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От : George Pope 1:153/757 01 ноя 24 07:55:26
К : Dr. What 01 ноя 24 18:22:02
Тема : Monthly posting of the ru
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> -=> George Pope wrote to All <=-
>> Happy birthday Canada on the 1st of July!
> Do you know how Canada got its name?
> The three guys who discovered it put some letters in a bag and decided to
> name the country after the letters they pulled out.
> First guy: I got a "C", eh.
> Second guy: I got an "N", eh.
> Third guy: I got a "D", eh.
That`s how I`ve been telling it; good to have corroboration, or
you`ve just caught it roundabout from one of my older posting of it here
or in other humour areas. . .
> Or the the alternate idea which was that Canada was empty when the first
>settlers arrived (or so they thought). So it was named: Can = container, nada
> = nothing. Empty container. Sort of like a Doug and Bob Mackenzie show.
Oh, Bob & Doug-- I doo recall them, of course -- f*cking Americans
thinking they have a clue about my country when most don`t know spit about
their own!
The real answer, of course, is "Kanata" was the Huron word for "village."
Early explorers asked them, "What do you call this place?" & that`s
the honest answer they received. Now there is a Kanata in most
provinces, I believe. Some are bigger than villages (towns or even cities)
We use the term for some of our international sports teams, like
in Olympic Curling we have Team Canada, but for the Paralympic Curling,
it`s Team Adanac(read it backwards); I think some other sports use "Team
Kanata" but I`m not much for following sports, unless they involve sexy
women doing beautifully presented activities (Figure Skating, Rhythmic
Gymnastics come to mind first.)
> ... You have two choices for dinner: Take it or Leave it.
Oh, I`m always taking dinner, whether or not it`s what was
originally presented to me.
I had an older friend (is that possible? Yup) who, if a waitress
asked if he liked his meal, would respond, "It`s not flipped onto the
floor is it?"
One time he was asked how he liked his meal & he, where he was
a regular, answered, "It`s at our usual standards."; goes to pay &
finds out that his meal was comped to him, in full! Bonus: steak &
trimmings for $0.00!
& we have a topic for ObPuns:
I was trying to give away a bunch of those little bugs that make
honey. But nobody wanted my freebies.
A man walks into a pet store and asks for a dozen bees. The
clerk carefully counts 13 bees out onto the counter. ЇThat╞s one too
many!Ў says the customer. The clerk replies ЇIt╞s a freebieЎ
Welp, I guess that`s as far as that one can go. . . Enjoy your
day/week/month/season/any damned thing you want to! (if they`re all consenting adults, of
course!)
--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-7
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