

| Subject: | Friday Follies: Canadian Pride |
| From: | Marshall Ruskin |
| Date: | Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:20:25 -0500 |
Jeff Palmer told me not to post this, so of course, I had to.....(heh heh) So, what do Canadians have to be proud of? 1. Smarties; 2. Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp; 3. The length of our footballs fields, and one less �down�; 4. Baseball is Canadian; 5. Lacrosse is Canadian; 6. Hockey is Canadian; 7. Basketball is Canadian; 8. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers @ss; (Ed note: Mr. Dress-up was actually an American!) 9. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts @ss; (Ed note: "The last American Vanagon-listee who p-mails me with the correct answer to: "What is a "Tim-Bit?", gets a free set of 4 tan Vanagon cup-holders.) 10. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany; 11. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere; 12. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company; 13. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, the telephone, and short wave radio. Canadian inventions of insulin and penicillin save countless lives each year. (Ed note: �plus, let us not forget about Poutine!�) 14. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it. 15. Many Canadian engineers, who were laid off after AVRO cancelled the "Arrow" jetfighter, went to the US and played a VERY substantial role in the design of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn V rockets. (Ed note: This is true and a "little known" fact) BUT MOST IMPORTANT! 16. Handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands in, with mitts on.! Marshall Ruskin 84 Westy "Leader of the Pack" Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member of "Vanagons Anonymous"
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