How Canadian are you?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:13 pm

I've never even been to Canadia, so I figure I'm not very Canadian. Of course, I've had several Canadian friends through the years, so maybe a bit of Canadianism may have influenced me.

AaronMalcomb · Post by **AaronMalcomb** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:13 pm

This result answered honestly :

Here's your score: 57

Well, you appear to be somewhat aware of your surroundings. Either that or you had a Canadian feeding you the answers (and giving you the wrong one every so often, just for grins).

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

This result answered to get a high score:

Here's your score: 93

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.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:21 pm

Well, with some Quebecois, Cree, Point Grey Blue Blood, and Albertan in me, I guess this is OK.

Here's your score: 91

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.

And a Chesterfield is a fur-trimmed wool coat, isn't it?

pixyy · Post by **pixyy** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:03 am

Here's your score: 61

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.
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Good to know

After moving from Holland to Denmark with my wife, we jokingly said that if I couldn't feel at home there we would move to a country that would be foreign to both of us: Canada...

Don't think I will ever get her to emigrate again though

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:42 am

Apart from a pretty tangential relationship with football and cricket I don't really follow sport much. Having read all the above posts I've just caved in at last and am now looking up "lacrosse" in a dictionary.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:44 am

SteveShaw wrote:Apart from a pretty tangential relationship with football and cricket I don't really follow sport much. Having read all the above posts I've just caved in at last and am now looking up "lacrosse" in a dictionary.

Shame you're not up to speed on your Angela Brazil stories....

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:58 am

Haven't found the time to do the test yet. But I have three handguns that I never use. Does that make me Canadian, or do they have to be rifles and used on non-human targets?

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:20 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:Apart from a pretty tangential relationship with football and cricket I don't really follow sport much. Having read all the above posts I've just caved in at last and am now looking up "lacrosse" in a dictionary.
Shame you're not up to speed on your Angela Brazil stories....

Who?

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:24 am

SteveShaw wrote:Apart from a pretty tangential relationship with football and cricket I don't really follow sport much. Having read all the above posts I've just caved in at last and am now looking up "lacrosse" in a dictionary.

Ah, it's that one where you chuck something around with a fishing net. Is it a game that started in Canada? At least it's one up on that rather strange phenomenon American football, the chief aims of which are apparently to look as ridiculous as possible and to beat each other up.

JS · Post by JS » Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:24 am

"Davenport," eh? I grew up with that one too.

Give this a listen:

http://www.archive.org/details/Davenport

Bix!

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:21 am

I remember lacrosse as a girlie game from my sister's very British "Chalet School" books (we had an unarticulated anti-gender-stereotyping policy under which she, in exchange, read my Biggles books).

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:26 am

SteveShaw wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:Apart from a pretty tangential relationship with football and cricket I don't really follow sport much. Having read all the above posts I've just caved in at last and am now looking up "lacrosse" in a dictionary.
Ah, it's that one where you chuck something around with a fishing net. Is it a game that started in Canada? At least it's one up on that rather strange phenomenon American football, the chief aims of which are apparently to look as ridiculous as possible and to beat each other up.

Don't forget American football's other function of helping participants to re-learn how to walk with an archaic simian gait.

(Thinks: am I turning into a transatlantic troll? Am I hanging around too much with the wrong sort?)

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:13 am

burnsbyrne · Post by **burnsbyrne** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:37 am

JS wrote:"Davenport," eh? I grew up with that one too.

One of my grandmothers (from a town between Windsor and Chatham) always called it a davenport. The other grandmother ( from about 50 miles east of Sarnia) called it a chesterfield. This gets me wondering about how many words there are for this piece of furniture. Growing up we called it a sofa or couch. I know other people who call it a divan. I guess you could also say chaise longue. It's enough to give a guy sofa identity confusion!
Mike

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:56 am

burnsbyrne wrote:
JS wrote:"Davenport," eh? I grew up with that one too.
One of my grandmothers (from a town between Windsor and Chatham) always called it a davenport. The other grandmother ( from about 50 miles east of Sarnia) called it a chesterfield. This gets me wondering about how many words there are for this piece of furniture. Growing up we called it a sofa or couch. I know other people who call it a divan. I guess you could also say chaise longue. It's enough to give a guy sofa identity confusion!
Mike

In Belfast it was always a "settee".