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1. Smarties
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down
4. Baseball is Canadian
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian
8. Apple pie is Canadian
9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
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, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so 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.
14. Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American
mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.
16. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
19. We still know what to do with all 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, the telephone and 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.
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
24. 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.
People have a habit of changing your direction through life
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I repeat the question- So what do Canadians have to be proud of?  Until a nation invents something as cool as Vegemite, there is no reason for it to even THINK about being proud.
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We stumbled into the subject of British princes, and he found this site about William... There was a "Would you dare to kiss the prince" link there, which I clicked of course (William being a highly kissable young lad).
Check it out yourself if you like:
http://www.theinternetforum.co.uk/william/
Then scroll down a bit, look on the right side you'll find it under the picture (the one with the kissing smileys).
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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But I want to know about this claim the Canadians have on baseball.
Think good thoughts,
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Darren
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Hi Ashley,
As a Canadian I loved it, but aren't you from downunder? Anyway, I don't think that most of you know what Tim Hortins is???
Anyway, have fun!
Darren
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<<>>
"Unable to resist"!
"Losing Bat-strength"
"Prince to cute"
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"Holy eligible bachelors Batman. What are we gonna do"?!!!
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"Give in boy wonder, give in"
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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Oh, and nice song Ashley, good to see you!!!
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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rbryce
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is this guy related to geo bush?
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rbryce
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is tim hortins related to george bush?
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Are you guys really honeslty proud of inventing baseball... I mean really proud of it, becuase if I invented baseball, well I don't know if I would want the to get around...
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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rbryce
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WOW GUYS DID I JUST GET IT IN THE KISSER.I AM HUMBLED AND VERY SORRY FOR THE INSENSITIVE POST.WHAT A JERK I AM.THIS KID IS HEADED FOR THE LIBRARY TO READ UP ON THIS GUY.HE IS A HERO AND I BASHED HIM OUT OF PURE IGNORANCE ON MY PART.I AM TRUELY SORRY.THE FUNNY THING IS THAT WHEN I OPENED MY E-MAIL,THE GUY WAS PRETTY NICE TO ME EVEN GIVING A SHORT STORY ABOUT THIS SPORTS HERO.I AM HUMBLED. PS..BY THE WAY,I THINK FROGS ARE CUTE--DID CANADIANS INVENT THEM?
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warren c. e. austin
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... but in the certain "to not ever want to admit to having done so category" must fall these:
1) World's first jet-propelled "Fighter Aircraft", the CF-100, designed and manufactured in Malton, Ontario, whose first flight occurred in February of 1942. By 1944 6-squadron's of the aircraft were in service in Canada, but saw no service overseas, as no-one knew how to "dog-fight" with them, as they flew at nearly two-times the speed of the fastest airplane then in service in any theatre of war.
2) The technological innovation that bred item no.1 above, led to the design and manufacture of the Tristar - the world's first Commercial Jet-propelled Airliner. This plane, of which less than two-dozen were ever manufactured saw service on the London, England to Nassau, Bahamas, and Hamiltom, Bermuda trans-Atlantic runs starting late 1946, and being terminated late 1947 rather abruptly after several disappeared without trace in the Bermuda Triangle. It would be nearly 10-years before the "Comet" would make it's inaugural flight into history.
3) The design team that gave us both of the above would go on to later fame as having developed the only fully functioning "Flying Saucer" in 1952, which was promptly seized by the U.S. Government and impounded under National Securityy provision they exercised under the North American Air Defense Treaty. It has never been seen again. Archival footage, in the Canadian Aerospace Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, is all that remains to testify to it's existence.
4) A. V. Roe's last gasp, or kick at the can (they are the Company responsible for each of the technological marvels mentioned here) was the design and manufacture of the World's then, and still to this day, fastest Aircraft ever built. The CF-101, otherwise known as the Avro Arrow flew in infamy in the closing years of the 1950's. Entirely computer controlled, it's guidance system was so far ahead of it's time, that today you'll find it substanstially unaltered and powering the NASA Shuttles. It's principle problems were that it flew at 120,000 feet and higher, and required take-off speeds that routinely broke the sound-barrier before it had even gotten off the ground. Unfortunately Avro couldn't sell the plane - we in Canada sure as "God made Shooting-sherry" didn't need the damn thing, and the Americans would but it unless we surrendered the Patents on the technology. The Canadian Government stepped in, seizing the technology under the auspices of the National Research Council, and promptly scrapped the plane. Avro went out of business and several U. S. Aircraft manufacturers appropriated their staff. Without the guidance system, the closest any of them came to duplicating the Arrow was the "Black-bird", used extensively in Saouth-east Asia during the early 1970's. Under licensing agreements in the 1980's, from Canada's NRC, the Arrow's legacy endured, but, NASA still can't open the boxes that house that legacy. Only scientists from the NRC can.
One foot-note to the above: Only one intact example of the Arrow is known to have survived. It has only flown twice since 1959. The flights ocurred during the Queen's attendance at Canada's North-west Territorial Anniversary in the early 1970's. Sunspot activity was so all-pervasive that the Monarch's facimile printers (which travel with her wherever she travels), could not function. An aircraft that could make round-trip flights, in the space of several hours, to and from Yellownife NWT to Westminister was required. The Arrow filled that need. The aircraft has never been seen publically since. Only pieces of it are in the Aerospace Museum, although recovery efforts are underway to salvage another that went down outside Kengston, Ontario's harbour.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Ontario
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I read it while the YMCA song was playing itself in my head, so now I'm thinking up words for the tune using W-C-E-A. Okay, so I never claimed to be "normal." Sortof a dirty word - well, boring, at least.
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WOW !!!!!!!
boy Ashley , you started something didn't you ..  )
I don't know about you guys but I'm proud to be a Canadian ...
Rick ..
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wow guy you sure know how to knock our socks off.You have made my day.The library will now be my favorite haunt.I thank you very much for the information and just a private aside,you have given me a lot to think about.You have my respect! r
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<b>SO, WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF? </b> 
Haha! You're so silly Ashley! Now look here what Stephen found for me. 
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