BS: Are you Too Canadian?

Subject: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 04:51 PM

To find out, take this quiz

http://www.geocities.com/left_wing009/toocanadian.htm

I answered Yes to 9.

I bet that Little Hawk beats that score.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 04:59 PM

There's no such thing as too Canadian...

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 05:27 PM

It's impossible to be too Canadian. No way, eh? I scored more or less 11...sort of. But I am a real nonconformist, eh? I don't watch TV, and that knocks out half the test. I knew about most of that stuff secondhand, though, so don't say I'm not Canadian, eh? I think Blind Drunk in Blind River would score more like 25 or 30 on this test, except he's lousy at remembering song lyrics. He is a REAL Canadian, eh? You can take that to the bank. Trust me.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 07:10 PM

Je suis tres desolat. I only scored a '1'. But on the other hand, I'm not Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 07:23 PM

heck - I got a seven - and I live in the US!

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 07:31 PM

Wha? I'm USA- and I knew NONE of them. Fact, I recognized hardly any names- except Wayne Gretzky. I must get around more.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 08:07 PM

I can just manage nine. It has been quite a few years since I lived at the border. I doubt I'd manage many more if I lived there now, because I don't pay attention to sports. (I loved listening to Peter Gzowski! That list needs to be updated. It makes it sound like he's still around.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 08:15 PM

That "quiz" came down the e-mail Pike several years ago. But there's one missing from the original e-mailed message on that page:

- You know why the words "killer whale tank" are funny

Well, that one was the only one I didn't understand then.

I found out later.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Willie-O
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 09:55 PM

I scored 14 1/3. That was answering "no" to the Stompin Tom as God question. I'm tempted to reconsider.

But maybe not.

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:18 PM

Well,

I was about ten.

I think that this is would be interesting to our non-Canuck Friends.

Canadian Dictionary

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Cluin
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:54 PM

I think we can all agree that Smarties are better than M&Ms, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 11:19 PM

From: Cluin - PM
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 10:54 PM

I think we can all agree that Smarties are better than M&Ms, though.

Absolutely!!
I miss the chocolate

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 06:10 AM

Well Cluin, when I need a Chocolate fix it's a Joe Louis for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 07:25 AM

I thought it was "Road to Avonlea", no ? 'nough said.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 07:31 AM

If you live in Sudbury, you're too Canadian.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Declan
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 07:33 AM

No. U2 are Irish.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 07:38 AM

'Spaw,

You exist in Sudbury, you don't live.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Mooh
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 08:07 AM

Using beer empties (as any true Canadian would) to help count, I got stalled about 12 (I know, but that's all I can drink now that I've quit drinking). Restarted this morning and got a few more, at least I knew what the question was about. Had to change my kid's names after the Great One went to LaLaLand.

Beer. Not just for breakfast anymore.

Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 08:12 AM

My son's team just played in a hockey tournament in Ottawa, we stayed across the river in Hull, Quebec. The main comment from the other parents about Quebec is that their beer is way cheaper than in Ontario. Guys were loading up cases of it to take it home.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 09:27 AM

Oh dear. I got 17.

I guess you can take the girl out of Canada but ...


sian, west wales
(but born 'n' bred Ontariariario-an, eh?)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Naemanson
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 10:49 AM

Hmm, I thought I was too Canadian but I didn't know enough of those. I guess I've been too long away and out of touch. Of course, I've never actually lived in Canada but I was raised in Northern Maine which is almost the same thing.

Was it here on the Mudcat that I saw the following observation?

Waht is a Canadian? An unarmed American with health insurance.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 11:37 AM

Naemanson - "An unarmed American with health insurance"? OUCH - that sounds so painfully true eh?

After a dozen or so efforts I gave up trying to find the quiz at the geocities link above. But it must be accessible if everyone else found it! My lack of computer skills can be so frustrating sometimes ... AARRGGHHHH!!! HELP!!!

I'm with Clinton though ... there is no such thing as 'too Canadian' eh!

