Your Canada 150th B-day Celebratioun Open Thread

By now, you guys should now that I LOVE me some Canadia.  I love Vancouver and, even though I made fun of my boss for traveling to Calgary for his very first trip to Canada, I think the rest of the country is pretty awesome.  That doesn’t, of course, count the people.  Not only are the Canadian contingent here at DFO an awesome group of people, everyone I have ever met that is Canadian has been a cool person.  I’m pretty sure there are Canadian assholes as assholes exist pretty much everywhere, but I haven’t met any yet.

Prior to traveling to the Great White North, my exposure to Canada was limited to TV and movies.  So it is that I want to do a personal tribute to what Canada meant to me prior to going there and becoming invisible friends with invisible Canadians.

First up, my very first memory of anything Canadian:

I watched this movie multiple times as a wee lil balls.  I could probably recite the lines from memory. Thanks to this movie, we were calling each other hosers in middle school and I bought my first street hockey set. That is because there is no fucking ice in LA and the Kings wouldn’t get Gretzky until later and only THEN were hockey programs started.  Alas, it was too late for me, but I still, to this day, love hockey.  And this movie.

The times blur with age but the next Canadian thing I remember was SCTV reruns.  SCTV, of course, had an all-star lineup of comedy stars with John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy, and Martin Short.  Are you fucking kidding me?  That’s like the Hall of Fame of comedy right there.

There was a point in the 80s that LA might as well have been a Canadian suburb as every major comedy star was born in Canada and worked in LA.  Hell, that’s still largely the case.  Just look at this list of Canadian comedians. Almost all of our favorite comedians, TV, and movie stars are Canadian.  Phil Fucking Hartman was Canadian!

You know who else was Canadian?

Damn right.  Note how awesome she looks before the dirty States got to her. You’d be surprised how many “American” hotties are actually from Canada.  I will let you all post your favorites, but I will mention one that is not well known:  Sunny Leone:

She is now a big Bollywood star.  Apparently, there IS life after porn!

But, the ones I have to mention above everything are the Kids in the Hall.  They have really shaped my humor and made me the crazy perverted offbeat Balls that you know and tolerate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvbvqYGgBqM

and, in honor of Canada’s birthday, this sketch:

Ok, seriously, the only thing I don’t get is the attachment to the Queen, even though you are an Independent Country.  Also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymJPH9jSEQ

I love you, Canada!  Sorry I’m late on the 150th celebration!

Hey, maybe I can be a Canadian citizen after all!  🙂

and finally, I can’t forget about the awesome sport of curling:

Je t’aime Canada!

Aloutte, gentille aloutte, Aloutte, je te plumerai!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLXo19248g

May you always have many many Armani!