- Sing songs about Kraft Dinner (Americans only know it as Kraft Macaroni and Cheese)
- Get regular airplay for a band called the Barenaked Ladies
- Vacation in Cuba (legally)
- Get drunk on fewer beers (can you say 5% alcohol by volume?)
- Eliminate deficits
- Get free health care
- Advance the cause of legalizing marijuana (we're almost there...)
- Get by with a military numbering fewer than 75,000 members
- Understand what 'zed' means (as opposed to 'zee')
- Elect a liberal government - often!
- Keep the peace (Canadians are reknowned peacekeepers)
- Export most of their talent
- Eat Alberta beef (and we love it too)
- Not pay tax on lottery winnings - Boo Yah!
- Free hostages (remember Iran?)
- Marry gays and lesbians
- Pay $1.08 for a litre of gasoline (that's over $4 a gallon)
- Travel the world unnoticed
- Enter a school without passing through metal detectors
- Subsist on donuts (Tim Horton's thank you very much)
- Order 'french' fries
- Have trouble finding a passenger train to travel somewhere
- Fend off grizzly bears (Troy Hurtubise - remember the suit?)
- Build a shopping mall with more working submarines than its own navy (West Edmonton)
- Rig the olympic hockey games with a hidden Loonie coin at center ice
- Expect snow in May
- Come up with a couple of guys like Bob and Doug McKenzie - eh?
OK - some of these are generalizations and some are even outright untrue, but whatever....eh? Feel free to add to the list via comments.
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