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OZZY

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posted July 19, 2003 03:44 AM

Canadian bashing in the States...

Fish and PK, did you experiance any Canada bashing on your visit here? Well other than from me I guess I should have said.

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posted July 19, 2003 09:20 AM

...probably not, but fish did A LOT of KLR bashing...I'll take my bike 15 pound 'disadvantage' as a 'stabilizing' advantage when I'm riding 75~80MPH on-road to get to the 5~40MPH off-road rides (which will be a 75/25 percent probablilty)...
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posted July 19, 2003 04:25 PM

Fuck Canadian Fish!
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posted July 19, 2003 05:49 PM

No... it was a clean trip - didn't get any attitude until we got home.

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posted July 19, 2003 05:51 PM

...and my KLR bike will be Alaska-ready...
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posted July 19, 2003 05:54 PM

Cool - I saw this tank system for the Honda - it stores gas under the seat - as well as having an oversized tank...

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posted July 19, 2003 06:01 PM

actually we had a great time... most people didnt really know that we were from Canada.... I do have to observe that the political "climate" in the US has defintely changed from this year to the last.... being frequent visitors to the US we had observed that "patriotism" or "excessive flag displaying" accompanied by much "rah rah rah" has most certainly subsided... "ya'll" " 'mericans" were generally much quieter and far more polite than before...

dunno what was different this year.. perhaps it is simply that things are finally calming down after 9/11 etc but it was a refreshing change and we definetly enjoyed ourselves.
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posted July 19, 2003 07:03 PM

...I knew the Canadian bikes from the rest...the Candadian bikes had giant mudflaps of a license plate...all that was missing were the nekkid chrome big breastessed ladies facing each other...

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posted July 19, 2003 08:04 PM

Funny how Canadians always seem to take great interest in what's going on here, but really, the only thing we would miss if Canada got sucked into a Moose's festering asshole would be the beer. ;0

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posted July 19, 2003 09:22 PM

quote:
Funny how Canadians always seem to take great interest in what's going on here, but really, the only thing we would miss if Canada got sucked into a Moose's festering asshole would be the beer. ;0

And our electricity.

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posted July 19, 2003 09:24 PM

oh yeah... and the water... and all of your entertainment industry and entertainers.... your air.... your wheat... your wood... your... and on and on and on

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posted July 19, 2003 09:46 PM

Ummm.... and this website, you post ho with over 3000 posts Swft.

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posted July 19, 2003 10:46 PM

I seem to remember fish bashing Americans a lot and we're generally like

"Canadians? I've got no opinion on them and never really thought of forming one. They live North somewhere and you have to go through them to get to Alaska."

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posted July 20, 2003 11:42 AM

I think they are just mad because we are better looking and have faster bikes.

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posted July 21, 2003 04:25 PM

Cool facts about Canada

07/01/2003

By DARLA ATLAS / The Dallas Morning News

So, what are your big plans for Canada Day?

That's what we thought. Most of us don't
appreciate the country that sits
on top of us as much as we should. The only time we
take note is when it's
stirring up controversy ? giving the green light to
gay marriage, battling
SARS, begging for its meat to be allowed on this
side of the border again.
(One Canadian cow goes mad and ruins things for
everybody.)

So to celebrate the country that gave us Jim
Carrey, 80 percent of the
world's maple syrup and those two beer-drinking
brothers from the '80s who
shall remain nameless, here are a few other fun
facts to relish and repeat.
And we promise, you will not see the word "hoser"
anywhere. Except right
there.

D'oh! The Simpsons are Canadian
No really, it's true. Last year Matt Groening, the
comic genius behind The
Simpsons, told the audience at the Just for Laughs
comedy festival that his
dad, Homer ? the inspiration for the other Homer ?
was born in Canada.
Pressed on the issue, he said, "That would make
Homer Simpson a Canadian. I
hope Canadians won't hold it against the show now
that they know."

We Americans just assumed Homer was one of us,
because he sure acts like
us. But no. Without the Great White North, there
would be no Itchy, no
Scratchy, no witty Bartisms on the chalkboard. Oh
sure, now you're happy
there's a Canada.

