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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:10 PM
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Canada's population is only 30 million..... yet, our dollar is worth the same as yours!
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:15 PM by HEyHEY
You suck, America!
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:14 PM
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1. after how many years of trailing the dollar?
Who knows where this is going -- for BOTH currencies. Lighten up, eh?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:15 PM
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3. You suck, American!
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:14 PM
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2. sure, each individual one
but then, we have a lot more of them than you do. Canada has roughly US$50B in currency. the US has roughly US$800B in currency outstanding.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:17 PM
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4. Yeah, but your heriditary Monarch is just a figurehead- ours actually rules by decree!
Oh, wait...:evilfrown:
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:18 PM
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5. Fuck you and FREE QUEBEC
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:18 PM by JVS
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:19 PM
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7. Watch it, bub, I can buy and sell your ass!
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:19 PM by HEyHEY
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:24 PM
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10. You cannot, it's just that Canada's lucrative coin counterfeiting jig is up.
Now hand over the freedom poutine
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:39 PM
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29. No you can't.
You're in Canada. The only things you can buy are maple syrup and funny hats.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:44 PM
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32. And poutine, backbacon, and beer
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:47 PM
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33. And French Canadians.
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:48 PM by yibbehobba
Sorry. *Freedom* Canadians.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:50 PM
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34. It's about time that Michael Moore makes a movie about the desperate plight of the Quebecois
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:01 PM
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36. He can if he wants, we'll make sure it never airs here!
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:18 PM
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6. But we have the Corn Palace! So there!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:20 PM
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8. I think I'll buy that corn palace, AT PAR!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:25 PM
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11. Look at the canuck, happy to finally be equal
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:27 PM
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13. She's probably now listening to The Trees by Rush n/t
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:28 PM
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15. Heyhey is a girl!
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:30 PM
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17. My mistake it's a male
It just sounded like a bitch.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:31 PM
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19. ZING!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:33 PM
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21. haha
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:31 PM
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18. Cut that out!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:32 PM
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20.  Neener neener neener! Heyhey has no wiener!
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:32 PM by JVS
:P
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:33 PM
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22. Don't make me post a pic!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:34 PM
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23. Oh yeah, as though you wouldn't be able to find a picture of a penis on the internet and claim...
Edited on Thu Sep-20-07 12:35 PM by JVS
it belongs to you
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:36 PM
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25. I meant posting that pic of you fucking the vaccum
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:39 PM
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28. It's not nice to refer to your mother as a houshold appliance, no matter how similar she might be
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:41 PM
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30. BTW, she says you left your buttplugs and strap on at the swinger's club
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:43 PM
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31. D'oh!
Good one.
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:36 PM
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26. He probably has to sit to pee n/t
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:37 PM
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27. That's a comfort issue!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:27 PM
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14. Soon, it'll be the other way around!
bwhahhaa
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:29 PM
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16. Then all the Ford in GM plants in Canada will close because the wages will be lower here
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:23 PM
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9. What a day...and Commander Cookoo Bananas still says ..
the fundamentals of the US economy are strong.

I guess they are for the top .01%
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:26 PM
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12. Ohh, and you're the number one country for our foreign exports.
You're going to be getting better prices there!

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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:35 PM
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24. What's gonna suck is my trip next week to Montreal.....
It's going to cost me more than I expected. :scared:
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 12:53 PM
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35. No more cheap canola oil for US.
:cry:
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-20-07 01:20 PM
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37. Yes, and you have free polar bears running around the Hudson Bay! Too bad you guys
won't let me live in your country.
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