Posted on 03/11/2005 9:37:53 PM PST by quidnunc
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. – Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
Vancouver, British Columbia – Whenever I think of Canada … strike that. I'm an American, therefore I tend not to think of Canada. On the rare occasion when I have considered the country that Fleet Streeters call "The Great White Waste of Time," I've regarded it, as most Americans do, as North America's attic, a mildewy recess that adds little value to the house, but serves as an excellent dead space for stashing Nazi war criminals, drawing-room socialists, and hockey goons.
Henry David Thoreau nicely summed up Americans' indifference toward our country's little buddy when he wrote, "I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada. … What I got by going to Canada was a cold." For the most part, Canadians occupy little disk space on our collective hard drive. Not for nothing did MTV have a game show that made contestants identify washed-up celebrities under the category "Dead or Canadian?"
If we have bothered forming opinions at all about Canadians, they've tended toward easy-pickings: that they are a docile, Zamboni-driving people who subsist on seal casserole and Molson. Their hobbies include wearing flannel, obsessing over American hegemony, exporting deadly Mad Cow disease and even deadlier Gordon Lightfoot and Nickelback albums. You can tell a lot about a nation's mediocrity index by learning that they invented synchronized swimming. Even more, by the fact that they're proud of it.
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ROFL! That's great :)
Strange that the McDonalds in Ontario have never heard of the term "biscuit". If you order a sausage and egg biscuit for breakfast..you get a "muffin". Blech..
A weekend? I took a weekend in Cambodia once and thought it was "great". In reality, it wasn't if you lived there. Same with Canada. Try finding a wine shop open past 9pm.
Well obviously I don't want to live there. But Toronto feeld just like an American city, only more diverse.
I don't know...my wife and I are a young couple and we really enjoyed the people, restaurants, and nightlife that Toronto offered. I didn't consider it "dull" at all.
You MUST be kidding. That's enough to make them a laughing-stock all by itself.
Like I said...a weekend at nightspots wouldn't be dull obviously. But to live there under a socialistic government is a totally other story.
"Terry" the Bar Maid at the Hotel in a town north of Fairfield, Alberta is not "dull"!
"Beaver Fever": I take it you are either Canadian or you like chicks.
McDonalds in Canada also sells Pollo McCroquettes . . . Chicken McNuggets . . . Really. LOL.
Oh, yeah...sounds great. </sarcasm>
This Canadian thoroughly enjoyed it.
I live in Wisconsin and Democrat Jim Doyle is my Governor. I have an alcoholic Rat Attorney General and I have two Democratic Senators in Kohl/Feingold.
Speaking of socialism....
Dont believe everthing you hear...they dont serve poutine in Mc Dicks up here
And besides poutine is french canadian and based on that point alone I dont touch it...
And makes you fart like a draft horse.
Canada is socialistic through and through.
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