redsock
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 04:12 PM UTC
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As a kid, my family and I once found ourselves in Ottawa on July 1, having no idea it was canada day. We went to the square to see the changing of the guard, and got Canadian flags to wave, which we did gleefully. It's times like these I almost wish I could up there and do that now.
ggw
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 04:27 PM UTC
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mankie
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 04:43 PM UTC
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Happy Canada Day to all you canucks…just remember:
You will always be cooler than doodles
You play better and manlier sports that doodles
You are much friendlier than doodles
And you can piss doodles off by sending your cold fronts down to them.
YEAH FOR CANADA!…..eh ;)
ggw
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 06:32 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
But where are the famous Canadians from history?
Can anyone name even one Canadian that's truly world famous?
<img src="
http://a.abcnews.com/media/US/images/wolffiles_85_h.jpg" alt=" - " />
mankie
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 06:56 PM UTC
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I'm not sure there's too many Canucks who died shitfaced in the streets of Baltimore…..Canadians can hold their ale.
Here's some others though.
Maude Abbot
Wilfred G. Bigelow
Reginald Fessenden
Abraham Gesner
Dr. James Naismsith (B-ball dude)
Joseph B. Tyrell
Venerable Bede
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 06:57 PM UTC
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i've always liked robert service. . .but canadians known worldwide, well. . there's always marshall mcluhan, who made being a canadian intellectual hip in the 60s.
redsock
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:01 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Who is the Canadian Poe, for example?
John Irving, while born in the states, has all but become a Canadian citizen. not quite Poe, but a great author in his own right.
ggw
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:02 PM UTC
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Dudley Do-Right
TheNomad
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:12 PM UTC
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What are the two things most people use most every day?
Telephone - Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Canadian.
Television - Invented by Reginald A. Fesseden, Canadain.
loopzlp
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:19 PM UTC
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*blush* – I wore red and white today for the occasion…
some famous canadians:
margaret atwood – author
Billy BishoP – WWI figher pilot – shot down 72 enemy planes (the red baron had 80, who was taken out by a canadian)
Sanford Fleming – standard time zone inventor
Emily Carr – Painter
Charles Best - Codiscoverer of insulin
Gideon Sundback – zipper inventor
ggw
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:27 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Stuart Ransom Miller:
Telephone - Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Canadian.
You sure he was Canadian?
Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871…He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1882.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/bell.htm
vansmack
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:30 PM UTC
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Can anyone name even one Canadian that's truly world famous?
This guy was world famous for aboot a month:
<img src="
http://donovanbailey.com/images/donathlete.jpg" alt=" - " />
thirsty moore
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:38 PM UTC
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My Grandfather!
BTW, he did not think Bell was a Canadian.
redsock
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Re: Canada Day
July 01, 2004 at 07:43 PM UTC
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As me real name might suggest, I too had a set of grandparents from Canada, Quebec to be exact. Maybe that's whay i always feel at home there.