BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause

Subject: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:31 AM

We get to say EH after every word
We really do have a plastic jesus on the dashboard of our Ice road trucks ..

We .....


LOL I tease cause I love ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:40 AM

Stop, please.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:01 AM

JE suis Canadien, eh?

I am a Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong,
or free to choose those who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom
I pledge to uphold
for myself and all mankind, eh?

(From the Canadian Bill of Rights, July 1, 1960.)

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:04 AM

Hey! We only say "eh?", when it's totally, like, necessary, eh?

And mostly only in, like, Ontario, eh? ;-)

The expression "eh?" denotes a mild level of concern as to whether the other person has fully understood what one has just said to them. (eh?) It's also a sort of a friendly overture, an icebreaker, if you will. It conveys a sense of mutually shared and common values.

Examples:

"So, how's it goin', eh?"

"Okay, eh? How ya doin' yerself?"

"Not bad, eh? You from around here?"

"No...I'm from, like, Sudbury, eh?"

"Oh yeah? I been to Sudbury a coupla times, eh? I even seen the Big Nickel, eh?"

"Decent! Yeah, if ya visit my town ya gotta see the Big Nickel. It's made of real nickel from the mines, eh?"

"I guess ya could buy quite a few beer with that nickel, eh?"

"No kiddin'! I betcha that Ricky and Julian and, like, Bubbles are gonna try stealin' it fer, like, beer money in one of their new movies, eh?"

"Yeah, probally...them guys will try anything, eh?"

(Both laugh at the thought of the Trailer Park Boys attempting to make off with the Big Nickel...ease and mutual understanding has now been achieved between two Canadians who didn't know each other 5 minutes ago, but who are now well on the way toward hoisting a few cold ones at the local sports bar and checking out the waitresses.)

And so on. Our Ontarian cultural life is astonishingly rich, olddude. You must come here some time and see it for yourself if you have not already done so.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:13 AM

We get to watch Canuck AND Yankee football if we like want to eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:25 AM

What's with the 'like'? You all Valley girls?

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:25 AM

eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:49 AM

When I go back home, all my friends still do the Pittsburgh You_ins
and I find myself doing a Eh cause so many of my beloved friends are from Canada ... it rubs off honest it does.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:06 PM

Ebbie - The "like" thing is a younger generational attribute. All the, like, teens and twenty-somethings and even some, like, thirty-somethings say the word "like" about 8500 times an hour when they're engaging in idle chit chat with one another. I hear them doing this at the restaurant, in the grocery store, at the bank, at the mall, on the street, and it, like, makes me want to go on a mass killing spree, eh?

They also use the word "like" to describe whatever a person said or did:

"So, she's like...'Whatever'...and I'm, like, 'So just do it, okay?' and he's like 'She doesn't want to!' and I'm like just sooooo tired of the whole thing...."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHH!!!!!!!!

It gets worse with each passing year. I think the social ideal of our times has become encapsulated in people who are desperate to be as much like Paris Hilton and/or Adam Sandler as they possibly can be. This takes more work for some than it does for others.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:18 PM

We were doing like and the like long before any valley girls, know what I mean eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:34 PM

And no mention the Shatner??????

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 12:40 PM

SINS... you knew it was coming. I assume LH is still working on his post.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 03:20 PM

Stop, please. This is so unbelievably pathetic.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 05:45 PM

Aw, T, cancha, like, lighten, like, up-like, eh?

And LH: Your profound ignorance is showing if you think this use of like as a random interjection is a recent innovation. Does the name Dobie Gillis like mean anything to you, man?



A

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Peter T.
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 06:05 PM

Canadians hang on to these tiny remnants of a national identity long after whatever identity there was has been washed away in the universal American media tide; or they have sold themselves to the highest bidder (see, we have loonies!). Next we'll hear about mounties and beer and Joni Mitchell.

Really it makes you want to throw up (cf. beer above).

