Happy Canada Day!

[CFC_Conky]

In honour of this auspicious occasion, here are few facts about Canada:


So, What Do We  Canadians Have To Be Proud Of ?


1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls.

4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 -     Ingersoll ,   ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up beats Mr. Rogers

10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts

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 .. We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and partied........ Go figure.

12.   Canada has the 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. (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars).

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.  

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.
(That's more information than I need!)

19. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo.

20.  We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, the paint roller, roller skates, duct tape, the jolly-jumper, air conditioned vehicles, the Zamboni, the barcode, the Blackberry and the telephone. Also short wave radios that save countless lives each year.

21.  The light bulb was actually invented by a Canadian (Henry Woodward patented it in 1874). The patent was bought by some obscure American named Edison who improved upon the design and took credit for inventing it.

22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

24. We have coloured money.

25. Our beer advertisements kick ass {Incidently...so does our beer}

BUT MOST IMPORTANT !


The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.  

OOoohhhhh....   Canada !!

Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.

[=CfC=Father Ted]

4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 -     Ingersoll ,   ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

If only they'd stayed Canadian....

10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts

I once ate a box of Timbits - the thought of it makes me nauseous even now

[=CfC=BlueDog]

Two words:

Justin Bieber.

[CFC_Conky]

How big a box?

If you were made nauseous, it was obviously too small

Pip, pip,
Conky

[CFC_Conky]

Two words:

Justin Bieber.

And here i thought we couldn't do any worse than Celine Dion...

*Hangs head in shame*

[=CfC=Woof]

Conky, seriously, I have the fondest of memories of living and flying in Canada and in the RCAF.  Salute!

[=CfC=Fitz]

Hate to rain on your parade old chap:

Smarties:

Smarties were invented by Rowntrees in York (UK) in 1937 and were sold for 2d (old pennies) a time. Nestle bought the company (by then called Rowntrees Macintosh after an earlier merger) in 1988

Standard time:

A standardized time system was first used by British railways on December 11, 1847, when they switched from local mean time to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It was also given the name Railway time reflecting the important role the railway companies played in bringing it about. The vast majority of Great Britain's public clocks were being synchronised using GMT by 1855.

Velcro:

Velcro was invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral.

Ski doo:

Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin developed the prototype of the modern snowmobile in 1924

Jet Ski:

Clayton Jacobson II is credited with inventing the personal water craft, including both the sit-down and stand-up models. Jacobson was a banker from Arizona.

Zips:

Gideon Sundbäck, a Swedish-American electrical engineer designed the modern zipper in 1913.

Insulin:

Nicolae Paulescu, a professor of physiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, was the first to isolate insulin.

Roller skates:

The first patented roller skate was introduced in 1760. The inventor was a Belgian named John Joseph Merlin.

Duct Tape:

Duct tape was invented by Permacel, a division of Johnson & Johnson and they were American.

Air conditioning in cars:

The first air conditioning for cars was in 1933 when a company in New York city offered installation of air conditioning for cars.

Barcodes:

Barcodes were first patented by two americans. Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland.

Telephone:

The inventor of the telephone as a complete unit is disputed, but Bell was the first to be awarded a patent.

Light Bulb:

In 1835, James Bowman Lindsay (a Scot) demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland. He stated that he could "read a book at a distance of one and a half feet". However, having perfected the device to his own satisfaction, he turned to the problem of wireless telegraphy and did not develop the electric light any further. His claims are not well documented, although he is credited with being the inventor of the "Incandescent Light Bulb".

I'll let you have paint rollers though..... 

[=CfC=Father Ted]

Nicolae Paulescu, a professor of physiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, was the first to isolate insulin.

Even Canadians didn't invent blood-sugar-regulating hormones; that was down to Mother Nature (unless we have any Creationists in the house...)

[=CfC=Bounder]

Just make sure you look after our future King and Queen and don't teach them any French!

Bounder

[5./JG27Farber]

Erm and the War of 1812 was fought by the British when Canada didnt exist...

It was a force somewhat like the terratorial army as Britain was fighting two wars in Europe.  Was it France and Spain? I cant remember.

Isn't Le Crosse French?

So whats left on the list?

[5./JG27Farber]

Wait this is a bit one sided.  Lets see what Britian has done best or more accuratley England.



First International Drug Cartel.

International Export of Slaves.

Made the Spitfire.

Still drive on the left side of the road.

[CFC_Conky]

Jeez, you can't trust anything you read on the internet anymore!

[Badgerton Smedly]

"Oh Canada, Oh Canada...."

I worked for a Canadian company for a couple of years. Good bunch of guys, but the CEO use to make us rub maple syrup into our nipples every morning which was a bit strange.... Used to chafe something awful after it crystalised.

Onwards!!

Badger

[=CfC=Woof]

Did he then lick it off?   

[CFC_Conky]

Ah yes, the old maple syrup on the bumpy bits trick...