You may be Canadian if...
You understand the phrase “Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield.”
DEALBREAKER: You’ve Been In A Sarah Palin Video On YouTube, Saying Stupid Shit
Okay, we probably don’t agree on anything politically, because I’m a progressive French Canadian, and you downloaded “Press One For English” off of iTunes. Look, I get wanting to have a positive female role model, but you’re waiting outside in the freezing cold for the anti-Susan B. Anthony. You’ll probably catch H1N1 and pass it on to the 45 million Americans without health insurance and they’ll all die because you think a basic human right is socialism, even though you can’t even define “socialism” when an unemployed journalist asks you to for his YouTube video.
Note judicious use of mute button.
Why I left, when I left, and why I’m left(ist, -ish).
Got it straight from the BBC:
“Tim’s started out its existence as Tim Horton’s. The apostrophe was lost to the language legislation in the Province of Quebec: unless a business name is simply a personal name, in Quebec the signage has to be translated into French: Tim Horton’s Donuts would have to become Les donuts de Tim Horton. Rather than producing entirely new signage for the Quebec market, Tim Horton’s became Tim Hortons from coast to coast to coast.”
Yes, I do dream of living here with my three kids, seven dogs, two goats and old gray mare. What of it, eh??Old Farm (via PView)
What has two thumbs, speaks limited French, and is getting a dog??
This moi!
The Parliament of Canada is serious business.
Is this why I can’t find these mittens anywhere!?
Jesus Christ. If my great-grandfather had thought things through a little more before crossing the border, I’d be in southern Ontario right now, enjoying my Canadian mittens.
Oh…my.
Hey, Guy In the Top Left Corner! Yeah, you. The less-creepy Canadian Willem Dafoe. …What’s the sound of two mittens clapping?
Just got home from the WNYC gala...
…where I hung out on stage with one ALEC BALDWIN.
I was so ready to reblog this with the word, “Canadian” as my only commentary—instead, my research led me to my FIRST Canadian UN-discovery! Alec Baldwin, much to my dismay and long-term misunderstanding, is NOT Canadian. My bad.
But congrats anyway, cbeth.
Photos from Olympic Hockey History
Above Photo: Canada versus Switzerland in 1928.
These are great.
Here’s a handy rule to remember come February:
If Canada doesn’t win, it doesn’t count.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Wade Hemsworth - Ye Girls of Old Ontario
I’ve been working on a set of illustrations for a set of very special Canadians, and I can most definitely count Wade Hemsworth as one of my inspirations on this project.
YES.
That’s better.
I want this to happen to every apartment building I live in. No matter what country I’m in.
Holy patriotism, Batman.
This reminds me (and not subtly, I must say) about a recently abandoned debate between Me and My-Canadian-Friends/Family. I contend that Canadians display their flag far more aggressively than United States citizens display Ol’ Glory. I’d like to cite the above as the capstone of my argument. If the 113 Canadian flags spotted alongside rural routes between Parry Sound and Sault Ste. Marie weren’t enough to prove my point…surely a flag building will do it.
