Cluin that's a great site! Thanks! :-)

Spaw - "another phlegm bag of self"?   "Lobotomal trots"? He he he - c'mon man you could be the next great Canadian humorist! Why waste that talent - PUBLISH!!!

LH - right on, on all counts! And don't forget our wonderful actors (Michael J. Fox, John Candy, Pamela Anderson *whew!*, Graham Greene, Chief Dan George, Jim Carey and your all-time favorite CAPTAIN KIRK! to name a few). And athletes, and scientists, and astronauts, and statesmen, and ...

Jack - the quotes are from a tiny little book called "Quotable Canada - a national treasury" by Canada's 'Master Gatherer', John Robert Columbo. Here's a few more of my favorites -

"To agree to disagree, to harness diversity, to respect dissent, this is the real essence of Canada."
                - Robert L. Perry (no occupation listed)

"The essence of being a Canadian actor is being mistaken for someone else."
                - Richard Monetto, Can. actor and director

"The field of our dreams is flooded and frozen and has a net at either end."
                - Joey Slinger, Can. columnist

"Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
                - Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former Can. Prime Minister

"The geography everywhere is unforgiving; to survive is an achievement ... Canadians at bus stops exchange looks of pure pleasure; they are fiesty; they are invincible; they can take it."
                - June Callwood, Can. writer

"I know nothing finer, either from the point of view of the sociologist, the traveller, or the artist, than a month's devotion even to the surface of Canada."
                - Walt Whitman, poet (American, but we can take it eh?)

"There's a lot to be said for simple lust, and not enough of it has been said by women."
                - Betty Jean Wylie, Can. dramatist and writer

"Canada could have enjoyed English government, French culture, and American know-how; instead, we ended up with English know-how, French government, and American culture."
                - John Robert Columbo, Can. anthologist

"We have the Mounties, they have the FBI. Can you imagine the FBI doing the Musical Ride?"
                - Dave Broadfoot, Can. comedian

"We live in an empty place filled with wonders."
                - Peter C. Newman, Can. writer

Au revoir! - daylia