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Conference kaosws::canada

Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

699.0. "They're picking on us ..." by TROOA::MANNELLA (Obfuscation Obliterator) Tue May 11 1993 17:47

Greetings,

I just thought that all you proud Canadians might like to know that
they are picking on us in PEAR::SOAPBOX note 1888.  I think we have a
nationalistic duty to defend ourselves.  8^)

Mario
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699.1Help required...KAOOA::HASIBEDERGood tea, nice houseTue May 11 1993 18:1025
    Well, I'm starting to formulate a reply to SOAPBOX 1888 to really
    embarrass 'dem Yanks.  Please help compile the following list ('cause I
    know there are lots more, but memory recall is ... uh ... oh, fading,
    that's the word! :-)
    
Well, what would Hollywood be without Canadians?  Examples:

Lorne Greene		Ben Cartwright - Bonanza
Raymond Burr		Ironside, Perry Mason
William Shatner		Star Trek (we don't forgive him yet for T.J. Hooker
				   or RESCUE 911)
James Doohan		"Beam me up, Scotty"
Leslie Nielsen		Naked Gun, lots else
Michael J. Fox		Back to the Future, lots else
Margot Kidder		Lois Lane
Christopher Plummer	Too many to name

And Newscasters:

Peter Jennings, 

And then there's Sports:

Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux,...
    
699.2Too many to remember ...TROOA::MANNELLAObfuscation ObliteratorTue May 11 1993 18:229
Don't forget :

John Candy
Martin Short(?)
Insulin
And all those 'muricans who hunt and fish here

8^)
Mario
699.3Two prominent Great White North residentsPOLAR::BAYNErelax folks, enjoy the showTue May 11 1993 18:5210
re .1
>>William Shatner  Star Trek (we don't forgive him yet for T.J. Hooker
>>				   or RESCUE 911)
    
    I think there are a lot of Trekkers who still haven't forgiven him for
    his "Get a life" remark.
    
    Let us not forget Bob and Doug McKenzie(both big and little screen)
    
    Shawn
699.4POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayTue May 11 1993 19:397
    Last but not least...

    

    The Grand Canal!

    The Americans are very envious of this great Canadian achievement.
699.5Uncle Alex!TROOA::SELMECZI< it MUST be a H/W problem... >Wed May 12 1993 16:223
Alexander Graham Bell is somebody!

but they probably think AT&... (no names mentioned) invented the telephone...
699.6Hey!TROOA::SOLEYSomeone call my lawyers, tell 'em that I'm deadWed May 12 1993 18:219
    First off, Bell was a Scot who split his time about evenly between
    Canada and the US. 
    
    Secondly, YOU can't call him Uncle Alex, he's MY Uncle Alex (well
    actually he's probably a cousin, my great-grandmother was a Bell and
    was born near Brantford, never had to time to research it fully though)
    
    Finally, there was another fellow (an American) who independently
    invented the telephone but Bell beat him to a patent.
699.7POLAR::RICHARDSONSick in a balanced sort of wayWed May 12 1993 19:381
    I guess you could say he had his number.....
699.8ergoPOLAR::ROBINSONPBone City TouristWed May 12 1993 20:195
    
    and heard his calling...
    
    
    ahem..8*P
699.9Jeopardy.CSC32::D_ROYERChi beve birra campa cent'anni.Thu May 13 1993 16:573
    Alex Trabeck..
    
    
699.10The Bluejays.CSC32::D_ROYERChi beve birra campa cent'anni.Thu May 13 1993 16:573
    World Champions...
    
    
699.11More infoTRCP39::millerBob Miller, DTN: 637-3461Thu May 13 1993 17:286
Re: .6
     
>    Finally, there was another fellow (an American) who independently
>    invented the telephone but Bell beat him to a patent.

I thought the other fellow was a German.