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11-02-2009, 11:32 AM
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#1 | | Captain Happy Bubble is my Homeboy
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Canada eh! TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
1. Vancouver : 1.5 million people and two bridges. You do the math.
2. Your $400,000 Vancouver home is just 5 hours from downtown.
3. You can throw a rock and hit three Starbucks locations.
4. There's always some sort of deforestation protest going on.
5. Weed. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ALBERTA
1. Big rock between you and B.C.
2. Ottawa who?
3. Tax is 5% instead ofthe approximately 200% it is for the rest of the country.
4. You can exploit almost any natural resource you can think of.
5. You live in the only province that could actually afford to be its own country.
6. The Americans below you are all in anti-government militia groups. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
1. You never run out of wheat.
2. Your province is really easy to draw.
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
4. People will assume you live on a farm.
5. Daylight savings time? Who the hell needs that! TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN MANITOBA
1. You wake up one morning to find that you suddenly have a beachfront property.
2. Hundreds of huge, horribly frigid lakes.
3. Nothing compares to a wicked Winnipeg winter.
4. You can be an Easterner or a Westerner depending on your mood.
5. You can pass the time watching trucks and barns float by. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN ONTARIO
1. You live in the centre of the universe.
2. Your $400,000 Toronto home is actually a dump.
3. You and you alone decide who will win the federal election.
4. The only province with hard-core American-style crime. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
1. Racism is socially acceptable.
2. You can take bets with your friends on which English neighbour will move out next.
3. Other provinces basically bribe you to stay in Canada .
4. You can blame all your problems on the "Anglo A*#!%!" TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEW BRUNSWICK
1. One way or another, the government gets 98% of your income.
2. You're poor, but not as poor as the Newfies.
3. No one ever blames anything on New Brunswick .
4. Everybody has a grandfather who runs a lighthouse. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA
1. Everyone can play the fiddle. The ones who can't, think they can.
2. You can pretend to have Scottish heritage as an excuse to get drunk and wear a kilt.
3. You are the only reason Anne Murray makes money. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
1. Even though more people live on Vancouver Island , you still got the big, new bridge.
2. You can walk across the province in half an hour.
3. You can drive across the province in two minutes.
4. Everyone has been an extra on "Road to Avonlea."
5. This is where all those tiny, red potatoes come from.
6. You can confuse ships by turning your porch lights on and off at night. TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN NEWFOUNDLAND
1. If Quebec separates, you will float off to sea.
2. If you do something stupid, you have a built-in excuse.
3. The workday is about two hours long.
4. It is socially acceptable to wear your hip waders to your wedding. Let's face it: Canadians are a rare breed.
The Officia l Canadian Temperature Conversion Chart
50° Fahrenheit (10° C)
· Californians shiver uncontrollably.
· Canadians plant gardens.
35° Fahrenheit (1.6° C)
· Italian Cars won't start
· Canadians drive with the windows down
32° Fahrenheit (0° C)
· American water freezes
· Canadian water gets thicker.
0° Fahrenheit (-17.9° C)
· New York City landlords finally turn on the heat.
· Canadians have the last cookout of the season.
-60° Fahrenheit (-51° C)
· Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
· Canadian Girl Guides sell cookies door-to-door.
-109.9° Fahrenheit (-78.5° C)
· Carbon dioxide freezes makes dry ice.
· Canadians pull down their earflaps.
-173° Fahrenheit (-114° C)
· Ethyl alcohol freezes.
· Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg
-459.67° Fahrenheit (-273.15° C)
· Absolute zero; all atomic motion stops.
· Canadians start saying "cold, eh?"
-500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over. · The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup  | 
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11-02-2009, 11:42 AM
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#2 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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its missing "chinese people" from the BC and Ontario sections
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11-02-2009, 11:46 AM
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#3 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by Sodium  -500° Fahrenheit (-295° C)
· Hell freezes over. · The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup |
Pretty interesting read though!
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11-02-2009, 11:57 AM
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#4 | | Banned (ABWS)
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cool....
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11-02-2009, 12:00 PM
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#5 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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haha nice read
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11-02-2009, 12:07 PM
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#6 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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Originally Posted by Sodium Canada eh!
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11-02-2009, 12:08 PM
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#7 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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the best part was the last part, screw the leafs
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11-02-2009, 01:25 PM
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#8 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Vancouver proper has actually 2mill in pop'n now
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11-02-2009, 01:29 PM
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#9 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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11-02-2009, 01:30 PM
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#10 | | Unofficial Tin Foil Hat Specialist.
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero Vancouver proper has actually 2mill in pop'n now | You had to get technical eh?
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11-02-2009, 01:33 PM
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#11 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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awesome read!
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11-02-2009, 02:33 PM
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#12 | | SFICC-03*
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two bridges? lol
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11-02-2009, 05:37 PM
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#13 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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haha. thanks for the laughs!
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11-02-2009, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Sodium Canada eh!
TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN QUEBEC
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my fav
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11-02-2009, 06:36 PM
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#15 | | The RS Freebie guru
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TOP REASONS TO LIVE IN SASKATCHEWAN
3. You can watch the dog run away from home for hours.
I LoLed.
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11-02-2009, 06:39 PM
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#16 | | RS Operative (G)
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good stuff
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11-03-2009, 09:46 AM
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#17 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Sodium Canada eh!
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· Hell freezes over. · The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup | 
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11-03-2009, 09:58 AM
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#18 | | :inoutugh:
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I guess the Leafs have more of a chance at winning the cup than any other Canadian team hahah
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11-03-2009, 10:01 AM
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#19 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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hahahahaha awesome read
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11-03-2009, 10:25 AM
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#20 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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11-03-2009, 12:26 PM
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#21 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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I love how the first 3 of the 5 for BC all apply only to Vancouver.
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11-03-2009, 01:25 PM
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#22 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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hahaha, the sad part is that it's all true
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