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You Know You’re From Canada When… |
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You’re not offended by the term, “Homo Milk.” You understand the phrase, “Could you pass me a serviette, I just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield.” You eat chocolate bars, not candy bars. You drink pop, not soda. You know what a Mickey and 2-4 mean. You don’t care about the fuss with Cuba. It’s a cheap place to go for your holidays, with good cigars. You know that a pike is a type of fish, not part of a highway. You drive on a highway, not a freeway. You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers. You know that Casey and Finnegan were not part of a Celtic musical group. You get excited whenever an American television show mentions Canada. You brag to Americans that: Shania Twain, Jim Carrey, Celine Dion and many more are Canadians. You know that the C.E.O. of American Airlines is a Canadian! You know what a touque is. You know that the last letter of the English alphabet is always pronounced “Zed” not “Zee”. You understand the Labatt Blue commercials. You know how to pronounce and spell “Saskatchewan.” You perk up when you hear the theme song from “Hockey Night in Canada.” You were in grade 12, not the 12th grade. “Eh?” is a very important part of your vocabulary and more polite than, “Huh?” Winter. Whenever you want it. And then some. There’s German food, Italian food, Chinese food, Armenian food, American food, but NO Canadian food. You call a “mouse” a “moose”. You like the Americans a little because they don’t want Quebec either. Contests run by anyone other than the government have “skill-testing questions” that winners must answer correctly before they can claim a prize. Everything is labelled in English and French. Milk comes in plastic bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs. Mountain Dew has no caffeine. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Canada. |
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So, the talk of the FOSS community is Bill Gates’ keynote speech at CES. Of course, it wasn’t the commentary, but more the glitches and BSODs that occurred. Bill chuckled it off. I saw an interview with him after (on a PBS station) and he wa quite personable as usual. He gave Apple credit for making that silly iPod so bloody popular. he’s right, it will make more people aware of digital music. I don’t know about spending $500 for a player that might stop working the first time it gets dropped, though. I think I’d invest in a flash-based player rather than a hard drive based one. But what can I say? I can’t afford either right now, so I’ll just use my record player and fire up the 78’s (just kidding - I haven’t had a record player for years). I usually listen to shoutcast or xiph via streamtuner and VLC player (I did use the default xmms until it decided that it didn’t really want to tune in - what the hell, VLC’s better anyways!). For those windows users who don’t know what the hell I just said, I also use Winamp 5 and listen to shoutcast stations that way too.
