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| 1. Smarties 2. Crispy Crunch 3. Coffee Crisp 4. The size of our football fields and one less down. 5. Lacrosse is Canadian. 6. Hockey is Canadian. 7. Basketball is Canadian. 8. Mr. Dress-up could kick Mr. Rogers's ass. 9. Tim Horton's kicks Dunkin Donuts ass. 10. In the war of 1812, we pushed the Americans so far back...past their 'White House', we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away so we came home and partied. Go figure. 11. Canada has the largest French population that has never surrendered to Germany. 12. Canada has largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war. 13. Our civil war was a big bar fight that lasted a little over an hour. 14. 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 be caught. 15. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on. 16. The Hudson's Bay Company once owned over 10% of the surface of the earth and is still around as the world's oldest company. 17. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. 18. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo. 19. We don't marry our kinfolk. 20. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, zambonis, the long distance and short wave radios that save countless lives each year. Oh yeah...and the handles on beer cases big enough to fit your handswith mitts on. 21. We've ALL frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it. 22. We can out drink Americans in a heart beat!! 23. L.M. Montgomery the author of "Anne of Green Gables." 24. Mike Myers 25. Jim Carrey. 26. Could we survive without the telephone? Thank Canadian Alexander Graham Bell for that invention. 27. Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Jann Arden, Nelly Furtado, Sarash Harmer, Alanis Morissette, Bif Naked, Deborah Cox and Avril Lavinge 28. Televison set: $200. Arm chair: $100. Beer and chips: $10. Watching Bobby Orr play hockey: Priceless. 29. Rick Mercer. Is there anything Canadians like more than to poke fun at Americans? He earns a spot on this list just for getting USA President, George W. Bush, to talk about our Prime Minister Jean "Poutine". 30. Gun laws. 31. Our Prime Minister doesn't think the death penalty is good. 33. Joe Canadian. This guy who is neither a lumber jack or a fur trader is quoted by Canadians everywhere. 34. 35. Shreddies; Dare cookies; Mr. Christie cookies; Sweet & Sour pickles; creamed or solid honey; Peaches & Cream Corn (Americans have some white and gold corn which looks the same but has no taste.); Chips Ahoy cookies; Mars Bars; Mirage bars; Wunderbars; pear juice and other high quality fruit juices like apricot nectar; Hostess potato chips; Humpty Dumpty potato chips; Ketchup flavoured chips; All Dressed flavored chips; round Corn Pops. 36. The colour of our money. The US dollar might be worth a little more (OK a lot more) than our dollar, but our bills come in a rainbow of colours so that you know what you're pulling out of your wallet. 37. Canada has the largest bay, Hudson's Bay, with its 12,268 km long shoreline; The longest highway, the Trans-Canada, at 7,604 km; The longest coastline at 243,792km; And the longest street, Yonge Street, at 1,897.6 km. 38. The Rideau Canal in Ottawa is the worlds longest skating rink at 7.8 km. 39. You can get real maple syrup almost anywhere, as opposed to seeking it out and paying a ridiculous price. 40. Double gold in both men's and women's 2002 Olympic ice hockey! 41. Whether on its own billowing in the wind on Parliament Hill or adorning the uniforms of our military heroes over-seas, let's hear it for the ulitmate in red, white and proud, the Canadian flag. |
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