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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
SirQuack #247894 02/19/09 08:59 PM
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Um, Canada Dry Ginger Ale?




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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
tomtuttle #247902 02/19/09 09:45 PM
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OK, so someone beat me to the beers. Probably worth mentioning again though.

Also, the size-to-population ratio is great if you like the outdoors; there's a lot more outdoors to go around. I think we actually have maybe half the population of California.

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Re: So, what exactly makes Canada so great?
JaimeG #247903 02/19/09 09:46 PM
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Sorry Jaime, shouting "CAR!!" is like a secret code to "good Canadian kids", because we all - OK almost all - played road hockey as kids, complete with goalie nets and pads and orange hockey balls or tennis balls.

So you play while watching for cars. Everyone runs for the nets to get them out of the way.

"CAR!!" is usually followed quickly by "GAME ON!!"

This concludes Canadiana 101. ;\)

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Kruncher #247913 02/19/09 10:31 PM
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Don't forget the penalty box(snow bank) at the side of the road, where you were responsible to keep time of your own penalty. You guys actually used those orange "hockey" balls? those were suicide if you took one in the beans, a tennis ball was bad enough, but thooosee!!!( painfull flashbacks, winter of '77....)


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Adrian #247914 02/19/09 10:44 PM
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Let's just say that the "Kruncher" name was well earned even back then. Now if I could only skate, I'da made the '70s Philly Flyers look like pansies.

Just as nice was getting one of those orange things in the thigh from somebody's slap shot.

We'd get those old add-on plastic blades all bent up with wicked curves. Watch out... Ah, memories.

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Also, the size-to-population ratio is great if you like the outdoors; there's a lot more outdoors to go around.

Not to mention more skeeters than you can shake a stick at.


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The natural thing is to be self-deprecating... then you meet people that move here and just love it.

Our maintenance guy at the range moved up here... and I was wondering why, especially as a shooter, he would move up here. He just waved a hand in a 120 degree arc and said "look around"... I guess he saw "God's Country" where I saw "the annoying flat green bit between the city and the lakes."

I guess it depends where you settle on why you settle... can cut it down to a single word usually...

Why did you move to...
BC "Weed"
AB "Oil"
SK "Cheap"
MB "Acrophobic"
ON "Opportunity"
QC "Culture" (or "Poutine" or "Chicks")
and anything east of there "Lost"

(oh, I'm kidding! *ducks, grins, runs like hell*)

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