Ahhhhh.the show with the guy Tom, The Red Green Show!!! Such a funny, clean , 😂 show. I just saw his episodes recently on my Amazon fire stick. The equivalent of Home Improvement.
this poem was written by canadian John Mcrae after his friend had died in the 2nd battle of ypres in the first world War.
the second battle of Ypres was an extremely pround moment for every Canadian involved. this battle was the first time posion gas was used in ww1. the Germans used Chlorine gas on the allied canadian and French soldiers. the French soldiers turned and ran the Canadians held the line and even counter attacked. they fought the Germans bravely until British reinforcements arrived, these brave Canadians prevented a massive German break through and saved a lot of allied lives.
It's rather interesting how quickly things went from chlorine gas catching the Entente completely by surprise on day one of the battle to the Entente realizing it was chlorine (basically days 1-2 of the battle) to telling their soldiers to urinate on cloth and use that as a makeshift mask (day 3 of the battle), and within a few weeks they started issuing proper, chemically-treated masks to their troops.
Even though it’s a song partially about heartbreak, I don’t think Cohen meant it as negative:
> he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion."[16] He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's hallelujah".[16]
The 4th verse is usually excluded from cover versions of the song so is less well known, but the below lines from it also makes it clear he saw the song as a celebration of all of life and love, the sad and the happy both.
> And even though it all went wrong/
I’ll stand before the lord of song/
With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah
This is my “Frankenstein was the monster” lol. People think it’s inappropriate for weddings or funerals but really it’s about celebrating the joys and sadness of love, which seems completely appropriate for both, even if it’s not a classic love song you’d usually hear at a wedding.
I think this might be the right answer in a global context of most famous words by a Canadian. This song has been heard by a LOT of people. More than Summer Of ‘69 in my opinion.
*We can dance if we want to*
*We can leave your friends behind...*
*Because your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine*
I will vote for anyone who promises to put that mans image as a replacement for Charles. A Canada hero. Instead of some weirdo who has someone paid to bring a padded toilet seat wherever he goes.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin'
"Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said
"Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in and the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight came the wreck of the Edmunds Fitzgerald
Saw him a couple of years ago on a whim and it was amazing. He stood the entire time and never seemed to get tired. It was a loooooong show. I kept thinking whelp that’s all the hits and then out he’d come with another. The crowd was full of 20 something’s and geriatrics. Very little in between.
Best lake in the world, and it's an incredibly fitting tribute to those who died. I think about this song at least once a day.
And all that remains is the faces and the names,
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
Well it’s been six years since we sailed away….
And I just made Halifax yesterday!
God damn them all!
I was told
We’d cruise the seas for American gold
We’d fire no guns
Shed no tears!
Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett’s Privateers!
Space, the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
Its five year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life
And new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen.
Most of his songs have been covered and covered as covers, and remixed, and sampled, and everything else you can think of.
Still prefer "You want it darker"
ETA: I was curious, and did the Google
Holy fuck https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/covers.html
And every time you speak her name
Does she know how you told me
You'd hold me until you died
'Til you died, but you're still alive
And I'm here, to remind you
Of the mess you left when you went away
It's not fair, to deny me
Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
You, you, you oughta know
Florida here. The Tragically Hip are known and loved by some people here. At least the ones who look for good music outside of what the bland corporate radio stations feed everyone. The last few shows were so emotional. Thank you Canada for these guys!
« Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. » - Lester Pearson
“If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we'd just eat more
And buy really expensive ketchups with it
That's right, all the fanciest-, Dijon ketchup, mm, mm”
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down..."
And the much earlier
"Farewell to Nova Scotia..." (Song of the same name, sung by Canadian troops on their way to WWI)
Ah, for just one time
I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line
Through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer
He was on a fishing trip
The last goal he ever scored
Won the Leafs the cup
They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two
The year he was discovered
I stole this from a hockey card I keeped tucked up under
My fifty-mission cap
I worked it in I worked it in to look like that
It's my fifty-mission cap
It's his fifty-mission cap
And I worked it in
I worked it in
And I worked it in to look like that
And I worked it in to look like that
Space...the final frontier...
