Happy Canada Day!

[Parrothead]

Happy Canada Day to all Canucks!

I'll be off to a b-bq/pool party, dressed my tackiest best and will be drinking Bloody Caesars poolside. I baked some rosemary bread, tea biscuits and a coffeebread yesterday, to contribute to the food supply, at the party. Rain is in the forcast, but as long as all is clear for the fireworks display, all will be fine. :D

Cheers! :D

[PraedSt]

Congratulations Canada. :)

[chrissy]

Hope you have a good time, the weather here is hot and humid, you can have it if you like?

[Moose]

We would, actually. *chuckle* Our fireworks display is going to get rained out as it stands.

[Gillianren]

O, Canada! My home and . . . oh, no, wait.

Moose's home and native land!

[HenrikOlsen]

We would, actually. *chuckle* Our fireworks display is going to get rained out as it stands.
I wish I could get that weather:)

[Rue]

Happy Canada Day. A day of drink and bbq, the whole world should celebrate. :P

[Nicolas]

I'd play a Boards Of Canada record, if I owned any. I know they're not Canadian. :)

[DonM435]

I'll mark June 31 on my calendar so I don't miss next Canada Day.

[chrissy]

1st of July..;) June only has 30 days. :)

[Moose]

There's a 31st on the metric calendar.

[PraedSt]

1st of July..;) June only has 30 days. :)
Funny. :lol:

A metric calendar sounds good Moose. I have a big metric bias.

[Buttercup]

I love William Shatner and Hayden Christensen! :D The best-looking guys EVER came from Canada. :D

[DonM435]

It was a joke, folks!

[KaiYeves]

Happy Canada Day!

[Gillianren]

A metric calendar sounds good Moose. I have a big metric bias.

The French tried it during the revolution. It didn't go over well, especially given that a week was ten days, but there were still only two days to a weekend. It didn't take long for people to figure that one out.

[Atraveller]

I love William Shatner and Hayden Christensen! :D The best-looking guys EVER came from Canada. :D

Thanks Buttercup...

And to All the other displaced Canadians - Hope you all have a great one!!!!


(ex-pat Canadian Living in Oz)

[AndrewJ]

I love William Shatner and Hayden Christensen! :D The best-looking guys EVER came from Canada. :D

Other good-looking fellas from Canada:

Michael J Fox
Donald and Kiefer Sutherland
Keanu Reeves (though he was born in Lebanon)
Owen Hargreaves
Greg Rusedski
Dan Ackroyd

[AndrewJ]

Some over-rated Canadians:

Neil Young
Margaret Atwood
Leonard Cohen
Anne Greene-Gables
Wayne Grezki

:razz:

[Atraveller]

Other good-looking fellas from Canada:


Not to mention:

Jim Carey
Mike Myers
John Candy
Rich Little

And some good looking - not so much fellas - but still from Canada:

Pamela Anderson
Shania Twain

[rommel543]

Don't forget about all the Canadian contributions to the world:

basketball
plexiglass
zippers
telephone
Smarties
snowmobile
snowblower
rollerskates
lightbulbs
Insulin
IMAX
paint rollers
JAVA <- programming language

more:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/
http://careerchem.com/NAMED/Canadian-Inventions.html

[PraedSt]

Don't forget about all the Canadian contributions to the world:

basketball
plexiglass
zippers
telephone
Smarties
snowmobile
snowblower
rollerskates
lightbulbs
Insulin
IMAX
paint rollers
JAVA <- programming language

more:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/
http://careerchem.com/NAMED/Canadian-Inventions.html
Plexiglass? Telephone? Lightbulb? :)

[AndrewJ]

Seal clubbing?

[PraedSt]

JAVA? Basketball? Come on!

[DonM435]

How about the "rouge," where you get a point for punting the football into the end zone, or for missing a field goal? (And, they no longer have 22% of their teams named "Roughriders.")

[rommel543]

Plexiglass? Telephone? Lightbulb? :)

Plexiglass - Polymerized Methyl Methacrylate invented by William Chalmers in 1931
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)
Lightbulb - Henry Woodward (1874)


JAVA? Basketball? Come on!

JAVA - Software programming language invented by James Gosling in 1994
Basketball - Invented by James Naismith in 1891

Don't believe me, Google them.

