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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: wdyat12 Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:11 PM Jon, Which threads are you betting on? wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:18 PM A couple I knew went to travel by train threough europe and to visit his relatives in Italy. She didn't speak much Italian. They sewed Canadian flags to their jackets so that they wouldn't be mistaken for Americans. People kept coming up to them saying, 'I'm so glad to find someone who speaks English.' After a couple of days they ripped the flags off their jackets and spoke only Italian. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Peg Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:27 PM Jon, you crack me up!!! How's life in North Wales? Peg p.s. I think you may win some money... |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: CarolC Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:34 PM OK, I see we have a Ferret here now. I just want to say, for the record, this is not the same ferret with whom I got together (and with whom I subsequently broke up) as a result of this thread. Carol |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Jon Freeman Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:49 PM Wdyatt: threads which contain outrageous or inflammatory remarks or suggestions. Peg, I left North Wales in Feburary and I am now on the East Coast of the UK in Norfolk. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Peg Date: 31 Mar 01 - 06:55 PM Jon; I didn't know you moved. I hope it is as nice as Llandudno...and that you are happy there.
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Jon Freeman Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:12 PM Thanks Peg. Norfolk is quite different to North Wales - I wouldn't mind betting it is the flattest county in the UK but I like it here. I live near a small seaside town called Cromer and I quite enjoy taking my parent's dog for a walk along the beach around there. Norwich, the city, is about 30 minutes from here and is nice and more importantly, I have found one good folk club and one Irish session there so I'm happy. Jon |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Jeri Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:27 PM Jon, "We're Norfolk and Good" by the Kippers is on this recording. (Unfortunately, no lyrics are there.) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: kendall Date: 31 Mar 01 - 07:46 PM When I was touring Scotland, I took a lady friend along. She was trying to buy something, and couldnt get it through her head to just double the stated price. At the time, the pound was worth $1.90. Finally, in frustration, she turned to me and said "How much is that in REAL money?" I wanted to leave her there. This is the kind of crap that gives Americans a bad name. Anyway, I have about a dozen Canadian friends, and whoever this guy is, he will have to work harder than that to make me change my mind about Canadians. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Mar 01 - 08:11 PM So Kendall....You're saying you already hate Canadians then? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: kendall Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:07 PM Right spaw, I hate all my friends |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:13 PM That's good Kendall, makes liking your enemies a lot easier. Very forward thinking for an old fart like yourself. I hate you Kendall.......just thought you should know. Sorry that I'm not Canadian. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: kendall Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:43 PM thats ok, you are from Ohio, thats worse. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: GUEST,Bruce O. Date: 31 Mar 01 - 10:53 PM Catspaw, I don't go abroad to talk to Americans. There's no one I'd like to talk less to there. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Matt_R Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:03 PM Kendall reminds me of that Oscar Wilde quote about the ass George Bernard Shaw "Shaw is the perfect kind of fellow...he has no enemies, and all his friends hate him." |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: mkebenn Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:35 PM I don't argue with Canadians, they might stop making Molson's and Sleeman's. Mike |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Matt_R Date: 31 Mar 01 - 11:36 PM HOSERS!! |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: wdyat12 Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:10 AM Ball is our court now Matt R. wdyat12 |
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Subject: Playing To The Cheep Seats From: Clinton Hammond Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:07 AM Well, D'UH the REAL rick mercer has NOTHING to do with this thread... LOL!!! 22 Minutes is one of my favorite shows... up there with History Bites, Red Green, and the Clive Anderson version of Who's Line Is It Anyway... And on 22 Minutes, the oft run segment Talking To Americans is possibly my favorite... The dislcaimer at the beginning of 22 Minutes is that it's SATIRE!!! And most satire works how? Though, that's right kiddos, EXADURATION!! Some elements of TTA's are blown WAY out of proportion for the sake of a laugh... Some elements are staged, some are coached... but some just happen... The thing that get's me are the americans who jump up and down and cry 'foul' when they see it... That's the stuff that's so funny it's sad... ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: wdyat12 Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:15 AM :> Wdyat12 |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 01 Apr 01 - 09:27 AM A British librarian, from Newcastle on the river what-it's-name, told me that he was often bothered by people when he traveled with his high end photo gear. Too many of them would see his equipment and ask him to take their pictures in front of tourist attractions. He would deliberately chop their heads off in the pictures he took so that they would have a little surprise when they got their film developed. They would probably make their own assumptions and tell others about this stupid British tourist who had tons of equipment but couldn't take a picture. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 09:47 AM ....does word of finger count? flattop, that's priceless. gnu |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:09 AM Thanks gnu. You're a maritimer with a truly sick sense of humour. CarolC told me that you live up the French coast. Where are you located? Contrary to what Carol wrote elsewhere, I have never lived in New Brunswick but I once spent a week in a cabin where the Buctouche River ploughs into the Atlantic. Nice little town Buctouche, great bakery, friendly people, lots of empty coast nearby. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:27 AM Why, thank you. That's the nicest thing anyone said to me all week. The French coast ? Well, I suppose you might call it that, depending on your persuasion. I'm half french and I've never heard it before. Perhaps it's the 3/4 Irish in me. I live near Moncton. gnu |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Jon Freeman Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:40 AM gnu, 1/2 + 3/4 = 1 1/4 ???? |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:45 AM Obviously gnu's a big man who enjoyed math at school. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 01 Apr 01 - 10:48 AM Gnu, I believe that it was called The French Coast in tourist brochures. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 11:12 AM Fuzzy theory. I am technically 1/2 French and 1/2 Irish decent, but, culturally, Je get along en francaise et la musique d'Acadie, but I'm more Irish Trad. Thus the 1 1/4. Right on both counts, flattop. Je m'appelle "le grand tete rouge" and I'm an engineer. Although, nowadays, my hair is more of a bald colour. As for the tourist brochures, I bet they don't talk about the new HUUUUUGE new swine factory in Bouctouche. French Coast.... yeah, I like it. Hope it draws lots of tourists. gnu |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Amergin Date: 01 Apr 01 - 12:21 PM I had a pet Canadian once...I loved that little bastard....I would walk him everyday....play fetch with him......wrestle with him....and play tug of war with him....did just about everything a boy and his Canadian could do.....but one day, we let him out to go potty....and he somehow got loose from our fenced in yard...Well, I went to go let him in, and he was not there.....so feeling a bit frantic, I wandered the streets of Bonners, calling out his name, trying to find him.....Well, I found his broken body lying by the railroad tracks.....He was still alive....With tears streaming down my cheeks, I carried him back to the house and me and mom rushed him to the vet....The vet told us that he would be paralysed for life...and that the kindest thing we could do for him was to put him down....so we gave the consent and went home and buried him in the back yard.... I swore then, I would never have another pet Canadian....though I still remember him fondly...I just don't think I could go through that heartache again... |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 12:35 PM Think of how HE would feel. He would want you to get another one. Don't punish some poor Canadian who needs a good home just because you feel guilty about him getting loose. His death is not your fault. Let it go and you can love again. Think of all the wonderful memories - would you rather have never known him at all ? sobbinggnu |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Peter T. Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:22 PM Amergin, you were given bad advice. All Canadians are paralysed for life, it is part of our upbringing, a mixture of cold weather and Calvinism. Your little pet was doing just fine (for a Canadian). Perhaps even something of a crazy extrovert, it sounds to me. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: artbrooks Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:25 PM Most of the Canadians I've met have been pretty nice folks, and so have most of the US citizens. I guess I could add in almost all of the Irish and Brits and even a few of the French. It's a fact that loud obnoxious people stand out where ever they choose to demonstrate the fact that their collective heads are in rectal defilade, and maybe we stand out more in Canada than Canadians stand out in the US is because there are more of us wandering around (except in Winter (October to May) when NOBODY goes to Canada if they can avoid it). Did this thread really start because of a Canadian TELEVISION SHOW? Did a Canadian really say in an earlier post that a neighbor paid him off for driveway clearance with a case of Bud Light?! The vast wasteland is obviously moving north at a breakneck pace. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: GUEST,Rick Mercer Date: 01 Apr 01 - 01:57 PM Don't forget! Tonight's the night for my special, "Talking To Americans," at 9:00, 9:30 here at home, on CBC-TV. Americans, please remember that the times are Daylight Savings Times, even though it will already be dark by then. