2008 January 08

… and other useless facts about Canada you never knew.

While there are indeed some folks who might think it refers to them, Mr. Big is actually the name of a chocolate bar. No, not a bra. A bar.
In 1984, the office of Prime Minister was held by three people. Oh okay… Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney. [1]
Not only can white men jump… Canadian white men can jump. The sport known as basketball was actually invented by a Canadian teacher named James Naismith. [2]
I may be Canadian but I don’t eat beaver. Or moose. And beer is pee water, okay? Thanks for understanding.
Canadians do however, eat more macaroni and cheese (per capita) than any other nationality on earth. [3]
70% of Canadians believe that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. It’s not clear on how much macaroni and cheese they consume. [1]
A chesterfield is a couch, a two-four is a twenty four case of beer, tuques (or toques) are winter hats, hoser is a term we call each other only if we’re Bob or Doug MacKenzie and/or it’s 1980 and we’re watching SCTV. [3]
Actually some Canadians do act like that, call each other hosers, wear toques, say “eh” and drink beer nog. They’re all from Ontario.
For those of you readers from Ontario… I have no idea what I’m talking about. I’m from Saskatchewan, remember?

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