Montcalm wrote:And in Quebec there is her pro-separatists equivalant her name is Ginette Reno,and no she is not related to the French actor Jean Reno.
Actually, Ginette Reno sounds very similar to Janett Reno, President Clinton's Attorney General. Ginette Reno doesn't look a lot like Will Farrel in drag does she?
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Darth Wong wrote:Our ability to deploy military forces against the United States, while severely limited due to our cash-strapped military, is still vastly superior to that of Iraq due to the fact that it's only about a half-hour drive, thus making us an even larger nonexistent direct threat.
This I found particularly hilarious.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
Darth Wong wrote:
and the only real cost would be letting us use your dollar.
To be fair the Canadian dollars is treated as of equal value to the US dollar and is legal tender in a couple of states such as Alaska, and Southern Florida.
It certainly is not of equal value. The Canadian dollar is about 3-5 dollars more IIRC
Cyaround,
Jason
The Canadian dollar is ALMOST equal to the US dollar. The US dollar is worth just a few cents more than the US dollar.
Live mid-market rates as of 2003.04.08 17:40:24 GMT.
1.00 CAD = 0.680942 USD
and
1 USD = 1.46846 CAD
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
Montcalm wrote:Why are you guys so obsessed in starting a war with Canada,i thought we were friends.
Unfinished business.
You didn't think we'd let someone burn our capital without a little payback did you? Stealing your hockey teams and moving them to places that shouldn't have hockey teams is just the first step in our evil plan.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Montcalm wrote:Why are you guys so obsessed in starting a war with Canada,i thought we were friends.
Unfinished business.
You didn't think we'd let someone burn our capital without a little payback did you? Stealing your hockey teams and moving them to places that shouldn't have hockey teams is just the first step in our evil plan.
You started it we finished it.
Jerry Orbach 1935 2004 Admiral Valdemar~You know you've fucked up when Wacky Races has more realistic looking vehicles than your own.
I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
Who cares if they were from Canada, Canada wasn't a real country at that point (still isn't, in fact).
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Durran Korr wrote:Who cares if they were from Canada, Canada wasn't a real country at that point (still isn't, in fact).
A ha!thanks for the help there Since it's not a country it's just a bunch of open territory waiting to be claimed. Time for our next Manifest Destiny Project lets get some homesteaders up to the Canadian Territory and settle that place. Sure there might be a few squatters in the way but they shouldn't be a problem.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Tsyroc wrote:
But didn't the troops come down from Canada
Britain began sending it European forces to North America, I believe that the force in question were British regulars landed by the British Navy.
But you have to realise that Canada and Canadians were British subjects at the time. At the time they were "our" troops.
This was an interesting factoid I found some time ago (what I normally hear is that the burning was in retaliation for York):
In January 1814, after the Americans had burned Niagara-on-the-Lake and the British had devastated the American side of the Niagara, the British commander-in-chief, Sir George Prevost, issued a proclamation stating that Britain would refrain from such acts in the future if the United States would do the same. All was well until May 1814 when, in an unauthorised action, an American force burnt two small Canadian villages on the north shore of Lake Erie. It was this act that caused Prevost to ask the British admiral commanding the North American fleet to retaliate in kind against the Atlantic coast of the United States and the result was the destruction of public buildings in Washington.
Do you think we should try setting up reservations for the Native Canadians or should we just try to force integrate them into our society? Those heathens would really benefit spiritually by learning the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Tsyroc wrote:Do you think we should try setting up reservations for the Native Canadians or should we just try to force integrate them into our society? Those heathens would really benefit spiritually by learning the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner.
Tax free reservations please. I can't stand pledges or national anthems.
Montcalm wrote:Why are you guys so obsessed in starting a war with Canada,i thought we were friends.
That's what we wanted you to think... *presses button*
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Zoink wrote:
Britain began sending it European forces to North America, I believe that the force in question were British regulars landed by the British Navy.
Mostly British regulars, there was a small number of Canadian militia with them. They came by sea, which was pretty easy since the US had less then half a dozen vessels which could fight with Royal navy frigates and had nothing that could really match a lone 64 or 74, let alone a fleet of them.
The US was nearing completion on several 74's when the war ended however.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Have to balance out the temperature extremes you know.
The combination of American religious beliefs with the reality of American culture should provide a strong fifth column.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Eh, most of the military action is going to take place 100 miles within the border (where the bulk of Canadians live, IIRC), probably in a warmer season, so that shouldn't be an issue.
BoTM / JL / MM / HAB / VRWC / Horseman
I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
But didn't the troops come down from Canada
