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Archive through August 20, 2000
Ribbit | Wednesday, August 16, 2000 - 01:54 pm  Hello fellow Canadian B.B. viewers. I read this site was Canadian and was wondering about my fellow countryfolk. I'm not an extreme nationalist, just happy to live here. My home is the beautiful city of Victoria B.C. on Vancouver Island, which is a temperate paradise. I've only missed one episode of B.B. and should be at the lake swimming right now, not obsessing on B.B. Love to hear from fellow Canucks. What's your take on this spectacle? |
Enb | Wednesday, August 16, 2000 - 08:33 pm  I hear there's a Canadian Version...don't know if this site is for real, but someone sent it to me. BTV Contestant Form Doesn't matter what country the show is in, it makes for good entertainment. The UK version is becoming popular... |
Ribbit | Thursday, August 17, 2000 - 11:20 am  Thanks Neil, Ottawa is a beautiful city. Must be these govt. towns. That link looks fairly real but the knockoff CTV logo seems suspicious. I'm going to ask my local CTV affiliate CHEK6, which airs B.B., what they have to say about it. |
Kahlua | Thursday, August 17, 2000 - 01:57 pm  The Canadian BB thing is bogus. THey've fixed it up somewhat so it doesn't look quite so fake as when it was originally posted, but it's def. not on the up and up. |
Admin | Thursday, August 17, 2000 - 08:19 pm  I did notice that the form doesn't work and there's no email to send it to? I think it's bogus too...but it was fun! |
Kahlua | Thursday, August 17, 2000 - 08:22 pm  The form is a recent addition - a couple of days ago, they had taken the who wants to be a millionaire logo, and made an extremely poor Who wants to be on a Canadian Big Brother - it looked like Swiss, I tell you. But hey, someone's gotta be creative, eh? |
Max | Thursday, August 17, 2000 - 08:45 pm  I was born (but not raised) in Vancouver, BC and didn't become naturalized as a U.S. Citizen until I was 9 years old. Do I qualify as an honorary Canuck?  |
Majic | Friday, August 18, 2000 - 08:13 am  Kitchener, Ontario here. I lived in Ottawa for a short time. Maybe a Canadian Big Brother would be too polite, although I know a couple of whackos that would liven things up. |
Jenster | Friday, August 18, 2000 - 09:06 am  Max - OK - we'll teach you the secret handshake! How funny would a Canadian BB be?? There would be 10 people wearing red plaid flannel shirts in a house together. Then we would hear things on the feeds like... "Get me a beer, eh?" all day long. Any other ideas? Jenster - Vancouver (where it hasn't rained for 24 days!) Must be a record. Get me a beer, eh? |
Stouff | Friday, August 18, 2000 - 10:50 am  I live in Sudbury ontario now..and just love this website. (The only disappointment I have is that it shows up with an American instead of Canadian flag at the Big Brother Top 50 site but, oh well, I guess I understand Neil's reasoning there). Sudbury is a beautiful city, contrary to what most people think when they hear it is a mining town. We have so much green area now..and over 30 lakes within the city limits (in fact I am looking out over a lake now in my downtown apt as i write this note!) I really appreciate all of the loyal members of this site who keep the live pages up to date. What a great community of people. Thanks, Neil, for bringing us all together. |
Tatianna | Friday, August 18, 2000 - 09:08 pm  I grew up in the suberbs of Ottawa and now live in Toronto. When I first moved to Toronto I felt like a hick but have grown to love the diversity and *life* that Toronto has to offer. I think an all Canadian BB would be well received, but ideally I would like to see a few Canadians thrown in with the American HG's. Now that would be entertaining! Thanks for the site Neil! Great Job! |
Majic | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 11:07 am  I'd love to see some Canadians in with the Americans too. I really don't know if a Canadian show would be that different. Seeing as the ratings aren't what they were expecting I doubt if we will ever see it. I would love to see a Survivor show here though. Hey I think Sudbury would be a good area eh Stouff? Stick em out in the bush in the middle of June. (I love the Sudbury area too just not the blackflies and mosquitos). |
Admin | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 12:00 pm  The BB top 50 shows an american flag for this reason: There are BB shows all over the world, and this site is dedicated to the US version. If I put a Canada flag there, people would think this show is dedicated to the Canadian version (even though there isn't one) It has nothing to do with not taking pride in being Canadian! I AM CANADIAN! |
Ribbit | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 12:05 pm  A Canadian Big Brother would be a hoot. Jenster, some ideas, Pamela Wallen as host, having a really BIG dog, lots of Kraft dinner. And my dumbest idea is the Canadarm in the back yard. But Survivor in Sudbury takes the cake, Majic. Tatianna, a Canadian or other non-American in the house would be a great idea. Heated debates. Stouff, lakes...LAKES, I should be swimming right now. Victoria's inner harbour used to be the most toxic industrial site in western Canada, now it's surrounded by parks. This was the first year they have had swimming races since 1934. Max, you're a Canuck for sure. Vancouver is superb, I would move but my life is here. Kahlua, cool, I got CTV on their asses, they are not amused. More, more, lets keep this thread alive, send me letters about B.B. or Canada or anything. Thanks |
Stouff | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 02:27 pm  OK, Sudbury it is for Survivor. We can put them out on one of the lakes in an icefishing shack in the winter! They have to survive with no beer, no news about hockey...but we will provide toques with the great maple leaf on them.We will get Roots to design them. They have to catch their own fish ...for every reward challenge won, pamela, the host, will give them big orders of Poutine. Challenges will involve snowmobile trails, sugarshacks etc. any other ideas? |
