found this link on the portal of evil, thought it was pretty cool. i would be interested in your people's [is that pc? haha] takes on this, since i know some of you are from CA.
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Wow. Posts like that would be the main reason we'd never consent to an amalgamation with the USofA. We've got a basic literacy rate, as I understand.
Also: I was unaware we had many members from California.
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Da_bang80
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51'st state my ass! Maybe the US should join Canada! Give up the stars and stripes, and swear allegiance to the queen...and maybe hippo's are alien invaders (sarcasm)
Similar if not identical accent EH? Well Y'ALL I don't think so.
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Why should Canada have to join the US? Why should the US have to join Canada? What about Mexico? I'd rather see a new political entity (like the EU) than see Canada joining the US.
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Alaska never belonged to Canada. It was a Russian territory up until 1867, when the US bought it. At the time, Canada consisted of NB, NS, Ontario and Quebec. The latter two were only the lower parts of the modern provinces. BC was the size it is now, but still a British colony. The modern Alaska-Yukon border was all part of the NWT, also a British territory. IIRC Britain and Russia didn't get along well at the time.
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So Russia had all the way down the Pacific coast? When I look at maps I just think its sorta strange that there's only a little bit of Western Coast line for Canada.
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The lack of coast is not so terrible. Were any enemy ships to attempt a landing, they'd certainly not find their way, as they'd get lost amid the foggy plumes of the BC Pot Smoke Cloud.
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Sod that; Canada's ours!! the United Kindom of Great Bitain, Northern Ireland and Canada. Sounds good to me. The Empire will rule again!!!!!!
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I seem to remember one of the early Clive Cussler novels featured the recovery of a document signed by Lincoln or Churchill or someone like that (it's always 'someone like that' in his books) which ceded Canada to the US. Of course in Cussler's simplistic worldview the document is held to be valid 'today,' never mind the opinion your average Canadian might have about it.
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Why should Canada have to join the US? Why should the US have to join Canada? What about Mexico? I'd rather see a new political entity (like the EU) than see Canada joining the US.
That'd be interesting, actually. I call delegate from Tennessee!
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is it just me, or is ultramagnus an ass?
this was just a lighthearted post, all i wanted were reations, not an attack on my loose grammar...
ugh, and to think, i almost forgot why i stopped coming here after all that crap went down with adam and lee.
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On a slightly more serious note, a weird fact that few Canadians know about is that the British overseas territory of the Turks & Caicos Islands have made rumblings in the past about joining Canada as a Hawaii equivalent. More tourists and a potentially more representative government structure for them, and a patch of sand that doesn't get snowed-on for us.
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