You know you're from Canada when
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For our american friends... sorry I got carried away 
You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Canadian Tire on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.
You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.
You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You find -40c a little chilly.
The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freeze.
You attend a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelery and your Sorels.
You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
You perk up when you hear the theme from "Hockey Night in Canada".
You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Canadian Tire on any Saturday is busier than the toy stores at Christmas.
You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled in with snow.
You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 2 pages, but requires 6 pages for hockey.
You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You find -40c a little chilly.
The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freeze.
You attend a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelery and your Sorels.
You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
You perk up when you hear the theme from "Hockey Night in Canada".
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From: Torrance
How about this one HondaGal,
PROUD TO BE CANADIAN, EH!!!
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. More rain than the Amazon Rain Forest.
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges.
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder.
4. Umbrellas are cheap.
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown.
6. A university with a nude beach.
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer him or her some of your hash.
9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
10. Cannabis.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big Rock.
2. Preston Manning.
3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 percent.
4. The Premier is a fat, wife-beating alcoholic with a grade 4 education.
5. Flames vs. Oilers.
6. University of Lethbridge.
7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
8. Eventually, it will be your town's turn to ban VLT's.
9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
10. See where the Chevy "Like a Rock" commercials are filmed.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Those cool Saskatewan Wheat Pool hats.
3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning.
4. Your province is really easy to draw.
5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard.
6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house.
7. YOUR Roughriders survived.
8. You can watch the dog run away from home... for two weeks.
9. People will assume you live on a farm.
10. Buying a huge John Deere mower with a big stereo makes sense.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property.
2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg."
3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto.
4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the Federal government.
5. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.
6. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
7. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
8. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work.
9. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
10. Because of your license plate, you are still "friendly" even when you cut someone off.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the center of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election..
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Seperatist.
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition.
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a cool city.
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave to the nation for a Loonie.
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on theside of your house.
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Everyone assumes that you're an asshole.
2. Racism is socially acceptable.
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians.
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next.
5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
6. The FLQ.
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys.
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers makeup that is spray painted on.
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts.
10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo bastards."
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. You are sandwiched between French assholes and drunken celtic fiddlers.
2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income.
3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours, but they remember the Yukon.
5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.
6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you.
8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen.
10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire.
2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia.
3. Everyone is a fiddle player.
4. If people ask if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass.
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert.
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal.
7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money.
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt.
9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music.
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada's most beautiful city.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big-ass bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from.
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows.
6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly leave.
7. You can drive across the the province in two minutes.
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates.
9. You don't have to worry about over-population.
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. The poorest, stupidest, drunkest province in Confederation.
2. If Quebec Seperates, you will float off to sea.
3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a dead cod.
4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.
5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
6. You understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics.
7. The work day is about two hours long.
8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered flashlight and the screen door for submarines.
9. If people ask if you're from Nova Scotia, you are allowed to kick their ass.
10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day.
PROUD TO BE CANADIAN, EH!!!
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. More rain than the Amazon Rain Forest.
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges.
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder.
4. Umbrellas are cheap.
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown.
6. A university with a nude beach.
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer him or her some of your hash.
9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
10. Cannabis.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big Rock.
2. Preston Manning.
3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approximately 200 percent.
4. The Premier is a fat, wife-beating alcoholic with a grade 4 education.
5. Flames vs. Oilers.
6. University of Lethbridge.
7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
8. Eventually, it will be your town's turn to ban VLT's.
9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups.
10. See where the Chevy "Like a Rock" commercials are filmed.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Those cool Saskatewan Wheat Pool hats.
3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning.
4. Your province is really easy to draw.
5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard.
6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house.
7. YOUR Roughriders survived.
8. You can watch the dog run away from home... for two weeks.
9. People will assume you live on a farm.
10. Buying a huge John Deere mower with a big stereo makes sense.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property.
2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg."
3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto.
4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the Federal government.
5. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by.
6. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
7. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
8. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work.
9. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
10. Because of your license plate, you are still "friendly" even when you cut someone off.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the center of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election..
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Seperatist.
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition.
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a cool city.
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime.
8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave to the nation for a Loonie.
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on theside of your house.
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Everyone assumes that you're an asshole.
2. Racism is socially acceptable.
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians.
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move out next.
5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada.
6. The FLQ.
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys.
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers makeup that is spray painted on.
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts.
10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo bastards."
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. You are sandwiched between French assholes and drunken celtic fiddlers.
2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income.
3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours, but they remember the Yukon.
5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to Boston.
6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick.
7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you.
8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse.
9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen.
10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire.
2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia.
3. Everyone is a fiddle player.
4. If people ask if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass.
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert.
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal.
7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money.
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt.
9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music.
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered Canada's most beautiful city.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the big-ass bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from.
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows.
6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly leave.
7. You can drive across the the province in two minutes.
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates.
9. You don't have to worry about over-population.
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night.
TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. The poorest, stupidest, drunkest province in Confederation.
2. If Quebec Seperates, you will float off to sea.
3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a dead cod.
4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products.
5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
6. You understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics.
7. The work day is about two hours long.
8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered flashlight and the screen door for submarines.
9. If people ask if you're from Nova Scotia, you are allowed to kick their ass.
10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day.
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From: Torrance
Hey Honda Gal,
I got that one from a friend of mine in Toronto. I used to work for a company out there and spent a lot of time on the east side of Canada. At least they spoke English on that side, and not French.
I got that one from a friend of mine in Toronto. I used to work for a company out there and spent a lot of time on the east side of Canada. At least they spoke English on that side, and not French.
