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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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 Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: dear Canadians, from an American |
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Dear neighbors from the Great White North,
Happy Canada day! Take off, you hosers! Just kidding, eh?
Sincerely,
Joe Clark |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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On behalf of us Canucks over here I thank you and hope that you too are the beneficiary of such wonderful weather for you 4'th of July  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, it's Canada Day. Totally slipped my mind.  |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Dear neighbors from the Great White North,
Happy Canada day! Take off, you hosers! Just kidding, eh?
Sincerely,
Joe Clark |
Joe Clark? Is that you? Great to see you, and thanks for your good wishes. Say, I did what you asked and I've been raining down cursed on that damned Paul Martin's head for years, but it looks like he's set to reign the Dominion for another four years. Well, the voting public was never known for their common sense. Guess that's why they kicked you out after only 8 months!
Affectionately,
John A. MacDonald |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Joe Clark? Is that you? Great to see you, and thanks for your good wishes. Say, I did what you asked and I've been raining down cursed on that damned Paul Martin's head for years, but it looks like he's set to reign the Dominion for another four years. Well, the voting public was never known for their common sense. Guess that's why they kicked you out after only 8 months!
Affectionately,
John A. MacDonald |
Damn right. That's why I, Joe Clark, decided to come to Korea, to save up a few bucks, before moving on to my next project. |
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mullethunter
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Location: may i present... the euro mullet
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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joe who?
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davyteacher
Joined: 27 Aug 2004
Location: Busan, South Korea.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| What is Canada Day? |
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shortskirt_longjacket
Joined: 06 Jun 2004
Location: fitz and ernie are my raison d'etre
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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It's so heartwarming that Canada has a celebration every year, marking the day they fought for their independence.
What? What's that you say? Canada didn't fight for their independence? It was just handed to them? Well, shoot...why didn't they just pick any old random day on the calendar to "celebrate" their non-event? What? That's what they actually did? In July, huh? That's funny. Why'd they pick July? Are you suggesting Canada copied the United States? Are you saying they are unoriginal and lackluster? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Now here's an interesting undercurrent. Canada's independence is worth less becuase blood was not shed?
Is that how value is earned in USA? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Canada Day is kind of controversial in NL, it's better known as memorial day.
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It was at Beaumont-Hamel on July 1, 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, that the Newfoundland Regiment fought its first engagement in France - and its costliest of the whole war. The Regiment was one of four battalions of the 29th Division's 88th Brigade.
Promptly at 7:20 a.m. on July 1, a huge mine under the enemy's front trenches opposite the 29th Division's left flank was fired ten minutes before the beginning of the barrage on the German First Position and the start of the infantry's advance. Almost immediately, the assaulting battalions of the 87th Brigade were in serious trouble. The barrage moved forward on an inflexible, pre-arranged schedule. German riflemen and machine-gunners, protected from the shelling by the steep banks of the "Y Ravine", emerged from their deep dugouts and shelters. The lines of advancing troops were lifted from the enemy's front trenches as the Germans directed a withering fire. At the same time, a number of German heavy guns, which had escaped the British counter-battery fire, began shelling the 29th Division's positions catching the follow-up companies as they climbed out of their trenches into the open. As the 87th Brigade's attack melted away, the 88th Brigade was ordered to move forward and to attack the enemy's front line.
From their starting position in the British support trench known as St. John's Road, the Newfoundlanders had to cross some 230 metres of fire-swept ground before they reached even their own front line. As they made their way through zigzag lanes previously cut in the British wire, casualties came with increasing frequency. Those of the leading companies who finally emerged into No Man's Land could look down an incline to see for the first time the barrier of the German wire more than 550 metres away. It was a wonder that any man could remain unhit more than a minute in the inferno of fire that swept across the exposed slopes. Nevertheless, holding the parade-ground formations prescribed for assaulting infantry by the General Staff as best they could, the thinning ranks plodded steadily forward. Halfway down the slope an isolated tree marked an area where the enemy's shrapnel was particularly deadly. Called "The Danger Tree", its twisted skeleton has been preserved and still stands at the spot where many a gallant Newfoundlander fell on that tragic July day.
In less than a half-hour, it was all over. The Commanding Officer, who from a support trench had watched the destruction of his Regiment, reported to Brigade Headquarters that the attack had failed. Afterwards the Divisional Commander was to write of the Newfoundland effort: "It was a magnificent display of trained and disciplined valour, and its assault failed of success because dead men can advance no further."
The casualties sustained on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme totalled 57,470, of which 19,240 were fatal. No unit suffered heavier losses than the Newfoundland Regiment, which had gone into action 801 strong. When the roll call of the unwounded was taken next day, only 68 answered their names. The final figures that revealed the virtual annihilation of the Battalion gave a grim count of 255 killed or dead of wounds, 386 wounded, and 91 missing. Every officer who went forward in the Newfoundland attack was either killed or wounded. |
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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Quite right shortskirt_longjacket. I have always believed that Canada day should have been celebrated on August 24'th
Thats the day British troops along with indians and volunteers marched to Washington DC and burned the White House and most of the buildings to the ground.
Or August 25'th to celebrate the burning of the library of congess.
But us Canucks dont like to dwell on stupidity and bloodshed. We like to remember that our country came into being relatively peacefully. We didnt have to kill all our indians, brother did not fight brother and our country wasnt nearly ripped in two. But hey you feel free to celebrate your bloodlust, your massacres and your wars.......after all its the American Way  |
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shortskirt_longjacket
Joined: 06 Jun 2004
Location: fitz and ernie are my raison d'etre
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I'm all about people getting things done peacefully...it just seems strange to pick a random day and proclaim it Canada Day. I guess it would be like if two people who have a common-law marriage sat down one day and said, "Well, shoot...we oughta recognize this thing, I suppose. How's next Tuesday for you?"
It just doesn't have the same sense of meaning, the same decisiveness. It seems like an afterthought. Whatever gets Canadians drinking more beer, though. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm all about people getting things done peacefully...it just seems strange to pick a random day and proclaim it Canada Day. I guess it would be like if two people who have a common-law marriage sat down one day and said, "Well, shoot...we oughta recognize this thing, I suppose. How's next Tuesday for you?" |
Canada became a country in a pretty lame-ass way. My understanding was, Britain supported the CSA in the US civil war. Then the USA won, and had a huge standing army with nothing to do, so Britain got anxious that we might make a third attempt to liberate the northern Colonies. Thus they gave up pre-emptively. Canadians, am I far off from the history? |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| PS: Don't get me wrong! I love Canada. There are these salty cheese-curd things I love to get in Quebec, just across the border from my hometown in Maine. |
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shortskirt_longjacket
Joined: 06 Jun 2004
Location: fitz and ernie are my raison d'etre
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| Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, lemme say that I don't have anything against Canada. I'm not saying they're a bunch of pussies because they have a weak reason for celebrating on July 1st. There's a lot of stuff that's so bleeped up about the U.S., but it's pretty concrete why the 4th of July is important to U.S. citizens. |
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