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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:32 AM
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So, my fellow Canadian (Jon) and I decided white Americans are EXTRA square
Both of us have been down there... we laugh at you guys tucking in T-shirts and letting your ties drop below the belt buckle (Special props to WIAH). And, yeah our decision as white Canadians is that white Americans are dorks.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:33 AM
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1. News flash...
most white guys are dorks;)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:36 AM
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3. Honestly, not up here
Don't know why.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:52 AM
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9. I don't know...
I met some dorky Canucks at the bar of the Holiday Inn near the Airport in Montreal...
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:16 AM
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12. Airport Holiday Inns are not actually part of any country. And their customers are not human beans.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:18 PM
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51. Since when?
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:33 AM
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2. it sounds like you mean white american men
:P
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:37 AM
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4. Yeah
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:38 AM
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5. I only tuck in my t shirt on formal occasions, and I don't even own a tie
Besides, Americans never produced...... this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tOxEmapWA
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:48 AM
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8. That's the best you can do? Dude! We came up with Brian Adams!
Oddly NOT cool here
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:07 AM
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10. Hey, at least I didn't bring Celine Dion into it.
Or Platinum Blonde :rofl:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:45 AM
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6. Although I am not the Canadian Jon in question, I'll throw my support behind this.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:47 AM
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7. Yeah, otherwise CSIS will open a file.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:13 AM
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11. Your mania on the tee-shirt thing was v. amusing in Seattle.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:18 AM
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13. delete
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 01:24 AM by gbrooks
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:21 AM
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14. As Canadians, you ought to be experts in squareness. It is your national past-time.
So why don't you go pick up some more tim-bits and settle down on the chesterfield.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:28 AM
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16. That's couch to you sofa boy. BTW we invented the stubby beer bottle what's your claim to fame?
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 01:28 AM by gbrooks
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:38 AM
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17. Country music and NASCAR?
I'm not really helping our case here am I?
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:43 AM
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18. Regarding country music Hank Snow and Stompin Tom Collins. But you got me on NASCAR
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 02:01 AM by gbrooks

But we post real annoying vids on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsLdOJ0orS8

No even Rick Ashley isn't as annoying as this.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:21 AM
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24. Dude, oddly, we aren't square.
We're like North America's Europe. Come on, you've been to montreal
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:07 AM
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34. I've also been to London, Ontario and Windsor, Ontario
NO SALE
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:06 PM
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49. Ontario isn't Canada
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:16 PM
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50. Ontario:Canada as Russia:Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 02:17 PM by JVS
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:20 PM
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52. Exactly. And by that standard you can't tell me
That Moscow and Warsaw are the same.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:20 PM
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53. Exactly. And by that standard you can't tell me
That Moscow and Warsaw are the same.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:23 PM
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55. Warsaw? Poland wasn't part of the USSR.
Don't act like you're in a totally different place because you're in Minsk instead of Smolensk.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:25 PM
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56. Shit, sorry I meant Tallin - I'm hungover
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 02:28 PM by HEyHEY
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:26 PM
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57. Different cultures, attitudes. We're a HUGE country, man
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:10 PM
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59. London is where people from Brantford go to hide the fact they're from Brantford.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:22 AM
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15. Actually what we now call a tee shirt Mama Cass used to call a dress.

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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:44 AM
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19. Right.
Hey man, if that's what it takes to keep your spirits up there in the Great White North, more power to you.
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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:22 AM
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20. Cut HEyHEY some slack. He lives in Coal Harbour which is not a town or a place
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 02:24 AM by gbrooks
so much as an idea for a real estate brochure.
If he lived off Davie St he wouldn't feel so
left out and angry.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:25 AM
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30. Meh, not bad about anything... except that I live in Coal Harbour
FYI THANK CHRIST I'll be gone in November! :-)
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:22 AM
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25. I have no worries, dork!
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 03:24 AM
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21. I am so square you can use my edges to open envelopes.
:D
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:03 AM
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22. Seriously? There's a difference?
From the pics I've seen there isn't anyway. But, I'm one of those that think MOST white guys are dorks. But, I respect your confidence. :)
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:11 AM
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23. It's just swapping one uniform for another.
I think you can be cool/interesting/worthwhile while totally "white bread" on the exterior, because what's on the outer covering doesn't really matter anyway. Anybody who thinks it does is quite shallow.

