ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Probably just to piss off the Brits. That's probably why you guys started driving on the other side of the road. We used to drive on the British side here in Canada up until the 1920s or so, and then we changed over.Licence is another Brit holdover that we have. You guys use license, right?Yeah, it's supposed to be license here, but I almost always misspell it "licence" and have to go back and make it incorrect. Glad to know it's because I'm channeling a Canadian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I'm glad you took that as intended. I stayed in a hotel in Carate owned by an American and a Tica. The guy was soooo sarcastic, it was hilarious. There were two Canadian women staying there and he kept calling them "seal clubbers". The one said 'What'd you call me, seal flubber?" And he says "More like whale blubber". This is the owner talking to his guests. He also told a Swiss women who was scared of snakes, sharks, the water, heck everything that he was feeding her 12 year old son beer, and that in the morning he was taking her son boogie boarding out where the whales and sharks and cocaine filled submarines are! I'm not making this up. My wife and I were in tears with his comments. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 What I'd like to know is how FAVRE is pronounced farv???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 What I'd like to know is how FAVRE is pronounced farv????It was originally pronounced "favour," but his grandmother's first name was "Patty," which the locals pronounced "Party," so they change the pronunciation of the last name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 @ruxpinThanks for clearing that up....arsehole! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevluk Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 No, they call their military budget "American military."Not true, they have a Navy.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 @ruxpin This guy may be on to something...because Canada is bi-lingual, French and English, it may be a combo of the two languages... http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question95041.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podein25 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Licence is another Brit holdover that we haveNot to mention Chesterfield - actually that's a Canadianism apparently.This is my most favourite thread ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Here is a compresenive list of the different spellings,....another thing I heard was Ben Franklin changed a lot of the words to make America different and giving it it's own distinct language... http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Not true, they have a Navy.... I'd bet my life that's an American bass fisherman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachX Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 but the bass is canadian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansonBros17 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Nah, we Americans don't use guns for bass fishing - just dynamite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 another thing I heard was Ben Franklin changed a lot of the words to make America different and giving it it's own distinct language...http://www3.telus.ne...ianAmerican.htmThat's true about Franklin. It was immediately after he was electrocuted while foolishly holding a kite with a key attached to it in a lightning storm. I'm sure these two things are completely unrelated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I'd bet my life that's an American bass fisherman!Smart move. Don't go out on a limb and bet anything of value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 @ruxpin You're on a roll! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 but the bass is canadianIf it were Canadian, it would be spelled basTARD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 @ruxpinYou're on a roll!That would explain the sesame seeds up my ### Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 If it were Canadian, it would be spelled basTARD.And damn proud of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachX Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 If it were Canadian, it would be spelled basTARD.I looked at the picture closely... i think the fisherman is just a target for the canadian submarine under the surface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyercanuck Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 We have a submarine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I looked at the picture closely... i think the fisherman is just a target for the canadian submarine under the surfaceIt's not a submarine. What you're seeing underwater is Alan Thicke's career.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruxpin Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 We have a submarine?I laughed because he said "the" Canadian submarine, not "a" Canadian submarine. DOES Canada have a submarine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podein25 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) We have a submarine?We have at least two - I can see them in Halifax HarboUr right now (in dry dock)Not sure if they float or do any of the sneaky things that subs do (these are the rust buckets we bought from the British several years ago, if you recall), but I bet they sink real well. Edited February 22, 2013 by Podein25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowntoBure Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Offence and offense aren't Canadian/American. Offence refers to law, such as "He commited an offence" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackStraw Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 We have a submarine?http://www.cafepress.com/readyayeready/407732 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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