I eat whale blubber and club baby seals...

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Whoa I finally got a heart. ITS ABOUT DAMNED TIME!

You've always had heart.

aww ditto this!!!

[Sprailenes 47]

Whoa I finally got a heart. ITS ABOUT DAMNED TIME!

You've always had heart.

aww ditto this!!!

Aww shucks guyz

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

what are butter tarts.?

Fattening.

[Marilyn. 340]

No one here knows what butter tarts are . Maybe a new business venture for me????

Nick fell in LOVE with butter tarts, he couldn't believe them!!!

There is so much possibility!!!

yeah I was astonished too.. my hubby had no clue what they were...

I made him my famous butter tart squares once and he liked it...

the squares I make taste almost exactly like the tarts but are so much easier to make...

[Nasturtium 500]

I also get the whole: "Do you know a so and so from Vancouver?"

YES AS A MATTER OF FACT I DO. WE'RE BFF'S!!! WOW WHAT A SMALL WORLD EH!?

Bzzzzz. I'm sorry. The correct response is:

"Oh! So and so! Why yes, I do! She's dead."

Bzzzzz. Wrong! The correct response is:

"Oh! So and so! Why yes, I do! She's dead, eh! She died in a terrbile moose accident when it ran into her igloo. She was so enamored in the blubber she was eating and the seal she was clubbing, she didn't see the moose until it was too late. Eh!"

This thread caught my eye because as an American, I continually cannot believe how many other Americans have at the very least not even the slightest idea where Canada is or that it is its own country which is even larger than ours. I remember trying to mail a letter to a friend in BC and asking the lady at the PO how much was the rate to CN. She quoted me the regular domestic rate. I said, "No, Canada postage is more." She said, "No, Canada is a STATE above California." I just kind of looked at her and told her last time I checked that state was Oregon and Canada was, in fact, it's own huge country above us over which we have no authority-- it kind of functions on its very own as crazy as that sounds. She would not believe me so I had to go to another PO.

Edited August 20, 2008 by julianna

[brown_eyes 0]

My boyfriend calls me a 'Hoser.'

He gets a big kick out of Canada-isms. He had Timbits for the first time last weekend after wondering what they were for so long.

[Reba 2]

the squares I make taste almost exactly like the tarts but are so much easier to make...

please do share the recipe! I miss butter tarts but I'm just too freakin' lazy to make 'em. If the squares are easier, I just might find the inspiration!

I have a Made In Canada tattoo. In both languages. I like Quebec, no matter how much half of them hate the rest of us.

I think CanuckAbroad.com used to sell Canadian travel packs, with little backpack flags and t-shirts that said "don't shoot, I'm Canadian!".

[BH45 0]

what are butter tarts.?

If I have some made before our lunch, I'll bring some for you to try.

Yes the squares are much easier to make, but I take after my mom and like the real deal.

[LindaB 0]

My husband always bugs me about saying "eh" (I don't really say "eh" it is more like "hey" at the end of sentences). I always tell him that you can take the girl out of Canada but you can't take Canada out of the girl!....lol

I can't believe how many people here tell me that I have an accent (Just live 1/2 hour from where I used to live in Canada). Last week at the Department of licensing, when I was trying to schedule my driving test, I was telling the agent at the counter that I work in Canada and I get home about

4 p.m., she said she could tell I was from Canada by the way I said "about"! It doesn't sound any different than the way the americans say it to me.

[thetreble 19]

People are always commenting on how I say certain things with my lovely canadian accent. Actually, I have had two people so far ask me if I was from Canada after hearing me speak which I thought was pretty cool.

Many people here just refer to me as "the canadian" ie. "hey canada, how are ya?". I don't mind. Also, this is really not nice and extremely racist but from our area in New Jersey if you wanted to refer to an African American in code while one was around, you would refer to them as the Canadian. It's offensive on both sides of that coin I believe!!

Most of the jokes I get are about mounties. But most of them just make me smile and sigh. When I feel like putting on my best bob and doug mackenzie accent to make people laugh I do.

Once me and my mum get going on the phone though, or me and my brothers, my accent comes out right away! I hear it in them now that I'm away. It's great!

[MrsCat 6]

My boyfriend calls me a 'Hoser.'

He gets a big kick out of Canada-isms. He had Timbits for the first time last weekend after wondering what they were for so long.

Hmmmmm - sounds like my hubby. You're not dating his brother Nathan, from Seattle are you?

Chris likes to laugh at how I say - hard "A"s.

D-AT-SUN rather than his Daught-son. Pass-Ta rather than Paw-sta.

Edited August 21, 2008 by cattattude

[Sprailenes 47]

Have you ever had people lie that they were Canadian?

No word of a lie, I have met two people who want to be Canadian sooo bad they actually tried to lie about it.

I of course caught them AND outed them.

[MrsCat 6]

Have you ever had people lie that they were Canadian?

No word of a lie, I have met two people who want to be Canadian sooo bad they actually tried to lie about it.

I of course caught them AND outed them.

You outted them - :rofl:

Didn't know what poutine was hunh?

[Sprailenes 47]

One of the guys was from a message board and I have recently met him in person while in Chicago with my husband, he is still bitter I outed him on the board, but he couldn't pinpoint where in Mississauga he was from, he just kept saying it was near the airport.

Edited August 21, 2008 by Sprailenes

[brown_eyes 0]

Hmmmmm - sounds like my hubby. You're not dating his brother Nathan, from Seattle are you?

Chris likes to laugh at how I say - hard "A"s.

D-AT-SUN rather than his Daught-son. Pass-Ta rather than Paw-sta.

Almost Seattle... my guy lives in Bellingham.

I get bugged about 'pasta', too... even saying 'out' he says it to me as 'oot' just to tease me.