Happy Canada Day!

[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Jon..
Here's some more history to make you proud...

Oh Canada!!!!
WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?
1. Smarties (which came before M&M's)
2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down
4. Baseball is Canadian (Yes, we invented it)
5. Lacrosse is Canadian
6. Hockey is Canadian
7. Basketball is Canadian (like baseball, invented by a Canadian)
8. Apple pie is Canadian (Dun!, you should know that!)
9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington to the ground, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie King who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran
away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..
12. Canada has the worlds largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
13. We have the largest English population that never ever
surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone. anywhere. EVER.
14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an
hour.
15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an
American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.
16. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around today as the worlds oldest company.
18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
20. We don't marry our kin-folk.
21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin,zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
23. A Canadian invented Superman.
24. We have colored money.
25. Our beer advertisements kick ass
BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
26. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
OOOoohhhhh Canada!!

27. And, we don't bomb our allies.

28. oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.

Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!

I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!!!!

I damned near choked on my beer after reading No 12.