Except maybe "GUEST, Blind Drunk in Bblind River". Check out his post on the thread "BS: National Nothing Day"! Eat your heart out Bob and Doug!!

Now I'm off to tackle the three feet of snow that fell last night ... how Canadian of me ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 11:41 AM

Sorry, to sound truly Canadian I should have said "the meter of snow that fell last night!" And probably translated it en francais too ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: GUEST,threaddrift
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 11:49 AM

Q. How do you get twenty Canadians out of a swimming pool?
A. You say, "Hey guys, get out of the pool".
Here's to Bret Hart, Wayne Gretzsky, and Kraft Dinner.
drifter.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:58 PM

Is Shania too good lookin? Geez, talk about yer stupid questions! Everybody wishes they was CAnadian, eh? It burns 'em. Only exception is Amercans who think that God worships the US of F-in A! All ya gotta do is, like try their beer to know THAT is not true.

BDiBR

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 02:24 PM

That's metre of snow, *daylia* ... not meter ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 02:34 PM

Danged, Big Pink Lad!! Metre not meter - metre not meter - knew my Canadianisms needed brushing up! Thanks!

daylia

PS But music has 'meter', not 'metre', right??

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Metchosin
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 03:04 PM

hmmm.....I only scored 8........I'm either too old or too young.... and I thought Freddie Prinze died years ago....and I always figured Gzowski was God not Stompin' Tom and now even God is dead.....O dear Canada......my guard for thee is faultering.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM

"An unarmed American with health insurance" is by John Wing, a rather comical comedian of our great land... who lives in California, as most Canuck comics do.

Most of them do the Yank vs Canuck stuff, but, if you want to hear the ultimate of it all, listen to Ron James of Nova Scotia... his two hour stand up act describing his emigration to Californ-eye-EH and his subsequent return is truly a picture story he paints in your mind. And the little frigger is some f***in' funny. A true story teller of Maritime tradition.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 03:54 PM

When I first came to Canada I was stunned to find many things had three different types of screws holding them together: slot-head, Phillips and Robertson (square) heads. Maybe Canucks were too polite to choose one over the other to aviod hurting the feelinjgs of either Mr. Phillips or Mr. Robertson. It's so common we even have a muti-head screwdriver to cope. Does that happen anywhere else?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 03:55 PM

Hey... Metchosin... haven't seen you around for a dog's age... by the way, how is that old dog doing ? She still going strong ?

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 05:49 PM

Hey BigPinkLad, we make them Robertson square hole screws in Canada so you Amercans will have somethin around here thats small enuff to fit you1 guys if you come up here and can't find a date! Har! Har! Don't try it in the winter, eh? Wait till spring.

BDiBR

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: banjomad (inactive)
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 09:50 PM

In the immortal words of Al Capone ' I don't even know what street Canada is on '

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Metchosin
Date: 17 Jan 03 - 10:04 PM

Hi gnu! Haven't been around here much at all. Unfortunately spare time has been a very precious commodity for me of late......good to see you are still here defending the faith, lad. Unfortunately also, our old dog Wort succumbed to failed kidneys in the Fall, but the Westie is still hale and hearty, despite the poison episode and unbeknownst to her, will be joined by a new wee nephew in a few weeks time......no time?....right......I'm a beggar for punishment.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 05:34 AM

Metchosin... glad to hear Westie made a full and LONG time recovery.

Pink... them thar Robertson screws is better'n any other kind. They take more torque and they stay on the end of the driver without magnetizing. I believe all screws size 5 and up ought to be Robertson, by law, with stiff fines for any one caught screwing around with anything else. Maybe even a few lashes for using standards.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 10:20 AM

Laws about screwdrivers? Egads!! Only in Canada ...

They say Canadians have more laws per capita than any other country in the world. So we're already the most regulated people on the planet! But I guess one law more couldn't hurt - except there'd have to be more for all those illegal screws too...

