I love ALL Canadians

[Mudcat]

I have an overwhelming desire to add a punchline to this:

This forum has its love/hate wires crossed.

Something like

This forum has its love/hate wires crossed more than the line-up to the washroom at the women's shelter.



Ack. Such poor taste. What is wrong with me today?

[Matt Rain]

It just dawned on me that we never hear from PEI. Someone should check on them to see what they're up to.

[Matt Rain]

Oh my, Mud.

A couple more of those and you'll be just like the rest of us.

[Bread]

Matty, he might not like it, but Muddy is one of us already. But don't tell him, OK

[Mudcat]

It just dawned on me that we never hear from PEI. Someone should check on them to see what they're up to.

FWIW I receive constant communication from PEI, the problem being it is always in the form of potatoes. As such it is difficult to interpret.

This is also why Islanders do so poorly on Jeopardy. Where they are supposed to phrase their responses in the form of questions, they tend to phrase them in the form of potatoes.

They are such nice people but Alex gets flummoxed and it doesn't work out.




While we're here speaking of the maritimes, here's something that gets my goat. I am shifting over to New Brunswick now so try to keep up with the extreme pace.

Okay so we've got the city Moncton - named after Lt. Col. Robert Monckton - but the city is named, as I guess I already alluded, Moncton. Someone took out the "k".

Like, they named a city after him but took a letter out of his name.

I suppose my question is: WTF?

[Bread]

Muddy, any thoughts on the filthy Albertans?

Do you like ice fishing?

[FreshCoast]

Damn those filthy Albertans. They all work for a living and don't have to pay taxes. They actually get $500 checks from the province just for living in filthy Alberta.
Thats why they all have Flames jerseys on in the stands at the saddledome. They go buy them with their dirty $500 checks.
They all like to work hard and get drunk and party hard but then they don't smoke weed?
It doesnt make sense.
In BC we go outside and get stoned and enjoy the outdoors. Those filthy Albertans all they do is work and say no to drugs and get free Flames jerseys.

[Bread]

My thoughts exactly FreshCoast. Thanks for stopping by.

[Teela]

teela is french canadian

That's hush-hush!

[Mudcat]

Muddy, any thoughts on the filthy Albertans?

Do you like ice fishing?

Albertans seem pretty solid to me.

When I was much younger and more foolish I thought they all lived in the jungle and did a lot of swinging from trees and communing with monkeys.

The reason was related to the oil industry in Alberta. I would hear people talk about the Alberta tar-sands. That's where the oil is. It gets extracted from this sand. Except I thought they were saying the Alberta Tarzans. My imagination just ran wild with it.

But anyway I got straightened out on that months ago. I don't think an Albertan would know what to say to a monkey any more than you or me. But I got a nice cowboy hat from Alberta.



Ice fishing is not something I'm big on. My dad and brother are big on the fishing so I certainly got exposed to all kinds of fishing including the kind done in huts on frozen Lake Scugog. But I just never took to it.

As you get older, the ice fishing excursion can become more of a drinking thing but really, there are other places to drink that don't involve damp long johns and a bucket of smelt and perch.

Nowadays, when I am exposed to any kind of fishing, I pull for the fish.

[fiveteamer]

Alberta and the fukkers in there can go fukk it/themselves.

[RogueJuror]

yes

StyleQ and FreshCoast, new canadian fresh meat

[Mudcat]

Hating a Newfie gets the death penalty, we DO NOT hate the Newfies.

We do however tell Newfie jokes:



One day a Newfie goes down to the village carpenter and requests a wooden crate that is 1 inch tall, 1 inch wide and 50 feet long."

When the carpenter asks what he needs it for, the Newfie replies "The wife snapped her clothesline the other day, and I have to send it to Toronto to get it fixed.

[Matt Rain]

Okay so we've got the city Moncton - named after Lt. Col. Robert Monckton - but the city is named, as I guess I already alluded, Moncton. Someone took out the "k".

Like, they named a city after him but took a letter out of his name.

I suppose my question is: WTF?

I was about to propose that this was the doing of those filthy French-speaking Acadians, but Wikipedia intervened before I could put my foot in my mouth:

A clerical error at the time the town was incorporated resulted in the mis-spelling of the community's name which has been perpetuated to the present day.


Anticlimactic much.

[CaneDawg]

i love isabela fischer or what ever her name is

the chick in wedding crashers....she is beautiful

[RogueJuror]

I was about to propose that this was the doing of those filthy French-speaking Acadians, but Wikipedia intervened before I could put my foot in my mouth:

A clerical error at the time the town was incorporated resulted in the mis-spelling of the community's name which has been perpetuated to the present day.


Anticlimactic much.

huh

[Mudcat]

i love isabela fischer or what ever her name is

the chick in wedding crashers....she is beautiful

I'm pretty sure Isla Fisher is Australian.

Rachel McAdams who was also in Wedding Crashers and is also known for a certain measure of loveliness is from London (Ontario, Canada).

[Mudcat]

I was about to propose that this was the doing of those filthy French-speaking Acadians, but Wikipedia intervened before I could put my foot in my mouth:

A clerical error at the time the town was incorporated resulted in the mis-spelling of the community's name which has been perpetuated to the present day.


Anticlimactic much.

Only in the world of political bureaucracy could this happen and no one would say, "Hey, a dumb error has been made not unlike what is going to happen with The Washington National's jerseys in 150 years or so. Rather than going through the rest of our lives as The Natinals, why don't we, you know, make a correction?"

I mean seriously. To borrow a phrase from our Newfie friends: Lard tundrin!

[betplom]

plommer where's Are's response

Rogie, I haven't even thought about writing it yet.

I've mailed a dozen or so letters to Cuba and only a couple have ever been received.

I hate to waste energy on a letter that won't likely be delivered, the Cubans see the envelope from Canada and think there is cash inside.

[Bread]

I'm pretty sure Isla Fisher is Australian.

Rachel McAdams who was also in Wedding Crashers and is also known for a certain measure of loveliness is from London (Ontario, Canada).

Yes, McAdams is quite of the sexy. Curvy redhead.

[Mudcat]

Yes I thought we might get some nice Canadian Rachel McAdams nudity in The Notebook. They teased the hell out of it like it was coming for sure. But ultimately, our spirits were crushed like the ice in a pretty-colored fiveteamer aperitif.

[Bread]

Saw her in another movie with Ryan Reynolds recently. Possibly, Maybe, I think it was called?

She radiates beauty. yea, I said that.

[Mudcat]

That's back to Isla Fisher, not Rachel McAdams, who was in Definitely Maybe with (Canadian) Ryan Reynolds.

[Bread]

omg I just looked her up and you're right! I thought it was the other one.

Well I like this one better!