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Eauz
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posted 09 January 2003 07:57 PM      Profile for Eauz   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Are Americans Stupid ?

During the holidays, I was bored because I couldn't check out rabble, so I resulted to looking at this one day...

He he he... I especially like the English and the Translation to American.

Don't hate meh...


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Smith
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posted 09 January 2003 08:04 PM      Profile for Smith     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That is funny. Ah, poor Americans...
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posted 09 January 2003 10:51 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wonder if there's some way we could make Josh an honorary Canadian. Clearly he must have some Canadian DNA in him somehow. Then my comfort with this website would be complete.
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Michelle
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posted 09 January 2003 10:59 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I was thinking the same thing!
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oldgoat
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posted 09 January 2003 11:05 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes, this deserves some thought. It should be some sort of rite of passage that goes beyond merely dragging him up here and filling him with so much Molsens he can't stand up. (although that's a good beginning, eh?)
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Michelle
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posted 09 January 2003 11:07 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's an excellent beginning! Although we can't make him drive the Molson Mile afterwards, because getting caught would be a bad thing.

Hmm, if he were in Newfoundland, he could get "screeched in".


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posted 09 January 2003 11:18 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Good point Michelle, there are really so many ways of being a real Canadian.

If Toronto got hold of him first, we could teach him a foppish insouciance, flavoured with condscending tolerance for anything outside the 416 area code. (yes yes, I know, you little people in *the regions* like to feel important too)

If outside of the GTA, he can learn to passionatly despise Toronto.

Or you can send him to me here in Oshawa, and I'll give him a mullet and teach him to play hockey and drink beer.

edited to add: and barf in the arena parking lot.

[ 09 January 2003: Message edited by: oldgoat ]


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posted 09 January 2003 11:20 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh my God, you'd turn him into a 905er!

(edited to giggle at your edit)

[ 09 January 2003: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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posted 09 January 2003 11:22 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
God, you're right, he may as well just stay in New Jersey!

Anyway, I'll sleep on it. See ya tomorrow


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posted 09 January 2003 11:23 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Night!
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posted 10 January 2003 02:42 AM      Profile for DrConway     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If in Vancouver, we will ski him down the slopes of Whistler with a toboggan to the jeers of the professional skiiers, and then have him operate a vehicle one handed with liberal use of the single-digit salute to any driver not driving equally swiftly.
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posted 10 January 2003 07:32 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm touched by all these expressions of concerns I think I will buy a six-pack of Molson and consume it this evening. That should do the trick!

Unless someone else has a better idea.


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posted 10 January 2003 07:42 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
and then have him operate a vehicle one handed with liberal use of the single-digit salute to any driver not driving equally swiftly.

Hell, he can do that in NYC! What's "Canadian" about that?

quote:
Unless someone else has a better idea.

We're thinking...

Edit: I've got it! Season's tickets to a CFL team, then force him to go to the games decked out head-to-foot in NYG paraphernalia!

[ 10 January 2003: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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lagatta
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posted 10 January 2003 08:35 AM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Molson may be a tradition, but it is shit. If you are going to drink beer, you might as well drink good beer (lots of possibilities, depending on the region).
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Eauz
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posted 10 January 2003 09:35 AM      Profile for Eauz   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I prefer European Beer to any North American Beer. Never have bought North American Beer, I never will Either!
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posted 10 January 2003 09:38 AM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There are fine microbrewery beers now here in Québec, and no doubt elsewhere in Canada. I'm no beer expert - had an ESL student who worked for the brewery belonging to Robert Charlebois - had us taste some beers - including some strong ones! - that were as good as any I'd tasted in Europe (but I'm much more of a wino at heart...). Oy, it is hard to discuss alcoholic beverages at 8:30 am! I'm drinking espresso right now...
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josh
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posted 10 January 2003 09:58 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, I could always drink a bottle of Canadian Club. Would that do?
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posted 10 January 2003 10:21 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Only if you chug it.
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posted 10 January 2003 10:38 AM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Actually, that explains a lot about Canadian politics. A twelve pack of Molsons, or a chugged bottle of CC, and Jean Cretien begins to sound clear and rational.
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posted 10 January 2003 10:40 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
All we need now is back bacon!
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ben_al
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posted 10 January 2003 12:48 PM      Profile for ben_al     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Don't forget the poutine. (not to be confused with Jean Poutine)
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Rebecca West
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posted 10 January 2003 01:16 PM      Profile for Rebecca West     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
First, we tie Josh to a lazyboy chair and force him to listen to Frampton Comes Alive for hours on end while drinking Molson Ex, smoking reefer and watching re-runs of Front Page Challenge.

