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  • Happy Canada Day

    I wish everyone a Happy, enjoyable and safe Canada Day.
    Here are a few tidbits of an email i recieved today about being Canadian, eh.

    CANADIAN.... Eh !
    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, so 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.
    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. 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. (I'm not sure I needed to know that!)
    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 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.
    OOOoohhhhh.... Canada !! Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day.

    Pass this on if you are proud to be Canadian!!!
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    80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
    Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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    You forgot that when we wanted independance from Great Britian we just sent a nice letter to the Queen of England and she said "Okay"
    The Canadian Caesar Cocktail can knockout an Irishman.
    Tim Horton's coffee is the most addictive product on earth
    I May Be Crazy, But I Have A Good Time.

    Northern Gypsy - 2010 Kawasaki Concours 14 ABS - Daily rider

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Big Daddy Funk View Post
      You forgot that when we wanted independance from Great Britian we just sent a nice letter to the Queen of England and she said "Okay"
      The Canadian Caesar Cocktail can knockout an Irishman.
      Tim Horton's coffee is the most addictive product on earth
      That's because we had already taught her the lesson about trying to keep us from being independant for you. We below the border and you above have generally worked quite well together. We even work well with England now, of course it helps to be cousins.
      Cy

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      • #4
        Happy Canada Day!
        Matt
        Maxim 1100
        (aka-Blue Giants Son)

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        • #5
          Originally posted by cywelchjr View Post
          ...of course it helps to be cousins...
          How did you manage that ? 'cause according to Rasputin..

          Originally posted by rasputin
          20. We don't marry our kin-folk.
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          2000 XJR1300. The Real modern XS11. Others are just pretenders.

          Woman (well, my wife anyway) are always on Transmit and never Receive.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by b.walker5 View Post
            How did you manage that ? 'cause according to Rasputin..



            He didn't say they weren't related, just not married, eh.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by oseaghdha View Post
              He didn't say they weren't related, just not married, eh.
              Remember, even the british back in the 1800's refered to the US as cousins. A lot of US common law comes from English common law (as I suspect does much of Canada's (probably combined with some French stuff too)). We are related culturally, and that makes us cultural cousins.
              Cy

              1980 XS1100G (Brutus) w/81H Engine
              Duplicolor Mirage Paint Job (Purple/Green)
              Vetter Windjammer IV
              Vetter hard bags & Trunk
              OEM Luggage Rack
              Jardine Spaghetti 4-2 exhaust system
              Spade Fuse Box
              Turn Signal Auto Cancel Mod
              750 FD Mod
              TC Spin on Oil Filter Adapter (temp removed)
              XJ1100 Front Footpegs
              XJ1100 Shocks

              I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.

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              • #8
                Deliverence North

                Yep, Cy got it right , except I have been to some small towns and reserves in Northern Ontario where the bloodlines are obviously just a tad too close. There is a joke up here about a real town named Kinmount, so named because the residents could not spell Incestville.
                I May Be Crazy, But I Have A Good Time.

                Northern Gypsy - 2010 Kawasaki Concours 14 ABS - Daily rider

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Big Daddy Funk View Post
                  Yep, Cy got it right , except I have been to some small towns and reserves in Northern Ontario where the bloodlines are obviously just a tad too close. There is a joke up here about a real town named Kinmount, so named because the residents could not spell Incestville.
                  There are some areas down here, especially in the kentucky and such areas like that. One state worker I talked with stated "kentucky, 16 million people, 65 family names", if that's not a dig at the inbreeding level I don't know what is.
                  Cy

                  1980 XS1100G (Brutus) w/81H Engine
                  Duplicolor Mirage Paint Job (Purple/Green)
                  Vetter Windjammer IV
                  Vetter hard bags & Trunk
                  OEM Luggage Rack
                  Jardine Spaghetti 4-2 exhaust system
                  Spade Fuse Box
                  Turn Signal Auto Cancel Mod
                  750 FD Mod
                  TC Spin on Oil Filter Adapter (temp removed)
                  XJ1100 Front Footpegs
                  XJ1100 Shocks

                  I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.

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