Not that I think HEyHEY is like this. It is his wont to post provocatively and he doesn't mean everything he says.
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S n o w b a l l Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:24 AM
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29. Oh, I know...
just giving the white guy a hard time. :)

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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:45 PM
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48. I certainly hope no one is actually offended - if so they've proven their squareness
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:22 AM
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27. Swear to god, there is! n/t
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:22 AM
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26. Have some Kraft Dinner and leave us alone.
You don't even want to know the impression I got of Canadian males the last time I was in B.C.
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:23 AM
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28. That we're rad?
Actuall... I'm not saying BC boys ain't douchebags, jerks, whatever.. just saying we aren't dorks
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:52 AM
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31. If that works for you, then sure.
I did see my share of dorklike life forms in BC, though. I don't know of a country, province or state which doesn't have its fair share of dorks. Young (sideways baseball caps, loose-fitting half-jeans which show underwear, fake jewelry which is half the weight of the wearer) and old (tucked-in T-shirts, usually too tight, a generous portion of pants which are at least two inches too short, and hats which went out during the disco era), there are dorks everywhere down here, but everywhere up there too (especially in Ontario, Alberta and among Quebec youth).

Just out of curiosity, in which state did you witness your most recent dorkfest?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:39 PM
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44. Illinois
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Zavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:40 PM
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63. Oh.
Well, I can see why you're under the impression you're under. Illinois is where nerds, goobers and dorks who were routinely beaten for their lunch money go to die.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 05:55 AM
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32. We know we are.
:-(
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 09:27 AM
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33. Not only do I NOT let my tie drop below my buckle...
...I also know how to tie a Windsor knot.

I'm much more suave than the average white American. :thumbsup:
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:23 AM
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35. Well...
I'm only half-white...unless you consider Middle-eastern/Arabic/Semitic to be white as well. (The US census office does. ???)

I never tuck in my tee and my ties are always perfect length. I have a terrible haircut though.




I guess that makes me a
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:39 AM
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36. This song's for you, bud
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:19 PM
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37. As a canuck,I beg to differ.
This American is the epitome of cool.

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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:25 PM
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38. You do know that white Canadians are also white Americans, right?
:D
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:48 PM
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39. Bingo
You win the cookies :D
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:40 PM
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46. nope there are differences
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:55 PM
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40. Hey, I resent that! Most American guys aren't square!
They're extra round!

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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:58 PM
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41. I've *met* you
:rofl:
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:09 PM
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43. I even saw him wear a wrinkled shirt
IN PUBLIC! :o
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:40 PM
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45. Yea, but I did it under protest!
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:43 PM
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47. This is true. But I didn't tell you about the people that pointed and laughed.
I have to agree that the tucking in of T-shirts makes me CRINGE in absolute horror.
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 01:07 PM
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42. Time out, Time OUT!!!
If you two sides don't make amends, I might have to do something drastic.

Like re-colonise you.

On behalf of Her Imperial Majesty,

Mark.

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Ishoutandscream2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 02:22 PM
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54. Hey! I resemble that remark!!
:P
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:04 PM
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58. Where is Canadia again?
:evilgrin:
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:28 PM
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61. Just look up
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:16 PM
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60. Ann Murray rules
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:31 PM
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62. I'll have you know this white American is round.
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 06:32 PM by Jamastiene
I have a bit of a pot belly now. I don't know where it came from, but it's there. I was 18 and 104 pounds and now I am spreading and getting shorter. Does this mean I am on the way to being square? I am certainly round at the moment. See? -----> :*
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:43 PM
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64. hahahaha
that's a good one-- Canadiens lecturing us on being bland. :rofl:
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:46 PM
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66. Know what's even funnier?
You can't even spell "Canadians".
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crimsonblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:51 PM
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67. Meh
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 10:52 PM by crimsonblue
right spelling or not, canada will always be jealous of the US.
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chicagoexpat Donating Member (843 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:45 PM
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65. Go back to Tim Hortons & eat ur donut!!!!
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