WesWorld

Well, still alive despite the horrible Canadian weather. :-)
Lots of nice stuff to read. I will have to reread it once I am back, but you guys did not let me down.
I will be leaving tomorrow again and in some ten days or so, I will return again (hopefully).

You should have come to Vancouver Walter, we've had a good year for sunshine!

You think it's a lot now..........?
Just wait!!!!!

Yeah, the family's been complaining about their summer out in Alberta. I'm not going to grouch about the weather around Ottawa, though.

Obviously, you'll just have to visit the rest of Canada next time.

As the Commodore says, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

Ottawa like the rest of my native province is very hot. Here in BC we have similar weather in the kamloops/Kelowna area in the interior

Well, I heard that the Hurricanes are to blame for the bad weather, blowing the bad US weather into Canada. :-)
Hell, we even drove into some really nasty weather when heading north to Dawson Creek Thursday (I believe).
At least the sun is shining now here... for now...

AUSSIES, CANADIANS, BRITS AND AMERICANS

Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.
Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad.
Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your
club.
Americans: Believe that people should look out for and take care of themselves.
Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to
the point of blindness.
Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be
bothered to sing them.
Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.

Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
Canadians: Don't - but only because they can't get more American channels.
Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.
Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches,
to Britain, where everybody loves them.

Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball.
Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey,
and how they beat the Americans twice at baseball.
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every
sport they play them in.

Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".
Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English".
Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.
Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in
an attempt to get laid.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor in
a backwards country.
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor in
a backwards country.

Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Americans: Seem to think that poverty and failure are morally suspect.
Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are
inherited things.
Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers

lol too funny!

YA GOTTA LOVE CANADA!!

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA

1. Big Rock between you and B. C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 7 per cent instead of approximately 200 per cent for the rest of
the country.
4. Flames vs. Oilers.
5. Stamps vs. Eskies.
6. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
7. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its
own country.
8. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN

1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning.
3. Your province is really easy to draw.
4. You never have to worry about car roll-back if you have a standard
transmission.
5. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house.
6. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
7. People will assume you live on a farm.
8. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA

1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property.
2. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government.
3. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
4. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
5. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work.
6. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
7. Because of your licence plate, you are still friendly even when you cut
someone off.
8. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO

1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist. Separate from what? You
are the centre of the universe.
5. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
6. Much Music's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC

1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians.
3. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move
out next.
4. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
5. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo *#!%".

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK

1. One way or another, the government gets 98 per cent of your income.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours.
4. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.
5. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
6. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
7. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen.
8. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA

1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You are the "only" reason Anne Murray makes money.
3. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk
and wear a kilt.
4. The economy is based on lobster and fiddle music.
5. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered
Canada's most beautiful city.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big,
new bridge
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea".
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from.
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows.
6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly leave.
7. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates.
9. You don't share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that matter.
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND

1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss
dead cod.
3. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.
4. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
5. You and only you understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics.
6. The workday is about two hours long.
7. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered
flashlight and the screen door for submarines.
8. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding.

I seem to remember reading this particular list. Funny enough, because I'm from Ontario and I moved to Vancouver so quite a few of those gags make sense.

"Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor in
a backwards country. "

I like this one best... *g*

(And I´m glad nobody does a similar list on the Germans, Austrians and Swiss... :o))

Just think, most Americans I've talked to think Canadians speak funny. I'm been told that when I say "about" it sounds like "aboot", to which I reply by saying the word again in a heavy southern drawl and ask, "is that better?"

Still, I miss the three Northern Provinces. Anything on them, or are they too empty?

I think Rocky knows first hand what its like up there.

Five reasons to tell a Yankee to go to Canada's Northern Provinces:

1. He'll get et by a polar bar
2. He'll get et by a grizzly bar
3. He'll get et up by the black flies
4. He'll get carried off and et up by the skeeters
5. He'll get chomped by a walrus and wish it had et 'em!

I'm just guessing on the Yukon, since I've never lived there...

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN THE YUKON:

1. It's warmer than the other territories.
2. It's actually okay to own a sport utility vehicle.
3. Unlike B.C., it's not likely to be wiped out by an earthquake.
4. The Klondike gold rush hasn't really ended.
5. Walmart allows camping in its parking lot.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES:

1. It has more trees than Nunavut.
2. You might find pieces of Sparrow missiles on the local golf course.
3. You can say you live "In the 'Knife".
4. It's a quick 1,500 km drive to West Edmonton Mall.
5. The licence plates are shaped like bears.
6. You never know when you'll trip over a diamond mine.

TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NUNAVUT:

1. You can stand on the geographic centre of Canada.
2. You only have to go grocery shopping once a year.
3. In April, you can golf on the Arctic Ocean.
4. You're closer to Greenland than you are to Ottawa.
5. Twenty-four hour daylight.
6. You can take the day off if your house is buried by a blizzard.
7. The Russians have stopped dropping satellites on it.