BS: Bad things Canada has done.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST, heric
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 10:29 AM

I actually only have one other Valkyrie sculpture in my collection, but yours would be a perfect complement.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 10:20 AM

What an AWESOME Valkyrie, daylia. I wonder if I could buy it from Barrie for my yard. I might glue some real feathers on it and install speakers.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: *daylia*
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 08:22 AM

Then there's this thing adorning Barrie, my home town. The town council bought it from Vancouver many years ago, and it's still gives newcomers here the creeps. The rest of us have become desensitized, mostly...

But the best one was this 20' high sickly green brass breast someone scuplted for the MacLaren Art Center here. Looked kinda like a giant Klingon woman had come to Barrie for a masectomy and left it here as a memento. The editor of the Barrie Exaggerator was flooded with protest letters for years, till they took it down not too long ago. Wish I could show you a pic of that big green boob, but no such luck...

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: *daylia*
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 07:58 AM

how about inflicting the public with bad sculpture? It wasn't enough that the Orangemen from Ontario hung poor ole Louis and his Metis rebels - now we have THIS by his grave in Winnipeg?!?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: gnu
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 06:39 AM

Easy, easy.

Bad things? What about the Junos? I mean, the idea ain't so bad, and the talent is great, but to put on a piss poor show year after year after year, man, that's bad. After that last one, I'll join Clinton and switch the channel. I can't even watch Corner Gas without being reminded of that entrance. I hope it only aired in Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:38 PM

Too bad the good guys don't make the news. Who the hell were you hanging out with that they'd talk like that? Crap and lowlife by the sounds of it. Too bad you met them. Want to hear about the southern cracker I met who thought all Black people should be called niggers and all Hispanic people called spics? Then would you like me to extend that to all the folks in Jacksonville, Florida? All the people in the whole damned city?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 10:32 PM

There was a Canadian math teacher at my old prep school, who was waspish and disagreeable. She once kept my sister after school for saying that the rib she broke really did hurt, and she wasn't exaggerating. That sort of prejudiced us against Canadians.
I had a housemate from Newfoundland, for several years. When I mentioned him to Canadians, they would say things like, "He's not a Canadian, he's a Newf." Or "All those Newfies are on welfare."
When Don was working, he was the kind of guy who'd come in during his vacation. When he wasn't, he'd clean my kitchen to within an inch of it's life. He was annoying at times, but not a bum.
But folk from Toronto and Ottowa won't believe me when I say so.
I got Don a book that described the two armed rebellions that are a part of Canada's history nobody seems to want to talk about. He was amazed that there were uprisings in "niceland".

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:16 AM

"Let?"

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:29 AM

Shatner AND Binks....

And only 1/10th the population.... You ( Canadians ) really ought to be more carefull who you let out into the world...    (*bg*)

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:03 AM

They got nothin on the Quinlan (spg?) quints.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: dianavan
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:37 AM

Don't forget the Dionne quints!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:24 AM

OK, but be forwarned, some have already preceeded you. In fact, even above the arctic circle, where there is no word in the native language for it, Canada now has the American robin, old Turdus migratorius. Guess that sort of makes up for all that's dumped on the US by the Canada goose.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: sixtieschick
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 11:08 PM

Canada geese. They refuse to migrate now that they're here and they shit everywhere. Tell ya what: The geese can keep the U.S. and shit all they want--there's plenty of that here these daze anyway--and some of us'll migrate to Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:39 PM

I just read the poem by Binks, oh you whom I ignore. Jaysus. It is BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:22 PM

see world's worst poetry thread-


You (Canadians) have a LOT to answer for...   (*bg*)

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: heric
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:08 PM

Yeah, but Chretien did tell Bush to go suck a lemon. And they can't take that away.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:39 PM

How much for the negatives?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 09:37 PM

Well, the worst thing we've done lately is to deny refugee status to people deserting the American military when ordered to participate in the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: heric
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:23 PM

Brucie you must have been stoned and missed it. I have pictures. Hidden.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:19 PM

I'll never forgive the Canadians for Shatner. Never.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:16 PM

I've heard (but can't confirm) that some people Up There are still in the folk music! phase!

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 02:02 PM

We certainly had a disco phase!!!! It was hideous. Some people are still in it.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 10:42 AM

Political Science is an oxymoron.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 05 - 06:34 AM

This struck me funny and I didn't really know where I should post it. Canucks might get a laugh... just a few minutes ago, when reading up on Paul Martin's plan to appeal directly to the public regarding the Sponsorship Scandal via press conference, I read The following.

"Richard Johnston, a political scientist at the University of British Columbia, was astounded by Martin's decision to make the case for his government's survival by broadcast.

"Cripes!" said Johnston when he heard the news."

Yup. That's a real Canadian scientist.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 10:56 PM

They don't know about rentahS yet. He's poised to take over the Executive position of the .ASU This is written in edoc that will be decipherable to all .snaidanaC

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,bobad
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 09:58 PM

Reasons
to Fear Canada.

BY SEAN CARMAN

- - - -

Ninety percent of population is massed within 100 miles of northern American border.

Seems not to mind that one of its provinces has turned almost entirely French.

Excessive politeness only makes sense as cover for something truly sinister. But what?

Citizens seem strangely impervious to cold.

Decriminalization of marijuana and acceptance of gay marriage without corresponding collapse of social institutions indicate Canada may, in fact, be indestructible.

