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WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

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fairygirl
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WHAT DO CANADIANS HAVE TO BE PROUD OF?

1. Smarties

2. Crispy Crunch, Coffee Crisp

3. The size of our footballs fields and one less down

4. Baseball is Canadian

5. Lacrosse is Canadian

6. Hockey is Canadian

7. Basketball is Canadian

8. Apple pie is Canadian

9. Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr. Rogers ass

10. Tim Hortons kicks Dunkin' Donuts ass

11. In the war of 1812, started by America, Canadians pushed the Americans back...past their 'White House'. Then we burned it...and most of Washington, under the command of William Lyon McKenzie who was insane and hammered all the time. We got bored because they ran away, so we came home and partied...Go figure..

12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to
Germany.

13. We have the largest English population that never ever surrendered or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere.

14. Our civil war was a bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.

15. The only person who was arrested in our civil war was an American
mercenary, who slept in and missed the whole thing... but showed up just in time to get caught.

16. We knew plaid was cool far before Seattle caught on.

17. The Hudsons Bay Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface and is still around as the worlds oldest company.

18. The average dog sled team can kill and devour a full grown human in under 3 minutes.

19. We still know what to do with all the parts of a buffalo.

20. We don't marry our kin-folk.

21. We invented ski-doos, jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin, penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that save countless lives each year.

22. We ALL have frozen our tongues to something metal and lived to tell about it.

23. A Canadian invented Superman.

BUT MOST IMPORTANT!

24. The handles on our beer cases are big enough to fit your hands with mitts on.

Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.

Sorry everyone, but I'm really bored. I need something to do to keep me from doing my homework...


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May 10 2002 1:22AM
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etom
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in whistler i saw a commercail for the canaidan millitary, i started laughing.

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May 10 2002 1:26AM
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powder99
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hahaha, our military sucks, but we can just give our enemys beer and wait untill their past out on the floor, then we can kill them
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May 10 2002 1:33AM
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PowderPrincess
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thank you SBC Skier magazine......
*brooke*

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May 10 2002 1:40AM
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rebel
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Canadian military kicks ass. Yes it is VERY small, but Canada produces some of the best pilots in the world. Also our army and special forces are supposed really good too.
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May 10 2002 2:25AM
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rebel
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Also, on the list of things Canadians should be proud of, should include ME!
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May 10 2002 2:31AM
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Ozemale
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sorry everyone but it was Howard Florey, an Australian who developed Penicillin
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May 10 2002 2:32AM
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powder99
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are you sure?
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May 10 2002 2:35AM
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Ozemale
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yeah, i did a project on him in year 8
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May 10 2002 2:42AM
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Ozemale
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovered it but he didn't do shite with it, it was Florey who did all the practical stuff and made it widely available
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May 10 2002 2:44AM
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Ozemale
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besides, Fleming was a scot
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May 10 2002 2:45AM
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Ozemale
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and also thanks to the canadian who discovered insulin because i am diabetic and would be rooted without it
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May 10 2002 2:46AM
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dez22
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that listing was good but not great
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May 10 2002 8:50AM
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zoltyi
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You Canadians may have invented all the sports, except soccer the greatest one, but besides hockey you suck at all of them. Not something to be proud of. It's like saying the Canadian who invented the gun killed himself when it backfired.


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May 10 2002 8:53AM
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SkunKJiB
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Oh God, lets not start this. I don't want to get into this argument. As for number 20, I'm not going to say anything, but I don't like it. We southerners take enough crap from our OWN country, noo the world is joining in. . And number 8, thats really interesting. I guess that kills the phrase 'American as apple pie' lol. But seriously, lets not start a civil war on NS.

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May 10 2002 9:45AM
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SkunKJiB
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And (not to goad this on) actually, baseball is American. Alexander Cartwright, the man who is credited with it, is from New York and it was first played in Manhattan. I had to do a report on it.

Heres a good link.

http://www.hickoksports.com/history/baseba02.shtml



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May 10 2002 9:51AM
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TAK
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Dude, I was had a book about bsketball that had a (bulklshit) story about how basketball was invented in the US. Don't belive everything you ead, because, belive it or not, some people lie.

But that's a wicked list. That should be an article, to be forever preserved in NS.com history.
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Lisa: Dad, I wouldn't go outside if I were you.
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May 10 2002 10:04AM
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SkunKJiB
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Well, the game of basketball was first payed in the US at a YMCA in Springfield Mass., but the inventer was from Ontario.

