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Reading is my second passion, my first being riding my Softail  I have just finished a book titled "Mad River" written by a famous author John Sandford (American). I came across the following two bits of important information. I would like your comments please. (Keep it clean). "I don't think of Canadians as being drug dealers" she said. "They are," Virgil said. "Generally, as a nation, they're pretty depraved. At least, that's been my experience". "So what killed him?" Virgil asked. "I'm thinking Aliens." "You mean like Canadians" he replied.
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Sounds like Virgil has the learnin' about Canadians.
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Any nation that can produce the ground breaking Red Green show, irritate certain Prescott Triumph riders by wordsmything local lingo with the occasional "U", sharing talents like John Candy, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot and Nelson Pale Ale is pretty much OK in my book. Depraved maybe, good neighhbours definitely  jh
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don't forget the addition of the A sound as a noun, verb, adverb, and conjunction.
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i'm going to my room and sing "o canada" and pop some
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After my little visit to Niagra falls, I learned something. The Canadian side is sooooooooooooooo much nicer than the American side. So maybe they are aliens...............well, they are when they come to this side of the river up there.
As far as drug dealers go......I dont think many Canadians are from Mexico.
If the Canadians we have here are exemplary of Canadian depravity, it would be hard to make a case against Canada as a depraved nation. Maybe quirky but not hardly depraved.
Maybe the writer of that book stop while he is ..............behind.
Hum that saying dont work well if ya change it up.
Anyway I dont see many problems along our northern border. However that border is a long way from my house.
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Red Green is enough for me. But then again, in my youth I was a part-time Minnesotan in the little town of Baudette, where you could row or skate (depending on the season) right across the Rainy River into Canada.
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight, we are looking for the positive.  
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Dwight, we are looking for the positive.
 Oh...yeah...sorry.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
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Okay, I admit it . . . I secretly want to be a Canadian citizen. 
I would be unstoppable if not for law enforcement and physics.
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Ma, up there in beautiful Kelowna BC...hope ya like the colo(u)rful card I sent ya! 
You know Mr. Argo, myself, Friar-John & the Legendary rider simply known as Z spent a night in a Kelowna motel one year a few years ago. We ordered in the strangest d*mn pizza known to mankind. We asked for lots of this n that's and it came with an assortment of coldcut meat scattered across some velveeta "cheese". Cripes, not even Canadien Bacon.
Thereoughtabealaw 
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Yeah, I know what ya mean about the "ethnic cuisine" up there. Just try to find a good Mexican restaurant up that a way for THAT matter! (...ah, but then again, aren't the Tim Hortons crullers nice there?!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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What is a dish that would be considered Canadian cuisine? Other than Canadian bacon.
When I was in Buffalo New York, my friends took me out for Mexican food. It seemed odd to me being that here there is a Mexican restaurant on every block.
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Any nation that can..irritate certain Prescott Triumph riders by wordsmything local lingo with the occasional "U"..is pretty much OK in my book.
Don't forget John, if it wasn't for a couple of Canadians "gettin' together" almost 62 years ago now, that there "Prescott Triumph rider"(now actually a Sedona Triumph rider) wouldn't be around today to bug people about that "superfluous letter u"! 
(...and speakin' o' which, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, Ma, up there in beautiful Kelowna BC...hope ya like the colo(u)rful card I sent ya!
John? Shouldn't it be Jouhn.
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What is a dish that would be considered Canadian cuisine? Other than Canadian bacon.
When I was in Buffalo New York, my friends took me out for Mexican food. It seemed odd to me being that here there is a Mexican restaurant on every block.
Unfortunately we don't have much in terms of Canadian food, but then who needs any other food when you have bacon.
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Maple syrup . . . Canadian whiskey . . . uhhhh . . . Canadian Club ginger ale . . . 
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What is a dish that would be considered Canadian cuisine? Other than Canadian bacon.
POUTINE (poo-tseen) A Quebec street food invention.
Double deep fried potato sticks (French fries) covered in chedder cheese curds (young chedder globules) covered in thick rich gravy served piping hot with a Pepsi. Tasty on occasion and enjoyed by many. Can you say cholestoral?
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Don't forget the Canadian contribution to the fashion world, RCM uniforms and Don Cherry!
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And HOCKEY! 
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No reply from Keith or Greg yet.  I thought I would get a bite and a sly remark about us OZZIES. Although I am not a real one.
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They grow some dang fine weed up there, my buddy had a iron worker guy that brought us some kind friendly buds. Oh and any beer from Unique Brau is awesome
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Shania Twain....local hometown girl. SHE IS NO ALIEN...er except to Frank and the OZZIES. Who's an Alien then? Anyone who drives on the wrong side of the road.....Left side that is! Right Franky!!!!
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Good to see that you are still alive and kicking Greg.
Shania Who?
Only joking, we have some of her DVDS in the car deck.
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I've crossed Canada a couple times in the past couple years. Once coming up through Vancouver, north through BC, over to Jasper, down through Banff, over to Calgary, and east across the plains before 're-entry' into Michigan.
I toured much of the eastern half the next year.
Nicest folks I've ever met. Beautiful country, too. I'd live there in a second if 1) they could move it a little further south, and 2) they'd have me.
One is as likely as the other.
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I've crossed Canada a couple times in the past couple years. Once coming up through Vancouver, north through BC, over to Jasper, down through Banff, over to Calgary, and east across the plains before 're-entry' into Michigan.
I toured much of the eastern half the next year.
Nicest folks I've ever met. Beautiful country, too. I'd live there in a second if 1) they could move it a little further south, and 2) they'd have me.
One is as likely as the other.
Well, we can't move it farther south but you do realize that Global Warming is a plot of the Harper government to turn Canada tropical.
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