BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!

Subject: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:23 PM

Check this out, eh?

"Canadian Idiot" song

OUTRAGEOUS, eh? Man, this really ticks me off. Don't get mad, fellow Canucks, get even! Picket the American embassy in Ottawa. Poke fun at their pathetically weakening dollar. Use their flag to blow your nose in. Kick an American eagle in the tailfeathers.

Do it now, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:30 PM

Ahhh... vicey versy there LH, eh? Are you GREEN with envy or wha?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:33 PM

Wierd Al is cool... I love his stuff.

The original idiot, in case you don't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:37 PM

Envy of what, pray tell? ;-) I'm serious about that. I don't particularly want 15,000 nuclear bombs.

Funny video, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:47 PM

"Envy of what, pray tell? ;-) I'm serious about that."

That he is copying an "AMERICAN" video.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:52 PM

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Amos
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 05:57 PM

Why is it I knew without opening this thread that it had to be a Little Hawk spayshul, eh?

I dunno what dat boy is ahn aboot, ya know?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:01 PM

My first thought as well, A. But, it's endearing, in a Canuck way. The lad means well.

He's like a lot of us Canucks... A Little Too White and Nerdy. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:10 PM

He bashed curling. I love curling, and it is a real sport.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:21 PM

WHAT? He bashed curling? Nooooo. I don't believe that.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: olddude
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:36 PM

I thought I heard some smear against Captain Kirk there ... Beam me up scotty

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:38 PM

I don't think he got around to mentioning Shatner in the song. That in itself is an insult!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:45 PM

Well, it was a funny take on Canada.

I think he's just poking fun at the stereotypes, and he really doesn't
see Canada that way. Rapper "Classified" did a video poking fun at
Canadian stereotypes.

I like the part with the Mounties. The only times I've seen them wear
those uniforms were at ceremonies and parades. They usually wear dark
blue uniforms when they're on patrol. And we also have the OPP and
QPP in Ontario and Quebec, and independant police forces in urban
centres. I've only seen Mounties in suburbs and rural areas. Like in
Halifax, they have a Halifax Regional Police, and in the suburbs like
Sackville, they have the RCMP. And in Truro, N.S., they have an
independent force, while in the surrounding areas, they have the RCMP.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:51 PM

We have the Royal Canadian Mounted here in Moncton. Long story. But, they wear the traditional brown shirts, which I have made "alluding fun" to before. We up country call em Yellow Stripes on accounta the pants.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:54 PM

gnu....THIS is the original American Idiot

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 06:57 PM

Sheesh. Canada will never be able to match that.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:29 PM

Unfortunately, that is hard to watch, LC. But, the spirit of this thread as intended by LH, I believe, is just good natured fun. I know I need some these days because of that kinda stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:42 PM

I wish they'd bring back the stubby beer bottle.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:47 PM

sIx... 3000M against 30M... ain't gonna happen. Get used to suckin long necks down.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 07:50 PM

Geeeez gnu ... the stubby was so ..... Canadian.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:11 PM

Last spring, around "rollllll-up the rim" time, McDonalds shot a burger rocket over Tim's bow. They started giving coffee away free...think'in their new brew was better, and this would lure Timbit lov'in, drive-tru, half-tunners away from their double doubles.

It didn't work. Our star Timmy just squeezed old Ronald by the McNuggets and didn't loose a pay'in customer.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:20 PM

sIx... and they fitted so much better in a cooler. More beer and more ice. But Yank corporations don't look at such practical and logical economies they way ordinary Canucks do. To them, the long neck bottle is sexier and more marketable. If you drink from a long neck, you'll not end up looking like a stubby.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:24 PM

I tried to watch the video but that kind of racket drives me batty.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:26 PM

Short trip.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 08:41 PM

Jeri... naughty girl! Hahahahaaa.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:00 PM

The catter formerly known as leeneia is now leeneia2

Okay, guys. I watched LH's video and caught on that it is a parody of 'American Idiot' by Green-, um a band called Green Something.

Let me tell you that I pay absolutely no attention to rock music. Never have. I have never (to my knowledge) heard a number by Pink Floyd or REO Speedwagon, Motley Crue or U2. Never watched, either, of course.

