[Gossamer]

My boss sent these out by email, I thought a few of you could get a laugh out of them.
(I figure the PL is safer)

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Weed
2. Vancouver: 1.5 million people and two bridges
3. The local hero is a pot-smoking snowboarder
4. The local wine doesn't taste like malt vinegar
5. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is 5 hours from downtown
6. A university with a nude beach
7. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations
8. If a cop pulls you over, just offer them some of your hash
9. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on
10. Cannabis

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big Rock
2. Preston Manning
3. Tax is 7 percent instead of approx. 200 percent
4. The Premier is a fat, wife-beating alcoholic with a grade 4 education
5. Flames vs. Oilers
6. Stamps vs. Eskies
7. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of
8. Eventually, it will be your town's turn to ban VLT's
9. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups
10. You can murder your rich oil tycoon husband and get away with it

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat
2. Those cool Saskatchewan Wheat Pool hats
3. Cruise control takes on a whole new meaning
4. Your province is really easy to draw
5. You never have to worry about roll-back if you have a standard
6. It takes you two weeks to walk to your neighbor's house
7. YOUR Roughriders survived
8. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours
9. People will assume you live on a farm
10. Buying a huge John Deere mower makes sense

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find you suddenly have beachfront property
2. Amusing town names like "Flin Flon" and "Winnipeg"
3. All your local bands make it big and move to Toronto
4. The only province to ever violently rebel against the federal government
5. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes
6. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter
7. You don't need a car, just take the canoe to work
8. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood
9. Because of your license plate, you are still "friendly" even when you cut
someone off
10. Pass the time watching trucks and barns float by

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the center of the universe
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election
4. There's no such thing as an Ontario Separatist
5. Your grandparents sold booze to the States during Prohibition
6. Lots of tourists come to Toronto because they mistakenly believe it's a
cool city
7. The only province with hard-core American-style crime
8. MuchMusic's Speaker's Corner - rant and rave on national TV for a dollar
9. Baseball fans park on your front lawn and pee on the side of your house
10. Mike Harris: basically a sober Ralph Klein

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Everybody assumes you're an asshole
2. Racism is socially acceptable
3. The only province to ever kidnap federal politicians
4. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbor will move
out next
5. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada
6. The FLQ
7. Your hockey team is made up entirely of dirty French guys
8. The province with the oldest, nastiest hookers
9. NON-smokers are the outcasts
10. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo bastards"

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. You are sandwiched between French assholes and drunken Celtic fiddlers
2. One way or another, the government gets 98 percent of your income
3. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies
4. When listing the provinces, everyone forgets to mention yours
5. The economy is based on fish, cows, and ferrying Ontario motorists to
Boston
6. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick
7. You have French people, but they don't want to kill you
8. Everybody has a Grandfather who runs a lighthouse
9. Just as charming as Maine, but with more unemployed fishermen
10. You probably live in a small seaside cottage with no television

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. The only place in North America to get bombed in the war ...
by a moron who set a munitions ship on fire
2. Your province is shaped like male genitalia
3. Everyone is a fiddle player
4. If someone asks if you're a Newfie, you are allowed to kick their ass
5. The local hero is an insane, fiddle playing, sexual pervert
6. The province that produced Rita MacNeil, the world's largest land mammal
7. You are the reason Anne Murray makes money
8. You can pretend you have Scottish heritage as an excuse to wear a kilt
9. The economy is based on fish, lobster, and fiddle music
10. Even though it smells like dead sea animals, Halifax is considered
Canada's most beautiful city

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE ON PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island, you still got the
big-ass bridge
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour
3. You were probably once an extra on "Road to Avonlea"
4. This is where all those tiny red potatoes come from
5. The economy is based on fish, potatoes, and CBC TV shows
6. Tourists arrive, see the "Anne of Green Gables" house, then promptly
leave
7. You can drive across the province in two minutes
8. It doesn't matter to you if Quebec separates
9. You don't share a border with the Americans, or with anyone for that
matter
10. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. The poorest, stupidest, drunkest province in Confederation
2. If Quebec Separates, you will float off to sea
3. In the rare case when someone moves to the Rock, you can make them kiss a
dead cod
4. The economy is based on fish, seafood, and fish-related products
5. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse
6. You understand the meaning of Great Big Sea's lyrics
7. The work day is about two hours long
8. You are credited with many great inventions, like the solar-powered
flashlight and the screen door for submarines
9. If someone asks if you're from Nova Scotia, you are allowed to kick their
ass
10. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders on your wedding day

[Dakar²]

Holy christ. I think a lot of these went over my head since I'm not Canadien. Excluding the Quebec one. Everyone knows/hates Quebec.

