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Greatest Canadian Inventions
#96672 09/12/2006 9:40 AM
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We our nation television/radio network the CBC is doing a survey of what Canadians think are the greatest Canadian inventions. They've selected 50 of them and we get to vote. Problem is I can't decide which is the best. Sure we've got things like the electron microscope, "bomb" cancer treatment, and the blackberry but when put up against things like the retractable beer carton handle, poutine, and the wonder bra....well, it's just hard to decide. Can you guys give me some help here what do you think? Here's the full list.


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Can I see a show of $%^&#$s for the Wonder Bra?

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wojo #96675 09/12/2006 9:50 AM
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Well since I dont see maple syrup, Hockey or flannel shirts on the list, im gona have to run with retractable beer carton handle.

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Are you sure all those things were invented in Canada. Not that i disbelive you, but damn, they sure have invented a lot of stuff up there.

I mean...Basketball, and there was me blaming the Americans for that and all along it was you guys...shame on you.

My pick is the wonderbra


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can five pin bowling really be an invention if it is a variation/rip off of 10 pin bowling???


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Tell you what, i choose the zipper. Thank you canada for making it faster to take my pants off.


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My favorite Canadian invention wasn't even on the list!!!!

"Doggy Style"
So you can both watch the hockey game on TV. Eh!

Sorry to the moderators in advance....I couldn't resist.

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Reido113 #96681 09/12/2006 10:15 AM
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Rush!

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wojo #96682 09/12/2006 10:31 AM
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Either Bob and Doug McKenzie or Rush (screamed while standing in a rock stance with a lighter held high).... good day,eh... you hoser....Gordon

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wojo #96683 09/12/2006 10:46 AM
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Curling
The only game I know of where the official rules state that the winning team MUST buy drinks for the losing team, and the losing team is required to buy drinks for the winners.


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Dinqua #96684 09/12/2006 11:18 AM
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Curling.....I thought that was a Scottish game.

Thats two things i learnt today. Basketball is not American and Curing is not Scottish.

Whats next. Red bikes are not gay


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CANADIAN BACON!! EH.


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kennymc #96686 09/12/2006 11:32 AM
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I always thought new englander's invented candle pin bowling, I have only seen it around here. And I have to call shennagians on your "inventing" lacrosse. That was the indains. But god is it a great game.

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wojo #96687 09/12/2006 12:48 PM
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Listing the telephone and Alexander Graham Bell as Canadian is a real stretch:

"Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Ontario, and then to the United States"
http://www.fi.edu/franklin/inventor/bell.html

"On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Thomas Watson fashioned the device itself; a crude thing made of a wooden stand, a funnel, a cup of acid, and some copper wire"
http://www.privateline.com/TelephoneHistory/History1.htm


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Dill #96688 09/12/2006 12:50 PM
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I think the invention of the telephone an Alexander Graham Bell is a little misleading. He was born in Scotland and emigrate to Canada after graduating from college at the University of Edinburgh. Bell meets Thomas Watson, a young electrician who would become his assistant, at Charles Williams's electrician shop in Boston. Filed the patent in the US.


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Fishercat #96689 09/12/2006 1:13 PM
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Yeah, what Phil and Ron said! Eh!


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beavers.....




goes well with the wonderbra...


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the Robertson screw...far superior to any other screw type. I believe it is not yet accepted in the U.S.? Crazy Canadians...imagine, a square hole in a screw head!


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I'm thinking only a Canadian might credit one of their own with the "invention" of the radio as well. See: History of Radio. I did look into other online sources and this timeline seems to be confirmed in the overall history. I think there may need to be some research done on these "Canadian inventions". Eh?

I like beaver(s)!


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VOIVOD!!

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my Latin is a little rusty...but I think you implied that my mother had relations with some kind of bread?


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Thermal linings?

Snowmobiles?

Whiteout?....Oh sorry! I was thinkin' of a certain weather condition, NOT that liquid paper stuff.

BUT come to think of it, I have heard somewhere that one of mothers of one of "Monkees"(I THINK it was Mike Nesmith), invented THAT!

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(...and IF she WAS Canadian...so I guess THAT would count then, HUH?!)


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IMO, it's gotta be a toss-up between the caulking gun and instant mashed potatoes.

Hey!
Use 'em together for interesting variations at meal times, eh?!!

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Well Benny. If you're goin' to go that THAT direction(since when is a person, an "invention"???)........

....I'll take famous Canadians for 600 dollars(USD....NOT CAD, please).....

"He hosts a syndicated game show that many many nerds have won lots and lots o' money on."

Cheers,
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(NO....It AIN'T Art Fleming!!!)

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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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Alex Trebek???!!!

Humm...I was thinkin' o' Pat Sajak!

Oh...WAIT a minute! That question(actually ANSWER, I suppose) DID reference NERDS, didn't it?!

My bad!

I can SEE how you could'a been CONFUSED!!!!

Cheers,
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(the judges have ruled in your favor....Wait ANOTHER minute here....the judges have re-reversed their ruling....Benny, you DIDN'T pose that response in the form of a question!!!)

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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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William Shatner.




What a wuss he turns out to be. Branson offers him a FREE ride on the first commercial flight into space on Virgin Airlines and he chickens out saying he ouwld be scared to death and puke on everyone. Girlie man Denny Crane.


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TonyG #96703 09/12/2006 5:13 PM
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My favorite Canadian invention wasn't even on the list!!!!

"Doggy Style"
So you can both watch the hockey game on TV. Eh!

Sorry to the moderators in advance....I couldn't resist.




Think you're referring to the first Olympiad in Greece.


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bennybmn #96704 09/12/2006 5:40 PM
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Alex Trebek.




I remember watching him on a local game show here in my home town before he made it to the "big time". He still looks the same.


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That sounds delightful Ade. Outside Wojo cooking I would think that would be a Candian favorite based upon my experience with the great northern cuisine. Eh!


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That list is a scam. We all know the electric light was invented here.

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In Menlow(sp?)Park,NJ. Hence, Edison's nickname "The Wizard of Menlow Park".

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time zones ,so you can watch the same telly program early/later . like a g bell and curling , sir sandford fleming was also scottish .IF ITS NO SCOTTISH ITS CRAP

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Surely as chain-drive bike owners we'd have to vote for version 1.0 of the ScottOiler

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Bill #96710 09/12/2006 9:47 PM
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Good one Bill! I had to look this one up and boy oh boy, the claims are rife with inaccuracies:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mcc1.htm


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Tell you what, i choose the zipper. Thank you canada for making it faster to take my pants off.




Yeah, but then someone had to invent choneys after getting stuck on the uptake.


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