Canada?

cacho · Postby **cacho** » 02 Oct 2007, 14:11

Damn just noticed that , I though you guys were from the US :p

What part of Canada?

James · Postby **James** » 02 Oct 2007, 14:12

Victoria, BC, Canada

cacho · Postby **cacho** » 02 Oct 2007, 14:15

That was fast, thx

tak197 · Postby **tak197** » 02 Oct 2007, 16:31

You just noticed that? Wow, I thought the multiple tributes to CANADA DAY was a good clue.

Allen! · Postby **Allen!** » 02 Oct 2007, 16:35

Or the fact that 75% of the forum members are from Canada.

CyberTractor · Postby **CyberTractor** » 02 Oct 2007, 16:35

Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Allen! · Postby **Allen!** » 02 Oct 2007, 16:36

I'm with the Yank on this one.

Hero of Canton · Postby **Hero of Canton** » 02 Oct 2007, 17:12

CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Arrested Development? Matt Groening? Mormons?

But, yeah, I realised they were Canadian by the second video.

meisbored · Postby **meisbored** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:01

Hero of Canton wrote:
CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Arrested Development? Matt Groening? Mormons?

But, yeah, I realised they were Canadian by the second video.

Matt Groening is Canadian.

browncoat · Postby **browncoat** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:13

Hero of Canton wrote:
CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Arrested Development? Matt Groening? Mormons?

But, yeah, I realised they were Canadian by the second video.

JAYNE!?

Wraith · Postby **Wraith** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:31

CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Well, certainly not from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, but Williams St. cranks out the funny.

Wraith · Postby **Wraith** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:34

meisbored wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Arrested Development? Matt Groening? Mormons?

But, yeah, I realised they were Canadian by the second video.

Matt Groening is Canadian.

NO, HE'S NOT! Matt Groening is from Portland, Oregon. STOP CLAIMING OUR SHIT, CANADA! Groening is ours! So is Edison!

Alja-Markir · Postby **Alja-Markir** » 02 Oct 2007, 18:34

American Humor, overall, seems to fall into two categories: Reference Humor and Potty Humor. Yeah, there are exceptions, but those are the overwhelming kinds of humor. Much like British Humor is largely Absurdist Humor.

~Alja~

Hero of Canton · Postby **Hero of Canton** » 02 Oct 2007, 19:07

meisbored wrote:
Hero of Canton wrote:
CyberTractor wrote:Or the fact that nothing funny originates in the US.

Arrested Development? Matt Groening? Mormons?

But, yeah, I realised they were Canadian by the second video.

Matt Groening is Canadian.

He's from Oregeon. We can dib duel ownership?

Wraith · Postby **Wraith** » 02 Oct 2007, 19:25

Duel ownership? He was born in America. He was raised in America. He currently LIVES in America.

How does this give Canada any claim to him whatsoever?

Graham · Postby **Graham** » 02 Oct 2007, 19:26

Wraith wrote:So is Edison!

Who bought the patent for the light bulb from a Canadian.
Not saying he didn't perfect the thing, but the Canuck laid the groundwork.

Sable · Postby **Sable** » 02 Oct 2007, 19:27

The man they call Jayne!

Considering the staggering number of people I meet each year off the crusie ships who seem convinced Alaska isn't the 49th state, maybe I can be Canadian?

Wraith · Postby **Wraith** » 02 Oct 2007, 20:00

Graham wrote:
Wraith wrote:So is Edison!

Who bought the patent for the light bulb from a Canadian.
Not saying he didn't perfect the thing, but the Canuck laid the groundwork.

True. At least you got that right. I've had three people tell me that Edison was Canadian, which I suspect was because they heard the lightbulb story, and then connected Edison with the invention. Woodward made a kind of light-up rod, and Edison perfected the invention and made it an easily recreatible bulb.

For the record, regarding the Tribute To Canada from season 1 (I had a LRR DVD marathon yesterday to get my mind off my ass-hat boss. Good stuff.), and the pacemaker was invented in Australia by Dr Mark C Lidwell, and Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland, and lived in America when he invented the phone, lived most of his life, and eventually died. He only spent one year of his life in Canada.

cacho · Postby **cacho** » 02 Oct 2007, 20:30

Well I like Wes Anderson he is really good so the US has some nice humor.

It might just be me!

Alja-Markir · Postby **Alja-Markir** » 02 Oct 2007, 21:14

Edison's parents were Canadian, but he was completely American.

~Alja~

Allen! · Postby **Allen!** » 02 Oct 2007, 21:50

Uh, no. If my parents were Swedish, I'd be Swedish.
You lost this one. Just cause he was born in the US by Canadian parents doesn't make him American.

He's still Canadian, get over it.

JesterJ. · Postby **JesterJ.** » 02 Oct 2007, 22:11

These guys have a pretty cool video about Canada and America.

(Please keep in mind I've read none of the thread but the first...post or three)

Graham · Postby **Graham** » 02 Oct 2007, 22:17

Yeah, we freely admit to getting a couple things wrong in that Season 1 video.
Graham-Bell, yeah he's Scottish. At the time we though he had dual citizenship. Although if you read his Wikipedia entry, he spent way more than a year in Canada, and most of the work done on the telephone was split between his Boston lab and his Nova Scotia retreat. So... well it's something anyway.

Wraith · Postby **Wraith** » 02 Oct 2007, 22:29

orn and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1870, and then to the United States in 1871

ORLY?

Brad · Postby **Brad** » 02 Oct 2007, 22:34

As King of Canada, I claim Washington state (but not Lyndon), Oregon (particularly Portland), Colorado and Alaska. Henceforth all famous figures from these places shall be known as Canadian and their achievements transferable.

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