BajaNomad - Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day

motoged - 6-30-2010 at 07:34 PM

To all the Canadians lounging in Baja:

So,
What do we Canadians Have to be Proud of?

1. Smarties (not in the USA )

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp (not in the USA )

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down and bigger balls.

4. Baseball is Canadian - 1st game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers

10. Tim Hortons beats 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 ... We got bored because they ran away. Then, 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. EVER! (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.

17. The Hudsons 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.
(That's more information than I need!)

19. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk...

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone. Also short wave radios which save countless lives each year.

22. We have ALL frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have coloured money.

25. Our beer advertisements kick ass (Incidently... so does our beer)
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !

The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands in with mitts on.

OOOoohhhhh..... Canada !!

Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day!

redmesa - 6-30-2010 at 10:29 PM

And what other country would be ballsie enough to name their coins LOONIES and TOONIES.

pepino - 7-1-2010 at 03:07 AM

Eh?

Barbareno - 7-1-2010 at 05:38 AM

And don't forget we have the best Beaver.

Bob and Susan - 7-1-2010 at 05:48 AM

is this like...the first day you can go
outside with no snow? :lol:

shari - 7-1-2010 at 06:05 AM

thanks Motog...for reminding me about our great country. It's rare to feel that patriotic tug at my heart...but today I shall be humming...my home and native land...all day...will wear my maple leaf t-shirt and drink beer eh...at the beach!!! Im letting Juan have the day off the rock pile...abalone is done and we are off to catch a wack of yellowfin croaker at secret beach to celebrate this most honoured holiday...then to bajaboy's digs as he always remembers canada day...long live the queen.

Iflyfish - 7-1-2010 at 06:19 AM

Oh Canada....mumble, mumble, mumble....we lift our hearts to thee....oh Canada....mumble, mumble. Ok, enough for the anthem.

A big shout out to Canadians everywhere.....excuse me?! Excuse me?! Eh!

Time to haul out the old Canadian Bacon flick and pop a good cold Kakanee!

IflyfishwithmyhatofftoCanada

jorgie - 7-1-2010 at 06:20 AM

Sadly the Hudsons Bay Company like Tim Hortons is now American owned as are many others . Like so many Canadians I have failed to invest in my own Country and allowed others to purchase the land of my birth .
And the weather today is like November but you folks have a good day . Dang !!!

vandenberg - 7-1-2010 at 06:29 AM

A great place to be from.

Pompano - 7-1-2010 at 07:03 AM

The following is an..ahem.. true story as told to me by a native Manitoban who lived close to my home state of ND:

An elderly woman lived on a small farm in Canada, just yards away from the North Dakota border. Their land had been the subject of a minor dispute between the United States and Canada for years. The widowed woman lived on the farm with her son and three grandchildren.

One day, her son came into her room holding a letter. "I just got some news, Mom," he said. "The government has come to an agreement with the people in North Dakota. They've decided that our land is really part of the United States. We have the right to approve or disapprove of the agreement. What do you think?"

"What do I think?" his mother said. "Sign it! Call them right now and tell them we accept! I don't think I can stand another Canadian winter!"
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HAPPY CANADA DAY!
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[Edited on 7-2-2010 by Pompano]

[Edited on 7-2-2010 by Pompano]

geomike - 7-1-2010 at 09:56 AM

Here is one for ya eh!

Stompin' Tom

windgrrl - 7-1-2010 at 12:33 PM

Happy Canada Day!

Start waving the maple leaf... :spingrin:

the greatest Canadian inventions as ranked by CBC audience (actually, having the CBC is another great thing about being Canadian!):

1.Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best]
2.Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell]
3.Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans]
4.Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan]
5.Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier]
6.Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan]
7.Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson]
8.Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback]
9.Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein]
10.Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance]
11.Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns]
12.Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling]
13.Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell]
14.Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC]
15.Standard time [1878, Sir Sandford Fleming]
16.Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus]
17.Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier]
18.BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis]
19.Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden]
20.Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples]
21.Basketball [1892, James Naismith]
22.Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack]
23.UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet]
24.Instant Replay [1955, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada]
25.Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante]
26.Marquis Wheat [1908, Sir Charles Saunders]
27.Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall]
28.Lacrosse [First Peoples]
29.Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn]
30.Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis]
31.Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings]
32.Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry]
33.Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey]
34.Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine]
35.WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy]
36.Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp]
37.Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard]
38.Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll]
39.Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs]
40.Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias]
41.Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch]
42.Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers]
43.Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein]
44.CPR Mannequin: “ACTAR 911” [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault]
45.G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks]
46.Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove]
47.Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy]
48.Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson]
49.Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte]
50.Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons]

IT'S ABOUT THE LOVE...

