09-08-2001, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MTL, QC, CAN
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Originally posted by CDSmith:
Rob roy --
no, never been that far up. The Pas is as far as I've been north. That Clearwater lake was pretty cool, 160 feet deep in the middle and you can see all the way to the bottom.
Rod --
Who's providing your percentages??? Man you are wayyy off bro. "Only 10% of Americans cannot tell the states the US have"?? Are you NUTS? Probably. Every impromptu survey on the streets of any-city USA has consistantly proven that Americans actually CAN'T name more than one or two provinces at most. There was one survey done across a range of US cities on July the 4th of this year, and 1 out of 3 Americans asked couldn't even identify exactly what july 4th signified!! Approximately 20 Americans walking the streets of a city in Florida (Tampa I think) could not name even one province or the capital of Canada or name it's prime minister. The closest any of them came to naming a province was "Molsen" or "Moosehead". One thought that Ottawa was a province, so he got a point for knowing the word "Ottawa".
You will find that your %'s are boned big time Rod, and that not only can a very large # of Canadians name all of our provinces and territories, but we can name more states than many Americans. I would also hazard a good guess that we know more about world history than our US counterparts. How many Americans know all about the Alamo and Valley Forge, yet know nothing about the war of 1812 (where Canada kicked their asses but good)
Every survey of general questions about Canada and even some US things, when put to US citizens and then shown on TV has been downright funny. Even my American friends laugh at that shit.
I once had an American dude at a gas station in Orlando refuse to accept my U.S. traveler's cheque because it said in tiny print on it "Bank of Canada", yet beside the "$20.00" it also said "U.S.", but he kept saying "We don' take Canaydeean munny heer" DUHHHHHH!! I could NOT convince this moron that it WAS US money purchased in Canada!!
As for "vive la quebec", I agree, Quebec is a great province, and most of the people there are awesome. I have tons of relatives that live there, and I lived in Montreal for 2 months during the 76 Olympics, it was great (aside from the dogshit everywhere). It's not Quebec that sucks with big lips, it's the separatist extremists that bite the big one. Fortunately they are in the minority.
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[This message has been edited by CDSmith (edited 09-08-2001).]
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My statistics was for student in the US...student of high school grade 5.
Our graphical teacher told that when I was in grade 5.
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