So tell me something. Is the video of Greensomething doing the song 'American Idiot' a parody? I refer especially to the guitarist doing the splits and jumping in the air as he plays. Or is that how rock actually looks? Help me out here.

Gotta tell you that the Canadian guys look a lot cuter and more approachable than the Green- guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:06 PM

Of course, 2, Canucks are much more handsome. And, much more approachable. Take Shane McBride for example. Please.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: chazkratz
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:28 PM

About twenty=five years ago my family and I spent a week in Vancouver, Whistler, and Victoria and I've been suspicious of Canadians ever since...no population could all be that goddamned nice without having a hidden agenda. Whenever the wind comes from the north I get a chill down my back.

Charles

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:51 PM

Shouldn't that be a "vicuous" attack?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:52 PM

Or maybe "vacuous"?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 09:56 PM

You may be right, Rapaire. If so, it'll be the first time in ages. ;-) Have a Canadian beer and celebrate, man!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 10:00 PM

Green Day is a pretty annoying rock band, and yes, the video in the first post is a parody of a song by Green Day.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 10:24 PM

Thanks, but I'll have a Moose Drool.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 11:27 PM

It's revenge for "American Woman".

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: chazkratz
Date: 14 Aug 10 - 11:46 PM

Have you ever tasted Moose Tracks ice cream? It's wonderful, for a low fat ice cream: It's a Safeway Select flavor, now in both original and chocolate (original: vanilla with a rich vein of dark chocolate candy; chocolate in the same vein with some peanut butter flavor as well).

Charles

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 07:28 AM

We have a similar ice cream here... Muddy Hoof Prints. Tastes, ahhh, let's say musky.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:13 PM

As usual, Stan Rogers said it earlier and more better:

ARTIST: Stan Rogers
TITLE: The Idiot
Lyrics and Chords


I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around
I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground
Far out beyond the tank farm fence where the gas flare makes no sound
I forget the stink and I always think back to that eastern town

/ D ABm G Bm / G D - A / 1st / G D DA D /

I remember back six years ago, this western life I chose
And every day, the news would say some factory's going to close
Well, I could have stayed to take the dole, but I'm not one of those
I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose

   So I bid farewell to the eastern town I never more will see
   But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery
   Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes
   But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose

   / G D A D / G D Bm A / D ABm G Bm / G D DA D /

So come all you fine young fellows who've been beaten to the ground
This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down
Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown
But the government dole will rot your soul back there in your hometown

   So bid farewell to the eastern town you never more will see
   There's self-respect and a steady check in this refinery
   You will miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose
   But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:19 PM

That song isn't about an idiot, it's about an ordinary man trapped in an idiotic system.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:20 PM

About time someone posted those lyrics! One of my favorite songs, and personally applicable.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:47 PM

Canada has culture?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 02:51 PM

Oh! Now we're getting nasty!

You have been placed on the list of those who are to be snowballed, artbrooks. Better take cover, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:00 PM

LH... if you can throw a snowball that far before it melts, the Blue Jays wanna talk to ya.

Blue Jays... baseball... bah. Even though Canuck's invented it, it's just sommat to keep kids busy in the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:04 PM

Don't say that to a Cuban. They're religious about baseball.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:24 PM

I know Canucks who are religious about baseball who aren't even Cuban... or religious.

I just don't understand why. It's not like it's a proper sport, like curling.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 03:30 PM

What I don't get is why more people aren't into Tiddlywinks in a big way?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:17 PM

I didn't check the blue cliky. Fill me in...
Did someone in the USA actually write a song about Stephen Harper?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:20 PM

Certainly not! No, it was the usual stuff: hosers, Tim Hortons donuts, and so on.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 04:21 PM

The line is... "I don't wanna be a Canadian idiot."

So, it CAN'T be about Stevie 1.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 07:28 PM

What I don't get is why more people aren't into Tiddlywinks in a big way?

