I've been in the online world for about 12 years now, and I've been asked some really odd things by Americans over the years. Some are quite knowledgeable about Canada, others just have no clue. There were some hilarious interviews done by "This Hour has 22 Minutes" that I spotted one time, they could probably be found at YouTube. They were going around interviewing Americans about various Canadian things, like Tim Hortons! In one, they were telling Americans that Canada had just gotten it's National Igloo.. and you had all these people congratulating us on camera for finally getting our igloo! As for people I've talked to, one lady thought the CN Tower was in the USA, another thought we always had snow. I suppose that actually explains the Americans who pulled into the convenience store I worked at many years ago, with skis on top their car, in the middle of a scorcher day in July, asking me where they could go skiing. Point your vehicle north, and keep driving for a loooong time! :D I've also been "corrected" by some Americans for how I spell colour, neighbour, favour etc. It's just funny. Of course not all those I meet know so little about Canada, but it's good for a chuckle when I run across someone who doesn't know much.
My sister passed this list along to me several years ago, and I just stumbled on it again a while ago and thought I'd share. After she shared this list with a group of our friends, one American friend we had said that thanks to the list, she FINALLY understood something from the movie Men in Black. She had never understood why all of the main characters had letters for names, but yet the big-whig got to be called "Zed". After reading the handy-dandy list my sister shared, she understood that he DID actually have a letter for a name after all, Z, pronounced Zed instead of Zee! :)
The list may be a bit dated.. but it's sill amusing I think. One friend said that we must have really bad roads that our government gives us "tire" money... and although not on the list, I remember another friend did not believe me when I mentioned one day that I needed to get a bag of milk... she was dumbfounded that we have milk in bags. A few years ago I was reading about this guy who was overseas somewhere.. and in this little bar/restaurant.. the owner had under glass money from all over the world. The fellow didn't see any Canadian money at all... then finally noticed some.. tucked in with all the other worldwide currencies... was a 25ยข Canadian Tire bill.
25 Signs Showing You Might be Canadian
1. You're not offended by the term "HOMO MILK".
2. You understand the phrase "Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield."
3. You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars.
4. You drink Pop, not Soda.
5. You know what a Mickey and 2-4 mean.
6. You don't care about the fuss with Cuba. It's a cheap place to go for your holidays, with good cigars and no Americans.
7. You know that a pike is a type of fish, not part of a highway.
8. You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
9. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
10. You know that Casey and Finnegan were not part of a Celtic musical group.
11. You get excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada.
12. You brag to Americans that: Shania Twain, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and many more, are Canadians.
13. You know that the C.E.O. of American Airlines is a Canadian!
14. You know what a touque is.
15. You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
16. You know that the last letter of the English alphabet is always pronounced "Zed" not "Zee"
17. Your local newspaper covers the national news on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.
18. You know that the four seasons mean: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road work.
19. You know that when it's 25 degrees outside, it's a warm day.
20. You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
21. You know how to pronounce and spell "Saskatchewan" - Sas-KAT-chew-w'n
22. You perk up when you hear the theme song from 'Hockey Night in Canada'.
23. You were in grade 12, not the 12th grade.
24. "Eh?" is a very important part of your vocabulary, and is more polite than "Huh?"
25. You actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all of your Canadian friends and then you send them to your American friends just to confuse them... further.
I hope you enjoyed it ;)
