Let's all thank Canada for something.

[tjwash]

No one ever thanks our awesome neighbors to the north for anything, so a big thank you to Canada for:


Turning the United States on to hockey.



and Rush, who is almost good enough to offset the malice inflicted upon the world by Bryan Adams and Celine Dion.



And of course my favorite beer drinking brothers.

[UrbScotty]

1. Jennifer Babe Magnet Granholm. (nt)

[Lautremont]

2. Well, I thank you.

And sorry about Celine there, eh?

[tjwash]

7. It's not so bad...

...but my wife loves her music, and I get to listen to her all the time, whether I need to or not.

[Maple]

3. Jeepers, we were hoping

you'd KEEP Celine! :D

[FuzzySlippers]

4. Thank you for curling!

[AngryLizard]

5. Thanks for being a nice clean place to visit

Thanks for Jim Carrey
Thanks for the good syrup
Thanks for www.televisionwithoutpity.com (2 of it's founders are Canucks)
Thanks for being an english-speaking place to run away to, should
Bush be elected President

[Bunny]

6. Burton Cummings and the Guess Who!

:toast:

[sleepyhead]

8. Poutine!

Can't wait to get back to Montreal!

[politicaholic]

9. As a Canadian citizen living in Seattle, you're welcome, but...

What about the many other things such as Mike Meyers, Nickleback, Kids in the Hall, Bare Naked Ladies, Jim Carrey, John Candy (there's a whole list of canadian comedy entertainers), gravy and cheese fries, and I could go on, and on, and on, but you're especially welcome for Pamela Anderson.

:beer:

[barb162]

35. I thank Canadians for being so civilized and putting up with us (the

bad neighbors to the South)

[lady raven]

10. Eric McCormack

I'm personally kind of thankful to Canada for sending us the yummy Eric McCormack (Will on Will & Grace).

[Tikki]

11. Kerr's Candy..

We pay about $2.70 a pound here, when we can find it.

Last time we were in BC we paid about .99¢ a kilo and we
brought back about 360 tons of it...(well, maybe a little less).

The Tikkis

[miss_kitty]

12. This Hour has 22 Minutes and Made in Canada

Talking to America and Rick Mercer, Canada's finest gay man-I should have known (I just read he was out)-I was way too attracted to him for him to be STRAIGHT. That's how my gaydar works.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Newsworld International,

and the film "Strangers in Good Company," along with serving as an example of another way of being North American.

[MisterP]

14. Vancouver and capelin

[DrZeeLit]

15. Thanks for my dog!

My dog, Casou, was born in Quebec. He spoke only French until he moved in with us. He's a Coton de Tulear and his WONDERFUL breeder, Suzanne, is worried sick about the USA. She and most Canadiennes (and their spouses) are tres anti-Bush. She is always sending me some Bush Bashing email or other. She is great!

So, thank you Canada, for my dog and my new friend(s) in Quebec!

I'd post a picture of him, but I have not been able to figure out how to do that post-a-picture thing... duh.

[Fenris]

16. The biggest badass in the history of rock.

[nutsnberries]

26. Right ON, Fenris!

i haven't been here in a couple days, and was pouring through some front-page threads.
i saw this one and was checking to see if anyone else mentioned what I am most thankful to Canada for ---

NEIL! :loveya:


When I was a young boy,
My mama said to me
Your daddy's leavin' home today,
I think he's gone to stay.
We packed up all our bags
And drove out to Winnipeg.

When we got to Winnipeg
I checked in to school.
I wore white bucks on my feet,
When I learned the golden rule.
The punches came fast and hard
Lying on my back
in the school yard.

Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.

Well pretty soon I met a friend,
He played guitar.
We used to sit
on the steps at school
And dream of being stars.
We started a band,
We played all night.

Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.

Oh Canada
We played all night
I really hate to leave you now
But to stay just wouldn't be right.
Down in Hollywood
We played so good

The businessmen crowded around
They came to hear the golden sound
There we were on the Sunset Strip,
Playing our songs
for the highest bid.
We played all night
The price was right.

Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.
Don't be denied, don't be denied.

Well, all that glitters isn't gold
I know you've heard
that story told.
And I'm a pauper
in a naked disguise
A millionaire
through a business man's eyes.
Oh friend of mine
Don't be denied.

[Deja Q]

17. BFS Video for releasing Blake's 7...

VHS in 1992.

Hoping for double-sided DVDs in 2005. :-)

[Sabriel]

18. Thanks for Bell ExpressVu!

I wouldn't have made it through the past 3 1/2 years without it. Let's hear it for the NTV oddball-ness, while we're at it.

On edit: thanks for being (for a long time) the only North American venue for F1, too, by the way. We always looked forward to the annual Montreal visit.

