Comments on: Oh, Canada!

By: David

David — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:35:05 +0000

This blog is the coolest.
I’m immigrating to Canada (waiting as I type this to become a “landed alien” as they say). I can think of one thing I always miss when in Toronto, which I usually hear as “T’rona”: Good Yoplait yogurt flavors. In Wisconsin, we get all these tasty flavors. In Canada, not so much.
But I think I can deal with different Yogurt in return for an oh-so-much more sane political and social existence.

By: Postmodern Sass

Postmodern Sass — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:15:39 +0000

Comment orgy! Comment orgy! Yeah. Without even trying. Woo-hoo! Comment orgy!

Tracy: Yes: Keebler cookies, Diet Cherry Coke (I know it's not always available, and it's not available everywhere in the U.S., but it has never been marketed here), and St. Ives vanilla body wash. Oh -- and Stephen King.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:34:36 +0000

Tracy Lynn – uh, yeah. It’s called FREEDOM!
Whoa! Sorry ’bout that. I think I’ve been listening to too many Presidential addresses…

By: Tracy Lynn

Tracy Lynn — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:25:40 +0000

Isn’t there also stuff that Canadians want that you can only get in the US? Maybe we could do a sort of North American Swap?

By: sween

sween — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:29:31 +0000

You know, when you write the word “apologise” out enough, it looks really funny.
But it’s funnier when you write “poo” a lot.
Poo.
Heh.

By: sween

sween — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:27:30 +0000

Jenny — Canadians don’t want to intimidate people. Canadians would rather fret over whether or not they are offending people. And then apologise for offending them. And for fretting. And for apologising too much.
Always with the apologies.
We also spell apologise “apologise”.
We like to apologise. A lot.
Sorry.

By: jill

jill — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:21:43 +0000

Okay. Seriously. Canadians? You’re scaring us a little bit with this frenzy of commenting. It’s a Canadian comment orgy over here all of a sudden and me without my moose (you know, to fit in). Just so you know. . . we value you. We think you’re smart, SUPER nice and we appreciate that you export so many of your funny people to Hollywood. But it was a Scottsman, Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. Your guy discovered insulin, so Dunkin Donuts and diabetics everywhere thank you. (And for the record, Marie Curie discovered radium. I thought she discovered penicillin, which is why I looked it up in the first place.) One question: do you guys not get wikipedia in Canada? ‘Cause it’s really great.

By: egan

egan — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:21:34 +0000

For the record, I am Closet Canadian.

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:46:18 +0000

Jess – I wish you could just accept me with my flaws like some other people do. Trisha didn’t try to rub Wikipedia in my face (which, by the way, is NOT the same as google and we could debate the reasons why for hours)… she just said something really nice to me (Thanks, Trish!). She told me I intimidate people – do you know how long I’ve waited to hear that? Why can’t you be more intimidated by me?! Is it because I’m Canadian?
Sass – Well, sounds like our Smarties are a bit different – they’re more like a Sweet-tart. Pure sugar, no chocolate.

By: Postmodern Sass

Postmodern Sass — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:00:53 +0000

You mean you do have Smarties down there? Yes, I mean the candies. They're kinda like M&Ms, but not quite. And everyone eats the red ones last. At least they used to, before there were blue Smarties, but during the last referendum on whether or not to boot Quebec out of the country, there was a question about Smarties protocol, and now we're supposed to eat the blue ones last. When I flew to Chicago in December I saw a women in line on her way to U.S. Customs, trying to figure out how to stuff eight large bags of Smarties into her suitcase. Guess the joke's on her.

And OK yes, a double-double has to do with coffee, not boxing. Google won't tell you what a double-double is, but the Wikipedia knows -- and has a whole section on Canadian slang.