Hmmm that reminds me - "A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe." - Pierre Berton

Maybe at this time of year it should read "on a toboggan"! Except some frostbitten Canuck's probably made that an "illegal screw" already ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Mooh
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 12:19 PM

daylia...I'm not so sure about that laws per capita thing, but I do know that alot of laws aren't enforced, or enforced very lightly. In my neck of the woods that's not a bad thing most of the time.

I don't use anything but Robertson screws unless I absolutely don't have a choice (like in my vehicles). Any household and carpentry things get done with a Robby, usually a red (number 2).

We just might have more lakes per capita though...

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:24 PM

Heya Mooh! I remember reading about the 'laws per capita' in a book by Henry David Thoreau, but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the book right now! The only quote re Canada I can find by him is "I fear I have not got much to say about Canada, having not seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold!"

:-) *A-CHOO*

And the only sociological data I can find in my texts is from an American sociologist Lipset, whose research comparing Yanks and Canucks in the 80's indicated that "Canadians show more deference to authority and are more likely to put the welfare of the community ahead of their own ... are less likely to divorce, less likely to commit a variety of criminal offences, place less value on achievement."

Hmmm, I wonder about that! But when our relatively small population is considered, maybe the 'laws per capita' thing does make sense.

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 03 - 10:10 PM

I've heard that places like Switzerland and Germany are far more constipated with laws and regulations than Canada is...this from German and Swiss expatriates, who love the relaxed lifestyle in Canada.

What we do have the most per capita of is...donut shops.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 07:25 AM

Daylia said..."Laws about screwdrivers? Egads!! Only in Canada ..." No, no, no. All over the world. That way, I don't have to replace the crappy screws with Robertsons when I fix something from afar. Or at least in the States, as I try to buy North American if I can.

LH... how do you feel about the impending civil war? Canucks may show more deference to authority, be more relaxed, whatever, BUT, Tim's (Tim Horton Donuts... "always fresh") has announced they intend to make ALL the donuts in T.O. (Toronto) and ship 'em across the country frozen. Well, it's the talk of the town here in Moncton, which has, per capita, the most Tim's. There have been interviews on the news with the "person in the street" and everyone is appalled... some are downright p****d off. Anarchy may ensue. You just don't f*** with a Canuck's donuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:08 AM

Don't even joke about that Gnu!

I've been to Tim Horton's headquarters in Dublin Ohio.
Tim Horton's is owned by Wendy's and is slowly encroaching on the Krispy Kreme/Dunkin Donuts hegemony. Not even corporate America is audacious enough to mess with the sanctity of the "always fresh" Horton Doughnut.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:13 AM

Ah gnu, I'm lucky to have one of those multi-head screwdrivers - from, where else but Canadian Tire! - so I can handle those nasty unpredictable multi-national screws! He he he ... I highly recommend them. Only problem - hide it good or hold onto it tight, because if you lend it out or leave it in plain view it's almost guaranteed to disappear. I think I'm on my fifth, in this lifetime anyway!

As to the Timmy's phenomena, amazing isn't it! You 'Monctonites' must have some pretty stiff competition re the number of Timmy's per capita though! Barrie On has a population of around 100,000 and I swear there's at least 40 Timmy's here - you're never farther than a couple blocks away from one. There's always at least one more under construction these days. And if you include all the Country Styles and Robin's Donuts etc., well - it's a wonder we're not a city of pimply caffiene-crazed good-year blimps!

A friend told me a couple weeks ago that he and his girlfriend parked across the street from the Tim Horton's drive-thru in the tiny hamlet of Victoria Harbour (pop 300?) on a Sunday afternoon - with their takeout coffees and donuts and the heater running - and proceeded to count how many cars went thru it for a couple hours. (Now that's a truly Canuck winter pastime!). They concluded that if each car spent an average of $5, Tim Hortons made about $1000/hour from the drive-thru alone! WOW!

