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{{quote|''They say "Eh" instead of "What" or "Duh" that's the mighty power of Canada''
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{{quote|Americans are so benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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{{quote|''"When people think we [Canadians] are polite, that's just a word for thought process, and there's a thought process that perhaps we just don't trust illusion too much."''
|[[The Tragically Hip|Gord Downie]]|[https://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/gord-downie-s-revealing-cbc-interview-1.1254830 Gord Downie's revealing CBC interview], October 9, 2012}}
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They say "Eh" instead of "What" or "Duh" that's the mighty power of Canada —Five Iron Frenzy, "Oh Canada"
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It's a long, long way from Canada —Joni Mitchell, "Dreamland"
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Then our reality came crashing down around us. Mike Myers said the word "aboot" in one of the few sketches where he wasn't doing a Scottish or British accent, so we asked around and found out the sickening truth: Every funny person in the world was from Canada. |
Received same call from Mr. Bucholz, with same refusal to press charges or exit premises in the company of officers. I suggest that Mr. Bucholz may be mentally ill, in light of his extreme sense of civic duty coupled with inhuman levels of politeness. |
Oh Canada, our home and native land —Norb, The Angry Beavers
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The Great White North, CANADA! where you can enjoy a beautiful train ride, and go back to freezing cold temperatures, Hockey, Canadian bacon, Hockey, bears, Hockey, maple syrup, more bears, Hockey......wait, Did I mention Hockey? —Shawn Michaels to the Hart Dynasty, eh?
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The tragedy of Canada is that they could have enjoyed French cuisine, British culture, and American technology. —John Robert Colombo
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It's so clean and bland! I'm home! —Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
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The only thing more Canadian than rioting after a hockey game is apologizing for it for two weeks afterwards. —Most popular Twitter repost following the 2011 Vancouver hockey riot.
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“I’m proud to be Canadian. We may not have a fancy NFL team, or Prince, but we invented Trivial Pursuit - you’re welcome, Earth. Plus, in Canada, you can go to an all-nude strip club and order alcohol. That’s right. From Moose Jaw to the Bay of Fundy, you can suck down a 20-ounce Pilsner while watching some coal miner’s daughter strip down to her pelt. Jealous?” —Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother
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Chugga: Go be Canadian somewhere else! |
Shepard: Don't worry. When all of this is over, I'll buy you drinks back in Vancouver. I promise. |
"Look, they're Canadians. Hockey is in their blood, and it's the only time a Canadian truly becomes deadly." |
My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada. —David Steinberg
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Canada is so square even the female impersonators are women. —From the movie Outrageous
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In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations -- it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. —Stuart Keate
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In Canada, it's illegal to incite 14-year-olds to bestiality, advertise Viagra and scare the elderly and children to death. Submitter's weekend plans have gone right out the window. —Fark.com, 7/11/2006
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In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch. —Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, on the generic Canadian novel.
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A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. —Canadian novelist Pierre Berton, 1973
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Americans are so benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. —Canadian historian John Bartlet Brebner
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"When people think we [Canadians] are polite, that's just a word for thought process, and there's a thought process that perhaps we just don't trust illusion too much." —Gord Downie, Gord Downie's revealing CBC interview, October 9, 2012
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