gordonv
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VRCC # 31419
Richmond BC
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« on: March 05, 2020, 09:07:01 PM » |
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So what do we Canadians have to be proud of, eh? A lot!!
1. Smarties (and Hawkins Cheesies) they're not sold in the USA.
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp (they're not sold in the USA)
3. The size of our football fields: one less down, bigger balls... and we invented the game!
4. Baseball is Canadian. First game: June 4th, 1838, Ingersoll, Ontario.
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian.
8. Apple pie is Canadian.
9. Mr. Dress-Up beats Mr. Rogers.
10. Tim Horton's beats Dunkin' Donuts.
11. In the war of 1812, which was started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back past their White House. We then proceeded to burn both it and most of Washington. We got bored because they ran away, then we came home and partied. Go figure!
12. Canada has the largest French population that has never surrendered to Germany.
13. We have the largest English population that never, ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere, ever! We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in all the wars.
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary. He slept in and missed the whole thing, showing up just in time to get caught!
16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.
17. The Hudson's Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full-grown human in under three minutes. (That's more information than you may need!)
19. We know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
20. We don't marry our kinfolk.
21. We invented skidoos, jetskis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, the telephone... as well as the shortwave radio, which saves countless lives every year.
22. We have all frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell the tale!
23. A Canadian invented Superman.
24. We have coloured money.
25. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on!
26. Our elections only take one day.
27. For those of you who appreciate a good, safe and readily-available screw, we invented the Robertson Method!
28. Two Canadians invented the light bulb and sold patent to Edison who to this day is recorded by many as being the inventor. Instead he did perfect and promoted it.
(On July 24, 1874 a Canadian patent was filed by a Toronto medical electrician named Henry Woodward and a colleague Mathew Evans. They built their lamps with different sizes and shapes of carbon rods held between electrodes in glass cylinders filled with nitrogen. Woodward and Evans attempted to commercialize their lamp, but were unsuccessful. They eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879.)
Oohh, Canada! Pass this on if you're proud to be a Canadian!
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