In the spirit of International co-operation, & the good will of Letterheads worldwide, how about giving us woefully un-informed-about-Canada Americans a few things your friendly country has brought the world.
I'll start with the few I know (which are probably wrong, anyway...)
*Bannock bread (popular on the rez...) *duck stew (ditto...) *John Candy (the actor...)
Well, that's my list, how about you cannucks, eh?
Yer Pal, Bill Krupinski A few kilometers from the Milwaukee Panel Jam in Waukesha (get a GOOD map, eh?)
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CorelDRAW! The robotic arm on the Space Shuttle cargo bay! Quebecor, the world's largest printing service (knocked RR Donnelley out of the #1 spot)!
And of course, french fries with gravy and curds all over them (what's up with that Steve and Barb!?)
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Lorne Green Celine Dion Shania Twain Robert Goulet Alexander Graham Bell Dan Akroyd Martin Short Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) Rick Moranis Yvonne DeCarlo (Lily Munster) Linda Evangelista (model) Samuel Goldwyn Peter Jennings K.D.Lang Leslie Neilsen Mary Pickford William Shatner Fay Wray Neil Young Micheal J.Fox
Sports basketball 5-pin bowling hockey goalie mask rollerskate ski-binding lacrosse hockey baseball (believe it - we played it first)
Food & Drink butter substitute ice brewed beer Red Rose Tea Smarties
Board Games Balderdash Puzz-3D tabletop hockey game Trivial Pursuit
Television, Radio, etc . . . AM radio IMAX projector and system panoramic pictures and camera telephone transceiver (walkie-talkie) world's first commercial motion picture cable TV
Cars air-conditioned vehicle electric car snowblower snowmobile streetcar
Miscellaneous standard time electric cooking range cigarette box freehand jolly jumper measure for footwear paint roller robertson screw washing machine zipper degradable plastic kerosene oil well pulp newsprint sewage recycling system Actar 911 CPR Dummy dental mirror electron microscope insulin liposomes medical instruments electric hand prosthesis for children myoelectric prosthesis fog bell or gong personal distress device MacPherson gas mask ear piercer Abdomenizer Superman Candu Nuclear Reactors Commodore Computers the wonderbra beer cases with tuck-in handles flight simulators for pilot training
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The Loonie ($1 coin) The Twoonie ($2 coin) pretty colored paper money rain This bb and of course Steve and Barb the phrase EH salmon VERY good beer caesars with CELERY salt Dan Sawatzky Tim Horton's!!!!! (the greatest coffee on earth)
The canoe The Kayak Snowshoes Hudson's Bay Blankets Thinsulate Tortiere Pies Fiddleheads Arctic Char Iceberg Lettuce (we plant it in February use ing a jackhammer) Falsies ( invented right after the Wonderbra)
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Impressive celebrity list Mario....Hope you don't mind an old rocker tossing in Rush, Triumph, and an almost unheard of in the States band called Coney Hatch.
Hey; salmon is a tie. Copper River, Alaska and Yukon River, Yukon Territory. Being a Damn Yankee, I vote Copper River Sockeye Salmon as the best, best, best!
Maybe it's time for the Great Letterville North American Salmon Cook Off.
Best Regards,
Jim
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Ice Bergs... Great Big ICEBERGS.... You should see the size of these things.. the're just offshore.. as big as Stadiums... Did anybody mention my Girlfriend "Shania?" Neil
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Powerful cold fronts that make it all the way to Florida
Thanks for being good neighbors too!
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The MacIntosh apple traveled to Canada to acquire it's name. My grandmother's parents owned the apple, which won the county fairs in southern Indiana. One day a man came to them and negotiated to graft his tree with theirs and would call this apple the MacIntosh apple. All the tree grafters here say it came from Canada because that is where the grafting took place. "Touch not the cat, bot a glove!" is our heritage from our family of the Scots. My great Uncle Frank MacIntosh retired to Canada from being the president of Northern Ohio University in Ada after 20 years. He died in Canada the year my son graduated from high school. I guess you would call the MacIntosh apple Canadian-American.
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America gave the world a President who "smoked but didn't inhale". Canadians gave the world an Olympic Gold Medalist in Snowboarding, who inhaled...but didn't smoke.
Well, that's their story, and apparently they're both sticking to it!
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i think "Mountain Equipment co-op" "Slap shot" the movie the better side of Niagara falls Moose beavers Pamela Anderson Kneau reeves Tragically hip Bannik back bacon telephone red green show SCTV Brad Heart Hudson bay company Wayne Zawacki we use our interac cards alot more Rush Triumph Whistler players light roots we have a city called "Wawa" with a great big Goose as it's Mascot we have the worlds biggest hockey stick in Duncan
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Ha! I remembered one! My WIFE!! luverluverluver
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Duh! I forgot. We have the World's Largest Game Preserve with it's border being just out of my home town. And Wawa is only 80 miles away with the goose and all.....
------------------ Mario G. Lafreniere aka Fergie.
jnsigns@onlink.net Chapleau, Ontario home of "The World's Largest Game Preserve" Spring is upon us,in Shania Twain Country. Farewell snow,here comes the mosquito!
"I cut it twice and it's still too short!"
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