Oh, Canada! was written by an aging group of CRTC gents who were made to sit in a stark and dim room until they reached consensus on the words. In true Canadian style, they mumbled alot and desperately grasped at anything that could not be misinterpreted as aggressive in any way.

We never finish singing the song because:

a) Although we are force fed every morning from k through 12, the speakers crackle and we can't really make out what is being broadcast through the school. Could be demonic codes played forward for all we know.

b) We aren't really sure which are the old words and which are the new words, so we fade away.

c) We're always attempting to spit on queue, just like our hockey heroes. (We have heroes.)

d) We get bored and drift away.

It starts the way it does because rise and jab our neighbour, who turns, puzzled, realizes what's going on and joins in, "oh!....Canadaaaaaaa...."

Seriously, it's a great country with a boring anthem.

Sheye