http://www.canada.com/windsor/story.asp?id=43001525-3C61-477A-918A-D4A1948F33D3

Read.

Discuss.

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Fear is here, where's the beer?

Woah. Woah. Woah.

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http://www.writings-emag.net The next big thing since individually wrapped cheese slices (coming soon).

After reading the title I thought it was gonna be about a giant laser beam that gives people cancer.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

Well its about bloody time.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Sweet, though it's not the first time we come up with something.

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* Wolfy goes around singing "I'm too sexy for Seb's body"
* Cave_Demon steals Seb's underwear (underwear stolen: 39)

The real reason it was developed. I mean, come on, 15 and 16 year old males..

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Freelancer

Uh... a treatment for diabetes?
Basketball?
The telephone?

[This message has been edited by Jon`C (edited March 30, 2004).]

Fascinating...the title on the article's really misleading though.


Btw, this thread looks great on the front page.

"Wow... Canada finally came up with something.... -Fear-"



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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Don't forget the mars rovers and the canadarm.

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The light bulb (later bought by Edison)
Standard time
IMAX
Newsprint
The zipper
pacemaker
snowmobile

Even the Java programming language was invented by a Canadian, although that could also be a mark against us.

See, this kind of thing is a no-no. Don't just start a thread, post a link and say "Discuss". If you have no opinion on the matter (or do but don't bother to voice it), don't start a thread about it!

(End of rant.)

Wow Kroko, how pointless of you to say that... Aren't people allowed to be interested in the opinions of other people before forming their own?

The topic isn't really in need to an opinion really.

It's cool that they've come up with a better way to determine the extent of cancer.

Also, some of you people wouldn't know sarcasm if it bit you in the *** .

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Well, yes. I never thought of it that way. I'm kind of going by this Finnish messageboard where starting a thread with only "Discuss." as the initial post is one of the biggest sins. Now that I think about it, it makes no sense and is a stupid rule!

So, my apologies to Fear.

Damn. Krok sucks.

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So did I..

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"It's OK for us to randomly attack people!"
-BV

...Yeah, Java doesn't count.

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* Seb goes around singing "I'm too sexy for my body"
* Wolfy goes around singing "I'm too sexy for Seb's body"
* Cave_Demon steals Seb's underwear (underwear stolen: 39)

Yes, if by canadian you mean the italian Antonio Meucci...

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A mar on our flag. Java is evil.

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TI-MAH!

Okay, a guy who demonstrated how catastrophically incapable the American legal system is

He still lacks canadian.

(As does Earl E. Bakken...)

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[This message has been edited by Roach (edited March 30, 2004).]

Holy crap! Read the "Other News" at the end of the article. Canada's chock full of young geniuses! Soon we'll be living in a world in which most of our daily conveniences were developed by highschoolers. The quality of adult ingenuity is really going down.

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[This message has been edited by Yen (edited March 30, 2004).]

Roughly what I thought

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"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

Morituri Nolumus Mori

Listen you... we came up with the jet airplane before you stupid Americans did if we were so damn nice we could have owned your asses along time ago.

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Not to mention the fact that, since we live in an icy and possibly radioactive wasteland, we're hardier and generally... uh... less massive than the average American.

What jet? I don't recall the canadians having a jet aircraft before the XP-59A. And what was it exactly that you did that could have "owned" the Americans?


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This is the part where he says that Canadians burned down the White House, even though it was a number of seasoned British troops coming up from the Chesapeake, trained after a few years of war in Europe. Even then, that's not a true statement, for there was no White House to be burned down at the time.

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Heh, I was expecting them to bring up the failure they call the Avro Arrow again...

Though, I could see them bringing up the Whitehouse, and then trying to claim something like "we also invented the t.v." or something.

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Don't forget the fact that canada as a country didn't even exist at the time!

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

This is a VERY common misunderstanding.
Canadians like to say we won a war in 1812 or something like that. There was no Canada until 1867.

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And plus the fact that the british did not win. The war ended in a truce, mainly because England had problems of her own, but a truce nonetheless. That also made america pretty world-famous, for it was the first time a country had not lost to england in a war for a freakishly long period of time.

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I would say that the british did indeed win that war. The americans goal in the war was to invade and take over Canada, and they failed to do this. The brits goal was to stop the americans from taking over Canada, and they were successful in doing this. Therefore Canada won.

The Arrow program was Co-opted by the CIA. And it actually succeded. They just shut it down because of the afore mentioned Co-opt. Ironically the CIA was created based upon training received in Canada during World War II.

And by all means, deny this and flame me.

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First off, as was stated before Canada did not, in any sence, win the war. First off, There was no canada. secondly, it was seasoned british troops that fought that war, and so its not like you could claim it was canadians doing the fighting.

However, as for britin winning the war, i had forgotten much of that period of american history, seeing as i suck at history, i have looked it up, and the war was in no was started to take over canada. it was started in responce to britain's attacking of trading ships.

I believe, if my memory serves, that a large percent of the 'War Hawks', as they were called, attempted to use the war as justification for invading canada, but the attempt never really worked.

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"Some people play tennis. I erode the human soul"
-Tycho, Penny Arcade
"I'm a Cannabal-Vegitarian. I will BBQ an employee if there is no veggie option"
-DX:IW

That's not true. There was a Canada. It just didn't become a country until 1867.

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If I recall, the Brtish were trying to reconquer America, as well.

Either way, it is was a draw.


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You know I still try to run on. But it's all or none.

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World, watch out, Canada is coming!!!

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First of all, I'd love to see a source saying the Arrow was a joint project with the CIA, especially since the CIA was putting money towards the U2 and Article 11/12. Not only that, but all the sites I've seen have oddly stated "The U.S. aerospace industry and the CIA saw the Arrow as a threat." Now then, I like how you say "it succeeded," but didn't really mention how. The program ended before any decent engine was put into the airframe. It failed to reach its promised speed of Mach 2+. It had a horrible design flaw that caused landings to be dangerous. Sounds like it still needed a fair amount of work for such a "successful" programme.

"Ironically" the CIA was created based on experience with the OSS. The OSS was formed from the COI. The COI was formed because the realization that the Department of State and Military Intelligence (namely ONI and G-2) were unable to provide the massive amounts of intelligence of foreign powers desired by the U.S. Government. Before COI, ONI and G-2 were conducting covert operations on their own. Those teams were later transfered under COI command, then to OSS, then to CIA. I'm failing to see the connection with Canada...

[Edit - Oh wait, I see the connection. Camp-X, that special camp founded during WWII (After the formation of ONI, G-2, and COI) and commanded by a Scottsman, a Frenchman, and an Englishman. Thank you for providing some land.]

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