Canadian Bragging Rights

[Brightfang]

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields, one less down, and bigger balls. (I have to admit, that doesn't necessarily make it a better game!!!)

4. Baseball is Canadian - First game June 4, 1838 - Ingersoll, ON

5. Lacrosse is Canadian no.. Lacross was invented by the native American. long before there was a canada

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian uhh no.. first "modern" apple pie was in england

9. Mr. Dress-up could kick Mr. Rogers' aZZ

10. Tim Hortons beats Dunkin' Donuts

11. 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 .. We got bored because they ran away. Then, we came home and partied........ Go figure.

12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.

13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere. EVER. (We got clobbered in the odd battle but prevailed in ALL the wars)

14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, he slept in and missed the whole thing. He showed up just in time to get caught.

16. A Canadian invented Standard Time. nope.. originally invented by Dr. William Hyde Wollaston of England.. at least thats who its credited to Standard time by definition means a uniform time across an area

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes. (That's more information than I need!)

19.. We know what to do with the parts of a buffalo. so did the native americans of the west .. and i bet they were more efficient

20. We don't marry our kin-folk. i bet a few of your folk do just as a few of ours do. as a rule though its illegal to in our country.. or if not highly frowned upon

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, Velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, garbage bags and the telephone. Also short wave radios that save countless lives each year. yes,no invented by a guy from arizona, no invented by a swiss guy inspired by a burr he pulled from his clothes, nope by a swedish guy who moved to canada, invented by alexander graham bell in america.. he was scottish, Invented by an italian guy.

22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it. so have about 90% of everyone living where it snows.

23. A Canadian invented Superman. nope that was an ohioan by the name of Joe Shuster with the help of his neighbor Jerry Seigel

24. We have coloured money. everybody does

25. Our beer advertisements kick aZZ {Incidently...so does our beer}

BUT MOST IMPORTANT !


The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.



OOOoohhhhh..... Canada !!



. Oh yeah... And our elections only take one day. alot of ours do as well just not the major ones

Anything not commmented on i could not find what i believe to be hard evidence or was infact canadian.. that or it was completely pointless


While i do agree that this thread was amusing, if you are going to post a bunch of stuff like this,PLEASE Get the facts straight or you will get seriously flamed.