More: http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Canadian.htm

[PraedSt]

Plexiglass - Polymerized Methyl Methacrylate invented by William Chalmers in 1931
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell (1874)
Lightbulb - Henry Woodward (1874)




JAVA - Software programming language invented by James Gosling in 1994
Basketball - Invented by James Naismith in 1891

Don't believe me, Google them.

More: http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Canadian.htm
Aw phooey. This is a case of success having many fathers.

Plexiglass- Germans in Germany.
Telephone- A Scot in the US. The fatc that he spent a few years in Canada doesn't make the telephone Canadian.
Lightbulb- Edison.
JAVA- Canadian in the US, working for a US company.
Basketball- A Canadian and an American in America.

You'll be claiming the ISS is Canadian next! :)

[Gillianren]

Don't forget Paul Gross! (Or even Gordon Pinsent, who should have gotten an Oscar nomination for Away From Her.)

[HenrikOlsen]

Lightbulb- Edison.
Bzzzzzt.

Edison found a better filament that made the lightbulbs last long enough that people wanted to buy them thus making them a financial success but he didn't invent them.
As with so many other Edison "inventions" he wasn't the inventor but rather was or hired the engineer who made them marketable.

[Bean Counter]

Don't forget the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, also known as the CANADAARM. Without it's assistance, the Hubble would now be a very expensive piece of orbiting rubbish.

[AndrewJ]

Whatever happened to Rick Moranis?

[KaiYeves]

You'll be claiming the ISS is Canadian next!
It's PARTLY Canadian. Mostly the robotics.

And Cirque Du Solei!

[PraedSt]

It's PARTLY Canadian. Mostly the robotics.Ha. I knew it.

[PraedSt]

Bzzzzzt.

Edison found a better filament that made the lightbulbs last long enough that people wanted to buy them thus making them a financial success but he didn't invent them.
As with so many other Edison "inventions" he wasn't the inventor but rather was or hired the engineer who made them marketable.Before Edison, we had a bunch of experiments. After Edison, we had LIGHT! :D

[LaurelHS]

I went to a fireworks display last night. It didn't get rained out, but there were clouds in the distance with lightning flashing through them. It added an interesting dimension to the fireworks. :)

[Rue]

Telephone- A Scot in the US. The fatc that he spent a few years in Canada doesn't make the telephone Canadian.


Actually the first phone company was located in Brantford, Ontario. Some early voice over wire work was done there.

It was significantly more than "a few years" Bell always maintained a home/laboratory in Canada, and spent the last decades of his life at his huge estate in Nova Scotia, where he is buried today.

[PraedSt]

It's not Canadian.

[Moose]

We normally enjoy brief relaxations of the no-partisan-politics rule to celebrate national holidays. I would ask that we be careful to not turn this thread into a nationalism-motivated hissing match. Please.

[Atraveller]

Actually the first phone company was located in Brantford, Ontario. Some early voice over wire work was done there.

It was significantly more than "a few years" Bell always maintained a home/laboratory in Canada, and spent the last decades of his life at his huge estate in Nova Scotia, where he is buried today.

That is a really old argument that was raging over 100 years ago. So to settle the argument Alexander Bell wrote a declaration stating that he invented the telephone in his lab in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. That declaration is under glass at the Bell museum (also in Brantford.)

It still didn't stop a newspaper in Boston from fabricating some fictional story about it though - can't count on the media to get any story right I guess... (never let the truth get in the way of a good story...MT)

[Atraveller]

We normally enjoy brief relaxations of the no-partisan-politics rule to celebrate national holidays. I would ask that we be careful to not turn this thread into a nationalism-motivated hissing match. Please.

So I shouldn't post the Canadian Rant? :lol:

[Moose]

Nor Colin Mochrie's "Apology". Or anything by Rick Mercer for that matter. *chuckle*

[Atraveller]

Nor Colin Mochrie's "Apology". Or anything by Rick Mercer for that matter. *chuckle*

I guess, conversely, anything from South Park would also be banned? :silenced:

[Moose]

For language, and for killing Kenny, if nothing else. :)

[Swift]

I was in St. John's, Newfoundland on Canada, the last day of my vacation in Newfoundland (which was great). I didn't get up for the sunrise ceremony up on Signal Hill, but I did watch much of a lovely memorial service for the Canadian armed forces, and then spent much of the day at a great museum called The Rooms, which is a combination of an art museum, natural history museum, and archive.