April 27, 2004

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Thanks very much to the city of Toronto and its friendly citizens for showing this Midwestern girl a good time over the weekend. Today's list is for you.

Some Little Known Facts and Lies about Canadians

They pray to Bryan Adams before eating

They sometimes say "eh" at the end of sentences

They also sometimes say "mukluk" after "eh"

Our change gets mixed up with theirs

50% of all Canadians have been beaten up by a Mountie

They have "Canadian Idol"

Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto are all about an hour apart or something or whatever

They do not have African-Americans (or African-Canadians)

It's always snowing there and people hang out with beavers and it's fun in a quaint way

They think we don't know very much about their country

They're generally correct