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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions: 2004 May - July: Free Expressions (ARCHIVES): Happy Canada Day July 1: Archive through June 30, 2004 users admin

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Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 6:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Canada Day, tomorrow, to my many Canadian boardmates. I hope you all have a healthy and happy day celebrating Canada's birthday. If you are travelling, drive safely. If you are staying home like me, have fun and enjoy the fireworks!

canada

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    




Enjoy, everyone! :-)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Perhaps you can let us know how you'll be celebrating your holiday, dear Canadian friends. Will it be fireworks and barbecues or what?

(I spent every summer of my childhood in New Brunswick and I don't remember any celebrations of this event. However, when I visited a few years ago, things had changed considerably.)

Happy Birthday, Canada! flag


March
Member

10-02-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok I'm not as colorful (love the graphics by the way) but still want to wish everyone a Happy Canada Day.
Hope we get good weather.



Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have a Happy and Safe Canada Day!!!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Canada Day!

Djgirl
Member

07-17-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Canada Day everyone! I'll be working tomorrow so that I can have Friday off and a long weekend to boot! I'll be spending the weekend at the cottage, lounging on the dock and trying to figure out the next verse in the song that I'm writing. Wish me luck!
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Made in Canda.bmp (8.7 k)


Spitfire
Member

07-18-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Canada Day!!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
1st

A Happy and Safe Canada Day to You!!!

Vee, Canada Day is celebrated mostly low-key with family-type BBQs and in most towns some fireworks in the evening.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I would like to celebrate with fireworks, but the city of Vancouver has cancelled their Canada Day fireworks celebrations for the past two years, with the police citing "security concerns" in the form of drunk hooligans.

So I will undoubtedly celebrate by working instead.


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 8:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
DJGirl..your file is BMP so all I get is garble :-( What should I do to be able to read it?

(pssst canada is missing an a )

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For your enjoyment (tee hee)

Canadian jokes stolen from CNEWS

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Proper spelling of Canada: C eh, N eh, D eh

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You Know You're Canadian When:

# You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

# You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

# Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.

# The local paper covers national and international headlines on two pages, but requires six pages for hockey.

# The municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.

# You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars, and drink pop, not soda.

# You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing u's from labor, honor, and color.

# You know how to say free, prize and no sugar added in French thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.

# You know what a toque is.

# You've plugged a car in overnight.

# You've defended your property from trespassers with a lacrosse stick because you don't own a gun.

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Q: How do you get the Canadian paparazzi off your front lawn?

A: You say "Please get off my front lawn."
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In Canada we have two seasons -- six months of winter and six months of poor snowmobiling.

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Every nation in attendance at an international symposium on elephants had to deliver a report on the animals.

France's report: "The Love Life of an Elephant."

America saw the economic values in: "Raising Elephants for Fun and Profit."

Great Britain had their own unique view: "The Elephant and the British Empire."

The Canadian report was, of course, typically Canadian... "The Elephant: A Federal or Provincial Responsibility?"

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A Canadian tourist fell into a beer vat during a tour of the Labatt's Brewing Facility outside of Toronto. Plant officials estimate the tourist drank fifteen gallons of beer before he could be removed from the vat.

Ducky
Member

08-27-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan here is Djgirl's bmp picture.
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Ducky
Member

08-27-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Canada Day


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Ducky! :-)

Djgirl
Member

07-17-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Ducky! I had forgotten I had saved it as a BMP... I was just about to fix it when I saw that you had beaten me to the punch!

Ducky
Member

08-27-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Your welcome.

Babyruth
Member

07-19-2001

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Happy Canada Day!! Yay!

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol, how cute, Ruthie! :-)

Jan, Djr is saving her 'eh' (a) for tomorrow! ;)


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Rupert!

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
25 Signs Showing You Might be Canadian

1. You're not offended by the term "HOMO MILK".

2. You understand the phrase "Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."

3. You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars.

4. You drink Pop, not Soda.

5. You know what a Mickey and 2-4 mean

6. You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go for your holidays, with good cigars and no Americans.

7. You know that a pike is a type of fish, not part of a highway.

8. You drive on a highway, not a freeway.

9. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.

10. You know that Casey and Finnegan were not part of a Celtic musical group.

11. You get excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.

12. You brag to Americans that: Shania Twain, Jim Carrey, Celine Dion & many more, are Canadians.

13. You know that the C.E.O. of American Airlines is a Canadian!

14. You know what a touque is.

15. You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

16. You know that the last letter of the English alphabet is always pronounced "Zed" not "Zee"

17. Your local newspaper covers the national news on 2 pages,but requires6 pages for hockey.

18. You know that the four seasons mean: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road work.

19. You know that when it's 25 degrees outside, it's a warm day.

20. You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.

21. You know how to pronounce and spell "Saskatchewan".(Sas-Kat-chew-wan)

22. You perk up when you hear the theme song from 'Hockey Night in Canada'.

23. You were in grade 12, not the 12th grade.

24. "Eh?" is a very important part of your vocabulary, and is more polite than,"Huh?"

