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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz
At 10:07 AM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote:
Ummmm, Is this kinda like Mr. Sulu
(that was Mr Chekov)
on Star Trek who was sure that the
Russians invented everything? I might be wrong (happens all the
time), but
I thought Baseball and Basketball were distinctly inventions of the
USA.
You are correct, though, as far as basketball goes, they might be
referring to the fact that the gentleman who invented basketball (in New
Hampshire) was born in Canada (and apparently beat feet to the US as soon
as he could ;) )
You might be able to tell I'm a rabid fan of
neither. Penicillin and the
telephone?? Other delusions of grandeur?
As for penicillin:
The action of natural penicillin was first observed
in 1928 by British bacteriologist
Sir Alexander
Fleming, but another ten years passed
before penicillin was concentrated and studied by British biochemist
Ernst
Chain, British pathologist
Sir Howard
Florey, and other scientists.
And the telehpone:
On March 10, 1876, in Boston, Massachusetts, Alexander Graham Bell
invented the telephone. Thomas Watson fashioned the device itself; a
crude thing made of a wooden stand, a funnel, a cup of acid, and some
copper wire. But these simple parts and the equally simple first
telephone call -- "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!" -- belie
a complicated past. Bell filed his application just hours before his
competitor, Elisha Gray, filed notice to soon patent a telephone himself.
What's more, though neither man had actually built a working telephone,
Bell made his telephone operate three weeks later using ideas outlined in
Gray's Notice of Invention, methods Bell did not propose in his own
patent.
Elisha Gray was from Ohio, Alexander Graham Bell was from Scotland, though he did live in Canada 2 years before moving to Boston.
How about the only country that
can't decide if they're English or French? How about the US's
biggest
colony via cultural conquest(ooooohh, that's a low blow). How about
never
saw a bikini except in National Geographic? I could go on, but I'm
not sure
my humor translates all that well, and the firewall has Babelfish
blocked.
Dan "not about to give up my day job"
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:37 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Sorry about this, but someone sent me this and I thought it might
be
relevant to the Canada and US discussion that took place last week.
With all the recipes going around, I thought it wouldn't do any harm.
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA)
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> So, what do Canadians have to be proud of? >
>
> * Lacrosse is Canadian
>
> * Hockey is Canadian
>
> * Basketball is Canadian
>
> * Apple pie is Canadian
>
> * Mr. Dress-up kicks Mr.
Rogers ass
>
> * Tim Hortons kicks
Dunkin' Donuts ass
>
> * 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...
>
> * Canada has the largest
French population that never surrendered to
> Germany.
>
> * We have the largest
English population that never ever surrendered
> or withdrew during any war to anyone, anywhere.
>
> * Our civil war was a
bar fight that lasted a little over an hour.
>
> * 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.
>
> * We knew plaid was cool
far before Seattle caught on.
>
> * The Hudsons Bay
Company once owned over 10% of the earth's surface
> and is still around as the worlds oldest company
>
> * The average dog sled
team can kill and devour a full grown human in
> under 3 minutes.
>
> * We still know what to
do with all the parts of a buffalo.
>
> * We don't marry our
kin-folk.
>
> * We invented ski-doos,
jet-skis, velcro, zippers, insulin,
> penicillin, zambonis, the telephone and short wave radios that
save
> countless lives each year
>
> * We ALL have frozen our
tongues to something metal and lived to tell
> about it.
>
> * BUT MOST IMPORTANT!
>
> * ....the handles on our
beer cases are big enough to fit your hands
> with mitts on.
>
> OOOOoohhhhh Canada!!
> Oh yeah... and our elections only take one day.
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