As for baseball, I don't think that many people could successfully lie about baseball, though. All my sources have said the exact same thing.
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Drail
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i could really care less about that stuff, 'cause a lot of countries invented a lot of stuff.... but dont' get me wrong - Canada kicks ass.

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May 10 2002 10:54AM
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TAK
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Good.
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Marge: Homer, stop picking at it.
Homer (with donut head): Oh, but I'm so sweet and tasty. Well, time to go to work.
Lisa: Dad, I wouldn't go outside if I were you.
[Chief Wiggum and a lot of cops stand on the street outside]
Wiggum: Don't worry, boys. He's gotta come outta there sometime.
May 10 2002 11:02AM
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SkunKJiB
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Agreed, I love Canada. I actually got pissed off at a kid who made a disparaging remark about Canada yesterday. Y'all are cool people :)
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Jay: 'Ham, your shirt's on fire.'
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SVHucker
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wasn't baseball first played in Hoboken, NJ? across the river from NY?

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May 10 2002 12:06PM
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andyrightcoast
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Basketball was invented in Springfield, MA, the city over from mine...

Baseball was invented in Cooperstown(sp?), New York


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May 10 2002 12:30PM
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Canadian_kicker
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andy your wrong dude. they were played their first MAYBE. (not to sure) but they were invented by canadians! SORRY BUDDY!
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May 10 2002 1:00PM
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andyrightcoast
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uh, no, the guy who invented basketball, James Naismith, was born in my town, and the game was actually played first in the YMCA in MY TOWN...
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May 10 2002 1:02PM
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andyrightcoast
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oh yeah, and Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday, who was NOT CANADIAN
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May 10 2002 1:03PM
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tremblantripper
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good list i enjoyed it

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May 10 2002 4:08PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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ummm... a canadian invented the baseball glove after all the americans started breaking their fingers.

Naysmith moved to immegrated to Canada when he was 8. He and his friends in a village called Bennies corners came up with a game that was the inspiration for basketball. He worked at McGill then when he was 30 he moved to Springfield, Mass. where he had to come up with a teaching assignment for rainy days when students couldn't go outside. Inspired by the game that he played in Bennies corners he came up with basketball.

That's that.

and Doubleday creating baseball is a myth.

'Doubleday has often been credited with inventing the game of baseball in 1839 at Cooperstown, New York, now the location of the baseball's Hall of Fame. This claim appears to date from the late nineteenth century, when baseball owners tried to disasso ciate the game from any connection to the English game of rounders. The assertion that Doubleday invented baseball is almost certainly untrue. Doubleday was not at Cooperstown in 1839; he never referred to the game, much less claimed that he invented it, and his obituary in the New York Times did not mention baseball, either. '

http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Doubleday.html


But yeah... Canada never invented it. it was first called base-ball by the english when they put posts (aka bases) into the ground in the early 1700s.

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May 10 2002 4:24PM
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cams
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yeah go canada!!


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May 10 2002 4:36PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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I guess.... *shrugs shoulders* people are people... I don't see the need to feel good about myself by associating me with someone that I've never met who didn't even live remotely close to me... even though they were in the same country.

it's only good if you're talking about our education, healthcare or military (or lack thereof)

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May 10 2002 4:43PM
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dspin7x
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im not argueing because im not sure how your healthcare system works but doesnt it suck. From what i heard everyone gets the same treatment and same doctors. So if like a bum gets hurt he can get the same doctor as a millionare, which to me sounds pretty stupid. Or how does it work?

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May 10 2002 4:44PM
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Ski_Instructor_Mike
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basically if you're hurt you get to go to the doctor..... it's not bad because everyone get's care. The system is really only flawed for rich people because everyone esentially recieves standardized treatment. But like 1% of the population is actually 'rich'. and that one percent usually has the power and connections to get moved up on a waiting list. It also prevents a lot of malpractice.

For me I don't see the disadvantage of it because I'm always hurting myself. So there are pros and cons to both.

$1080PLP$: 'i just love canadian boys.. ' but really it was Brooke.
May 10 2002 4:57PM
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HazetheAlligator
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DIE AMERICANS DIE
May 10 2002 6:07PM
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rebel
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I don't see what's wrong with a bumb getting the same doctor as a millionare. Is the millionaires life truely more valuable? The only disadvantage I see is that the doctors in Canada don't get as much money as the doctors in US.
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May 10 2002 6:25PM
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dspin7x
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no im not saying rich people are better then poor people, but if you have the money to see a very skilled doctor and save your life wouldnt you id just be pissed if i was the rich person

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May 10 2002 7:05PM
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powder99
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ya, our health care may be fair for everyone, but it doesn't make any money, My dad is a doctor and he gets paid shit for what he does, He can be on call all weekend and not get any calls and makes no money, when your on call you can't go anywhere. Its a joke, the B.C goverment are a bunch of cock suckers who don't care about the publics health care. All they care about is money. The problem is we have no government that does care. We tried the NDP and they sucked and now the Liberals aren't helping us at all.
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pride makes me sick.... sick....
May 11 2002 1:52AM
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grehtnorth
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here's another thing for us Canadians to be proud of- we can't even protect our families with a handgun. Would you break into a house if you thought there MIGHT be a gun waiting on the other side of the door?
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May 11 2002 2:04AM
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ductapeboy
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canada makes good beer?