Timbits!

The Tim Hortons restaurant chain is huge, with
more than 2,200 stores in
Canada and 160 on this side of the border. It was
started in 1964 by Toronto
Maple Leafs star Tim Horton. First it was called,
simply, Tim Horton. Next
it became Tim Horton's, and now it's Tim Hortons.
Plural, like there are a
whole bunch of the guy. Strange but true.
Each year, the restaurant holds its "Rrroll up the
Rim to Win" game,
during which some rims of coffee cups contain
messages that you've just won
a car or a theater system or some food.

Speaking of food, one of the stores' most popular
items is the Timbit, a
bite-sized doughnut hole that comes in many
"flavours." Mmmm, Timbits.

The Great One

Mythical beings we have known: Thor, god of
thunder; Zeus, god of all
gods; and Gretz, god of hockey.

Wayne Gretzky, who retired from the sport in 1999,
was a legend long
before then. As fellow Canadian Mike Myers might
say, "We're not worthy!"
Named by ESPN as the fifth-greatest North American
athlete of the 20th
century, he's married to ex-actress Janet Jones (The
Flamingo Kid, Staying
Alive, Police Academy 5). They have five kids, and
he has a restaurant,
Wayne Gretzky's. The Web site boasts of "10 great
year's in Toronto,"
proving that Canadian restaurants named after hockey
stars have apostrophe
issues. (See Timbits! entry.)

Other semi-great ones in skating
The 2002 Winter Olympics gave us Canadian pairs
skaters David Pelletier
and Jamie Sal?, who won the silver and then the gold
because of a voting
scandal involving a French judge. Their grace under
pressure ? and refusal
to bad-mouth the other gold-grabbing pair ? made us
proud to be, well, close
to Canada.

Also of note: Olympian Kurt Browning, perhaps the
only male figure skater
in history who could be described as "macho";
big-headed, little-bodied,
quad-jumping Elvis Stojko; gold-medal hockey star
Mario Lemieux; former
Edmonton Oilers goalie Grant Fuhr, the first black
player to have his name
on the Stanley Cup; and approximately 436 other
Canadians made famous by
maneuvering around on two thin blades.

