What Do Canadians Have To Be Proud Of? [While some of these are debatable, it is an interesting list.] 1. Smarties 2. Crispy Crunch 3. The size 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. Apple pie is Canadian 9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers butt 10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts butt 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. 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. 14. Our civil war was fought in a bar and it lasted a little over a half hour. 15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught. 17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the world's oldest company. 20. We don't marry our kin-folk. 21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year. 22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it. 23. A Canadian invented Superman. 24. We have coloured money. 25. Our beer advertisments kick butt. 26. Coffee Crisp. 27. We don't bomb our allies. 28. Our elections only take one day. 29. We invented zambonis. BUT MOST IMPORTANT: 30. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.
What Do Canadians Have To Be Proud Of? 31. Molson, Labatts, and Bars with hot naked women straddling stripper poles. :wink:
actually i think you'll find that the british invented (amongst other things on that list) penicillin and the telephone (Flemming and A G Bell)
As dirty as it sounds, they were living in Nova Scotia at the time. The first city exchange was installed in Hartford, CT. As for Penicillin, Flemming may have discovered that a mold could kill a bacteria and published his results. It was an Australian, Florey, and a German (forget his name) who invented penicillin. Side note... The controversy behind the discovery is that Flemming was working with a French biologist who actually made the discovery, but it was Flemming that published the paper. Practicing for Jeopardy - Canada Edition!
