Canada – too much of a Good thing?
The University of British Columbia every winter sponsors a big snowball fight where all the students are invited to throw snowballs at each other’s team and frolic in the white stuff as tension breaker in the dreary depths of Canda’s winter. You can picture it being the talk of the town at the local Tim Horton’s for weeks ahead of time. You’ve got the local paper writing preview articles. You’ve got scouting reports. The media said it is “a serious snowy showdown,” which was expected to draw thousands. On the day of the big event the college sent out an alert: UBC’s social committee said the Snowball fight was cancelled because there was too much snow in the area. I’m just worried that maybe Canada has lost their edge.
Every year the city of Montreal has a winter festival. It is very elaborate set up at a fairgrounds. There are rides and games and refreshments and they even build ice houses and amusement structures from blocks of snow that are the size of regular buildings in the city. The annual Fête des Neiges Fête.
A stranded couple reported a massive traffic blockage on Highway 40 near L’Assomption, Quebec — about 45 kilometers northeast of Montreal. The pile up involved as many as 50 cars scattered in every direction on and around the roadway. The line of waiting cars was tremendous and they waited, some for as long as four hours, for emergency crews to clear the scene. The true spirit of Maple Leaf youth shown as they sat in the cars, they turned a pretty garbage situation into a much more pleasant and memorable one. The boys went into the trunks of their cars, retrieved their sticks and some equipment. They cleared a spot on the road of cars and a hockey game broke out.
The most Canadian car thief even returns stolen vehicle
A Nova Scotia woman returned from shopping to find her car had vanished from the parking lot. The woman called 911 Sunday evening to report her SUV stolen from a parking lot in Hammonds Plains. RCMP said the woman told police that around 6:30 p.m. she had parked her white Hyundai Santa Fe on Hammonds Plains Road beside an identical vehicle and entered a business. When she came back out it was gone. But what looked like a carjacking wasn’t one at all: it turns out a motorist driving an identical vehicle had parked in the spot next to her and accidentally drove off in the wrong car! (How his key fob managed to work, we’ll never know.) Upon realizing his error, the mistaken motorist tracked the woman down and returned her car—with a full tank of gas.
Northern Nonsense
What is Canada’s national board game?
Sorry.
A patron in a Montreal restaurant turned on a tap in the washroom and got scalded.
“This is an outrage,” he complained. “The faucet marked ‘C’ gave me boiling water.”
“But, Monsieur, ‘C’ stands for “Chaud” – French for hot. You should know that if you live in Montreal.”
“Wait a minute,” roared the patron. “The other tap is also marked ‘C’.”
“Of course,” said the manager. “It stands for cold. After all, Montreal is a bilingual city.”
An American couple is driving through Canada and stops at a gas station to fuel up.
As the man goes into the station to pay, his wife calls out to him, “Ask them where we are!” So the husband walks in, pays, and asks, “By the way, where are we?”
To which the attendant answers, “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.”
The man goes back to his car and the wife asks, “Where are we?”
“He doesn’t speak English” replies the husband.
In Canada, they use “B.C.E.” instead of “B.C.”
It stands for “Before Christ, Eh?”
Famous May 8th birthdays Eh?
1993 – Ana Mulvey-Ten, 1965 – Melissa Gilbert, 1970 – Naomi Klein, 1993 – Olivia Culpo
1982 – Stephen Amel, 1939 – Sidney Altman, 1975 – Enrique Iglesias, 1957 – Bill Cowher