Majic | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 03:46 pm  HA HA HA thats a hoot You know my father in law used to ice fish all winter on Lake Winnipeg. He hammered his sheets to the end of the bed to keep the breezes down. There is a real life show being filmed somewhere in Sask. (I think) its a year in the life of a couple of families as soddies. A family from our area of the country (Mennonite Country) is on it. Its a bit more like the 1900 House only in a farm setting. |
Majic | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 03:50 pm  Do you know some on the Inuit games, one of them involves throwing a stick (substitute frozen snake) down a snow corridor. That game where they do throat singing would be interesting too, better than phony french accents any day. |
Ribbit | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 08:51 pm  Haha...poutine n' Roots toques, throat singing IS better than fake accents or "Josh, can we talk?" The Canadian Big Brother house would be fully bilingual. Everything spoken in one language would have to be immediately repeated in the other. God forbid them speaking french in a fake french accent. StatsCan would be in charge of production, so there would be a lot more polls. And the CRTC would be ever vigilant in ensuring that the saturday night drunken singalongs contained 60% Canadian content. Like the book 1984, the house would be full of pictures of Big Brother, AKA _____________?. And of course a big Moosehead above the fireplace. |
Miss_Behaviour | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 10:20 pm  I posted this elsewhere, but this is a nice cosy place for this in-joke: Reasons there could never be a CDN BB House 1. People from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal would never agree to live in a house together. 2. The one-legged boss of Quebec would insist that everything be conducted in both official languages, and all french-speaking 'habitants' would have the mic volume turned up. 2a. Due to the Montreal presence, the house would have to be smoking, rather than non-smoking. 3. All of the special interest groups in the house would need 2 representatives each, requiring a 30 room igloo to be built in the parking lot @ CityTV in Toronto 4. Too much media attention would be turned to the issue of a man named Moses having an igloo housing 2 of everything in his backyard. 5. Canadian women would never be able to duplicate the Monica Lewinsky/Linda Tripp dynamic shared by Brittany and Karen. 6. Last, but not least, the highly sexed Newfoundlanders in the house would make it x-rated within 24 hours. Aaah, my home and native land... |
Miss_Behaviour | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 10:27 pm  I forgot to include this: Mel Lastman would serve in the role of Julie Chen, and as the 'housegusts' were nominated, Mel would be on hand to ask each person as they voted : 'Is that your final antler?' |
Wendy | Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 10:40 pm  Hey guys!!! I'm another Canadian around here. I lived in Edmonton for 14 years, moved to Montreal in May and plan on moving to Ottawa next May. With so many people here who are familiar with Ottawa, I should be bombarding you guys with questions. Re: Canadian BB: Don't forget: Moses Znaimer would be BB himself and would be the one whose voice comes over the intercom. His photo would be on the halls and part of the house experience would be to honor and worship MZ each day. AND... Forget that damn pool raft... They'd freeze the pool and use it for hockey and curling. |
Majic | Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 07:05 am  Hey Mel would make a good host for the show! That guy has more personality than Julie anyday. We'll get the original "Bad Boy" to give "city" a discount on the furnishings too. |
Stouff | Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 10:06 am  I say we make the big brother house an exhibit at the Edmonton Mall. We make all the walls one way glass. The inhabitants can't see out but all the mall shoppers can watch the action, really live... a human zoo for the Mall. It's about the only thing it doesn't have, so I hear (I've never been there). I agree that it must be a multilingual house to be truly Canadian ...but I think it should be trilingual in deference to our first inhabitants. Maybe we could choose the most spoken Native dialect. I remember that , in my previous job, we had to have our recordings in English, French and Innuktetuck (I apologize, I can't remember how to spell it but it is the language of the Northern Quebec Natives..maybe the Inuit). Also, we could try and get the guests to be representative of all of the dominant cultures in Canada...but then we would have to have a heck of a lot of houseguests, wouldn't we! We'd have English and French and Italian and Chinese and Native and Caribbean and Parkistani and Indian and Somolian and.....on and on. Oh and yes, Miss Behaviour, we must have some Newfoundlanders to provide the sexual entertainment since surveys show they are the most uninhibited of us...more power to them. I think Mel is the perfect host and Moses the perfect BB. No show could do better than these two. I also think throat singing would be the perfect style for our house. And, making use of the diversity of our guests, just think of the various challenges we could come up with..all watched live at the mall! Max, aren't you glad we adopted you as Canadian! (although technically you are still Canadian aren't you, since you were born here and we believe in dual citizenship in this country.) |
Battlestar | Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 10:11 am  Mel and Moses are Toronto personalities---they mean just about nothing to the rest of Canada |
Jazz | Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 10:45 am  Hey there! Nice to stumble upon this Canadian thread. I live in London, Ontario. It would be interesting to have a Canadian version of Big Brother but I don't think it will happen - a Survivor show would probably work though. I have to comment that twice I've read fellow Canadians think Canadian house guests would be too polite ... in my opinion that's a stereotype. A Canadian BB broadcast into the States could enlighten American folks about this and other Canadian misunderstandings. Just my two cents. |
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