[ghostsofgiants]

32. Bell ExpressVu = great

NTV is by far the strangest TV station I've ever experienced. (I live in NL, so I'm very familiar with it.)

The best is when Geoff Sterling (the dude who owns the station) is on just talking late at night with all kinds of weird pychadelic shit behind him.

[baldguy]

19. BEER!

Not the watered-down piss that passes for it here.

[tarkus]

20. Rush and Leonard Cohen, Kids in the Hall, etc...

[livinginphotographs]

22. I was definitely thinking Kids in the Hall,

but forgot about Leonard Cohen. Thanks Canada!

[flowomo]

21. thank you for me....

since my grandparents are from Novy

[Kire]

23. Alanis Morrissette

thanks, Canada

[Bluebear]

24. Thank you for Joni Mitchell!

[yardwork]

25. Don't forget affordable pharmaceuticals and flu vaccine!

I thank Canada for being a sane example to the north.

[GreenPartyVoter]

27. Leslie Nielsen, my MIL, Kids in the Hall, Nova Scotia

[mitchum]

28. Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell

[LisaLynne]

38. I second the Gordon Lightfoot.

The man is amazing. :)

[Jean Louise Finch]

29. the new 20 dollar bill

Which has a lovely quote by Gabrielle Roy:
“Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Thanks for being the country in which I live.

[barb162]

36. how is it living there and how cold does it get. How far do you live

from the ocean.

[ghostsofgiants]

48. It's cool living here. It can get very cold. Very very very cold.

Right now I'm living right next to the ocean, but I grew up pretty far from it.

[deadparrot]

31. Mike Myers!

[CO Liberal]

33. Nobody Mentioned Paul Schaffer

David Letterman's bandleader.


Source: http://www.suprmchaos.com/

[peekaloo]

34. The Band.......well 4 of 'em.

I think Garth Hudson is Canadian.

[Ron Green]

44. Yah....Garth is from LondonO, eh?

[AngryAmish]

37. For all those delicious walleye

Good fishing up there.

[lpbk2713]

39. Thanks

[AlFrankenFan]

40. The cupcakes I had last night

"Made in Canada" on the box, and Canadian maple leaf sprinkles! :P

[Nightowl_2004]

41. Thank you for Pam Anderson

A real big thank you!

[Mr. McD]

42. Ofra Harnoy cellist

[Awsi Dooger]

43. A border generally free of Mexicans

And a dollar worth even less than our own

[CanuckAmok]

45. What about us ever-so-entertaining Canadian DUers?

HEyHEY, SLB, yvrgirl, Lisa, Bubblesby, et al?

And what about William Shattner, for that matter?

[HEyHEY]

46. Fuck them CA - let's go get drunk in a park some where

[CanuckAmok]

47. Ooooh, is it saturday night already?!

n/t

[HEyHEY]

49. You know it! Boon's for everyone!

I got a pack of "Canadian Classics" too!

[CanuckAmok]

50. Make mine an "Extra Old S(t)ock" or six!

n/t

[HEyHEY]

51. Righto - so I gotta steal it from my dad?

:-)

[yvr girl]

56. Does he still have some stubbies

in the garage?

[CanuckAmok]

57. Douglas Coupland will buy 'em!

http://www.pist.ca/newsi/stubby.html

[yvr girl]

58. I liked Souvenirs of Canada

lots of fun. Volume 2, not so good.

[Elidor]

52. Thanks for letting Celine Dion stay there

So she isn't down here instead.

And Rush. Thanks for Rush.

And okay, thanks for Shatner, I guess. You can have him back now, however.

[Seabiscuit]

53. Thanks to all Canadians for never voting for Bush!!!

[Seabiscuit]

54. All Canadians are better than half of Americans...

... because none of them ever voted for Bush!

[rot0r_head]

55. Gotta give it up for the bacon n/t

[Hello_Kitty]

60. John Candy, may he rest in peace

Planes, Tranes, and Automobiles is a comedy masterpiece!

[AntiCoup2K4]

59. BC Growers Cider

The Granny Smith green apple is the shit!

And another vote for Rush and the McKenzies, eh.

[Tom Kitten]

61. I just thank Canada for being there and

being itself. Canada is a great nation, (actually the only one I've visited) and I love it...

[CanuckAmok]

62. O-o-h, sca-a-a-a-ry Canada!

Count Floyd, eh? Another outstanding Canadian!

[PoiBoy]

63. Thanks for the memories...

outstanding memories of touring around Canada.. great friends, good times, great beer..! :hi:

[ilovenicepeople]

64. Oscar Peterson

and hometown hero Diana Krall (and Joni)

[CanuckAmok]

65. Don't forget Nanaimo's own Kim Catrall...

on edit: do you have any idea how difficult it is finding a non-nude photo of her on-line? She strips more than turpentine.