Ahh, to be a CANADIAN....
So, What Do We Have To Be Proud Of ?
not in any particular order eh....
Smarties (the red ones are always missing)
Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp
The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls
Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll , ON
Lacrosse is Canadian
Hockey is Canadian
Basketball is Canadian
Apple pie is Canadian
Mr. Dress-up totally beats Mr. Rogers
Tim Hortons (coffee and doughnuts) beats Dunkin' Donuts (and Krispy Kreme gave up)
Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany .
We have the largest English population that never ever
surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER.
Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over an hour.
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.
A Canadian invented Standard Time.
The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's
surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.
The average husky dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown
Human in under 3 minutes.
............... I'm not sure I needed to know that!
We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.
We don't marry our kin-folk.
We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis,
the telephone.
Short wave radios that save countless lives each year.
We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.
A Canadian invented Superman.
We have coloured money.
We have looney and tooney coins.
We don't have dollar bills.
We know how to spell colour, licence, honour, cheque.
We know how to pronounce Iraq and Iran.
Our beer advertisements kick ass {Incidentally...so does our beer}
BUT MOST IMPORTANT !
The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
OOOoohhhhh.... Canada !!
.................. Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day. :p