Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 22:02:20 -0700
Reply-To: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday Follies: Canadian Pride
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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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