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May 11 2002 3:25AM
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Freestyla_01
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what isn't good about canada?
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May 11 2002 2:35PM
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you forgot one........strip clubs everywhere
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May 11 2002 3:18PM
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Diabhal
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First off, the whole protection issue, the last guy who broke into our house got his ass kicked by my dad. You don't need a gun for self-protection and they can cause more problems then they can solve, many of the school shootings in the states as an example of what can happen if guns are too readibly available.

Secondly Canada's Military is incredible, but it is abused by our government. Our soldiers are reconised as some of the best in the world, yet the government only uses them for political gains, and their funding is not adaquate. While i'm ont saying we should go to american levels of military funding, i just think that basic needs should be met, like making sure that all our equipment is safe (the airforce does make rescue operations at home, so even if you don't believe in military force i doubt you'd want anybody dying because of preventable equipment failures on a resue mission). Also I believe that canada should distance our military from the Americans, as a matter a of sovreignty i think that canadian troops should be commanded by canadians oversees, and don't believe we should join NORCOM unless we can be absolutly sure that or sovreignty isn't endangered.

sorry that was a bit of a rant just felt like saying it.
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May 11 2002 3:48PM
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the only good thing about canada is the boxing penguins.

There are boxing penguins....right!?



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May 11 2002 4:04PM
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Drail
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well... i mean... there could be...

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fairygirl
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Boxing penguins!!! Sweet!! lol


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May 11 2002 4:47PM
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grehtnorth
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diabhal, if your dad was away on business or something, and someone broke into your house, would your mom be able to kick some guys ass? would he want a gun pointed at his body? I don't think so. and any shootings in the states aren't because guns are readily available- if some psycho wants to do some harm, there are countless ways of inflicting it. I just think that having a gun in the home is a legit preventative measure against harm that might come to my family. If there's one thing in my life that I want to protect the most, it's my wife. And I'm going to do everything in my power to see that no harm comes to her. There are a lot of stupid people who do stupid things with guns, and it's too bad that what they've done has cast a long shadow over what a firearm can be used for.
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May 12 2002 1:11AM
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1080enemy
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In the states the theives would also have guns. meaning everyone gets shot, instead of a few things that might get stolen. I would rather have someone steal everything I own, then have the posibility of someone coming into my house with a gun.
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Me not like pro basketball, cause me short and they all tall. baseball slow like forest gump, except when robbie spits on ump. wrestlemania not that great. Me like to see hulk hogan skate. TV soccer not that hot. u play that and u get shot.
May 12 2002 1:37AM
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1080chick
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that wuz one of the worst posts i've read. canadians should be proud eh?
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May 12 2002 1:39AM
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grehtnorth
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which one?

no, I'm not talking about stealing here. possessions aren't that important to me either. But if I came home and some freak was on top of my wife, you bet I'd be wishing she had a gun beside the bed. Could you live with that thought in the front of your mind for every second of your life? I'm not a jealous guy- my fiancee works at a restaurant where guys flirt all the time. But I know that she's honest and gives me all her love. And I'm not a psycho who wants to kill people either. There has to be a respect for firearms. Take a look at every country that has outlawed guns. What happened to their crime rate? it skyrocketed. Why? Because criminals knew that they had free dibs on anything they wanted.
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Diabhal
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Dude when a thief is checking out a place to rob he can't check out whether or not you have a gun, you can see them scoping out places in my neighborhood. Unless you have a sign saying i have a gun out side your house they are still going to break in. If you want something to protect your house or wife, GET A DOG! I mean i live in a pretty poor part of town with like a major crack house nearbye, i don't think i'd feel any safer with a gun at home. And I'm serious a dog is the most visible deterent you can have, also the police are only a phone call away. I don't really see the point in owning a gun for protection when there are so many other alternatives.
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fairygirl
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I totally agree with Diabhal. I'd feel worse knowing that there was a gun in my house. Dogs are great protection.


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