Myth Busters, Canadian Style!

i would also say I'm one of the few Canadian who's lived a significant amount of time in the US... we were in Colorado twice: 1975-1978 (ok, I was young) and 1983-1986. To be honest... I never really noticed much of a difference in the people.
 
people here in the US say "Forties" to refer to 40oz bottles of beer. . . at least they do it in the South.
 
Wippit Guud said:
heh, we just had a humidex warning on Friday... 31C with a humdex of 40C. Think of it a reverse windchill.

Pogey is more of an eastern slang word... hear it all the time in PEI/Newfoundland, never heard it when living in Ontario or Winnipeg.

Caisse Populaire is mor of a bank 'name' than a bank type... pretty sure it's the Quebec version of a credit union.

AWL is news to me, and I'm an air force brat, all I ever heard was AWOL. Although, we just might be pronouncing the "O", with the official acronym being AWL
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We in the south who have one call it a 'heat index'.
 
Omega said:
Other things we invented:

Baby pablum
Fogen Frutz
Insulin
Arcylics/plexi-glass
Hockey
Basketball
Lacrosse
Five-pin bowling
Rollerskates
The baseball glove
The telephone
Cable T.V.
Refinning
Kerosene
The zipper
The electron microscope
Electric cooking ranges
The electric car (North America's first)
Green plastic garbage bags
Hydro-foil boats
IMAX
Green ink
Heart-valve operations (first one)
First patented lightbulbs
Machine gun tracer bullets
Newsprint
Pacemakers
Paint rollers
Panoramic cameras
Pictionary
Portable high chairs
Radio compasses
Screw propellers
Ski-bindings
Snowblowers
Snowmobiles
Rotary snowplows
Steam foghorns
Standard time
Walkie talkies
Washing machines
Table hockey
Trivial Pursuit
Smarties
Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp
Superman
& more...

And unless someone has recently out-done us, last I heard we also had the world's largest...
-Mall (West Edmonton Mall)

And the world's tallest...
-Self-supporting structure (CN Tower)

And the world's longest...
-Bridge (P.E.I. to the mainiland)
-Street (Yonge St., Toronto to somewhere near Manitoba)
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Please research better. Many of these claims are false. :headshake2:
 
Other things we invented:

Baby pablum
Fogen Frutz
Insulin
Arcylics/plexi-glass
Hockey
Basketball
Lacrosse
Five-pin bowling
Rollerskates
The baseball glove
The telephone
Cable T.V.
Refinning
Kerosene
The zipper
The electron microscope
Electric cooking ranges
The electric car (North America's first)
Green plastic garbage bags
Hydro-foil boats
IMAX
Green ink
Heart-valve operations (first one)
First patented lightbulbs
Machine gun tracer bullets
Newsprint
Pacemakers
Paint rollers
Panoramic cameras
Pictionary
Portable high chairs
Radio compasses
Screw propellers
Ski-bindings
Snowblowers
Snowmobiles
Rotary snowplows
Steam foghorns
Standard time
Walkie talkies
Washing machines
Table hockey
Trivial Pursuit
Smarties
Crispy Crunch & Coffee Crisp
Superman
& more...

Ummm lacrose originated from a NATIVE AMERICAN war game, and the TRACER round was originaly invented by the germans in World War 1.

how do u quote things? ALSO, you can fire a tracer round for anything including shotguns. not just machine guns.
 
H3D said:
Please research better. Many of these claims are false. :headshake2:
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Which ones specificially?

Here's my sources...

http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_facts&lists/inventions.html
http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/
http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/Canadian.htm

There's more I didn't mention... the electric street car, JAVA, music synthesizers, and the odometer.

True, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet, but it goes both ways...
 
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