Pompano - 7-1-2010 at 12:43 PM

Two boys are playing hockey on a pond in a park in Toronto, when one is attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy takes his stick, wedges it down the dog's collar and twists, breaking the dog's neck. A reporter who was strolling by sees the incident, and rushes over to interview the boy.

"Young Leafs Fan Saves Friend From Vicious Animal," he starts writing in his notebook.

"But I'm not a Leafs fan," the little hero replied.

"Sorry, since we are in Toronto, I just assumed you were." said the reporter and starts again.

"Little Jays Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Attack" he continued writing in his notebook.

"I'm not a Jays fan either," the boy said.

"I assumed everyone in Toronto was either a Leafs or Jays fan. What team, do you root for?" the reporter asked.

"I'm a Montreal Canadiens fan." the child said.

The reporter starts a new sheet in his notebook and writes,

"Little French Bastard from Montreal Kills Beloved Family Pet."

BajaGringo - 7-1-2010 at 02:06 PM

They let Canadians in Baja???

:spingrin:

Don't shoot - I'm only kidding!!!

[Edited on 7-1-2010 by BajaGringo]

geomike - 7-1-2010 at 05:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Pompano
Two boys are playing hockey on a pond in a park in Toronto, when one is attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy takes his stick, wedges it down the dog's collar and twists, breaking the dog's neck. A reporter who was strolling by sees the incident, and rushes over to interview the boy.

"Young Leafs Fan Saves Friend From Vicious Animal," he starts writing in his notebook.

"But I'm not a Leafs fan," the little hero replied.

"Sorry, since we are in Toronto, I just assumed you were." said the reporter and starts again.

"Little Jays Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Attack" he continued writing in his notebook.

"I'm not a Jays fan either," the boy said.

"I assumed everyone in Toronto was either a Leafs or Jays fan. What team, do you root for?" the reporter asked.

"I'm a Montreal Canadiens fan." the child said.

The reporter starts a new sheet in his notebook and writes,

"Little French Bastard from Montreal Kills Beloved Family Pet."

Damn Pompano with jokes like that everybody is going to think YOU are Canadian....well Western Canadian anyways!

Viva Moola-eh!

desertcpl - 7-1-2010 at 05:42 PM

thats funny,I just sent it off to my Canadian friends

Marc - 7-1-2010 at 09:15 PM

Hail to our little brothers to the north. we will will always be here to protect you.

[Edited on 7-2-2010 by Marc]

Marc - 7-2-2010 at 05:05 AM

Canada eh!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Vancouver : 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
5. Weed.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 5% instead of the approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.
4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
4. People will assume you live on a farm.
5. Daylight savings time? Who the hell needs that!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.
2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada .
4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!"

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick .
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island , you still got the big, new bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding.

Pass this along to Canadians who need a laugh and foreigners who can learn something about Canada and then enjoy a good chuckle.

Let's face it: Canadians are a rare breed.

The Official Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart

50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.

35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down

32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
· Canadian water gets thicker.

0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.

-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.

-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
· Canadians pull down their earflaps.

-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg

-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
· Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"

-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over.
· The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup

dtutko1 - 7-2-2010 at 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by motoged
To all the Canadians lounging in Baja

So,
What do we Canadians Have to be Proud of?
Canadian Royality Trusts, boxing day, Neil Young

1. Smarties (not in the USA )

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp (not in the USA )

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down and bigger balls.

4. Baseball is Canadian - 1st game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers

10. Tim Hortons beats 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 ... We got bored because they ran away. Then, 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. EVER! (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.

17. The Hudsons 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.
(That's more information than I need!)

19. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk...

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin and the telephone. Also short wave radios which save countless lives each year.

22. We have ALL frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have coloured money.

25. Our beer advertisements kick burro (Incidently... so does our beer)
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !

The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands in with mitts on.

OOOoohhhhh..... Canada !!

Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day!

dtutko1 - 7-2-2010 at 06:13 AM

[Edited on 7-2-2010 by dtutko1]

CaboRon - 7-2-2010 at 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marc
Hail to our little brothers to the north. we will will always be here to protect you.

[Edited on 7-2-2010 by Marc]

shari - 7-2-2010 at 07:33 AM

ron...thats pretty tacky

astrobaja - 7-2-2010 at 07:40 AM

Shari theres a certain type of American thats always going to express stupid sentiments like that best just to ignore them they are just insecure!

Hope you had a great Canada day we did! Actually have someone from Ontario visiting, 1st time in Mexico for her. Taking her to Catavina on the weekend!

Mike