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WHY YOU SHOULD BE PROUD TO BE CANADIAN

Until now, I have been striving to use only my own material on this site. However, sometimes you come across a gem.

Here are 30 reasons why YOU should be proud to be CANADIAN!

(In case you don't have any reasons, eh.)

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch

3. Coffee Crisp

4. The size of our footballs, fields and one less Down.

5. Lacrosse is Canadian.

6. Hockey is Canadian.

7. Basketball is Canadian.

8. The biggest flags ever seen/flown at any Olympics were Canadian....twice, the second one was smuggled in because they made a rule against it cause of the first time.

9. Mr. Dress-up can kick Mr. Rogers ass.

10. Much Music kicks MTV's ass.

11. Maple syrup kicks Mrs. Butterworth's ass (...don't know about Aunt Jemima though).

12. Tim Horton's kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass.

13. Waaaay better beer commercials/contests and beer company give-aways. Hence the Molson Canadian House Party...where you get to keep the house. Trashed or not.

14. In the war of 1812, we pushed the Americans so far back...passed their 'White House', we burned it...and most of Washington under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away so came home and partied. Go figure.

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

16. The largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war.

17. Our civil war was a big bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.

18. 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.

19. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.

20. The Hudson's Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earths surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.

21. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.

22. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.

23. We don't marry our kin-folk.

24. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, zambonis, the long distance and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.

25. Oh ya...and the handles on beer cases big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.

26. We can hum the tune to 'Definition'.

27. We all know that a scale that measures boiling water at 212 degrees and freezes at 32 is asinine.

28. We've ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

29. We wear socks (black is optional) with our sandals.

30. We can out drink Americans in a heart beat!!

OOOOoohhhhh Canada!!