Something for every Canadian ...
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Topic: Something for every Canadian ...
Posted By: Phoenixcarpet
Subject: Something for every Canadian ...
Date Posted: 10/May/2005 at 6:17pm
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Just thought you'll would like the top ten lists TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1. Weed 2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges. 3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder. 4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar. 5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown. 6. A university with a nude beach. 7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations. 8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer them some of your hash. 9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on. 10. Cannabis. TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA 1. Big Rock 2. Preston Manning 3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 per cent 4. The Premier is a fat, wife-beating alcoholic with a grade 4 education 5. Flames vs. Oilers 6. Stamps vs. Eskies 7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of 8. Eventually, it will be your town's turn to ban VLT's 9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups 10. You can attempt to murder your rich oil tycoon husband and get away with it TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN 1. You never run out of wheat 2. Those cool Saskatchewan Wheat Pool hats 3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning 4. Your province is really easy to draw 5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard 6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house 7. YOUR Roughriders survived 8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours 9. People will assume you live on a farm 10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA 1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property 2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg" 3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto 4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government 5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes 6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter 7. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work 8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood 9. Because of your license plate, you are still "friendly" even when you cut someone off 10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO 1. You live in the center of the universe 2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump 3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election 4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist 5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition 6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a cool city 7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime 8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar 9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house 10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC 1. Everybody assumes you're an a**hole 2. Racism is socially acceptable 3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians 4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next 5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada 6. The FLQ 7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys 8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers 9. NON-smokers are the outcasts 10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo bastards" TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK 1. You are sandwiched between French a**holes and drunken Celtic fiddlers 2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income 3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies 4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours 5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston 6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick 7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you 8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse 9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen 10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA 1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war...by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire 2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia 3. Everyone is a fiddle player 4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass 5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert 6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal 7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money 8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt 9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music 10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada's most beautiful city TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big-ass bridge 2. You can walk across the province in half an hour 3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea" 4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from 5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows 6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly leave 7. You can drive across the province in two minutes 8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates 9. You don't share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that matter 10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND 1. The poorest, drunkest province in Confederation 2. If Quebec Separates, you will float off to sea 3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a dead cod 4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products 5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse 6. You understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics 7. The work day is about two hours long 8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered flashlight and the screen door for submarines 9. If someone asks if you're from Nova Scotia, you are allowed to kick their ass 10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day. ------------- Darrel http://www.phoenix-carpet-cleaning.com - Phoenix, AZ Carpet Cleaning Company |
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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 10/May/2005 at 9:25pm
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Thanks Darrel........Please refrain from posting the Top 10 Reasons to live in One of Fifty One States...........I am depressed already. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: Willy Parsons
Date Posted: 10/May/2005 at 9:56pm
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You captured a lot of Canadiana there Darrel. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land
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Posted By: nightrider
Date Posted: 10/May/2005 at 10:27pm
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Meanwhile all the draft dodgers from the U.S.A want to end up here, free medicare, fresh water, nobody wants to kill us all and blow up our buildings, we can walk the streets all night without fear,our beer tastes like beer not piss,and we have most of the oil in the world........Canada is still rated as the top 5 places to live Nightrider |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 10/May/2005 at 11:50pm
Nightrider..........you love your Country. A true Canadian  ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:14am
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Smokes are $10 a pack, beer is $32.00 a case. Great country. I love it anyway. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:16am
Cmaster what do you think of all these stars  ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:24am
They look alright
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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:29am
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Posted By: Superglide Ken
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:30am
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Now you remind me of No Dic's posts with that green frog Adwa. ------------- Inventor of the Teflon Wand Glide and the Turboteck Rotary Air Duct Cleaners for TMs. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:34am
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I feel like I'm in kindergarten and I got a star.........every time I was a good girl. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 12:43am
You don't have any stars. Does that mean you are a bad girl
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Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:13pm
shes got one little red dot... could mean a lot of things ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:16pm
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It only means one thing in the GTA
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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:33pm
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Cute Cmaster.............I'm just glad those stars left. If Mike wanted to experiment I could give him idea's to replace the dots. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:40pm
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Well, give him your ideas. Spice the place up.
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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:43pm
What would you suggest.......sensible.....or non sensible  ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:45pm
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I'm gonna take non on this one.
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Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 11/May/2005 at 11:55pm
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It was a silly question of me to ask you. ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date Posted: 12/May/2005 at 12:03am
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stars indeed girly it was ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 12/May/2005 at 8:17pm
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TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA 1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war...by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire two ships collided in halifax harbour, no body set anything on fire. can anyone name the ships. ------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 12/May/2005 at 10:59pm
| Siegfried and Roy? |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 12:07am
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Edmond Fitzgerald & Captain John's Fishing Finery. What were the names Greg??? ------------- The Following Statements do not Necessarily Reflect the Views of this Forum Network http://www.kleenkuip.com - http://www.kleenkuip.com |
Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 12:15am
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I told you. Don't you believe me?
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Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 6:30am
it was the IMO & the MONT - BLANC. Dec 6 1917. ------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: Willy Parsons
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 8:24am
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At 9:07 AM. The anchor from the Mont Blanc still sits miles away from where the collision occured. My Grandma lost an eye then. I'm from near Hubbards Greg. What neck of the woods are you from? ( I notice no dispute about the Rita McNeil thing.) ------------- Certified to be certifiable. |
Posted By: greg
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 3:59pm
Willy i'm from the Waverly area. your from hubbards, i was just down to Chester the other day.------------- nothing is impossable. it just hasn't been done yet. |
Posted By: Willy Parsons
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 8:27pm
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LOL I went to school in Chester.An hour bus ride each way. Wish I had kept the land in Blandford and Bayswater. I'm heading out there the last 2 weeks in August. If I go through Wanda withdrawls can I help you for free one day? ------------- Certified to be certifiable. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 10:23pm
Your going to break up with your girlfriend Wanda.........Willy 
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Posted By: Willy Parsons
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 10:26pm
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I dance with Wanda a lot Adwa. She really know how to cut a rug , so to speak. ------------- Certified to be certifiable. |
Posted By: Adwa
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 10:35pm
You probably taught her how to do the real jig Willy 
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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 13/May/2005 at 11:14pm
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Willy the jig teacher
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