Then we throw him in the trunk of a '72 Pinto and drive him south of the border where he's quickly re-assimilated as an Average American*.

Josh - Socialist Mole for Canada

*copywright protected


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josh
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posted 10 January 2003 01:51 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oooh. Sounds like your describing my freshman year in college.

Except for the tying up part. Which would be perfect since I'm more kinky than I used to be.


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posted 10 January 2003 01:59 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You mean your "frosh" year in "university".

[ 10 January 2003: Message edited by: Michelle ]


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posted 10 January 2003 02:12 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Whatever. It's all a haze to me anyway.
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posted 10 January 2003 02:16 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Hey, you wanna be a Canadian, you gotta say it right, please and thank-you!
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posted 10 January 2003 02:24 PM      Profile for Rebecca West     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Except for the tying up part. Which would be perfect since I'm more kinky than I used to be
Get in line.

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posted 10 January 2003 02:28 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You gotta say "please."
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posted 10 January 2003 02:29 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Not if you're "Mistress Rebecca" you don't!
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posted 10 January 2003 02:29 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Then she's obviously not Canadian.
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You want to be tied up by someone who's polite? What a tourist.
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posted 10 January 2003 03:41 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, then again, as they say, "when in Rome . . . ."
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posted 10 January 2003 03:51 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Actually the fellow I went out with when I was living in Rome was more inclined to talk about his late mother than do anything really kinky. He said I reminded him of his mother - she was an artist, and since she died young this did not mean I reminded him of an old lady, but it is not exactly the kind of romantic come-on we may have come to expect from them Roman fellows.

In Italian, this mum fixation is called mammismo and mummy's boys are "mammoni".


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posted 10 January 2003 03:59 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
So when in Rome, talk about your mommy!

Now, what do you do when you're in Canada?

Hey, I know - talk about the weather! Repeat after me, josh: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity."


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Michelle, Josh is from near New York City - they invented that expression (as well as frying eggs on the pavements - does any poor soul actually eat them?) I'd say the Canadian expression is - "Its a DRY cold" - but that is in the Prairies, certainly not on Montreal island!

Only Italian boys get to talk about their mums, I'm afraid. And often still live with them well into middle age, until the old dame dies or is too frail to cook and clean for them.


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posted 10 January 2003 04:08 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Did they make that one up? Damn Yankees. Okay, how about this one?

"Cold enough fer yeh?"


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Ah, but Michelle, it's such a Vancouverish tradition to NOT use one's loaded handgun as a replacement for a single-digit salute, unlike in New York.

I thought of another Vancouver tradition we must subject josh to.

On January 1st of the year following the year he arrives in Canada, he shall receive a Polar Bear Swim dunking.


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posted 10 January 2003 09:14 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Yes! Polar bear swim! Why didn't I think of that??

He can also go to Newfoundland and take voice training. Oot and aboot!


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posted 10 January 2003 10:27 PM      Profile for oldgoat     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
That's a great idea. I suggest St. Johns harbour. It'll make him feel like he's breathing that New Jersey air.
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posted 10 January 2003 10:36 PM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm glad everyone's making these plans for me. Hold on. Let me look. Only a little left in the bottle.
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posted 10 January 2003 10:58 PM      Profile for Jebus   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Need a new bottle? I can make more.
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posted 10 January 2003 11:16 PM      Profile for lagatta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Oh, vin nouveau, eh?
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posted 11 January 2003 11:52 AM      Profile for josh     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Make the switch:

http://bantha.cjb.net/switch/index.htm


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posted 11 January 2003 02:15 PM      Profile for Eauz   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Do we really want tons of these weirdo's coming up to Canada? Would you want people like George Bush coming up to Canada and Screwing up things? Like I'm fine with Immigration, and know some Great American's that I wish would come live in Canada, but Canada is not a "Club" for everyone. You gotta think for yourself sometimes too, something some American's might find hard to do...
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posted 11 January 2003 03:14 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Dubya wouldn't want to come. That site is aimed at people with brains and compassion, neither of which are Dubya's strong suit.
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