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I'm With You
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:51 am Post subject: Coffee Girl |
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A new Canadian teacher had us over for drinks last weekend and was playing a song by the Tragically Hip called Coffee Girl. I started laughing and asked him about it and he said he didn't know.
Since so many Canadians are in Korea, have the members of this group taught in Korea? Is that where the idea of the song came from?
Is this song about what I think it's about? |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| The Tragically Hip are like the second most popular band in Canada ever, after Rush I suppose. They have been around for a long time. So I doubt they have ever taught in Korea. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| The Tragically Hip are like the second most popular band in Canada ever, after Rush I suppose. They have been around for a long time. So I doubt they have ever taught in Korea. |
Okay, thanks.
I thought that the song was just okay but got interested in trying to decipher the lyrics.
Thought that maybe the singer or band had taught English in Korea like most Canadians do. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| I'm With You wrote: |
| Thought that maybe the singer or band had taught English in Korea like most Canadians do. |
Yeh, by last count I think there were 20 million Canadians here? |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| I'm With You wrote: |
| Thought that maybe the singer or band had taught English in Korea like most Canadians do. |
Yeh, by last count I think there were 20 million Canadians here? |
laughed out loud at that. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| I thought that was in the past. Aren't Americans the largest group since 2009? Guess the economy is finally recovering and they're going home? Now Canadians will be the largest group again? Ha ha. |
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lithium
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| I thought that was in the past. Aren't Americans the largest group since 2009? Guess the economy is finally recovering and they're going home? Now Canadians will be the largest group again? Ha ha. |
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lithium
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| I thought that was in the past. Aren't Americans the largest group since 2009? Guess the economy is finally recovering and they're going home? Now Canadians will be the largest group again? Ha ha. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 6:32 am Post subject: |
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I thought Arcade Fire was the biggest band in Canada?
Rush is 1970s, isn't it?
Don't know anything about the other band magically hip. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| lithium wrote: |
| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| I thought that was in the past. Aren't Americans the largest group since 2009? Guess the economy is finally recovering and they're going home? Now Canadians will be the largest group again? Ha ha. |
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WASHINGTON -- As a brutal winter yields to spring, the U.S. economy is showing renewed strength just as other major economies appear desperate for help.
Europe is clinging to a fragile recovery. Japan just imposed a tax hike that threatens its shaky economic comeback. And China's troubles are rattling the global economy.
The resilience of the U.S. economy, after a growth-chilling winter, was evident in Friday's jobs report from the Labor Department. It said employers added 192,000 jobs in March and 37,000 more than in January and February than previously thought.
With the economy making steady gains, the Federal Reserve has been scaling back its bond purchases, which have been intended to lower interest rates to spur growth.
"The U.S. is certainly doing better than Europe or Japan right now," says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/business/recovering-u-s-now-outpacing-many-other-economies-1.1764023 |
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Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:04 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| I'm With You wrote: |
| Thought that maybe the singer or band had taught English in Korea like most Canadians do. |
Yeh, by last count I think there were 20 million Canadians here? |
Little known fact. Since 2012 more Canadians live in Korea than in Canada. |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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More Koreans live in Canada, than Canadians live in Korea.
[Actually more Koreans live in the U.S., than all the foreigners in Korea.] |
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