nklr happy canada day
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:42 pm
So, What Do We
Canadians Have To Be Proud Of ?
1.
Smarties
2.
Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
3.
The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and
bigger balls.
4.
Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 -
Ingersoll , ON
5.
Lacrosse is Canadian
6.
Hockey is Canadian
7.
Basketball is Canadian
8.
Apple pie is Canadian
9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr..
Rogers
10.
Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts
11.
In the war of 1812, started by America , Canadians pushed
the Americans back past their White House'.. Then we
burned it, and most of Washington ..
We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and
partied......... Go figure.
12.
Canada has the largest French population that never
surrendered to Germany .
13. We have the largest English population
that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to
anyone, anywhere. EVER. (We got clobbered in the odd
battle but. prevailed in ALL the wars)
14.
Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over
an hour.
15.
The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an
American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole
thing. He showed up just in time to get
caught.
16.
A Canadian invented Standard Time.
17.
The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's
surface and is still around as the world's oldest
company.
18.
The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown
human in under 3 minutes.
(That's more information than
I need!)
19.
We know what to do with the parts of a
buffalo.
20.
We don't marry our kin-folk.
21.
We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin,
penicillin, zambonis and the telephone. Also short wave
radios that save countless lives each
year.
22.
We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and
lived to tell about it.
23.
A Canadian invented Superman.
24.
We have coloured money.
25.
Our beer advertisements kick ass {Incidently...so does our
beer}
BUT
MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your
hands with mitts on.
OOOoohhhhh.... Canada !!
. Oh yeah... And our
elections only take one day.
Pass this on if you are proud to be
Canadian!!!