Topic: Things Canadians are proud of...

[KBFLordKrueg]

Capt Kirk is canadian (Montrealer)
Spock is a yankee (born same year as shatner just too far south)
McCoy is a good ol boy (atlanta born 11 years earlier, well at least he aint a yankee)

While William Shatner may be Canadian...Kirk was supposed to be from Iowa...I forget which town now, but saw some TV show where they even have a big sign on the city limits saying "Future Home of James T. Kirk"

[Hexx]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

[el-Karnak]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

Unfortunately, he was fried by the Jem'Hadar.

It brings new meaning to the term: "Canadian Bacon".

[TraumaTech]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

Unfortunately, he was fried by the Jem'Hadar.

It brings new meaning to the term: "Canadian Bacon".

         actually as i recalled,he exemplified what being a Canadian is all about.He sacrificed himself so that others may live

[el-Karnak]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

Unfortunately, he was fried by the Jem'Hadar.

It brings new meaning to the term: "Canadian Bacon".

         actually as i recalled,he exemplified what being a Canadian is all about.He sacrificed himself so that others may live

Details, details.

[FPF-DieHard]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington

I always thought you prefered Nog.   Nice to have someone you can look in the eye 

[Age]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

Unfortunately, he was fried by the Jem'Hadar.

It brings new meaning to the term: "Canadian Bacon".

         actually as i recalled,he exemplified what being a Canadian is all about.He sacrificed himself so that others may live

Details, details.

Yes from a person who hails originally from the North of the 49th.We could use some nice missions el Karnak especially planetary and home world assualt as I was reading about Islandwars.

[ShadowLord]

ROFL we have anything to be proud of?? Thought we sold all our pride to help pay for the last Liberal election campaign.... 

Ok how to start a flame war in 2 easy steps


Things for Canadians to be proud of ..

1) Battle of Quebec 1759   -- time to help the yanks out with this one-- Wolfe defeats Montcalm -- leads to the treaty of Paris 1763-- and France  has now lost control of the new world--

2) Umm christ don't hang me for this one .... Tricking the American gov't into spending their tax dollars on Canadian National Defence.

(hey I didnt say I meant the above two -- reasons)

[Hexx]

Coolest Federation Officer Ever-  Eddington
Where were his ancestors from?

Canada.

Unfortunately, he was fried by the Jem'Hadar.

It brings new meaning to the term: "Canadian Bacon".

         actually as i recalled,he exemplified what being a Canadian is all about.He sacrificed himself so that others may live

Plus he was alot smarter than the "American Ancestored" Starfleet Officers and made them all look like p00pheads numeorus times.
And he had a lucky loonie.

[Green]

True story ... eh ...

The US is currently in the process of purchasing 130+ new helicopters to replace some of the older ones we have.  The competition is basically between the US company Sikorsky and the AugustaWestland EH101 (renamed US101 after Lockheed and Bell joined in to give it a bit more US flavor ... and political backing).

So anyway I'm at a conference where Augusta brought in an EH101 from the CDF to demonstrate the aircraft's capabilities and discuss the airframe.  Part of the demo was a Q&A session with a CDF pilot who had more time in the 101 than any other pilot (don't know if that is true or not, but the guy did have a couple thousand+ in the airframe, so close enough for me).  The EH101 is a very good aircraft, so we were looking forward to talking with the pilot and learning more about the aircraft.

Now, keep in mind, if this had been a Sikorsky sales pitch (and lets face it, we all knew this basically was a sales pitch), they would have brought in one of their 6-digit a year test pilots who knows how to spew the party line.  Unfortunately for Augusta ... they brought in a CDF pilot who really didn't have a dog in the fight.

So the Q&A starts and one of the first questions asked is "What's the top speed?" (pretty basic softball stuff here I figure).

The CDF guy responds (I paraphrase) "Well they say 170-som'thin, but if you go above 145, it shakes like a banshee."  Chuckling a little, we all steal a glimpse at the Augusta rep as he is starting to squirm a bit.

Next question ... "What's the advantage behind the three engine design?" (again, imho, a softball question).

Realizing his last response drew a rather positive reaction from his listening audience, our CDF 'sales rep' announces ... "Outside of eating up more gas, not much."

Serious laughter did ensue.

About then, the Augusta guy had had enough and started to provide most of the answers and the session became rather dull.



Needless to say ... the CDF pilot didn't have to buy any drinks at the bar that night.  We thought he was great.

[Nemesis]

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[KHH-MiniMe]

Hey TT....While America might not have invented ice hockey...we sure as heck bought your Stanley Cup....not that it's doing us much good this season...damn player union

[Mutilator]

Hey TT....While America might not have invented ice hockey...we sure as heck bought your Stanley Cup....not that it's doing us much good this season...damn player union

Here! Here!    can not believe my last year ashore for a while and the greedy hockey people ruin hockey, I could even have tolerated the Flyers winning the cup if it meant we had playoffs I guess the Leaf fans can now claim they had a perfect season 

[FPF-Tobin Dax]

Hey TT....While America might not have invented ice hockey...we sure as heck bought your Stanley Cup....not that it's doing us much good this season...damn player union

...and damn stupid owners! It takes two to tango.

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Here are reasons why it's so great to be Canadian!

Things Canadians are proud of...

Women can legally walk down the street topless.  (At least in Ontario)

And it's always slightly cold outside.

-S'Cipio

[ShadowLord]

Scip where do u live?
Toronto here
ShadowLord

[GDA-S'Cipio]

Scip where do u live?
Toronto here
ShadowLord

I live in the Washington DC area.  I've never been to Ontario.  I was just dreaming of the bare...  <ahem>... I mean, I was just speculating.

-S'Cipio

[TraumaTech]

Hey TT....While America might not have invented ice hockey...we sure as heck bought your Stanley Cup....not that it's doing us much good this season...damn player union

lol   that's why canada now has a surplus of your yankie greenbacks,which means all those fine canadian imports you stock your teams with(because you apparently can't develope a decent hockey system with 10 times the population of Canada) in the only worthwhile north american sport to"buy" the stanley cup with,also means your a debtor nation and Canada is your creditor........boy   

[TraumaTech]

Scip where do u live?
Toronto here
ShadowLord

I live in the Washington DC area.  I've never been to Ontario.  I was just dreaming of the bare...  <ahem>... I mean, I was just speculating.

-S'Cipio

you can dream like that anywhere in Canada S'Cipio.I wouldn't dream like that in toronto though,they have the highest per capita rate of people who don't believe anything exists beyond toronto's city limits.i think  it's in the vicinity of 99%,the 1% remaining is locked away in an asylum under going treatment for their delusional state   

[Nemesis]

(because you apparently can't develope a decent hockey system with 10 times the population of Canada)

Be fair.  It is only 9 times.