They have milk in a bag

> > Sure, Canadian dairy companies offer milk in
> > cartons and jugs, but they
> > also decided it might be fun to sell milk in these
> > baggies, not unlike
> > little cow udders. Seems fresher that way, doesn't
> > it? Other cool culinary
> > treats include poutine ? french fries drenched in
> > gravy and cheese curds
> > (eww) ? along with ketchup-flavored potato chips and
> > BeaverTails. According
> > to the official BeaverTail Web site, it's a "a
> > wickedly delicious, fresh,
> > hot, pastry treat ? shaped like the water-slapping
> > end of ... a Beaver!!!"
> > Whee!
> >
> > Cheque. We lique that word.
> >
> > We also like "centre," "colour" and other Canadian
> > words that possess that
> > French twist of sophistication. And as for what the
> > BBC once called
> > "Canada's national tic," it's pronounced "eh," not
> > "aye." Enough said on
> > that subject.
> >
> > Truth, justice and the Canadian way?
> >
> > Sorry, NYC, but you're not Metropolis.
> >
> > In a big blow to the all-American ego, it seems
> > that Joe Shuster,
> > co-creator of Superman, was born in Toronto and
> > modeled Clark Kent's place
> > of employment after The Toronto Star. (It was even
> > called The Daily Star,
> > not The Daily Planet, in early strips.) This means
> > Metropolis is really ?
> > gasp! ? Toronto. But don't worry, Americans probably
> > invented Kryptonite.
> > That sounds like something we'd do.
> >
> > Canada helps keep us active, alive and perky
> >
> > Among the inventions that we wouldn't have without
> > those capable
> > Canadians: basketball (thought up by James Naismith,
> > a Canadian P.E.
> > teacher, in 1891); Ski-doos (a Quebec man patented
> > it in 1959); insulin (Sir
> > Frederick G. Banting co-invented it in 1922); and
> > the modern zipper (devised
> > by Gideon Sundback in 1913. American Whitcomb L.
> > Judson gets much of the
> > credit, but his version was faulty). Then there was
> > Charles Fenerty, who
> > back in 1838 invented what we like to call
> > newsprint. And last ? but not at
> > all least ? the "WonderBra Push Up Plunge Bra" was
> > invented in 1963 by
> > Canadian designer Louise Poirier. The world is a
> > better place.
> >
> > Cooler circus
> >
> > While there's a lot to be said for dancing
> > elephants, sequined trapeze
> > artists and clowns shot out of cannons, Cirque du
> > Soleil, which is based in
> > Montreal, is truly a sight to behold. Bodies aren't
> > made to move that way.
> > But if yours happens to, become one of them. Log
> > onto
> > www.cirquedusoleil.com, click "Join Cirque" and
> > begin your career. Among the
> > qualifications: excellent physical shape (duh), and
> > "experience in
> > gymnastics, acrobatics or long-term practice of a
> > sport." Hey, bowling's a
> > sport. Also, "the candidate must not suffer from
> > vertigo (the artist will at
> > times perform high in the air)."
> >
> > Still interested? Right now they're looking for
> > male or female twins ?
> > that one's marked "urgent" ? along with "actor,
> > blind man," a Korean cradle
> > porter (who knows?) and female diver.
> >
> > They're very encouraging to all applicants. "Keep
> > your hopes high," they
> > write. "The sun is always shining!" Especially if
> > you're a circus without
> > elephant poop.
> >
> > The Dallas-Canada Connection
> >
> > We have a hockey team; they have hockey stars.
> > Makes for a nice match. Of
> > the 26 active Dallas Stars players, 18 are Canadian
> > by birth. In contrast,
> > the Dallas Mavericks just have one, Steve Nash. But
> > we'll take him.
> >
> > And that, folks, is where the connection ends. We
> > used to have Canadian
> > journalists Ashleigh Banfield and Chris Gailus to
> > call our own, but they've
> > since moved on to other American locales. And
> > according to the Canadian Club
> > of North Texas (yes, there is such a thing:
> > www.canadianclub-ntx.com), most
> > of their members are just everyday people. Not that
> > there's anything wrong
> > with that.
> >
> > Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake
> >
> > It's a real body of water in Manitoba. And
> > apparently it's not
> > pronounceable, or at least it isn't to the countless
> > Canadians contacted for
> > this story. So the next time you're passing through
> > Manitoba, don't attempt
> > to impress the locals by enunciating every syllable,
> > as you will seem insane
> > or drunk. But go ahead, try to say the name aloud
> > now. You know you want to.
> >
> > Other cool place names: ?le Kuchistiniwamiskahikan
> > in Quebec, and Mount
> > Jimmy Simpson in Banff. (Although Bad Food Mountain
> > was once submitted for
> > consideration, the Geographical Names Board of
> > Canada rejected it as
> > "trite." Alas.)
> >
> > Haven't Their Visas Expired Already?
> >
> > Tom Green
> >
> > Celine Dion
> >
> > Howie Mandel
> >
> > Avril Lavigne
> >
> > Shania Twain
> >
> > Pamela Anderson
> >
> > (Note to Celine lovers: Let the hate mail begin.)
> >
> > Undercover Canadians
> >
> > Unlike Mike Myers, Peter Jennings and Paul
> > Shaffer, some famous faces very
> > sneakily do not broadcast their Canadian heritage.
> > We're naming names.
> >
> > Kim Cattrall
> >
> > Gloria Reuben
> >
> > Matthew Perry
> >
> > Jason Priestley
> >
> > William Shatner
> >
> > James Cameron
> >
> > Linda Evangelista
> >
>
>
>And me! SASSYVANILLA and many many more!!!!!

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posted July 21, 2003 05:20 PM

Of the above named people, how many have become naturalized? I wouldn't consider them 'Canadians' if that was the case.

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posted July 21, 2003 06:14 PM

oh come now swft. we all know that virtually everyone who achieves such a level of success moves to the states. frankly i find it almost an insult to call most of those people canadian. they visit the contry once in a while, prolly on tour or on set, and that's about it. their nationality becomes just another marketing tool.