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Prepare for the Onslaught - Canadian Invasion Tomorrow!

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  • #21
    And the rest of us from the rest of the world draw up a chair and wait to be entertained.

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    • #22
      I dont get Canadian Invasion

      Whats the purpose?? ITs Thanksgiving here, And from what I remember all the posts are not serious, just about moose, and goofy stuff! Maybe I missed something last year.. I'd rather have another off topic day

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        #23
        It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada, too, because they get to post lots of great stuff on COTH!
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        • #24
          Maybe you know what a chesterfield is but do you know what eve troughs are?
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          • #25
            Just to keep it Canadian and horse related....

            I will preface this by saying that I am Canadian and Mr. JP is formerly a Canuck.

            One Saturday morning last winter, we were in the barn, eagerly awaiting a delivery of 4 tons of hay from CT. (And possibly channeling Reynard Ridge ). We had a busy day planned that would end at some fancy dinner party and gala, where I was to sit next to a well-known magazine editor that I had wanted to meet for some time.

            Aforementioned hay was supposed to arrive at 9am. Weather was fine and our half mile mountainous driveway was plowed and sanded. And of course I had informed the hay broker they needed to come in a 4WD tow vehicle to navigate the terrain safely.

            We waited and waited and waited and checked messages. Nothing. Finally, I reached the hay broker who called the hay delivery guy who finally called me back at noon. “Yeah, we had some problems getting the trailer hooked up, but now we’re good to go.” Really. He is about an hour drive away. 1 pm goes by, 2 pm goes by and it starts to snow. Hard. By the time this joker arrives, at 4 pm, driveway is covered and slick. Not only that, but he is driving an early 70s pickup that I swear bends in the middle, only RWD, balled tires, and… NO BRAKES ON THE TRAILER WITH 4T of HAY!!! As experienced Canadian drivers, we say, maybe we should do it another day. Of course, dufus has come all this way and has to try it. He gets about 300 feet up the driveway and the trailer starts to slide backwards and takes the truck with it into a tree/ditch. Rig is now jackknifed across the driveway.

            So Mr. JP gets the tractor. No dice. We call our friends with the big trucks. No dice. We call professional towing company. Can’t get out to our place until tomorrow. Oh, and by now it’s almost 6pm and we’re supposed to be at the party by 6:30. But….. even if we could get dressed and out of there in time, one small problem: we couldn’t get out of our driveway. (Oh, and minor problem... our disabled neighbor who shares the driveway couldn’t back home). So, we call the party hosts and explain the situation. Then, we call more friends and borrow someone’s truck to take Mr.Dumbhaydeliveryguy to the train station (did I mention that with his chainsmoking, swearing and wacko horse care advice, he had been joyful company for the last several hours??)

            Finally we get home, showered, dressed and over to the party, about 4 hours late, as most people are leaving . The first person I see at the Front door is a fellow former Canadian, who spent his youth in the Ottawa valley. He of course has heard the saga of our day, which is by now is much more convoluted than we intended. He just looks at us, shakes his head and says, “Hay, EH?!”
            "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man" ~ Sir Winston Churchill

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            • #26
              I am practically tingling with anticipation! whoo hooo!

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              • #27
                Fellow Canucks... we may have a problem here - it seems as though some of the Yankees have broken our secret code.....

                They seem to have discovered what toques and poutine are. God help us. We must revert to our back up plan - feeding them one or two maple sugar candies to ensure they go into diabetic shock. This method can also be used to weed out the true Candians in the group, as we all know only Canadians can eat vast multitude of these delicous treats....

                Ye know too much!!!
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                  #28
                  I also await the invasion with glee. JP, I loved your story.

                  But if Mr JP is a former Canuck, what's he the latter of?
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                  • #29
                    as we all know only Canadians can eat vast multitude of these delicous treats....
                    Yeah? You wanna bet against a PMS-ing, sugar-craving teenager and her horse? BRING IT ON!
                    "I'm not always sarcastic. Sometimes I'm asleep." - Harry Dresden

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho" View Post
                      I also await the invasion with glee. JP, I loved your story.

                      But if Mr JP is a former Canuck, what's he the latter of?
                      Now he is *gasp* an American! Imagine, he wanted to vote, and didn't like his title of "resident alien." However, at home, I strictly enforce the spelling of honor "h-o-n-o-u-r," pronounciation of foyer as "foy-yay," the wearing of "toques" and sitting on of "chesterfields."
                      "There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man" ~ Sir Winston Churchill

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                        #31
                        Well, I'm a resident alien, and I'm an American, if my passport is correct. But I can also vote, whew.

                        Ted is also American, but his forbears are English, so he also spells color colour, and check cheque, and knows what the word queue means.
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                        • #32
                          Originally posted by Sabovee View Post
                          feeding them one or two maple sugar candies to ensure they go into diabetic shock. This method can also be used to weed out the true Candians in the group, as we all know only Canadians can eat vast multitude of these delicous treats....

                          Ye know too much!!!

                          YE don't know nearly enough! As a good Connecticut Yankee, I grew up on maple sugar candy. No such thing as TOO MUCH. And I may have moved to the midwest, but I made sure to introduce my flatlander daughter to the real stuff at a young age; corruped her for life.

                          "only Canadians". <<snort>> Oh, please.
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                          • #33
                            All I can say is Timmie Hohos puts Dunkin' Donuts to shame.
                            So, so true. While living in Ontario, got hooked on Timmies coffee. Bought 2 large(78 oz) coffee when moved to Chicago area 2 months ago. I am running low and starting to worry. I wonder if Timmies would ship me some.
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                            • #34
                              Originally posted by DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho" View Post
                              Well, I'm a resident alien

                              Geek! We always knew you were a little, um, different, but.......

                              So which planet ARE you from? Do they have horses there, and ribbons? Or is that why you came here?
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                              • #35
                                I'm looking forward to it. I actually impressed a Canadian with some of the
                                esoteric knowledge about Canadian culture I have gleaned from these posts.

                                Besides, I need a good recipe for poutine and that's sure to be provided tomorrow.
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                                • #36
                                  Canucks, just make sure that you confine the invasion to Off Course, please... because every year I get cranky emails from people who don't understand what the silly threads are about, so let's keep the silliness to one forum. Thanks.

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                                  • #37
                                    You might not believe this but I'm a Canadian, live in Southern Ontario and I have never had poutine and I'm not even sure what it is. Now, Timmies I know!!! and there is nothing better than a Timmies Ice Cap on a hot summer day. ( non-alcoholic I'm talking here)

                                    BTW, do you still want us to ship down Ann Murray?
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                                    • #38
                                      Both of my parents are from Quebec and all of my relatives live in Quebec. I also speak fluent French. I love poutines, meat pies, caramel cakes, and boiling maple syrup and putting it on snow so that it hardens like candy. Ohhh gotta love the Christmas logs they make for the holidays. Yummy.

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                                      • #39
                                        Crunchy Bars... Yummmmmy

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                                        • #40
                                          No fair! I'm going to be at Disney World for the whole onslaught Don't forget to add beaver tails to our list of oh so delicious Canadian delicacies.

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