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...The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey....

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You know you're canadian if....

you've ever heard your parents (or yourself) quote Maclean and Maclean lyrics.

when my American husband and I were dating, I took him to a Maclean and Maclean show (in Canada, of course) - what amazed him, more than the actual content of the show, was that EVERYONE in the bar knew EVERY lyric to EVERY song!!!! :rotfl:

ps - one of my personal favourites is "Dolly Parton's T**s" :coollook:

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When In High School You Complete Grade 12...

Not 12th Grade

and going to college and going to university after Grade 12 are two different things.......

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yes, but did you love BNL 10, 15 years ago? Back when they were fat and geeky?

oh yeah, eh - my friends (who give a rats butt) here in Michigan are way in awe of my original "Gordon" CD (bought in Canada when I still lived there - oh, must have been back in '91 or '92 (are those years correct - I know I had it when I moved here to get married and that was in the fall of '92) :coollook:

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I could sing O Canada hehehehehehehe............ :chuckle

I DO sing "O Canada" at our local arena (in Michigan) because, for some odd reason, they have both national anthems before our local high school hockey games (who never play Canadian teams)........

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You have memorized the Heritage Foundation's Heritage Moments, including your favourites, "Burnt Toast!", "You know I canna read a word...", and "Kanata".

You had a crush on Joey Jeremiah from Degrassi Junior High.

You actually watch The Gemini Awards, The Genie Awards, and The Juno Awards. You wonder why Stompin' Tom doesn't get his own category in all three. You scream passionately at the television when your favourite Canadian performers are overlooked by their respective academies.

Thinking of Johnny Wayne causes gales of laughter.

You read rather than scanned this list.

coupla comments:

does anyone remember the Heritage Moment about a train robbery where they took the wrong car and "all they could find were some liver pills" ?

Joey Jeremiah - yummy!!

My 1/2 and 1/2 kids know who Stompin' Tom is - he's the guy who sings "The Hockey Song" and they want to know when we're taking them to PEI so they can see "Bud the Spud"

also: you ask for a "Blue" or "Canadian" at a bar, not a "Labatts" or a "Molson" - I tell people here that's like going to a car dealer and telling them you want to buy a "Ford"

does anyone do the whistle for Jerome the Giraffe whenever they are at a zoo looking at giraffes?

Smarties rule!!!!! Sweet Maries rock!!!!! how about raspberry flavoured Canada Dry?

I think the best part about being French-Canadian specifically is that I can swear a blue streak at work and no one knows just how bad I am swearing.......

and, I have been with someone who refused to take off his tuque!!!! :coollook: :coollook: :coollook: :coollook:

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this may sound obscure but does anyone watch the news on NBC and see "John Roberts"? does anyone remember when he was "JD Roberts", a VJ on MuchMusic?

does anyone remember the commercials in Toronto "Panhandling on the corner of Yonge and Dundas - City TV - Everywhere!"

does anyone remember the first time they watched "Cagney and Lacey" and noticed that the boss was the "King of Kensington"?

the original SCTV episodes - need I say more?

I was so jealous when I met someone who actually knew "Mr Dressup" - I call my Halloween costume box "The Tickle Trunk" - my kids haven't asked why but they are getting old enough to understand that their mother is from a foreign country and has a few ways about her different from their friends' mothers..... :smokin:

I think JD did a spell on Canada AM or whatever CTV calls their breakfast show. I remember being surprised when I saw him on NBC.

Our Man from Glad has silver hair, the American doesn't....

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... you know that "hurry!!!!!!hurry!!!!!!!!!!!!!hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" has absolutely nothing to do with sex but rather a run-back double take-out on shot with the hammer.

I don't have any 'you knows' to add but just wanted to say ... I have lived in Michigan for 10 years now and though I have been on a number of airline flights around the U.S. and have always noticed that the emergency exits are ID'd in 2 languages, the first of course being english. It was just last week that I noticed that the 2nd language was not french but spanish. Took me 10 years to see that it was not 'sortie' (is that right?) I don't speak french or spanish. Can't remember how it's said in spansish.

let's have fun....

...The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey....

:D :roll :D :roll :D

...you live in France and miss sooooo bad the HABS!!!!!

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...you live in France and miss sooooo bad the HABS!!!!!

Well, this year, you don't have to live in France to miss les Habs. You could live anywhere on the planet. The NHL is on the verge of total collapse over the inability of the players (NHLPA) and the league to come to terms over a salary cap. The teams need a cap in order to keep the teams alive in their localities, but the NHLPA has been refusing to even consider a cap until just recently. Then they sort of agreed in principle but not to the degree the teams say they need to remain viable. There has been no NHL hockey at all since the Stanley Cup last spring, and it doesn't look good for next season either. The amount of money paid to players is, in the main, obscene. The average family can't afford to go to the games, the majority of bums in the seats belong to people corporations want to impress, and the game itself has been watered down so much that it's boring to watch anyway. On the other hand, the league went way overboard with expansion in the 90's on the premise that putting teams in places like Phoenix would create a huge televison market south of the border and thus a bonanza of cash. Didn't happen. The interest just isn't there. Now the league is saddled with all these failing teams and the players are off in Europe playing for a fraction of what the league was paying them. Dumb.

You know you are Canadian when Bud the Spud, Margo's Cargo, and the Hockey Song are all classics you grew up listening to.

When you can sing along to every Stompin Tom song ever written, and dancing on a piece of plywood is a great time

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