25. You actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all of your Canadian friends!!!! and then you send them to your American friends
just to confuse them...further (hehe )


Oh yeah...I was confused.


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 2:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, LOST those are great!

You are an American, n'est-ce pas? No Canadian will be confused by it. We would understand it all immediately because it is so very, very true!!! :-):-):-)

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL,Jan and Lost. So very true.



Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You Know You're Canadian When...



You know all the words to "If I had a million dollars" by The Barenaked Ladies, including the inter-stanza banter between Steven and Ed.

You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly."

You hum David Foster's '88 Calgary Olympics theme in the shower.

You make up patriotic lyrics to go along with David Foster's '88 Calgary Olympics theme.

You remember when Alanis Morrissette was "Too Hot To Hold".

You can't do that on television...)

You think there isn't enough of Peter Gzowski to go around.

You think Ed the Sock is funny.

You wonder why there isn't a 5 dollar coin, as you can only use more change.

You spend hours in the dark making scale models of the Avro Arrow and cursing the Diefenbaker government.

(My brother Brad... )

You cried when Gus "drowned" on Road To Avonlea.

You watch MuchMusic constantly, in the hopes of occasional fleeting glimpses of The Tragically Hip.

You have an Inuit carving by your bedside with the rationale, "what's good enough protection for the Prime Minister, is good enough for me!"

You have memorized the Heritage Foundation's Heritage Moments, including your favourites, "Burnt Toast!", "You know I canna read a word...", and "Kanata".

You can sing "O' Canada" in French and actually know what the words mean!

(As mentioned elsewhere, I prefer the words to the French version...)

You advocate the abolition of responsible government, in favour of monarchist rule.

You think there isn't enough Queen on our currency.

You send angry letters to the CBC demanding the return of the Hinterland Who's Who spots so you can finally find out what happens to the arctic ptarmigan in winter.

You participate in Participaction!

You think Peter Mansbridge is sexy.

You think Lloyd Robertson is sexy.

You think Peter Kent is sexy.

You think Brad Pitt is so-so.

You stood in line for hours for Another Roadside Attraction tickets.

You killed your best friend for Another Roadside Attraction tickets.

You think Great Big Sea isn't Maritime-centric enough.

Your graduation formal dress was made of flannel.

Your backpack has more than one Canadian flag iron-on.

You know the names of all the guys in Sloan.

You have been on Speaker's Corner. Bonus points if The Devil's Advocates made fun of you.

You use a red pen on your non-Canadian textbooks and fill in the missing 'u's from labor, honor, and color.

You know the French equivalents of ``free,'' ``prize'' and ``no sugar added,'' thanks to your extensive education in bilingual cereal packaging.

You still haven't taken down your ``NON'' posters from the 95 Referendum.

You know more than 3 guys named Gordon.

You think Ashley MacIssac isn't Celtic enough.

You remember ``Jodie'' from Today's Special and wonder why you keep seeing her reading news on the CBC.

You can do the hand actions to Sharon, Lois and Bram's ``Skin-a-marinki-dinki-do.''

You know why ``killerwhaletank'' is funny.

You can eat more than one maple sugar candy without feeling nauseous.

You had a crush on Joey Jeremiah from Degrassi Junior High.

You know that a ``Premier'' isn't a baby born a few months early.

You actually watch The Gemini Awards, The Genie Awards, and The Juno Awards. You wonder why Stompin' Tom doesn't get his own category in all three. You scream passionately at the television when your favourite Canadian performers are overlooked by their respective academies.

You are excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada. You make a mental note to talk about it at work the next day.

You think -10 C (14F) is mild weather.

You have twins named Donovan and Bailey.

You have twins named Wayne and Gretzky (alternatively Gordie and Howe).

Thinking of Johnny Wayne causes gales of laughter.

You burst out laughing when someone says, ``Hi! I'm Ed Broadbent!''

Elvis lives!

You're proud that Captain Kirk came from Montreal.

(Evidently, I'm not all that Canadian. I'm not terribly proud of his acting abilities...)

You wished that Relic's boat would get crushed to bits by one of those logs.

You read rather than scanned this list.



Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - 4:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL Rupert..I admit I did read rather than scan the list!!!!

I always thought I was a very die hard Canadian...but I am afraid I am too old to know a lot on this list :-(