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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 10:08 PM Jul 2012

How are DUers celebrating Canada Day?


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I'll drink Canada dry!
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I'm warnin all my neighbors down here in Alabama to beware of Manitobans
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We're moving the border to 54°40' after all the Canadians are drunk
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I'm warnin all my neighbors up here in Manitoba to beware of Alabamans
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Gonna post that video of mooses singing "O! Canada!"
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All my neighbors are warnin the Alabamans and Manitobans to beware of me
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With cigarettes and whusky and wile wile wimminses!
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This year, I'm celebrating Doris Day
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turtlerescue1

(1,013 posts)
2. working on getting the correct pronunciations of
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 10:19 PM
Jul 2012

yah you bettcha.

And pondering the purpose I was told Minnesota had was to protect Canada from Iowans.

But actually thinking about the BWCA..loverly.

sad sally

(2,627 posts)
8. Am not from Canada, but was thrilled to see Jeff Arend - a proud Canadian - win today in Chicago
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 10:53 PM
Jul 2012


Jeff Arend, near lane, denied Courtney Force her first Funny Car win in her rookie season

His team did the "Canadian pile-on" on the track after his win.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
11. I had a maple donut for breakfast.
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 11:54 AM
Jul 2012

Is that good enough? Oh, and I promise not to refer to Canada as our hat for the entire day. Today, they will be called "America's Beret".

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
12. The pizza place in Texas accepting pesos fairly recently (to teabagging OUTRAGE) reminded me...
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 11:57 AM
Jul 2012

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... that businesses in northern border states (like Michigan -- where I grew up -- among other states,
like New Jersey) -- have been accepting Canadian currency (at times one-for-one -- at times at a current
exchange rate) -- WITHOUT a corresponding outrage... for MANY decades.
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Of course, there weren't a lot of BROWN-skinned furriners spending those "BORDER INVASION" dollars.
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Funny how the "We're not racist, goddammit!!!" howls of protest fall apart, eh?
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Happy Canada Day!!!
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