Raising of the Canadian Flag

**Raphael** · 16th February 07, 10:13 AM

I will just raise my double double at noon.

**Colin** · 16th February 07, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Raphael

I will just raise my double double at noon.

Brilliant!!!! make sure you take off your touque before you salute. and for goodness sake...watch the ice.

**Dirk Skene** · 16th February 07, 10:23 AM

Last night we in Memphis raised a glass of Canadian beer in honor of the anniversary of the Canadian Maple Leaf flag. We’d have sang O’Canada but none of us Yanks knew the words

Here’s To Colin, SnakeEyes, The Wizard of BC, McMurdo and any other Canadian fellow XMarkers.

**pdcorlis** · 16th February 07, 10:25 AM

Oh Canada!

The BC provence is our favorite place to get away from it all - Nelson, Cranbrook, Vancouver, Victoria - Not to mention the Park system - we love 'em all. Kind folks and spectacular scenery - what a blessing

Oh Canada indeed!

**IEScotsman** · 16th February 07, 01:15 PM

Government: English
Driving: non-English
Language: a little bit of French
Flag: Herbacious (is that a word?)
Money: the looney! (Robin Williams once asked, "How do you take an economic crisis seriously?!)
Greatest exports: hockey players, singers, actors, Jeopardy hosts, news anchors

Of all the countries that could be above the US, I'm glad it's Canada.

Congratulations on the anniversary of this historic occasion. I'll make sure to mention it to my Mom who was Canadian before becoming an American!

**auld argonian** · 16th February 07, 01:52 PM

Canada? Canada?

Don't get me started!

Shatner (Denny Crane!)! Guess Who! Alex Trebeck (...so, Trebeck, we meet again...)! Victor Garber (just found this one out yesterday)! Bare Naked Ladies! Robertson Davies (read "What's Bred in the Bone"...you'll get hooked)! The Group of Seven! Neil Young! Dan Aykroyd! Martin Short! Dave Thomas! Red Green (and Harold)! They shoot Stargate up there...and that Doctor MacKay on SG Atlantis has the Canadian Flag patch on his uniform (and that Scottish Doctor has his Saltire patch...how cool is that?)! Molson's Canadian...not that Molson's Golden stuff that you tried to pawn off on us the first time! Poutine! Tim Horton's (PLEASE, somebody, open a Tim Horton's in Chicago...I miss those nice little fruit tarts and sitting around drinking coffee with a bunch of cab drivers)!

I'll let you off the hook for Celine Dion...she's defected to Las Vegas anyway.

I went to one of the last Montreal Expos games and my family and I had a couple of New Yorkers that were sitting behind us totally befuddled because we sang BOTH national anthems...

I really like Canada a whole lot. God bless you wonderful people for being there...if you weren't North of us, I don't know what we'd do.

Best

AA

**thescot** · 16th February 07, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dirk Skene

. . .We’d have sang O’Canada but none of us Yanks knew the words

Yeah, it's kind of like when we try to sing "O Danny Boy" on St. Patty's day:

"O Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling,
un-un-un-un . . . "

However, we do stand at attention when they play "O Canada" at the games. My buddy's wife from Calgary used to pass out the words at the Stopne Mountain games so we could all sing along, and it was quite a chorus. The folks who couldn't see us holding the words were very impressed that we knew them.

Anyway, tonight, we're gonna hoist a glass or two for your flag in Conyers.

**Big Dave** · 16th February 07, 03:20 PM

For the life of me I can't remember the French version of 'O Canada, I couldn't even sing it in High School when I had to learn it

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Thanks for the info about our Flag Colin, I didn't remember the history of it. Tonight I'll have to pour myself a pint of stout and raise my glass to salute the greatest country in the world (no offence to our U.S. or U.K. counterparts, I'm sure in your eyes your country is the greatest also ). int:

**MacHummel** · 16th February 07, 03:41 PM

Wow all these folks raiseing a dram to Canada the only thing that would go better would be to have everyone wearing a Maple Leaf kilt made of pv 12oz,teflon treated with a kilting selvage ( shamless plug)

**Hamish** · 16th February 07, 04:39 PM

Colin,

I am sorry I missed your posting on this matter yesterday, and we are just coming to the end of today, but tomorrow (Saturday), I will wear my 16oz Maple Leaf tartan Geoffrey (Tailor) kilt in honour of The Maple Leaf - forever. If I raise a glass it will have to be a soft drink as I am currently rehearsing for giving up alcohol for Lent!

My two visits to Canada (Toronto/Oakville in 1996 and Vancouver/Port Moody in 2005) are among my very happiest memories. Thank you and your fellow countrymen for being who you are, where you are!