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 06:11 PM

Now, except for the damned geese it not all THAT bad. Why, I'll be going to Vancouver (BC, not WA) next year and except for the beer, the food, the accent, the people, the buildings, and the overall Canadianness of it I don't think it'll be so be bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 06:34 PM

Tell you what, Rapaire, since that is how you feel--just track down some fellow countrymen and hail them as MURRICANS!!!!! You and your fellow Merkins can put up in a HoJo, somewhere, and never feel the sting of furrin-ness a bit!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 07:32 PM

Geeze T. no one here is picking on canadians. Just the opposite, my gosh to a person everyone I know - I can only hope to have their sense of humor, or their kindness including those I met on this site. I take no offense when I am teased by my very unusual Pennsylvania coal region quirks and accent nor do my friends. For sure lighten up and have a Labatts blue on me ... or Molson Eh

When a person could go across the Peace bridge at will without any hassle I and I was working in Buffalo I would go over everyday to have lunch with my Canadian buddies ... Best chinese food on the planet was in Fort Erie ..
Now it takes too long to go across anymore with all the security

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: meself
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 07:41 PM

I'm old enough to remember a time when no one ever talked about BEING Canadian; they just were. We weren't sure if we really had a flag; we weren't sure if we really had a national anthem. I'm starting to miss those days ...

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 08:29 PM

Peter... it's all in jest... eh. If there is one thing Me, Mois and Jimmy Suis know, it's that Canucks (and everyone else) like a joke.

This is the BS section of The Café. "S" don't stand for serious shit... eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 09:29 PM

No, I have not forgotten Dobie Gillis, Amos! True, we had no TV at the time, but I heard about Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs constantly from my American schoolmates in New York State, and I assume that people in Canada were, like, watching them too, eh? Yes....I know that those guys used the word "like" a lot. I think, actually, that the overuse of the word "like" to grease the wheels and cogs of 'cool' conversation really took off in the, like, Beatnik era of the 1950s. It was, like, the way to talk if you were, like, part of the coffeehouse crowd and the cool cats who, like, hung around the poetry readings and the abstract art gallerys. Then it, like, migrated to the hippies. Then it, like, migrated to the Valley Girls. Then it, like, spread everywhere sort like a, like, plague, you know?

Gawd. Sometimes Shane McBride almost starts to seem intelligent when I compare his monologues to those I hear the young Paris Hilton-wannabbe girls engaging in at the mall here. Holy flippin' vapidity, Batman!!!!!!!!

****

Peter, I must say that I find your gloomy and pessimistic attitude about Canada's rapid slide into cultural pablum to be quite overwrought and unhelpful.

Good God, man! We have Don Cherry and his dog! Match that, America! Match that, Europe and Asia! You can't and you know it. As long as Don Cherry is here to represent Canada we can all hold our heads high, knowing that WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?

And if that fails....we drop the BIG ONE.

You know what I mean by that, don't you?

Worldwide Shatnerization.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 09:57 PM

The Cherry... said and done eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:16 PM

You know what I get more tired of than a teen ager liking all over the place? A 50 year old! Know what I, like, mean? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:20 PM

Quite seriously now, I like Canada and the Canadians. And I really am looking forward to going to Vancouver again in 2010. Of all the hotels and lodging places I've stayed in over the years, the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney, the Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, and the Gross Motel in Timewell are the ones that truly stand out from the rest (and oh yeah, the Nifty Clifty in Madison, IN).

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: number 6
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 10:35 PM

the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney ... I have had the pleasure of staying there and also at the Great Southern Hotel in Galway .... I highly recommend them ... and if you are ever down at St. Andrew by the Sea in New Brunswick check out the Fairmont Algonquin Hotel.

now ... back to "It's good to be a Canadian Cause" ... well, why not !

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jul 09 - 11:17 PM

Sometimes PeterT pulls yer leg so subtly it's hard to tell, like ya know what I mean. 'course he's up there in Tarawna, so he may be looking down his nose, eh!

BTW, ya'll can't hold a candle to Ditzee Lee who first made her appearance HERE. (She hadn't learned to sign in under her name, yet.)

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 02:09 PM

Hehehehee. Missed that one! Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 06:19 PM

It must be good to be Canadian. Ya'll are all so friggin' NICE* ya make us US southerners look like New Yawkers!


* except Clinton Hammond

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 06:24 PM

Yeah. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 06:55 PM

Every time I see this topic I read it as "Its good to be Canadian Goose" even though I know that correctly it's "Canada Goose."

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: Gurney
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 07:33 PM

I didn't know that you WERE a Canadian Cause, OD! Do you have a big following?






Gurney, on the track of missing apostrophes.

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:05 PM

Gurney
Naw I only want to be a Canadian but they won't have me,
No Pennsylvania boys allowed LOL ...

Subject: RE: BS: Its good to be Canadian Cause
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:47 PM

Only following I have is the string of cars behind me blowing their horn cause I drive too slow ... LOL