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RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

From: Kevin Kostyszyn <kevin_at_dulcian.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:04:13 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D2F7C.20010321054135@fatcity.com>

Great answers, but the greatest hockey game could definately be argued.

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Ian A.
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:31 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

It was Mr. Checkov who thought the Russians invented everything. Alexander G. Bell maintained at home at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, but he was a Scot, not a Canadian. I'm not sure where the telephone was invented, I seem to remember someplace in New York. Dr. Nasmith of Massachusets is usually credited with the invention of basketball. I cannot remember who is now credited with baseball; it is an American, but not Abner Doubleday. I always assumed that Ian Fleming, the discover of penicillin was British. Smarties are like M&M's but not as good. There are some great Canadian chocolate bars, but the canonical Canadian boxed chocolates, Moir's, are awful. Apple pie is not Canadian, but Apple Pie and cheddar cheese may be. Apples are originally from the Steppe region of Russia. I thought velcro was invented by either a Frenchman or a Belgian who noticed how burrs stuck to his clothing after walking through a field. Didn't Marconi invent shortwave radio. I thought he was Bri!
!
tish of
Italian descent who sent the first long distance radio signal from St John's Newfoundland to London. Marconi electronics is/was certainly a British firm.

I was born and raised California, but attended Dalhousie University; both my parents are from Cape Breton.

The greatest hockey game of the modern era was the first game of the original Canada Cup Series between the Russian Red Army team and the Montreal Canadiens. Les Habs could skate stride for stride with the Russians, something no other Canadian NHL team could come close to doing. The game a near-run thing was won by the Russians, because their goalie, Mr. Tretiak, outplayed Ken Dryden.

Lunch is over back to work.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_slac.stanford.edu

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:07 AM
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Ummmm, Is this kinda like Mr. Sulu on Star Trek who was sure that the Russians invented everything? I might be wrong (happens all the time), but I thought Baseball and Basketball were distinctly inventions of the USA. You might be able to tell I'm a rabid fan of neither. Penicillin and the telephone?? Other delusions of grandeur? How about the only country that can't decide if they're English or French? How about the US's biggest colony via cultural conquest(ooooohh, that's a low blow). How about never saw a bikini except in National Geographic? I could go on, but I'm not sure my humor translates all that well, and the firewall has Babelfish blocked.

Dan "not about to give up my day job"

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:37 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Sorry about this, but someone sent me this and I thought it might be relevant to the Canada and US discussion that took place last week.

With all the recipes going around, I thought it wouldn't do any harm.

Regards,

Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

> -----Original Message-----
> So, what do Canadians have to be proud of?
>
> * Smarties
>
> * Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp
>
> * The size of our footballs fields and one less Down
>
> * Baseball is Canadian
>
> * Lacrosse is Canadian
>
> * Hockey is Canadian
>
> * Basketball is Canadian
>
> * Apple pie is Canadian
>
> * Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass
>
> * Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass
>
> * 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, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane
> and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came
> home and partied ... Go figure...
>
> * 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.
>
> * Our civil war was a bar fight that 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.
>
> * We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.
>
> * The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface
> and is still around as the worlds oldest company
>
> * The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in
> under 3 minutes.
>
> * 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 and short wave radios that save
> countless lives each year
>
> * We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell
> about it.
>
> * BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
>
> * ....the handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands
> with mitts on.
>
> OOOOoohhhhh Canada!!
>
> Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
>
>

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