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  • #31
    Originally posted by Adrift View Post
    I tried to get into Canada with a friend once on a lark. We were kinda bored, hanging out at gritty truck stops on a weekend night on interstate 75. Friend asked if we should keep going north. I said yes. He asked how far. I said all the way! We get to Detroit at like midnight. No one on the streets except shady looking types. Get to the border crossing. Asked what our business is. Kinda shrug and say "looking for a place to eat". Where are we going to eat? "Um...McDonalds?" They ask us to step out of the car to search us, and then point back in the direction we just came from and say "there's a Mcdonalds about 5 minutes that way". And that was closest we got to Canada that night.
    Now if you has said Tim Horton's they probably would have started a parade in your honor and let you ride on the back of a moose at the head of it.

    Originally posted by Adrift View Post
    Now my brother works on the border, but you like, have to give a blood and hair sample, and name your child after Sir Macdonald, or something, if you wanna even think of crossing over. Pain in the buttocks.
    Don't you need a passport now?

    I'm always still in trouble again

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    • #32
      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
      Now if you has said Tim Horton's they probably would have started a parade in your honor and let you ride on the back of a moose at the head of it.
      Probably yeah.

      Don't you need a passport now?
      You can apply for some sort of card or something without doing the whole passport thing, but it requires your original birth certificate, I think, to get it. My brother has been able to get people in without one a couple times, but they're locking down on it pretty hard. I hate that we have to go through all that nonsense in order to visit a nation that's right next to us. Europeans don't have to go through that kind of silliness. And besides, Canadians are basically Americans with a bit of an accent.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Adrift View Post
        Probably yeah.



        You can apply for some sort of card or something without doing the whole passport thing, but it requires your original birth certificate, I think, to get it. My brother has been able to get people in without one a couple times, but they're locking down on it pretty hard. I hate that we have to go through all that nonsense in order to visit a nation that's right next to us. Europeans don't have to go through that kind of silliness. And besides, Canadians are basically Americans with a bit of an accent.
        In South America, they would be called Americans (they call us "United Statesers").
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        • #34
          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
          In South America, they would be called Americans (they call us "United Statesers").
          I never heard anyone call me a "United Stateser" even once but heard yanqui several times.

          I'm always still in trouble again

          "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
          "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
          "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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          • #35
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            • #36
              I couldn't find Kentucky on that map.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                I couldn't find Kentucky on that map.
                Just North of Texas!
                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                  I never heard anyone call me a "United Stateser" even once but heard yanqui several times.
                  Must be just parts of SA then. I recall at least some of them being peeved that we had arrogated "American" for ourselves, since they consider themselves Americans as well.
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                  • #39
                    I've never been to Canada...I've not been to many northern States either. I laid over in Boston on the way to the country of Latvia on a missionary trip to help renovate a Bible College there in Latvia. Of course we laid over in Iceland and Sweden as well...
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Littlejoe View Post
                      I've never been to Canada....
                      Nor can you see it from your house.
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • #41
                        Been to Toronto and North Bay in Ontario.

                        Side note: I saw some strange* names of places on the drive from Toronto to North Bay.

                        *Relative to me. I dunno if these names are strange to Canadians.
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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by Quantum Weirdness View Post
                          Been to Toronto and North Bay in Ontario.

                          Side note: I saw some strange* names of places on the drive from Toronto to North Bay.

                          *Relative to me. I dunno if these names are strange to Canadians.
                          Did you drive through the thriving metropolis of Ardbeg? That's probably the closest settlement to my grandparents' cabin. There was a small general store on the lake, and they got fresh bread from a bakery across the lake from them. Otherwise, they had to drive down to Parry Sound to get groceries.
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                            Nor can you see it from your house.
                            Not even if I climb the ole Pecan Tree...
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                            "... there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party, who occasionally get together and do something both stupid and evil, and this is called bipartisanship." - Everett Dirksen

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Quantum Weirdness View Post
                              Been to Toronto and North Bay in Ontario.

                              Side note: I saw some strange* names of places on the drive from Toronto to North Bay.

                              *Relative to me. I dunno if these names are strange to Canadians.
                              No stranger than some American place names are.



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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                                No stranger than some American place names are.

                                Name ONE!
                                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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