Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day

[ScottM]

...to our Canadians on the board.

Is the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal goose or turkey?

 

[JeffDG]

...to our Canadians on the board.

Is the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal goose or turkey?

Turkey for me...never did like goose.

 

[gprellwitz]

...to our Canadians on the board.

Is the traditional Canadian Thanksgiving meal goose or turkey?

I thought it was Loon!

 

[ScottM]

I thought it was Loon!

Naw, they use them as currency for trading beaver pelts and igloo parts.

 

[JeffDG]

 

[ScottM]

I love that commercial. I remember when that ad campaign first came out.

 

[flyersfan31]

Strange thing -- the geese, they say "Honk, eh!"

I hope you all have a colourful meal, and that your local hockey team wins.

 

[ScottM]

Strange thing -- the geese, they say "Honk, eh!"

I hope you all have a colourful meal, and that your local hockey team wins.

Good point to raise. In American we often have family Turkey Bowl football games on our Thanksgiving. Do Canadians have a similar but ice based family sporting event (hockey) on their day?

 

[JeffDG]

Good point to raise. In American we often have family Turkey Bowl football games on our Thanksgiving. Do Canadians have a similar but ice based family sporting event (hockey) on their day?

Live right now...football!

http://cfl.ca/article/preview-stamps-seek-second-straight-vs-als

Unfortunately, Montreal is beating Calgary 13-1 at the moment.

 

[mantakos]

I'm thankful for Pam Anderson.

Well ... late 80s, early 90s Pam Anderson.

Thank you, Canada.
-harry

 

[ScottM]

I'm thankful for Pam Anderson.

Well ... late 80s, early 90s Pam Anderson.

Thank you, Canada.
-harry

I am thankful for Moses (Moe) Nadler and his work on anti-gravity devices!!

Thank you Canada!

 

[flyersfan31]

Live right now...football!

http://cfl.ca/article/preview-stamps-seek-second-straight-vs-als

Unfortunately, Montreal is beating Calgary 13-1 at the moment.

It is a violation of the natural order to have a 55yard line on a football field.

I'm surprised they don't call it foutball.

 

[ScottM]

It is a violation of the natural order to have a 55yard line on a football field.

I'm surprised they don't call it foutball.

They should play on a 100m field, don't ya think?

 

[JeffDG]

I am thankful for Moses (Moe) Nadler and his work on anti-gravity devices!!

Thank you Canada!

 

[JeffDG]

I'm thankful for most of these:
http://www.canadians.ca/top_ten_inventions.htm

Top Ten Canadian Inventions

In no particular order, and yes; we know there are many more...


AM radio
Invented by :
Guglielmo Marconi


IMAX projector and system
Invented by :
Graeme Ferguson,
Roman Kroitor
and Robert Kerr


Telephone
Invented by :
Alexander Graham Bell


Television
Invented by :
Reginald A. Fessenden


Zipper
Invented by :
Gideon Sundback


Music Synthesizer
Invented by:
Hugh LeCaine


Electron microscope
Invented by :
Eli Franklin Burton,
Cecil Hall,
James Hillier,
and Albert Prebus


Trivial Pursuit
Invented by :
Chris Haney
and Scott Abbott


Basketball
Invented by :
James Naismith


Canadarm
Invented by :
Spar Aerospace Ltd

 

[mantakos]

I'm thankful for most of these:...

Okay, I'll amend my earlier gratitude.

Thank you, Canada, for late 80s, early 90s, Pam Anderson and for zippers!
-harry

 

[ScottM]

I'm thankful for most of these:
http://www.canadians.ca/top_ten_inventions.htm

I really am confused about the Zipper claim. All of the patents are held by Americans, the guy who did the modern design was Swedish and living in the US working for a US company. How is that a Canadian invention?

 

[steingar]

And I thought Philo Farnsworth invented television. What exactly is Canada celebrating its independence from? I thought they were still part of the monarchy.

 

[JeffDG]

I really am confused about the Zipper claim. All of the patents are held by Americans, the guy who did the modern design was Swedish and living in the US working for a US company. How is that a Canadian invention?

I have no clue...I just block-copied the list!

Otto Fredrik Gideon Sundbäck was born on Sonarp farm in Ödestugu Parish (Ödestugu på gården Sonarp), in Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden. He was the son of Jonas Otto Magnusson Sundbäck, a prosperous farmer, and his wife Kristina Karolina Klasdotter. After his studies in Sweden, Sundback moved to Germany where studied at the polytechnic school in Bingen am Rhein. In 1903, Sundback took his engineer exam in electronics. Two years later he moved to Canada and the United States.

 

[Everskyward]

Thank you Canada for my life and job as it is!

 

[JeffDG]

What exactly is Canada celebrating its independence from?

What does Canadian independence have to do with Thanksgiving?

 

[JeffDG]

Thank you Canada for my life and job as it is!

You spend more time in Alberta than I do...by quite a margin

 

[steingar]

What does Canadian independence have to do with Thanksgiving?

Oof, brain fart on my part. Sorry. What is Canada giving thanks for, other than Pam Anderson and suspect claims of invention?

 

[JeffDG]

Oof, brain fart on my part. Sorry. What is Canada giving thanks for, other than Pam Anderson and suspect claims of invention?

Our most benificient monarch, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

 

[steingar]

Is it her birthday or something? Nice that you guys give thanks for your subjugation.

 

[JeffDG]

Is it her birthday or something? Nice that you guys give thanks for your subjugation.

OK...actually, here's the actual proclamation from Parliament:

A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed … to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

And we celebrate Her Majesty's birthday on the third Monday in May...which coincides closely to the birthday of Queen Victoria, Queen when the Dominion of Canada first came into being.

 

[Arbiter419]

Aren't we all thankful for the DeHaviland Beaver?

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

Oof, brain fart on my part. Sorry. What is Canada giving thanks for, other than Pam Anderson and suspect claims of invention?

They got rid of William Shatner.

 

[JeffDG]

They got rid of William Shatner.

And Celine Dion...and Shania Twain...Jim Carey...

 

[ScottM]

Aren't we all thankful for the DeHaviland Beaver?

I am thankful for Beaver.

 

[RMCN172RG]

And I thought Philo Farnsworth invented television. What exactly is Canada celebrating its independence from? I thought they were still part of the monarchy.

As a sovereign nation since 1867.

You remember Expo 67, celebrating the centennial, eh!

Like Great Britain and the rest of the commonwealth, they just like reading about a Monarchy in the tabloids.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Do Canadians have a similar but ice based family sporting event (hockey) on their day?

Is this close enough?

 

[bstratt]

As a sovereign nation since 1867.

You remember Expo 67, celebrating the centennial, eh!

Like Great Britain and the rest of the commonwealth, they just like reading about a Monarchy in the tabloids.

But I'm from Newfoundland and we only joined in 1949! Still have 39 years to go for the centennial!

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Canadian Thanksgiving - That's where we all eat back bacon and drink Molson and watch hockey and give thanks for Canadians, eh?

 

[flyersfan31]

Canadian Thanksgiving - That's where we all eat s$%t and drink p$%s and watch hockey and give thanks for ask why do Canadians say eh?

Fixed that for ya!

 

[flyersfan31]

BTW I fully expect Canadian Special Forces to descend upon my family compound and pelt me with snowballs and moose poop in retaliation.....

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

BTW I fully expect Canadian Special Forces to descend upon my family compound and pelt me with snowballs and moose poop in retaliation.....

 

[AdamZ]

Our most benificient monarch, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

Is that the 80s early 90s Queen Elizabeth II?

I am thankful for Beaver.

I bet you do