They might as well carry it on ESPN -- they think poker is a sport.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 08:18 PM

There you go. Can you see Stallone facing off against Hulk Hogan at the Tiddlywinks playoffs? I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 08:42 PM

Canada has culture? Sure it does!

I bought a yogurt once when I was in Vancouver, B.C.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 08:43 PM

There! Proof positive of Canadian culture.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 11:09 PM

No doubt a low-fat vanilla yogurt

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 11:26 PM

I've BEEN to Whitehorse and it doesn't snow there all the time! I asked to meet Sgt. Preston but he'd been transferred to Yellowknife. I didn't go there because my German is very limited.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 11:41 PM

Note the color-coded names:

Whitehorse

Yellowknife

Redrock

Green River

There's a secret code behind it all, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 15 Aug 10 - 11:52 PM

Colored dots on the roads so people can find their way home after too much bad beer?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 12:44 AM

No doubt a low-fat vanilla yogurt

But very, very friendly.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 12:05 PM

I've been away for a day. Thanks to those who explained that the Greenday thing is a parody. It's a relief.

Mousethief, if one of those guys wrote something called 'American Woman,' I don't think I want to risk listening.

I visted Canada twice with my family. The climate was cool but the people were warm and friendly. I will never forget the waterfalls plunging over the cliffs on their way to Lake Superior. And the Ouimet Canyon. Google it.

What are hosers? If it's obscene, don't bother explaining.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 12:23 PM

Mousethief, if one of those guys wrote something called 'American Woman,' I don't think I want to risk listening.

It's a rock song by the Canadian band The Guess Who. Basic message is "America sucks because of the Vietnam War." Doesn't mention the Canadian munitions companies that made a mint off the war. Dunno why not.

What are hosers? If it's obscene, don't bother explaining.

It's a made-up insult from a recurring sketch on the tv show SCTV, which sketch was called "Great White North", and consisted of two Canadian brothers who swapped insults and talked about Things Canadian in bad accents and with much stereotype exaggeration.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 01:08 PM

Whoever wrote the song, Mousethief, may have been unaware of those Canadian munitions companies. Then too, we have a capitalist system in Canada, right? That means our government can refuse to participate in an American war, but it cannot stop our privately owned corporate industries from selling war materials to be used in that war if they wish to. Mind you, the government is probably secretly delighted at the money that rolls in from those sales, despite maintaining its pristine appearance of morality by not fighting in the war. That's capitalism for you. Profit trumps principle, every time. ;-)

But who is ultimately to blame for a war? The country that makes the decision to wage it, I would think. Businessmen will always take advantage of wars if they can.

****

hoser - a term which means a really stupid young Canadian man, probably unemployed, mainly concerned with beer, fast food, and avoiding work by any and all means possible. A layabout. An idiot. The term is also a euphemism for the familiar term "f*cker" which young men like this use almost constantly, sometimes in an affectionate sense (to their good buddies), sometimes in a hostile sense (to denote disapproval).

Variation of hoser: hosehead (means basically the same as f*ckhead)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 01:54 PM

Hoser... an obscene definition (cover your ears while you read this if required)...

From hosehead, "polite" or "code" for dickhead. From equating hose with dick.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 03:44 PM

yes the gov't is secretly delighted by the money that rolls in... so much so that most Canadians would be surprised to know that a lot of their Pension Plan contributions (CPP) are invested in components and services for the global war machine... $282 million for 2006 alone

if you add on big tobacco and other questionable industries, it runs into the billions... but we're nice peace-keepers no ?

I like Green Day... they got balls

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 03:46 PM

I closed my eyes so I wouldn't be offended. What does "hoser" and "hosehead" mean again?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 03:46 PM

Let me get this straight. A bunch of male politicians and military men start a war. A bunch of other men, many of them young draftees join the war.

Then some other men write a song against it all and call it 'American Woman.'

