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Happy birthday Canada on the 1st of July!

Do you know how Canada got its name?

The three guys who discovered it put some letters in a bag and decided to
name the country after the letters they pulled out.

First guy: I got a "C", eh.
Second guy: I got an "N", eh.
Third guy: I got a "D", eh.

Or the the alternate idea which was that Canada was empty when the first settlers arrived (or so they thought). So it was named: Can = container, nada = nothing. Empty container. Sort of like a Doug and Bob Mackenzie show.


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Happy birthday Canada on the 1st of July!

Do you know how Canada got its name?

I've herd of this story. . .

The three guys who discovered it put some letters in a bag and decided to name the country after the letters they pulled out.
First guy: I got a "C", eh.
Second guy: I got an "N", eh.
Third guy: I got a "D", eh.

Shh, that's our big secret! Or it WAS!!!!

Hopefully you guys will appreciate my Canada puns more than r/Jokes did I tried telling some but they were having Nunavut.

My daughter got me a ôCanada ô sweater for Christmas... I asked why since we live in the USA?
ôItÆs aspirational ô she said.
Ooooof...

In response to the American coin shortage, Canada has committed to providing the U.S. aid
They give us Nickelback

Q: What do Canada and Mexico have in common? A: They have us in the middle.

A Canadian man is told to write a paper on a letter, so he says An "S," eh?




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George Pope wrote to All <=-

Happy birthday Canada on the 1st of July!

Do you know how Canada got its name?
The three guys who discovered it put some letters in a bag and decided to name the country after the letters they pulled out.
First guy: I got a "C", eh.
Second guy: I got an "N", eh.
Third guy: I got a "D", eh.

That's how I've been telling it; good to have corroboration, or you've just caught it roundabout from one of my older posting of it here or in other humour areas. . .

Or the the alternate idea which was that Canada was empty when the first
settlers arrived (or so they thought). So it was named: Can = container, nada
= nothing. Empty container. Sort of like a Doug and Bob Mackenzie show.

Oh, Bob & Doug-- I doo recall them, of course -- f*cking Americans thinking they have a clue about my country when most don't know spit about their own!

The real answer, of course, is "Kanata" was the Huron word for "village."

Early explorers asked them, "What do you call this place?" & that's the honest answer they received. Now there is a Kanata in most provinces, I believe. Some are bigger than villages (towns or even cities)

We use the term for some of our international sports teams, like in Olympic Curling we have Team Canada, but for the Paralympic Curling, it's Team Adanac(read it backwards); I think some other sports use "Team Kanata" but I'm not much for following sports, unless they involve sexy women doing beautifully presented activities (Figure Skating, Rhythmic Gymnastics come to mind first.)

... You have two choices for dinner: Take it or Leave it.

Oh, I'm always taking dinner, whether or not it's what was originally presented to me.

I had an older friend (is that possible? Yup) who, if a waitress asked if he liked his meal, would respond, "It's not flipped onto the floor is it?"

One time he was asked how he liked his meal & he, where he was a regular, answered, "It's at our usual standards."; goes to pay & finds out that his meal was comped to him, in full! Bonus: steak & trimmings for $0.00!

& we have a topic for ObPuns:

I was trying to give away a bunch of those little bugs that make honey. But nobody wanted my freebies.

A man walks into a pet store and asks for a dozen bees. The clerk carefully counts 13 bees out onto the counter. ôThatÆs one too many!ö says the customer. The clerk replies ôItÆs a freebieö

Welp, I guess that's as far as that one can go. . . Enjoy your day/week/month/season/any damned thing you want to! (if they're all consenting adults, of course!)

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First guy: I got a "C", eh.
Second guy: I got an "N", eh.
Third guy: I got a "D", eh.

That's how I've been telling it; good to have corroboration, or you've just caught it roundabout from one of my older posting of it here or
in other humour areas. . .

Doubt it. I heard that joke 30+ years ago.

Oh, Bob & Doug-- I doo recall them, of course -- f*cking Americans thinking they have a clue about my country when most don't know spit about their own!

But Doug and Bob were about Canada (sort of). The story is that Canada required every show to have XX minutes of "Canadian content". So SCTV came up with Doug and Bob McKenzie as a response to that.

The real answer, of course, is "Kanata" was the Huron word for
"village."

Early explorers asked them, "What do you call this place?" & that's the honest answer they received. Now there is a Kanata in most provinces,
I believe. Some are bigger than villages (towns or even cities)

Sounds like a dad joke about the Michigan towns of Naubinway (knob-in-way) and Newaygo (new-way-go).

I had an older friend (is that possible? Yup)

My grandparents once introduced me to an 80-year-old named "junior". I asked if that was his real name. They said "No, but he lives with his dad, so everyone just calls him 'junior'."


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Like nymphomaniacs...never satisfied.

You'd be surprised; some even complain they're getting too much -- just serves to prove that women are never satisfied/happy! Well, except for the wives of present company, of course!

Kraft is doing a similar kind of thing for Kraft peanut butter -- Girl
has whirlwind romance with French man of her dreams -- he finally
brings her to his home, after a fancy wedding, & she asks, "Honey,
where is the Kraft peanut butter?" & he replies, "What is Kraft peanut
butter" & the next scene has her on a plane alone, going back to
America.

LOL!! I was aware of Jif Peanut Butter, but not Kraft.

Jif does the same ad? Wouldn't surprise me if both companies are owned by the same parent.

Divorce is a vow tied with a slipknot. Folks who are wanting "a perfect marriage/relationship" in this life will never find it.

Yup,there'sno perfect spouse to be found. You search &search, putting yourself out there honestly, & you finally find one who's close enough for you to chose to commit to commit to working together with them for life, to maintain love and togetherness.

