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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2008 - 08:27pm PT
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Q: How many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Canadians don't change light bulbs, we accept them as they are.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2008 - 08:30pm PT
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SIGNS THAT YOU ARE OF THE CANADIAN PERSUASION
1. You stand in "line-ups" at the movie, not lines.
2. You're not offended by the term, "Homo Milk"
3. You understand the phrase, "Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my poutine"
4. You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.
5. You drink pop, not soda.
6. You know what it means to be on pogy.
7. You know that a micky and 2-4s mean "Party at the camp, eh!!"
8. You say "thank you" to the ATM.
9. You don't hold your hand on your breast when you sing the national anthem.
10. You can drink legally while still a 'teen.
11. You know that francophones, anglophones and allophones are not electronic devices.
12. You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.
13. You don't know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it's just a cheap place to travel to and has good cigars.
14. When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it instead of telling them to stay out of it.
15. You're not sure if the leader of our nation has EVER had sex and don't want to know if he has!
16. You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
17. Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.
18. You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
19. You sit on a sofa or chesterfield, not a couch.
20. You know what a Robertson head screwdriver is.
21. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
22. You know that Thrills are something to chew and "taste like soap".
23. You know that Mounties "don't always look like that"
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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That one is really hard, eh?
The NJ Devils have won 3 times, Colorado has won twice, and nobody except the team that won 4 times has won more than once since Montreal.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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I TOO am waiting for Ouch...you usually don't have to wait for Ouch, he just appears.
Where is the dancing bear????? Where is the dancing Anders??
Lynette.
And WHERE IS THE PICTURE OF LINNIE OPENING THE MOTORHOME DOOR WITH A CURLING IRON...?
OUCH, So much work, so little time !
We are all holding our breath waiting. Don't wait too long.
Ahhhhhhh, bring on the O2.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Don't you smoke a chesterfield?
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2008 - 02:45am PT
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TiG: Detroit has won the cup four times since Montreal in 1992 - 93. Strictly speaking, Detroit is north of some of Canada, e.g. the Windsor area.
Very few would conclude from that, that Detroit was "north of the Canadian Border".
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2008 - 04:11pm PT
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Nice one, Drew!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Don't understand this; you can't own one there, but one of my best 1911s is a canadian made pistol, a Para-Ordnance.
However a comment in this thread HAS cleared up one thing. You see my P16 can hold eighteen rounds of forty calibre ammo in the clip plus one more in the pipe. So at nineteen rounds it has more firepower than any of my pistols without reloading it with another clip.
Like I said it is made in Canada. So I guess they figured from experience that if they had to reload it their hands might hit their foreheads.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2008 - 06:14pm PT
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Well, Ron, if you want to read up on another 'classic' Canadian weapon, the Ross rifle, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_rifle
Something like the definition of a camel: A horse designed by a committee.
Edit: The main problem with the Ross rifle was that it wasn't robust - field reliable. In combat, reliability trumps many other details.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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More like what happens when somebody decides to forego licensing and other formalities for reproducing a weapon.
That problem with the bolt if improperly reassembled blowing back and killing the operator could, no doubt, have influenced its lack of popularity with the troops, but likely the real problem was the tight tolerance thing. Not being able to chamber a round during combat can make you feel like a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
But the Enfield it was based on was a world beater. One of the ten greatest rifles of all time. Even today the .303 has respectable ballistics.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2008 - 08:03pm PT
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I was wondering if anyone could identify the poem posted a few back, with all the nice pictures? Bonus points if you can identify its author.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Happy Canada Day;.....(Michael Jackson got nothing on me...)
Bugaboos.
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perswig
climber
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Allright, you friggin' icebacks. Enough with yer jokes and yer unseemly chestpounding. Tomorrow's OUR little party, and if ya know what's good for ya, you'll send us Tami and all the back bacon she can carry, or we'll have to lob some fireworks in your direction. Got it?
Love, Dale
(Oplopanax - way good montage. Splitter shot, wow.)
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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More Canadian Trivia...
What province has a town less than 100 miles from Mexico?
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Maybe take the Detroit Windsor Tunnel (crank it up on google maps if you want the lat-lon. - heads pretty much due north from Windsor, Ontario.
Just for fun, hotshot, next time you are in the Gunks, I'll clean your gear on let's say Friends and Lovers, Higher Stannard, Maria Direct, Rock and Brew, Apoplexy. All graded below 10 and PG so should be fun! (No guarantees that the minuses will be easier than the pluses.)
:-)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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TIG,
answer; WTF cares?
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Exactly!
Pass the ammunition and fireworks.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 30, 2009 - 07:24pm PT
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The annual bump, which is timely even if not exactly on topic. There are some good jokes and nice pictures of Canadian mountains, anyway.
Part of the creeping Canadianization of SuperTopo...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 30, 2009 - 07:29pm PT
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Ah Can a da, what a great National Park it would make! Oh, but then we would have bolting issues in the climbing areas.
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