srb Wrote:Not the Jumpin' Jack Flash episode but "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" will have to suffice......"The Hilarious House of Freightenstein", feat. Vince Price. >>Right Click & Download >> (http://scott.hipfans.com/CAN/HHOF.wmv)
Those guys all had to have been extremely high when that show was shot. :lol:
Here's the Jumpin' Jack Flash clip:
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not sure if it's been said...
the short story "The Hockey Sweater"
- Steve Nash (born in South Africa, but whatev)
- The Toronto Raptors are in 4th place
- Vimy Ridge
- The old show "Buzz" from the comedy network
- How awesome Bowling for Columbine made Canada look
- Pierre Trudeau
- Our mountains upon mountains of hot babes
- How Canadian's are not able to sue if we twist an ankle stepping off our neighbors 3" doorstep.
Wheat_King Wrote:The old show "Buzz" from the comedy network
That show was awesome :thumb:
From living in the States for around 8 months now, I've learned two things. I'm embarrassed by Canadians' knee-jerk anti-Americanism (as I mentioned briefly in the other thread, now using Skippy's language).
I am even more proud of Canada's universal health care.
My fathers people emigrated from Ireland to St. Catherin's Ontario in British North America. In 1888 several members of my family and their neighbors took up arms to repel the Fenian Invasion from Buffalo. My fathers people were Irish Catholics with no particular love for the crown. They picked up arms to defend their new home because they loved their new country and the freedom they had found. I don't know how well known that event is in Canada history but the story of the battle and my families love of Canada has been passed through the generations. We are no longer Canadian but if she ever needs us again we'll be there.
I'm from St. Catharines and I know quite a bit about the area's history...and I have never heard that story. Very cool, NegPhil.
That story is pretty well-known here in Fort Erie. :thumb:
I must confess I also had relatives who joined in the drunken raid on the Fenian side. There is a great story about the Irish Americans who contracted a designer to build one of the first submarines for the attack. They could not pay for it so they got drunk and stole it. They quickly realized that none of them knew how to operate it and abandoned it. I have been developing the story as a script for years. I wrote a nice little part for The Hip if they are interested.
This a a web site that tells the story of The Battle Of Ridgeway.
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Any account of the Fenian raids I've ever read paints the Fenians as much less competent than that website would have it.
Anyway, if anyone wants to guess at the origin of southern Ontario's knee-jerk anti-Americanism, well, repeated incursions by armed Americans during the period the province was settled probably has something to do with it....