Right. Sounds like the essence of most popular culture. Stick in a woman and make it her fault.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:13 PM

It's a metaphor.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:24 PM

Unlike Canada, the US isn't drafting anyone right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: number 6
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:28 PM

"Stick in a woman and make it her fault."

ok

"I met a devil woman, she took my heart away
She said I had it comin' to me, but I wanted it that way
I think that any love is good lovin'
And so I took what I could get, mmm
Oooh, oooh, she looked at me with big brown eyes
And said

You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet"

... excerpt from a song by that same Canadian group.

you notice how they associated the devil, as a woman in the first line.

ok .... I'm outta here


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:37 PM

sIx... I thought that was BTO... kinda the same but not the same.

Rap... what draft?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:56 PM

Canada isn't drafting anyone either, Rapaire. We have a volunteer army. Most voluteers are lower income family kids looking for secure employment in tough economic times, while some, I suppose are kids from families with a strong military tradition.


"American Woman" is a rather silly song on the whole, I think. I wouldn't take it too seriously or try to extrapolite complex gender issues from it.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:57 PM

BTW... The Guess Who, for me, as a rock'n'roll band, and individually, have been and are far more competent, creative and entertaining than such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and many others.

I do not say that as a Canuck, rather, simply as an audience member.
Of course, judging musical talent is silly. But, posts to their detriment pisses me off simply because of that. And because they are so good at what they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 04:59 PM

In the 100 years since the first moose swam into Lake Superior and set up shop on an island, they have mostly minded their moosely business, munching balsam fir and trying to evade hungry gray wolves.

But now the moose of Isle Royale have something to say — well, their bones do. Many of the moose, it turns out, have arthritis. And scientists believe their condition's origin can help explain human osteoarthritis — by far the most common type of arthritis, affecting one of every seven adults 25 and older and becoming increasingly prevalent.

The arthritic Bullwinkles got that way because of poor nutrition early in life, an extraordinary 50-year research project has discovered. That could mean, scientists say, that some people's arthritis can be linked in part to nutritional deficits, in the womb and possibly throughout childhood.

The moose conclusion bolsters a small but growing body of research connecting early development to chronic conditions like osteoarthritis, which currently affects 27 million Americans, up from 21 million in 1990.
"
(Even the NEw York TImes is getting into the act!)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:12 PM

gnu .... you are correct ... it is BTO.

arthritic mooses

ok

back to Canadian rock and roll music


American Woman was the first Canadian song to reach number 1 on the U.S. charts

now ... let's get back to some more boring Canadian nonsense

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:14 PM

Amos... "munching balsam fir"???

I never seen a moozzze eat fir. Are you sure?

Maybe they use the needles fer ta clean their teeth but I doubt it. Usually, they floss with moss.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:31 PM

BTO <> The Guess Who, even if they have some of the same members.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:35 PM

If the song had been called "Canadian Woman", I bet it wouldn't have even charted. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:44 PM

Your probably correct on that one LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 05:59 PM

And "Armenian Woman" would never have been recorded at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 06:02 PM

Hmm. The log-in seems to be malfunctioning. Or I'm getting careless.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 06:19 PM

I dunno, Gnu--it was a quote from someone else...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 06:23 PM

I'VE felt those winds from The Great White North! If that ain't a draft I don't know what is!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 06:45 PM

Well, A... I don't think yer average mooze eats any fir.

Rap... ahhhh.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 08:52 PM

"I don't think yer average mooze eats any fir."


hehe .... oh, never mind.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Beer
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 09:49 PM

There not eating fir, their eating... No their chewing gum. Use to collect it as a child. Boil it, add a little sugar, and presto!! Taste terrible but i still did it because I was told as a child that the fellow who invented gum got it from the balsam trees. Maybe it was a lie but i believed it. Reminds me of a time when I told a young gal to shake the grasshopper in her hand and say "Grasshopper, grasshopper, give me molasses". Then let it go and lick what it left in your hand. It was sweet (I guess I must have done it as well.). I told her this is how molasses is made. She believed me.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Janie
Date: 17 Aug 10 - 02:02 AM

OH, well, Jeez, LH...

This is such old news....

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 17 Aug 10 - 11:13 AM

"I'VE felt those winds from The Great White North!"

Hi, Rapaire. In the last few years I have been reading books about weather, trying to understand tornadoes. Now, all my life I have blamed Canada for the cold weather that descends on the Midwest, but apparently it comes from somewhere else. It spins down out of the northwest, from a semi-permanent feature called the Aleutian Low.

