How Canadian are you?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:41 pm

Azalin wrote:
Particularly when most of that land is permafrosted.
If under the frost there's some oil, then it matters a little bit

And this is applicable to both Canada and Russia (and Alaska).

SteveK · Post by **SteveK** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:54 pm

I got 90. I felt like I was guessing on most of them. I'm a Canadian citizen but wasn't born here but I guess I've more or less taken in the culture.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:59 pm

s1m0n wrote:I've never heard of that system of measurement.

And uh, I got a 99, but I cheated once--In my house it's actually a couch, but I know that "chesterfield" was supposed to be the "canadian" answer.

A chesterfield! I didn't know that was the right answer. That's quite a mouthful

. I'll have to look that one up.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:02 pm

Here's your score: 89

Wow. Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Stompin' Tom, Pierre Trudeau, Bob & Doug, Anne of Green Gables and Rush all rolled into one. You make Dudley Do-Right look like Uncle Sam. Prepare for immediate idolization at home and a lucrative career in the states.

.... But then a large proportion of the English-ish speaking Canadians were immigrants from Ulster & Scotland.

And I have been to Canada. Thirty years ago. It can't have changed much...

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:25 pm

Here's your score: 87

Wow. Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Stompin' Tom, Pierre Trudeau, Bob & Doug, Anne of Green Gables and Rush all rolled into one. You make Dudley Do-Right look like Uncle Sam. Prepare for immediate idolization at home and a lucrative career in the states.

....well, I guess it has been more than four years since I moved back to the states....

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:33 pm

Here's your score: 80

Respectably Canadian. And really what more do you want? Really ought not to presume too much. That just wouldn't be right.

By the way, I can't believe you don't follow lacrosse.

Not bad eh?

Slan,
D.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:28 pm

Here's your score: 63

"Respectably Canadian. And really what more do you want? Really ought not to presume too much. That just wouldn't be right."

The Sporting Pitchfork · Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:37 pm

Here's your score: 86

Wow. Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Stompin' Tom, Pierre Trudeau, Bob & Doug, Anne of Green Gables and Rush all rolled into one. You make Dudley Do-Right look like Uncle Sam. Prepare for immediate idolization at home and a lucrative career in the states.

Well, that's what I get for dating a Canadian girl for a year, I guess...

While in Japan, a friend from Sudbury drunkenly declared me "the least-American-American" he had ever met, hugged me, and promptly pinned a maple leaf lapel pin on me.

I wasn't sure whether to be flattered or insulted...But I keep the pin on hand for emergencies...

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:12 pm

46, i once had lunch in quebec city while vacationing in maine. and the tv there had 3 channels, one of which was french. i almost reached the point where i could understand the trailer for the movie, "the princess diaries."

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:03 pm

Got a 79. Not bad for a Texan living in England eh?

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:08 pm

Cynth wrote:
s1m0n wrote:I've never heard of that system of measurement.

And uh, I got a 99, but I cheated once--In my house it's actually a couch, but I know that "chesterfield" was supposed to be the "canadian" answer.
A chesterfield! I didn't know that was the right answer. That's quite a mouthful . I'll have to look that one up.

I still think of it as a Davenport...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:50 am

My sister is a Canadian, does that make one by default? I scored 78.

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 8:30 am

86! Not bad eh! Considering I feel Iike I'm jammed into the armpit of Detroit, living here in Windsor.

MarkB

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:47 pm

s1m0n wrote:http://rdc.nowhereville.com/cdnquiz/

I had to give up after the first two questions. I'm wearing shorts, not trousers or slacks (what are they anyway?). And the big sitting-on job in the living room is a settee. Not one of the options. This quiz fails to travel well over the big ocean.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:59 pm

anniemcu wrote:
Cynth wrote:
s1m0n wrote:I've never heard of that system of measurement.

And uh, I got a 99, but I cheated once--In my house it's actually a couch, but I know that "chesterfield" was supposed to be the "canadian" answer.
A chesterfield! I didn't know that was the right answer. That's quite a mouthful . I'll have to look that one up.
I still think of it as a Davenport...

Davenport!!!! I grew up with that. Not sure, but I think it still slips out unbidden. One of those primal words you carry with you from your earliest years, and all that. Looks strange now in print, but it's as close and familiar as the childhood kitchen. I've trained myself to say "couch", mainly, and "sofa". Got tired of the sniggers. "Davenport? Davenport???? Grew up with a silver spoon, did you? I sit on a couch."

Barbaric word, "couch". And "sofa" sounds flobby.

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