

| Subject: | Re: Friday Follies: Canadian Pride |
| From: | mike miller |
| Date: | Fri, 6 Apr 2001 22:02:20 -0700 |
Something to do with the sexual habits of weasels? ----- Original Message ----- From: Bradley Flubacher <flubach@HOME.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:34 PM Subject: Re: Friday Follies: Canadian Pride > Do you need to know what a tim-bit is? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf > Of Marshall Ruskin > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 2:20 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Friday Follies: Canadian Pride > > > 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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