Too bad we can't blame the Canadians anymore. They are getting dangerously cocksure.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Stringsinger
Date: 17 Aug 10 - 11:51 AM

I'm waiting for the sequel, American Idiot.

Canada has Stan Rogers and a heroine of mine, Naomi Klein.

Unfortunately it has Harper who is Bush North.

I loved Cape Breton and P.E.I when I was there.

I think there should be a tri-quel called NAFTA Idiot. Can't wait!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 10 - 02:54 PM

Canada could do something aboot those "clippers" if they wanted to. To cite just one simple little thing, they could close the gate of that damned barbed wire fence up in Sask...SascAlberta!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 02:27 AM

Rapaire...Canadians don't say "aboot". Scots say "aboot". Canadians and English people say "about". Americans say "abowwwt". That is, they stretch out the "ow" sound in the middle of the word just a tad longer than Canadians do, and give it a more nasal tone.

I can demonstrate all 3 sounds for you quite easily, and show you the difference. Phone me, and I'll show you what I mean. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 06:47 AM

Americans from where? There is no single American accent. Nobody over the age of about 22 speaks TV-English.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: leeneia2
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 09:55 AM

Of course there are various American accents, art, but I have never heard an American say 'aboot.' No Canadian, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 10:39 AM

First I put on a boot and then I put on the other boot.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,999--JUST REC`D NEWSFLASH
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 01:25 PM

Dr. Calvin Rickson, a scientist from McGill University , has invented a bra that keeps women's breasts from jiggling, or bouncing up and down, and prevents the nipples from pushing through the fabric when cold weather sets in.

At a news conference, after announcing the invention, a large group of men took Dr. Rickson outside and kicked the shit out of him.


(Modified from an e-mail sent by a friend.)

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 01:50 PM

Sure, Artbrooks, there are a huge variety of American accents. Nonetheless, I have always noticed that Americans stretch out the "ow" vowel sound in "about" a little more than Canadians do and in a more nasal fashion. Southerners and westerners stretch it out a lot more than Canadians do, northerners to a lesser extent.

And that's why the Canadian "about" seems to sound sort of like "aboot" to some Americans, but they're not really listening very carefully to the sound when they say that. They need to hear a Scot say "aboot", and then they'd KNOW what "aboot" sounds like.

It is possible that there may be some people from Boston or somewhere who say the word exactly as Canadians do...I don't know...but if there are, I haven't met them yet.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 02:21 PM

Good one Guest,999 !!!! ...... *LOL*


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 03:06 PM

LOL!!!

Wouldn't armoured breastplates achieve all of that?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 04:05 PM

But, LH, men would not be enamoured.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 04:18 PM

Well....a really fetching suit of armour can look pretty good on a gal, don'tcha think? ;-) And you get to fantasize about what may be under it.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Aug 10 - 06:49 PM

So can a chastity belt....

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 10:02 AM

Canada is wising up, They are building a 6 billion dollar ice breaking fleet to counter the recent Russian claims that they own the newly opened north sea passage.

Excuse the pun but it seems that Canada will soon engage in a cold war with Russia.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 11:55 AM

100, eh?

Beauty!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 01:32 PM

Yer lucky Terry is away to a festival.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 02:16 PM

It amazes me that there can be more than 100 posts on a nonexistent topic.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 02:27 PM

Canucks can't take the summer heat like youse down south... ennui sets in and we try to amuse ourselves as best we can. Take pity on us, Art.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: artbrooks
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 02:45 PM

Not gonna be that hot today - no more than 32C, I think. Sometime I wish I had AC, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 03:33 PM

It's about that here right now, but the sun is beating down so it isn't that humid. Unfortunately, being fair of skin and hair, twenty minutes outside and I am now back inside where it's ACd. And boring.

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 08:51 PM

Boring? Inside? You obviously haven't put a target range in your hall, have you?

Subject: RE: BS: Vicious USA attack on Canadian Culture!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Aug 10 - 09:21 PM

No house is really complete without one.