Sorry, no real roadster content other than I am STILL WAITING for my motor
to come back from the machine shop, 8 weeks and he still hasn't started. I
had to post this though.
> > And you thought we had no Canadian identity:
> > >>>> >
> > >>>> > 1.. Crispy Crunch.
> > >>>> > 2. Smarties.
> > >>>> > 3. Coffee Crisp
> > >>>> > 4. The size of Canadian footballs/football fields; one
> > >>>> lessdown.
> > >>>> > 5. The fact that the new "World Cup" trophy is too
> > >>>> stupid for words
> > >>>> > when compared to the old Canada Cup trophy.
> > >>>> > 6. Lacrosse is Canadian.
> > >>>> > 7. Hockey is Canadian.
> > >>>> > 8. Basketball is Canadian.
> > >>>> > 9. The biggest flags ever seen at the Olympic closing
> > >>>> ceremonies
> > >>>> > were Canadian (twice...and the second one was smuggled in
> > >>>> against a rule
> > >>>> > that was made because of the first one).
> > >>>> > 10. Mr. Dressup could kick Mr. Roger's ass.
> > >>>> > 11. Way better beer commercials/beer company
> > >>>> contests/beer company
> > >>>> > giveaways (Molson is having a national party in a cabin in
> > >>>> the Rockies
> > >>>> > this summer with Great Big Sea ...no purchase
> > >>>> necessary...and the next
> > >>>> > morning one of the hung over party goers gets to keep the
> > >>>> house! The
> > >>>> > Molson Canadian House Party).
> > >>>> > 12. Much Music kicks MTV's ass.
> > >>>> > 13. Maple Syrup kicks Mrs. Butterworth's ass (I don't know
about
> > >>>> > AuntJemima).
> > >>>> > 14. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin Donut's ass.
> > >>>> > 15. In the war of 1812 we burned the White house and most of
> > >>>> > Washington.
> > >>>> > 16. Canada has the largest French population in the
> > >>>> world that never
> > >>>> > surrendered to Germany.
> > >>>> > 17. Our "Civil war" was led by a drunken, insane William
> > >>>> Lyon McKenzie.
> > >>>> > 18. Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little
> > >>>> less than an
> > >>>> > hour.
> > >>>> > 19. The only person arrested and hanged after our civil
> > >>>> war was an
> > >>>> > American mercenary who slept in and missed the whole fight,
> > >>>> showing up
> > >>>> > just in time to get caught.
> > >>>> > 20. We knew plaid flannel was cool way before Seattle did.
> > >>>> > 21. The Hudson Bay company once owned 1/11th of the
> > >>>> Earth's surface.
> > >>>> > And is the oldest continuous company in the world.
> > >>>> > 22. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a
> > >>>> grown human in ess
> > >>>> > than three minutes.
> > >>>> > 23. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
> > >>>> > 24. We don't marry our kinfolk.
> > >>>> > 25. We invented snowmobiles, jet skis, Velcro, zippers,
> > >>>> zambonis, and
> > >>>> > the handles on cardboard beer cases (large enough to fit
> > >>>> mittened hands
> > >>>> > into).
> > >>>> > 26. We can hum the theme to "Definition".
> > >>>> > 27. We know that any scale that says water boils at 212
> > >>>> and freezes at
> > >>>> > 32 is asinine.
> > >>>> > 28. We've all frozen our tongues to something metal,
> > >>>> and lived to tell
> > >>>> > about it.
> > >>>> > 29. We wear socks with our sandals.
> > >>>> > 30. We can out-drink Americans
> >
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