Those ex[ecting no fights in the perfect marriage are going to be sorely disappointed; it's not the fighting that indicates a problem, it's silence, or bad responding to fights.

Be mutually committed to working together in peace, love, & harmony, & you will; the fights tend to indicate a needf or change for both. If you committed to each other with all honesty & true commitment, then it's not very difficult to keep it going in a peaceful manner. . .

Like my parents, I keep in mind that divorce just isn't an option -- I promised to do all I could to keep us happily married til the Grim Reaper comres with his sickle to take one or both of us. She vowed & meant exactly the same. Maybeit's because we've both been married before & know the pain of it not working, that we were old & experienced enough to go into this marriage with open eyes & a desire to see it through.

I suspect we /tick/ each other off daily, but just choose not to take it too seriously. . .

On burning your mouth with a too-hot BBQ sauce--drinking Kool-Aid or water will only make the burn worse --you need dairy to neutralize the capsaicin; best, IMO, is a little sip of buttermilk. Or a bigger drink of whole milk, or in
between amount of drinkable plain yoghurt (the Indians use yoghurt in their cooking a lot to maintain a nice balance between heat & flavours)

That reminds me of the commercial with a weiner dog, saying "Oh,
antioxidants are good for me!! I thought you said anti-dachsunds". <G>

Eep! Poor pooch. . . Our dog shares my disdain for commercial factory-made food. He's now on strictly home-made food my wife cooks up for him (she cooks up a big batch in a 60-cup stockpot, then puts it into canning jars.

He gets 3% of his body weight each day, divided into two meals. . . Oh, he wolfs it down quickly, believe me! Even fastert han he did the canned crap we used to disguise the taste of is allergy medications.

And, I saw a meme with a man and a dachshund at a tavern bar...with
a martini of sorts next to them (I guess the dacshunds' was a weenie
martini with toilet water. <G>). The man said "Bond. James Bond"...
and the doxie replied "Hund. Dachs Hund". <G>

Digger Dawg! Rat-hund would've been a good name for the breed, too. . .

cuisine. However, with cost, I only order out once a month. I can't
see or understand how my brother can afford to eat out every day.

You're better off, not eating that commercial fecus! They mix salt, sugar, &fats to create a taste, with zero consideration of whether any of it is actually food or even good for humans. . .

IMO, McDonald's french fries are the best, compared to Burger King and Wendy's. For breakfast, I prefer the sausage egg McMuffin, with the hash browns...and the cheeseburgers for lunch.

I used to get the BLT bagel for breakfast, substituting an extras egg for the meat. & specifying leaf lettuce and slivered onion for the veggies -- for a nice healthy & tasty crunch. . .

My fave eating out breakfast now is, & it's arare treat indeed, is Tim Horton's Farmer's Wrap, customized (it's a large tortilla wrap, holding two eggs, a hashed browns, cheese, & a smidgen of lime-cilantro sauce) combo, with double chocolate doughnut (chocolate dough, chocolate icing) and a latte-mocha with extra shot of espresso. In my Contigo travel mug, it stays perfectly hot til past 5pm! So ideal for a day on the go, or at work. It hangs inside my cloth bag to the right of me, for easy access & no spillage, even if I keep the sippy part open for quick cooling off so I can guzzle the contents (the secret to using coffee to stay awake all day(or night) is, per some chemistry majors in loonyversity: very strong, very fast. Make it strong & down 'er quickly.

My morning "super coffee" at home, at my desk, contains the caffeine of an entire pot of coffee in each 6oz mugful. I rapidly drink two if I'm working all day. (I try to avoid that & pretend I'm on partial retirement -- much more fun!
& easier on the kidneys & liver!); 'course, I need to keep boosting my hourly rate to make up for the days & hours I can't be arsed to work, so I'm at $300/hour now, for uncontracted time. But, as I say in my upcoming book, "Everything, & I mean EVERY thing, is negotiable!"

Otherwise, I'll order from Burger King for the "Family Bundle" with
3 Whoppers, 3 cheeseburgers, and 3 french fries, for $20, via Grubhub.
Being a "Lyft Pink" member (paying $10 extra a month for Lyft), I get
free delivery for the Grubhub orders.

There you go; you make it work for YOUR needs & preferences & t'Hades with what their goals are! We don't use Uber (our preferred service for food, but my wife likes Lyft for taxi) enough to warrant paying the annual fee for premium standing (Uber One); we pay Amazon Prime, though, as we like the free same or next day delivery. . . & the occasional series on Prime Video.

Like you, we pick what WE find of value -- "We're Popes, not Dopes," as is our family motto!

With other bills, I may only do 6 months of the Post Office Box, or
let it go. Then, it's a PITA to notify all the businesses, etc. of
the address change...and I run the risk of folks stealing stuff out
of the mailbox...that's why I got the P.O. Box in the first place.

Sounds like you're best off as it is. . . What do you need to get at your PO Box? All bills & mail? (can't you go with online billing for your utilities, taxes, etc?)

I bet you double up errands, so if you're Lyfting in for one thing, you'll include a PO Box check while you're in town?

Living life like it's a luxury, but keeping one's eye on the bottom line -- that's WINNING!!!

ObPuns:
I'm so Frugal that I flip the paper plate over and use the other side before throwing away/

I'm so frugal that when someone kicks my ass, I clench my butt cheeks to keep the shoe.

My GrandmaÆs so frugal that when Grandpa died, she un-knit his sweaters so she could have the yarn back.

Tagline capable:
I'm so frugal that even Ebenezer Scrooge called me cheap! Your dad is so frugal he won't even spend time with you. I'm so frugal, I got married just for the rice! I'm so frugal I eat cereal with a fork so I can use the milk tomorrow

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