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catbyte

(34,442 posts) Sun Jan 13, 2019, 08:32 PM Jan 2019

Oh, Canada, we love you!

Link to tweet

Oh Canada we love you
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Air traffic controllers from across Canada send pizzas to counterparts across the border working without pay during the partial U.S. government shutdown: http://cbc.ca/1.4976548
7:25 PM - Jan 13, 2019

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Oh, Canada, we love you! (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2019 OP

Even before Pizza! Cha Jan 2019 #1

it's a trap! Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #2

When I was a young boy, visiting my cousin in Toronto, we used to draw pictures together. George II Jan 2019 #5

Gotta wall off the northern border... N_E_1 for Tennis Jan 2019 #3

Sheila Broflovski doesn't. edbermac Jan 2019 #4

Hope they weren't all back bacon & pineapple! n/t JBoy Jan 2019 #6

Cha

(297,597 posts)

1. Even before Pizza!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 08:45 PM

Jan 2019

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,413 posts)

2. it's a trap!

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 08:55 PM

Jan 2019

You know those crafty Canucks covet our ...

something or other.

Gotta be a trap. Probably over the upside down maple leaf at those Olympic games.
I'll get back to you on the details.

George II

(67,782 posts)

5. When I was a young boy, visiting my cousin in Toronto, we used to draw pictures together.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 10:19 PM

Jan 2019

As boys did when very young back then (i.e., 1950s!), we drew warships, tanks, and fighter planes. Since I was from the US, I drew a star on the side of my fighters. My cousin drew a star with a stem. Finally I asked him, "what's that line under the star?" He said "it isn't a star, it's a Maple Leaf!"

It never even dawned on me before then that their fighters would have a maple leaf on the side! At the time, this was the Canadian flag:

As for their National Anthem, the best rendition I ever heard was the late, great Roger Doucet's rendition before Montreal Canadiens hockey games (starts at 1:58), it gives one goose bumps! (btw,the words have been changed since your recording, "all our sons command" has been changed to "all of us command".