Has infiltrated entertainment industry with singers, actors, and comedians practically indistinguishable from their American counterparts.

Consistently stays just below cultural radar yet never quite disappears.

Parliamentary government and common-law judiciary appear to function acceptably yet remain completely inscrutable.

Never had a "disco phase."

Seemingly endless supply of timber, donuts, and Scotch-plaid hats with earflaps.

Keeps insisting it "has no designs on America" and "only wants peace."

Plays a mean game of pond hockey.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,Rapaire
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 09:53 PM

There's a dam on the lower Mississippi called the Atchafallia Dam (and most likely I spelled that wrong, so look it up yourself if it bothers you). It exists to insure that the Mississippi River flows past New Orleans and not down the Atchafallia River, which is where the River wants to go and which, if it followed its inclination, would leave New Orleans no longer a seaport.

The Mississippi River will eventually flow down the Atchafallia. Not right now, not perhaps in the next century, but it will.

Given enough time, Nature will utterly destroy everything Mankind has done. And Nature doesn't care if it's a garbage dump, the Citadel at Halifax, St. Peter's in Vatican City, or the Canadian Railways. Mankind could bring about the Nuclear Winter, and Nature -- red of tooth and claw and completely uncaring -- would simply start over. Nature is patient, and utterly ruthless.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 06:56 PM

Let's not discuss "1812" okay? History buffs differ on the history. Let's just leave it at this: Canada is. Like it or not. The True North, Strong and Free. I stand on guard for thee.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: sian, west wales
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 06:27 PM

Weren't we also responsible for 'the bombs bursting in air' on the way back from the D.C. jaunt?

siân

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: TS
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 03:02 PM

But Peter..ultimately Mother Nature is the ruler, and she will have her way. I remember my first time seeing the Foot Hills of Alberta surrounding Calgary, and I smiled. I remember the first time I watched a downpouring rainfall approaching from miles away along the Saskatchewan Prairie, and I remember sitting on "My Cliffs" over looking the Bay of Fundy on a sunny day when the water sparkled like diamonds and the glisten almost blinded me. No man, politician or industry can take that away.

TS

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 10:52 PM

Rapaire is alas, wrong. It was true when human beings were not so plentiful and so powerful. The politicians and the apathetic citizenry can now wreck great swaths of the natural world, change the climate, dam up all the rivers. Look at hunks of the Appalachians in Kentucky and West Virginia, and tell me that the mountains will last forever after the mining companies have gotten through with them.

What is left of nature may recover in a few million years, for whatever comfort that is.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 10:04 PM

Beautiful thought, Rapaire. And LH, you won't find too many Canucks to disagree with you.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 09:29 PM

That's the nice thing about any country -- it'll be there, perhaps slightly the worse for wear, when the politicians are gone. The mountains and the seas, the rivers and the lakes, outlast all of them and don't care.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 09:15 PM

Canada, I love you. I remember the beauty of my country when I was a small child. I remember Rattlesnake Point, the dark woods and the rocks breaking up out of the ground. I didn't grasp how vast this country was until much later, in my twenties, driving out to BC. There's so much room here, so much clean water, so much clean air. This land will outlive its politicians. They're a puff of smoke on the wind. When I'm in the great beyond, Canada, I will remember you as I remember those I have loved personally to the heart, to the blood, and to the bone.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:47 PM

Good one.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:37 PM

worth a try

there was this young girl from Toronto
said I must run from the vice squad like pronto
but when she started to neck
With some chaps in Quebec
the cops from round there a bientot

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:17 PM

They changed the name because of all the limericks about York. It is much more difficult now the town is called Toronto.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peter T.
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 07:10 PM

That small town called York was Toronto. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:49 PM

Poutine is the national fruit, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: TS
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:46 PM

Hey Now!!!...Lets spare the Poutine and Hockey!...Both essential parts of making it through Winter!!..

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: number 6
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:38 PM

poutine .... absolutely disgusting stuff cluin.

Shame on this country.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:25 PM

As well as hockey, baseball, and basketball.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 06:24 PM

Shatner, Dion, and poutine.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 04:05 PM

Well, there's always the good ol' reliable Ross rifle....

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:49 PM

People are more interested in stuff we've done to mess up the world and other people. The Yanks are tired of getting all the shit for everything. Get with the program.

Hey, we beat the crap outta baby seals.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 03:44 PM

Canada let the Bloc run as a federal party. WTF?

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: TS
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:43 PM

Mountie Tribute

forgot to plug the song Brucie..its been awhile..haha

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:41 PM

Sounds like us, TS. That's fer shore.

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: LilyFestre
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:41 PM

Dave,

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

LF

Subject: RE: BS: Bad things Canada has done.
From: TS
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 02:39 PM

"WE" bitch when its too hot..we bitch when its too cold...we bitch when it rains..we bitch when it snows...we bitch about American Politicians...we bitch about Canadian Politicians...we call the Liberals crooks, we call NDP Communists, we call the Conservatives Nazis, and we call Le Bloc Traitors...and we bitch...but we vote...and bitch some more...we bitch about Welfare..we bitch about our jobs...we bitch about our Military..we bitch about our lack of Defence Funds....we bitch when the Canadiens win...we bitch about Don CHerry...we bitch about Lavigne, Dionne, Shatner, Thicke, Green, etc etc etc...yet we still call them our own...in short dear friends...we are a Country of Bitches....but...we still kick ass!