Up There (Near Canada).
 

I'm just setting this thread up for Pete:
Hello Everyone,
'My name is Pieter Gaskin and I am from,what is known as,The North Country of New York State.I live about 40 miles from the Canadian border.'

Hey, Pete.
Good luck with the thread.
Richard from the Down Here (NZ) thread.

Up There (Near Canada)
Hi, just flew up to visit Pieter. The good news is that the snow is melting.
The bad news is that it'll probably snow tomorrow.
Richard from 'Down Here (NZ)'.
I don't know if you know much about life near the Canadian border, so let me fill you in with the details.
They have four great lakes that spell the word 'HOME' and it gets a bit cold.
Don't forget that they're on the yankee side of the border and that all that 'lumberjack macho stuff' is a few miles north. There are no 'mounties' down south of the border. They have a local sheriff who is a little like 'deputy dog'. Their area is home to the famous "Yellow Stone Park', which is a park that has a yellow stone within its perimiters. South of the border they don't have a lot of time for Canadians. Canadians are sort of English, but have stolen the yankee accent.

canada is a beautiful country.
One of their main cities is sort of named after the Lone Ranger's friend Tonto. I'm talking about Toronto.

This thread doesn't seem to be catching on.

Canada
 

There is new interest coming soon ... maybe a story .... a tale of the Condike where men tramped for months to reach the gold under the Urilian Mountains!

Robert, your signature, is Paganni making stationery?

Canada has moved.
 

Up There (Near Canada).
I think that Canada needs to be moved as this sight is not really taking off.
Maybe we need to pretend that Canada is really Australia.

trying to edit

Yeah, Ken said you can delete posts, but I think that function is actually disabled . . .

Yeah, they won't delete.

Deleted Posts..
 

I see Deleted Posts all the Time. For a Thread YOU actually started, you must delete the First Post made. I will check with Mike to see if this function has been disabled.

There's a set period for which you can make revisions to your post or later delete. If you're having problems removing a post, that period is up. If you still want it edited or removed, contact me and I would be able to fix that.

I'm a long way up here
 

Imagine white.
I'm talking like a blank screen.
White and nothing else.
White.
In the far north this is all you see.
White.
The Gendarmerie Royal du Canada patrol this domain.
Guys in 'lemon squeezer' hats and red tunics.
In the snow you can see one a thousand miles away.
'Mounties' we know them as.
What a noble pose they make from a distance.
Canada's clothing designers obviously embrace the dramatic.
After all, if you wanted to sneak up on a desperado in the snow, wouldn't you choose to dress in white?
This is why, if you want to live a life outside of the law, Canada is a good place to reside.
I bet that traffic wardens, in their cities, probably text parked motorists to let them know that they're coming!

Canada is a land of contrast.
To the north there is snow and locals who speak 'frog'.
To the south there is mainly desert and people who sound like yankees.
The great Toronto desert separates north from south.

The word for the sweet dish that is often served near the end of a dinner party comes from a Canadian mis-spelling of desert.
Dessert was Canada's gift to the rest of the world.
Canadians invented the sayings,
"That desert looks too big to eat." and
"Would you like snow on that desert?" and
"The strawberries on that dessert are easier to see than a mounted policeman sneaking up on you in the snow."

Most Canadians can trace their family line back to the eskimo.
The Canadian word for house is house, but when most Canadians are saying the 'house' word they are, in fact, thinking of an igloo.
Igloos are rare in the Canadian deserts, but the few that are there are reffered to as 'melted.'
In Canadian the word 'melted' can have many meanings, but mostly it just means that some ice has turned to water.
Canada is a bit like yankee land, except native indians are replaced by the eskimo.
Eskimos are a bit like native indians who can't dance, hence it doesn't rain much in Canada.
Canadian children often play 'cowboys and eskimos'.
Canada spelt backwards is Adanac. Ada Nac was the wife of the first eskimo to come to Canada. Is that a little spooky?
The first eskimo's name was Ken Nac, so Canada really should have been called Cannek.
Interesting fact: Eskimos don't have armpits.

Interesting facts about Canada.
 

* Some Canadians speak French because they don't really 'get' English.
*Frozenadians were popular before Canadians. Now SunDriedadians are catching on.
* Vancouver was discovered by a guy in a van. His surname was Couver.
* Canadians normally don't serve polar bear at dinner parties.
* Some modern airlines fly as far as Canada.
* Canada nearly won the 1968 Super Bowl.
* If you lay the whole population of Canada from north coast to west coast, four people deep, the world would spin with slightly less wobble and fewer Canadians would fall off.

Nanook of the North
 

Why do Northern Canadians always add 'of the North' after their christian names?
Eg. Howard of the North
Reg of the North
Malcolm of the North
Nanook of the North

Canada is cold.
Canada is hot.

Canada is cold,
Canada is hot.
Do Eskimos have armpits?
I think not.

Old Canadian Hymn and explanation.
 

Cnd aaa = three consonants and three vowels...
four different letters.

Oh Canada to me you are a place
Where Policemen wear red
And women wear lace.

Oh Canada, hot and cold
Where people start life young
And gradually get old.

Oh Canada, if you had no snow
The deserts would be hotter and the
Skiers would have nowhere to go.

Oh Canada, a name with three vowels
In any three Canadians, I guess
There are three bowels.

Some well known Canadians:
 

Deep down, there's a little bit of Canadian in all of us.
Especially those of us who choose to wear red.

Da Vinci Code:
 

Does the Canadian flag really show a maple leaf?
Or, is it really a small symetrical road kill?

Canada.
It's better than Wainuiomata.

10 Good things about Canada compared to Wainuiomata
 

1.Not as ccccccold as Wainuiomata .
2.Expect they don't vandalize children's playgrounds
3.Probably fewer suppliers of dope up there.
4.Don't have to cross the Rimutakas to get to civilization.
5.House prices probably not as over-inflated.
6.They have independence.
7.Closer to USA
8.Letter boxes are safer
9.Fewer College students wandering the streets during the day.
10. Speak two languages.

Yes 2nd fiddle, for once you are right.

canada
 

Though that 'eh' thing at the end of each sentence might get irritating.

This thought puts you on the same ground as most of the famous philosophers 2nd fiddle (nah, just kidding!).

Chic ... chic ... chic ..... chic

I'm always right handed , it's you who is left handed

But which hand do you use to hold James?

Who's James ?
 

:rolleyes: Clive.

Robert is guy.

Canada...
 

Checkmate!
Getting back to Canada ... In Alberta, Canada, it's illegal to publicly remove bandages?

And in Toronto it is forbidden to mention the Lone Ranger.

Catching on?
 

Well, I can see this thread maybe catching on fire but other than that, I have no clue what else it can catch on to!:confused:

Good turn of phrase Ken!

Up there!
 

Correct me if I'm wrong ... but isn't this thread really about the good old USA :eek:

What else is up there near Canada but Alaska and the other 52 states ...

Up there near canada ... things USA
 

I've always thought USA has the best Anthem ...


Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!