What's the STUPIDEST question you've been asked about Canada

Reba
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Canuck in NC

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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:39 am

 

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I live in a small town (they call it a city) in Western North Carolina. I work at the local newspaper doing data entry. Yesterday the receptionist asked me "are there trees in Canada?"

I thought my jaw was going to break when it fell open!

*snarf*

What's the stupidest thing you've been asked about Canada?
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oohmercyme
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:00 am

 

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If we had electricity in Canada.

I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2 hours from the Canada/US border. My second year there I brought home some friends for Thanksgiving. I had NO trouble convincing them that we would be trading in my car for a dogsled at the border. They also wondered if they should leave their hairdryers at home because they didn't know if we had hyrdo or not!

2 hours drive to Canada and they didn't have a clue!
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Reba
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:05 pm

 

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Yep, that's a good one alright! Canada is a third world country. With no trees.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:10 pm

 

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You all may enjoy these then from the very clever Rick Mercer.

http://home.comcast.net/~wwwstephen/americans/

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oohmercyme
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:59 pm

 

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I just LOVE Rick Mercer, but watching "Talking to Americans" is almost painful (the answers are so insane!)

You can catch much of The Rick Mercer Report online at: http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/
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Laura

Joined: 30 Jun 2006
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Location: Oxfordshire

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:21 am

 

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Okay, for the easily offended: LOOK AWAY NOW.back in high school (many moons ago) I was on a Senior Band exchange with a school in North Carolina. Sitting at the dinner table of my host family the first night my billet's father asked me seriously.brace yourselves.(use a "good-old-boy" drawl here) "Y'all got ni**ers in Canada?" (think the most horrific thing you could call an African-American/black person) Cue stunned silence from me and a very livid and embarrassed young girl who wants to murder her father. Good news is that I ignored him since he was obviously an ignorant PIG and she and I have remained friends and in contact to this day!

Second most annoying thing people ask me, when I tell them I'm from Ontario (I gave up long ago saying Ottawa due to the blanks stares I get) is guaranteed someone will say to me, "Oh, I know somebody in Toronto, I wonder if you know them?".SIGH!

When I worked with my hubby's family in Alberta we dealt with customers in Banff and they would tell us of people showing up in July with all their ski gear ready to hit the slopes.hahaha, morons!

It never ceases to amaze me how little people know about our country, so it's my duty as a patriotic citizen to educate them!

Loved reading the other stories, too funny!
Laura
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Enchantress15
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:45 am

 

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I have to say that sadly, the stupidest question I have gotten about Canada was from a Canadian themselves. I was born and raised in Yellowknife, NWT (no, I am NOT an "eskimo" (ps, the correct term is inuit )). Haha, anyways, I was on an exchange in grade 8 with some kids from a school in Red Deer, Alberta. I had them hooked on my every word as I explained to them the everyday trials of hooking up my dogsled in the winter just to get to school on time. And how we had figured out how to get internet in our igloos even though the wires would freeze every so often. I then went on to say that in the summer time when our igloos would melt, we built mudhuts and had to free our pet polar bears since they would migrate to the far north because of the heat (and here we said that heat to us was 5 degrees celcius). I admit that at the mention of mudhuts SOME of the kids started getting a little suspicious (note that it was only SOME of them )

I suppose since we all were only in grade 8 it is somewhat excusable. haha, but from a fellow Canadian? I was in shock that they even believed me after the first blatant lie (the dogsleds)!

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stprdi
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Joined: 21 Sep 2006
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Location: BC

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:36 pm

 

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I was calling to the JC Penny mail order for a swim suit in the early summer. Chatting back and forth with the lady she said she didn't get many calls from Canada. She asked what was the temperature there. I said oh it's hot, 30 degrees. She said what, it's 30 degrees and you are going swimming? I had to explain that we are on centigrade not farenheit. I have also been travelling in the States when we had told that we live in Canada and they said, oh do you know this guy.he lives in Toronto! So dopey it's too funny.

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