Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 12:42:50 GMT -5
By the by, this is our country's 148th birthday today. In keeping with that, I thought I'd share a couple of poignant proses from a local rag:
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
And this little ditty
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. Like: “Keep it down, eh?”
— Robin Williams
Or...
Canadian money is also called the loonie. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?
— Robin Williams
and...
“Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver. (My country is not a country, it’s winter.”
— Gilles Vigneault, “Mon Pays”
A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care.
— John Wing
And last but certainly not least:
Our national animal is the beaver...noted for its industry and its co-operative spirit. In medieval bestiaries it is also noted for its habit, when frightened, of biting off its testicles and offering them to its pursuer. I hope we are not succumbing to some form of that impulse.
— Margaret Atwood, on capitulating to the inundation of American culture
Ouch.
Happy Birthday Canada!
What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie... and then writes his member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs.
And this little ditty
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party. Like: “Keep it down, eh?”
— Robin Williams
Or...
Canadian money is also called the loonie. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?
— Robin Williams
and...
“Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver. (My country is not a country, it’s winter.”
— Gilles Vigneault, “Mon Pays”
A Canadian is merely an unarmed American with health care.
— John Wing
And last but certainly not least:
Our national animal is the beaver...noted for its industry and its co-operative spirit. In medieval bestiaries it is also noted for its habit, when frightened, of biting off its testicles and offering them to its pursuer. I hope we are not succumbing to some form of that impulse.
— Margaret Atwood, on capitulating to the inundation of American culture
Ouch.
Happy Birthday Canada!