As for me, I guess I was spared the donut-addiction. I landed my very first job and the very first Tim Hortons in Barrie back in 1975 - What a landmark! - and I remember the big sellers then (besides donuts) were pies and ice cream cones. But I must've developed a real aversion to the smell of those donuts baking - to this day I cannot eat a Timmy's donut! Bagels, muffins, cookies, soup, sandwiches yes, but donuts? E The smell of them can still make me feel nauseous ...

Anyway I hope that doesn't interfere with anyone's Sunday afternoon Timmy's break! Enjoy! And a tip - if you're driving the TransCanada around Lake Superior there are no Timmy's all the way from the Sault to Thunder Bay - {:-0} - so stock up good! That one in Blind River is a real god-send at 2am ....

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: *daylia*
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:26 AM

Jack are you kidding? The oh-so-Canadian Tim Horton's is owned by Wendy's?!? I find that hard to swallow!

And speaking of 'hard to swallow', here's a little story I wasn't going to inflict on anyone but your comment about "the sanctity of the always-frest Horton Doughnut" is spurring me on ... brace yourselves all Timmy-lovers ...

The bakers at that primordial Tim Hortons in Barrie always worked the graveyard shift, and our head baker was a narcoleptic ( a sleep disorder that causes one to fall asleep unpredictably). One night I found the huge mixer full of yeast donut dough still running and unattended. The dough had risen and was spilling out in this huge mess all over the floor, and the baker was snoring away in the staff room. So I woke him up to clean up the mess and went back out front to serve customers.

A few minutes later I went back into the kitchen and there he was, crouching on the floor, groggily scraping up the spilled dough off the dirty floor and back into the mixer complete with cruddy footprints and all! I was horrified, and come to think of it that's probably another reason I have a very un-Canadian aversion to Timmy's donuts.

Sorry to spoil anyone's appetite ...

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 11:37 AM

That explains why Horny Tim's coffee has gotten so crappy these last few years.

Or maybe I'm just sick of it? Entirely possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Mooh
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 12:15 PM

Tim Hortons doesn't serve my favourite carrot muffins in the one and only TH in my little town. The next closest is an hour away. Some mornings in the summer we can wake up to the smell of fresh baking, unless the wind is from the east. There's a bakery west and north of us, and Him Tortons south. This will also explain the weird morning behavior from Rosie the Wonder Dog whose nose is much more sensitive (and bigger) than mine.

Maybe I should propose a new donut called the Robertson, you know...with a square hole. Unless there's a law preventing it.

I bet Tim himself never thought he'd be more famous as a dead donut seller than as a hockey player.

My tummy's rumbling, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 02:24 PM

Q. How do you get twenty Canadians out of a swimming pool?
A. You say, "Hey guys, get out of the pool".

Of course if you are Canadian you say "please".

Yea Daylia, Lets just hope they don't rename it to Dave Thomas Donuts.

Dave is dead and still Hawking Burgers. That's something the two chains have in common. Memorials to their deceased founders on the wall.


Mmmmmm Doh nuts! mmm

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 02:56 PM

The Robertson Donut??? Wow. That is a truly stunning idea.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 03:34 PM

I never ran into a screw with a square hole until about 10 years ago. I bought an American motorhome, and here were these silly screws with a square recess in the end. Well I had the most goddam awful time getting a screwdriver bit to fit them stupid things, over here in the good old UK. Must admit though they work real well.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: moineau nordique
Date: 19 Jan 03 - 09:51 PM

If you live in Sudbury, you live in the town with the highest crime rate in Ontario.

NO,NO,NO, I refuse to believe T.H.'s is owned by Wendy's, and will pretend I never knew.

Stompin' Tom not g-d? Even Bravo (or was it the Doc channel) had a whole 1 1/2 hour show on Stompin' Tom, filmed at the Horseshoe, in Toronto, in the early 70's.

I prefer M&M's.

Subject: RE: BS: Are you Too Canadian?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 03 - 07:25 AM

Wendy's own's Tim's ? And there was a sale of Shopper's not long ago... hmmm, their not going to invade, their going to own !!!