This Canada talk is worse than SPAM. BOOORing!!!!!!!!
At 11:13 PM 2/10/1999 GMT, you wrote:
>Years ago in London, I went across the street from my office to
>Harrods Department store for a haircut at their basement salon. I sat
>down in the chair and the barber, aware of my non English look and
>talk, asked me if I was Canadian. I laughed and said: No, I'm an
>American, but why did you ask?" His answer fits into the attached
>messages. He said, If you were Canadian and I asked if you were an
>American, you would be offended. But if I ask an American if he is
>a`Canadian, he is never offended."
>
>John Bing
>
>
>On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:38:00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Hear, hear. And just to make a point:
>>
>>On the sixth day God turned to the angel Gabriel and said "Today I am going
>>to create a land called Canada. It will be a land of outstanding natural
>>beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats and
>>eagles, beautifully sparkling lakes bountiful with carp and trout, forests
>>full of elk and moose, high cliffs over looking sandy beaches with an
>>abundance of sea life, rivers stocked with salmon.."
>>
>>God continued, "I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the
>>inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, they shall
>>be known as the most friendly people on the Earth."
>>
>>"But Lord," asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too generous to
>>these Canadians?"
>>
>>"Not really," replied the Almighty, "just wait and see the neighbors I am
>>going to give them!"
>>
>>Feel free to be offended. I was, at Robert Handy's moronic comment
>>masquerading as "good natured fun".
>>
>>Alex Avdichuk
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>>"The opinions expressed here are definitely my own, and if you don't like
>>them, get some of your own."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Sorry if I sound cranky, but Canadians are extremely proud of being
>>different to Americans. Not better or worse, different. As a Canadian
>>living in the US I get downright tired of the patronizing "aren't we all
>>the same?" Nope, we aren't.
>>Susan J. Wittrup
>>Volunteer Coordinator
>>Tate Geological Museum
>>Casper College
>>Casper WY 82604
>>"Robert T. Handy" wrote:
>>> What?!!! I thought Canada was just another state in the Union! Are
>>Canadians different from us? :=>
>>>
>>> ------
>>> Robert Handy
>>> Brazoria County Historical Museum
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>> http://www.bchm.org
>>>
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