You might be a Canadian if.....

[Darlene]

1. You're not offended by the term "homo milk".
2. You understand the phrase : "Could you pass me a serviette? I just dropped my poutine on the chesterfield."
3. You eat chocolate bars not candy bars.
4. You drink pop not soda.
5. You know what a mickey & a 2-4 are.
6. You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go on your vacation with good cigars & no Americans.
7. You know that a pike is a fish not part of a highway.
8. You drive on a highway not a freeway.
9. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
10. You know that Casey & Finnegan are not part of a Celtic musical group.
11. You get excited whenever an American TV show mentions Canada.
12. You brag to Americans that Shania Twain, Jim Carrey, Celine Dion & many more are Canadians.
13. You know that the CEO of American Airlines is a Canadian.
14. You know what a touque is.
15. You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
16. You know that the last letter of the alphabet is "zed" not "zee".
17. Your local newspaper covers the national news on 2 pages but uses 6 pages for hockey.
18. You know that the 4 seasons means almost winter, winter, still winter & road work.
19. You know that when it's 25 degrees outside it's a warm day.
20. You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
21. You know how to pronounce & spell "Saskatchewan". (sas-kat-chew-wan).
22. You perk up when you hear the theme song from "Hockey Night in Canada".
23. You were in grade 12 not the 12th grade.
24. "Eh?" is a very important part of your vocabulary & is more polite then "Huh?".
25. You actually understand these jokes.

Cheers, Dar.

[lanalizard]

lmao that is soooo true!!!!

[python_diva_06]

im not Canadian but i do, understand, and say a lot od those things...

[BWSmith]

huh? ;)

[python_diva_06]

lol

[Mr.Lizard]

Not Canadian but close by(Michigan). We did drink pop and fish for pike though.:)

[Linds]

LOL :p

[Chris Steele]

6. You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go on your vacation with good cigars & no Americans.


Don't like americans????

Michael J. Fox is canadian.........Is Mel Gibson? I can't figure out if he is from america, canada or elsewhere.

[Tim and Julie B]

Mel Gibson is Australian! I love that no.6. nothing against Americans it is just funny but I am sure Stretch will comment! You have to admit though Cuba poses no threat ( or else I am sure it would have been invaded by now) and they have kick A** cigars. I heard it is a great vacation spot as well. It is fine if your not allowed to go there not because I do not like Americans but at least that way it is not crowded! :D

[norman]

I love it when people can't decipher between Canadian accents and European or other miscellaneous accents...(This isn't slandering Chris Steele, I just think it's funny/interesting...) Do we really sound all...foreign...? Worldly? Hmmm....I wish we were all debonaire, like high class English...but no....I think we can all agree that's there's nothing sexy or mysterious about
"Could you pass me my touque, Shania Twain cd and my mickey? I'm going fishing for a pike later! Have some poutine and pop ready for when I get home, eh?"

Jess.

[Zoe]

ACTUALLY Mel Gibson was born in America. His father was a jeopardy champion and moved his family to Australia so his children would not be drafted into the war. Mel Gibson started acting in Australia and later moved back to the United States. You can still hear his accent in some of his earlier movies like Lethal Weapon.

:D
Zoe

[Darlene]

Apologies to any Americans offended by #6. This was a "JOKE" e-mail that I received. It was meant as harmless fun for a laugh only. Sorry if I didn't edit everything as I copied it here. Shrug into your sense of humour & read it again; with that in mind & most importantly :
"ENJOY IT!"

[Invictus]

Originally posted by norman
I think we can all agree that's there's nothing sexy or mysterious about "Could you pass me my touque, Shania Twain cd and my mickey? I'm going fishing for a pike later! Have some poutine and pop ready for when I get home, eh?"

Jess.

ROFL!!!!! That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time. I needed that. :)

[eyespy]

What is a mickey? I'm sure my Irish family uses that word very differently than Canadians, in Irish slang it's an "organ of male regeneration" to use my grandma's definition. :p

[Darlene]

LOL,eyespy,it's a bottle of alcohol,LOL!!!!!

[eyespy]

Ah, so when a Canuck takes his mickey out it's socially acceptable!

Now what's a poutine? I've used serviettes on a davenport, but know that's the same thing as a Chesterfield. No clue about the poutines though.

[Zoe]

its fries, gravy and cheese. real fattening and real good!

Zoe

[damzookeeper]

Zoe, but not just any cheese... curds from St. Alberts cheese factory are the best in poutine!!! lol and I live less than an hour away from all that cheese.
Oh, and poutine is a french word but we english use it too, just so eyespey realizes it isn't pronounced like it is spelled although I had a friend or too with real english accents that pronounced it Poo-tin. lol ;)
and I'm sure a lot more was forgotten on that list. But here's one....
We fix our shingles on our roof, not our ruff. ;)

[eyespy]

What do British people mean when they say "mickey"? The new Harry Potter book has people "taking the mickey out of" each other, which sounds like they are teasing each other if I understand the context. In Irish slang that sounds like castration and none of the kids were drinking butterbeer at the time so I think the British have yet another meaning for the word.

[The_Omen]

Your name is Tom Greene.

[brig]

I'll stand up for the English...
Yes we do say 'taking the mickey', or 'taking the mick', and it does mean 'making fun of', in a rather more polite way that some others I can think of!

I don't know where it comes from, but I only found out yesterday that a similar phrase 'taking the p*ss', (don't know if other countries use that one?), which is a cruder way of saying the same thing, has an interesting history...

Go back to the time of Henry VIII.

In the textile industry a substance called 'Alum' (sp?) was used as a dye fixative (hang in there, it gets better...).
This substance was all imported from Italy. However, Henry VIII fell out with the Pope (ok, simplified a bit there!), and therefore had no access to the stuff we needed.

They found that a chemical process with urine and a type of shale from one particular coastal region (Whitby, North Yorkshire, where Dracula was supposed to have visited), produced the 'alum' (or whatever) and the problem was solved.

They collected urine from throughout the land, barrelled it up, and shipped it round the coast to Whitby.
However, at polite dinner parties the mariners didn't like to admit that all they did was ship urine, so they said that they shipped 'wine'. This euphemism became so common that the standard reply became "come on, you're really taking the p*ss, aren't you?"

What really freaked me out was that they still apparently collected urine in some areas until as late as the 1950's!!!
I wonder if you got paid for it...?:rolleyes:

[Lisa]

You might be canadian if you buy your milk in bags.



It's funny, when I say "zed" on the phone at work most of the people go huh? Now I just stick to the phonetic alphabit.