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Clinton Hammond Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:05 PM guest... Rein it in, eh... yer not so funny as you think you're being... |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Bill D Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:19 PM new census figure show that whatever America is, it is changing rapidly! No one seems to like it, but a whole lot of folks seem to want to come here! Maybe they are intending to make it a better place by making it more Latino/Korean/German/Chinese/Russian/Vietnamese/Hottentot/Eskimo or whatever... we Americans are pretty clever...soon we will be such a mish-mash, that NONE of your stereotypes will fit! |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Clinton Hammond Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:34 PM Soon you'll be a mish-mash?!?!?! You've always been a mish-mash, no? Isn't that the whole melting pot idea? :-) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 02:43 PM artbrooks said.... Did a Canadian really say in an earlier post that a neighbor paid him off for driveway clearance with a case of Bud Light?! Yeah. That's what I asked for. I LIKE it. I'm having one ( yeah...right...one ) right now, along with some Yankee grown peanuts, while I'm typing on my Yankee keyboard, inputing data into my Yankee computer... you get the idea. I like the Yanks... they make some cool stuff and I can get fresh fruit and veggies all year round as long as I pay whatever the Commonwealth wants for fuel to get them here. Why, they even speak English, sort of, and, if it weren't for their screwed up political system, I'd support some sort of free trade with them. Anyway, as far as the beer goes, it's just Blue with a different label - read the label...it's BLUE - except that Blue doesn't donate to my favourite charity and Bud does. ProudCanadiangnu enjoying Bud Light(s) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Indy Lass Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:43 PM He should be able to poke fun at Americans (Rick M.), heck, Jay Leno does it! And some of us just laugh; others watch in horrified disbelief...I for one do believe in the "dumbing down" of Americans today. Look at who 'we' 'voted' for. Our children are raised at the electronic 'busom' of our society which is controlled by companies who try to sell our children carbonated sugar water, a product so inexpensive to produce that they can buy expensive ad time on TV constantly...American children know less about Canadians than Canadian children know about Canada. We (hubby and I)went to the U. of Waterloo for grad school and know a little about how Canadians view Americans and I can say that most of the people in grad school with us who were Canadian now have major jobs in government and international relations. Can't say that about American aquaintances... |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Indy Lass Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:47 PM ooops -that should read 'Canadian children know about Americans'... sorta proves my point :/ |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Amergin Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:47 PM What I find really sad is that folks from other nations know more about our history than we do... |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Lyrical Lady Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:53 PM Recently, I celebrated a friend's birthday at a tea house. Of course, we had to have our tea leaves read! I was told that the next man in my life would be an 'American'. Mousethief...who ever told you that all American's are stupid jerks just has to be wrong! LL ... a very 'friendly and polite' Canadian. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Clinton Hammond Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:47 AM Well... -I- watched the show and it was killer funny! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: CarolC Date: 02 Apr 01 - 02:13 AM Well I'm satisfied. I didn't get to see the show (don't get the CBC, unfortunately), but this thread contains one of the most beautiful sights in the world... two Maritimers sharing a bit of humour. (*sigh*) |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Lyrical Lady Date: 02 Apr 01 - 03:14 AM Yes Clinton ... it was ...Do you think Prime Minister Jean Poutin will agree? LL |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 02 Apr 01 - 06:38 AM Peter has a good point, a Canadian stiffy needs to be put out of his misery. Amerigin seems to have acted with best intentions. He done his American heritage proud although the American Rifle Association may whine over a missed opportunity. The part that troubles me is the Canadian heading outside the fence when Amerigin let him out to do potty. The Canadian must have been ill. A healthy, sociable Canadian would have headed for his Amerigin's room. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: flattop Date: 02 Apr 01 - 06:42 AM I think I confused two post - it's early - so shoot me. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:12 AM What's all the fuss? Americans, Canadians, Mexicans? All the same aren't they? Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Peg Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:29 AM We're all human beings, yes. But not everyone thinks that way, Dave. |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Dave the Gnome Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:38 AM Cheers Peg - I was hoping to insult quite a few people before someone spotted that! Well done anyway. Dave the Gnome |
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Subject: RE: Talking To Americans From: Mike Regenstreif Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:51 PM I watched the show and much of it was pretty funny. However, the levels of complete ignorance exhibited by George W. Bush and Al Gore, who were both filmed as candidates for president, and the governors of Arkansas and Michigan (Michigan is a border state), was both sad and scary. Mike Regenstreif |
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