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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
CANADIANA: Part Two
Alright, here's some relatively random facts about the so-called Great White North for you all to digest. In fact, a lot of Canadians won't even know this stuff!
Geography: Canada is divided into ten provinces and three territories. How do you tell the difference? Easy: people live in provinces. Only truly daring people (and the Inuit [who are quite daring themselves]) live in the territories . . . oh, and Santa Claus. He lives up there too. Now obviously that's a blatant lie and lotsa people do live in the territories . . . . . but they're way up there where it's probably always cold and stuff! But enough about that . . .
Currency: Canadian paper money goes $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100. I'm sure there's more after that, but who cares? For $1 and $2 denominations, we have coins - a gold/bronzish coin called the Loonie (for the bird on the tail-end of the coin, NOT for the woman on the head-end), and a double-tiered coin called the Toonie (mostly because people couldn't think of a better name for it - it IS a pretty nifty-looking coin, though). The current exchange rate is maybe about $1 Can / $0.65-0.70 US or so. It's gettin' better, so yay!
Sports: The National Sport of Canada involves two teams going at it, wearing protective equipment and carrying sticks, with nets and goalies at either end of the playing area . . . that's right! The National Sport of Canada is . . . . .
Lacrosse!
Now, that could have been a wicked joke, but it's true! The official sport is not Hockey, but Lacrosse (go First Nation peoples!). The funky part happened in 1994 with the "National Sport Act". Now, Lacrosse is the National "summer sport" while Hockey is the National "winter sport" of Canada. Guess people finally decided it was time for "the coolest game on earth" to get its spot in the sun. Neat, huh?
And so ends part two of "Fun Knowledge Time With Prof. SomeGuy!" Peace!
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