You know you're from Canada when...
- Added by Andy Thai, September 18, 2008 at 12:40am.
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Top 10 Reasons You know you're from Canada:
- You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
- You know what the plug at the front of the car is for
- You know what are Tim Horton, Zellers and Canadian Tire
- You know what a touque is.
- Everything is labelled in English and French.
- You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars.
- You drink pop, not soda.
- You know that a pike is a type of fish, not part of a highway.
- You perk up when you hear the theme song from "Hockey Night in Canada."
- You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go for your holidays, with good cigars.
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More reasons You know you're from Canada
- You were in grade 12, not the 12th grade.
- You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
- You brag to Americans that: , Jim Carrey, Mike Meyers, Tom Green, and many more are Canadians.
- You know that the last letter of the English alphabet is always pronounced "Zed" not "Zee".
- You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Canada.
- You get excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.
- You know how to pronounce and spell "Saskatchewan."
- Milk comes in plastic bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
- "Eh?" is a very important part of your vocabulary and more polite than, "Huh?"
- You know what a Mickey and 2-4 are.
- You know that the C.E.O. of American Airlines is a Canadian!
- There are more pages about Hockey than the news in the newspapers
- You're not offended by the term, "Homo Milk."
- You like the Americans a little because they don't want Quebec either.
- You go overseas and insist that you are Canadian when people hear your accent to make sure they won't think you are American
- You know that Casey and Finnegan were not part of a Celtic musical group.
- You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
- Contests run by anyone other than the government have "skill-testing questions" that winners must answer correctly before they can claim a prize. Canadian lottery winnings are non-taxable!
- You can ALMOST understand what Jean Chr?tien says
- There's German food, Italian food, Chinese food, Armenian food, American food, but NO Canadian food.
- Winter. Whenever you want it. And then some.
- You understand the phrase, "Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."
- You have a canadian flag sewn on your backpack (unless you live in Qu?bec)
- You say 'aboot' not 'about'


Comments
1 glen - October 15, 2008 at 11:46am.
In response to reason: 34. You say 'aboot' not 'about'
haven't met a Canadian yet that says this
2 jen - November 18, 2008 at 8:17pm.
In response to reason: 34. You say 'aboot' not 'about'
newfoundlanders are bad for it ... and some capers!!