The Funniest Canadian Joke.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Wardad:
In Canada, Moosehead is a beer.
In USA, it is misdemeaner.

IIRC the moose is the largest deer in the deer family.

It can weigh almost a ton and Canada has a lot of them.

The numbers of moose in Canada may be one of the causes of all the "Canadian" moose jokes.

IIRC, one province has more moose than people.

Anybody care to venture which province that is?

[David E. Gervais]

..I'm an english speaking Canadian living in Quebec,.. I have the right to remain silent, anything I say can and will be used against me by the Language Police. I have the right to an atourny, if I can not afford one a unilingual french speaking avocat will be provided for me...

I read this somewhere way back, I find it really funny. Personally I'm bilingual so I don't have this kind of problem, My problem is that the french think I speak with an english accent and the english think I speak with a french accent! Probably because I throw in words from both Languages and this confuses them!

Nuf said! Cheers!

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by David Gervais:
My problem is that the french think I speak with an english accent and the english think I speak with a french accent! Probably because I throw in words from both Languages and this confuses them!

Nuf said! Cheers!

Oh that is too funny, I'm trying to picture the average conversation in my head.

Once I was making random calls to component vendors, and one was located in (pronounced) mOn-rA-'[a']l -- the nice receptionist lady answers the phone, "Hello, Bounjour", and I was stunned for a second or two.

thinks"She said hello twice ... am I supposed to greet her back twice? "

[ January 28, 2003, 22:23: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Arkcon]

So, why wasn't Jesus Christ born in Italy?

They couldn't find 3 wise men and a virgin.

I told this to my father and sister, and they both said, "Nothing in that joke is specific to Italians, you could have put any nationality there, why are you dumping on ours?"

I told my mother, and she looked at me puzzled for 3 seconds, then put down the iron, put her head on the ironing board, and laughed hilariously for a solid minute.

Some people have more fun just being a contrarion. That's their choice. But if something could be funny, you should give it a chance to move you.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by David Gervais:
..I'm an english speaking Canadian living in Quebec,.. I have the right to remain silent, anything I say can and will be used against me by the Language Police. I have the right to an atourny, if I can not afford one a unilingual french speaking avocat will be provided for me...

I read this somewhere way back, I find it really funny. Personally I'm bilingual so I don't have this kind of problem, My problem is that the french think I speak with an english accent and the english think I speak with a french accent! Probably because I throw in words from both Languages and this confuses them!

Nuf said! Cheers!

So, you are condemned by both and have friends with neither?

[tbontob]

Originally posted by tbontob:
So, you are condemned by both and have friends with neither? [/QB]

Ooops. David, I did not in any way mean to imply you friendless.

I type so fast that sometimes, my brain lags behind my fingers!

Personally, I have not experienced the discrimination in Quebec. Do you live in Montreal which has a significant "English" speaking population?

Anyways, it is interesting that most of the population in Quebec speak English and French. Yet my impression is that people are labelled to be in one camp or the other.

What I thought was funny was that you appeared to go out of your way to give the impression of being neither French or English and thereby find yourself shunned by righteous Frenchmen and Englishmen. Most significantly, you seemed to enjoy it.

[tbontob]

Double oops.

I may have given the impression that I "lived" in Quebec and was talking from personal experience.

I haven't!

The furthest east I have been is Hull Quebec and that is only for about 15 minutes.

So whatever I asserted came from second hand sources...other people, the media etc.

For those not in the know, Hull, Quebec is the sister city of our national capital, Ottawa, Ontario and lies just across the Ottawa river.