[Nicko]

Hehe I have driven through flin flon.

[Monique]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Holy christ. I think a lot of these went over my head since I'm not Canadien. Excluding the Quebec one. Everyone knows/hates Quebec.

And what do you know about Quebec?

One of the many reasons why I hate living in Canada, particularly in Alberta is comments like that. I was always told that I am not a Canadian because I am not racist, narrow-minded and have an accent.

I just love what Gossamer wrote on each province.

[lpkmckenna]

Mike Harris? Preston Manning? The FLQ? This list sounds like it's 15+ years old.

[Dark Helmet]

Ya none of the Ontario ones really are really that true either. Even on a humor level.

[Spliffdaddy]

hilarious.

[voodoo]

The only person from Quebec I've met was a stupid, annoing, white-trash, monotonous, pot-smoking ******** loser.

V

[Kevin]

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Yeah. Seems old. And unfortunately the Newfie one wasn't as funny as I'd hoped.

greg

[Jim Paradise]

Originally Posted by lpkmckenna 

Mike Harris? Preston Manning? The FLQ? This list sounds like it's 15+ years old.

I thought the same thing.

[Gossamer]

It's probably been circulating in email since email came out.

[DBursey]

I am a stupid Newfie whose 1.2 Million (CDN) southern Ontario home is a dump.

These are some of Canada's most rediculously extreme stereotypes.

Everyone enjoys a good kick in the arse - it's in good fun.

-DBursey
poor, stupid Quebec-hating Pogey-collecting Newfie

[voodoo]

Originally Posted by Kevin 

Ey, it's a true story

V

[lpkmckenna]

70 Fahrenheit / 21 C
Floridians turn off their air conditioners,
Canadians turn on .

50 Fahrenheit / 10 Celcius
Floridians dig out their sweaters,
Canadian "snowbirds" cruise the ICW in bikinis.

40 Fahrenheit / 4 Celcius
US weathermen talk about the "cold",
Canadians have the last sail of the season.

30 Fahrenheit / -1 Celcius
American water freezes,
Canadians drive with the windows down.

20 Fahrenheit / -7 Celcius
New York City landlords finally turn on the heat,
Florida orange growers panic,
Canadians put away the barbeque.

-20 Fahrenheit / -1 Celcius
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole,
Ottawa canal opens for skating.

-173 Fahrenheit / -114 Celcius
Ethyl alcohol freezes,
Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the beer keg.

-460 Fahrenheit / -273 Celcius
Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops,
Canadians start saying "cold eh?"

-500 Fahrenheit / -295 Celcius
Hell freezes over,
Toronto Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup.

[Dark Helmet]

I think this is the funny the definitive "list about Canada if you know absolutely nothing about Canada" list.

[Spliffdaddy]

I think the list struck pretty close to home, judging by your repeated objections to it.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

I think this is the funny the definitive "list about Canada if you know absolutely nothing about Canada" list.

Just as accurate as this one yet you had a good laugh and even made up some of your own "know nothing" comments.

Why is it when you do it it's ok?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Spliffdaddy 

I think the list struck pretty close to home, judging by your repeated objections to it.

I doubt it. It was funny, but that is about it. Most of these "lists" are lame.

But atleast I am being consistent.

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Monique 

And what do you know about Quebec?

One of the many reasons why I hate living in Canada, particularly in Alberta is comments like that. I was always told that I am not a Canadian because I am not racist, narrow-minded and have an accent.

Crikey! I've reeled in a big one!

[Nicko]

I just realized that list didn't have any donut or tim horton references...it's not complete!!

[Rumor]

Originally Posted by Dakar² 

Crikey! I've reeled in a big one!

(Had to do it)

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Spliffdaddy 

I think the list struck pretty close to home, judging by your repeated objections to it.

No I mentioned it twice ("repeated" as you put it) because I find it funny how anyone could laugh over it even though the jokes are 15 years. They probably don't realize it is dated but they still think it must be funny which shows how much they know in the first place.

It is like sending out a Top 10 list about the US and mentioning Ronald Reagan

[Kevin]

Gah n/m formatted text.