perform Pirates of Penzance.

It was more memorable than anything in the final years of Frasier, or in Canada.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Two big reasons why Canada deserves love:

1) Kids in the Hall
2) The Frantics

dodeotendotenday

dodiotendayoh!

dodiotendotenday-

we're eating macaroni!!!

 

[SensualCealy]

No one has suggested that one good reason to love Canada is HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA, one childhood memory I will retain for life- I hate hockey! lol

oh and no one mentioned is BEVER and puntang- opps poutine! lmao

C

 

[Pure]

I agree Cealy, you have to give credit to a nation who'll celebrate the beaver.

Americans have probably almost annihilated the beaver, and like that bald thing. Hence the intense envy.

 

[SensualCealy]

Those damn fur traders never know when to stop! lol
C

 

[Remec]

In a chilling reanactment of the houseboat scene from Cape Fear, paroled Sideshow Bob kidnaps the Simpson family and forces Bart to perform Pirates of Penzance.

Wasn't it "HMS Pinafore"?

<g>

 

[Remec]

Those damn fur traders never know when to stop! lol
C

Ah gots plenty o' fur ta be tradin' wicha...ennytime...<wink>

hehehe

 

[cantdog]

If I were in a position to have a totem animal, it would be a beaver. Beavers are the canoeist's friends, dude.

I read the Thoreau book, where he books a guide named Neptune in Bangor, Maine, and they do a canoe trip. I forget the name of the book, now. Anyway, his route is impossible these days. Those streams, a lot of them, are bony, stony trickles, except at spring freshet. Why the difference, then to now? Beavers! Beavers impound the water, turn those bony streams into good canoe water.

You get further into the woods, the streams are highways. Hey for the beaver.

Of course, there is some virtue to fur felt. But I like the live beavers more.

 

[eric shawn listo]

I mean, y'know, things might be better if they'd kept William Shatner.

 

[Guest]

I mean, y'know, things might be better if they'd kept William Shatner.

Oh, so he's a Canadian. I never realised that (you lot all sound the bloody same to us). Still, that explains a lot. The singing, for one thing.

Edited, to correct the mistake of putting him in the past tense.

 

[SensualCealy]

Well who would we poke fun at if Will hadnt become the best commercial personality alive- he is still alive isnt he, it isnt a holligram is it?

Cant dog, I was talking about live beaver pelts! and if you decide to canoe in our waters watch for beaver fever!
C

 

[eric shawn listo]

Oh, so he was a Canadian. I never realised that (you lot all sound the bloody same to us). Still, that explains a lot. The singing, for one thing.

Yes, his latest album does take one's breath away. Hi Lou!

 

[Guest]

Yes, his latest album does take one's breath away. Hi Lou!

Makes me want to poke knitting needles in my ears. Hi Esl!

(I never know, should I call you Eric? Eric Shawn? Or does Esl work for you. Seems so formal. )

 

[SensualCealy]

LMAO, only because you cant believe someone actually gave him a recording deal!!

I think there are so many more people Canada is proud of besides Captain Kirk!
LOL
C

 

[eric shawn listo]

Makes me want to poke knitting needles in my ears. Hi Esl!

(I never know, should I call you Eric? Eric Shawn? Or does Esl work for you. Seems so formal. )

Lou, you may call me whatever you like...eric.

...and let's not forget Lorne Green--a nother "actor" turned recording "artist"

 

[NoJo]

All Americans are in denial about Canada from the awful moment they learn that's it's a tiny bit bigger than the U.S.

 

[~photoguy~]

William Shatner is in a new TV series this year .. called Boston Legal ...

its actually pretty entertaining, decent acting (with some dayumm sexy women also)

http://abc.go.com/primetime/bostonlegal/bios/william_shatner.html

 

[SensualCealy]

He was on a repeat of The Prince from BelAir, it was too funny, he played himself as a guest on Hilary's show. He and Will and the cousin got high on laughing gas. Brought out alot of his true colours, the way Id think he would really be if he wasnt 'Acting'.

I liked the old version of Star Trek kinda grew up on it!

Who else is out there let see, Jim Carrey! John Candy (may he rest in peace), Dave Moranis, Colin Moccary (sp), Martin Short, Wayne Gretzky, Lorne Green, Michael J Fox, QUEEN!!(I think).

Lots more, but I likely cant remember - too much coffee today! lol
C

 

[ABSTRUSE]

All Americans are in denial about Canada from the awful moment they learn that's it's a tiny bit bigger than the U.S.

No....it's not....I measured.