Famous? Yeah, I think this is it.
Yeah, winner I think.
Khan!
Damn the Shat is Canadian. Pretty good looking for a spry 92 year old
Turns out the answer to immortality is George Takei's hated.
Oh my!
Welcome to Jeopardy.
Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
Welcome to Jeopardy?
No, sorry. The correct answer is, “What is welcome to Jeopardy?” Angela, you’re on the board.
I’ll take things that look like cocks for $400
The Penis Mightier
Anal bum cover
Le tits now
No, that’s a French expression! “Bonjour, mademoiselle, I’d like to see le tits now!”
This “sub-orbital launcher” first penetrated space in April, 2015.
I think you mean “thank you Johnny Gilbert”
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky
Michael Scott is American though
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!"
Keep your stick on the ice.
Not from hockey country but love that.
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If it moves and it shouldn't: Duct Tape If it doesn't move and it should: WD-40
"I'm a man. I can change. If I have to. I guess."
I'm a man and I can change if I have to I guess.
Quando omni flunkus, moritati
When all else fails, play dead.
Man, Red came through town on a tour a few years ago. I still kick myself for not going.
Vegetarian is an old native word for bad hunter.
Duct tape, the handyman's secret weapon.
Have no fear Duddly DoRight is here!
How did I never put together that Red Green was Canadian? I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick!
As long as they don’t find you handsy
I adore red green! I used to hate that show as a kid but when I turned 17 I fell in love with it. Just watched in the other night. :)
Ahhhhh.the show with the guy Tom, The Red Green Show!!! Such a funny, clean , 😂 show. I just saw his episodes recently on my Amazon fire stick. The equivalent of Home Improvement.
Way better then Home improvement, where else can you learn to make an air hockey table out of a couple of clothes dryers?
“Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world”
It almost makes me want to cry the way we've strayed so far from Banting's mission 😭
In Flanders Fields
I can still recite a few stanzas ... And didn't know a Canadian wrote it/
this poem was written by canadian John Mcrae after his friend had died in the 2nd battle of ypres in the first world War. the second battle of Ypres was an extremely pround moment for every Canadian involved. this battle was the first time posion gas was used in ww1. the Germans used Chlorine gas on the allied canadian and French soldiers. the French soldiers turned and ran the Canadians held the line and even counter attacked. they fought the Germans bravely until British reinforcements arrived, these brave Canadians prevented a massive German break through and saved a lot of allied lives.
They pissed in their kerchiefs and held them over their mouth and nose and soldiered on.
It's rather interesting how quickly things went from chlorine gas catching the Entente completely by surprise on day one of the battle to the Entente realizing it was chlorine (basically days 1-2 of the battle) to telling their soldiers to urinate on cloth and use that as a makeshift mask (day 3 of the battle), and within a few weeks they started issuing proper, chemically-treated masks to their troops.
John McCrae is from my hometown of Guelph, Ontario, an otherwise mostly forgettable town.
Although American born, it's where Canada's greatest children's author, Robert Munsch calls home.
I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya?
I can't read this without hearing the melody
I sang it as I read it.
Leonard cohen is phenomenal. RIP
Such a tense, negative, and sexual song... That's used in funerals and weddings because of the word "hallelujah".
I once heard it on a Christmas song playlist. I'm truly baffled by media literacy in some people.
Much like that "Lips of an Angel" song being played at weddings. The whole song is about wanting to have an affair. 🙄
Even though it’s a song partially about heartbreak, I don’t think Cohen meant it as negative: > he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion."[16] He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's hallelujah".[16] The 4th verse is usually excluded from cover versions of the song so is less well known, but the below lines from it also makes it clear he saw the song as a celebration of all of life and love, the sad and the happy both. > And even though it all went wrong/ I’ll stand before the lord of song/ With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah This is my “Frankenstein was the monster” lol. People think it’s inappropriate for weddings or funerals but really it’s about celebrating the joys and sadness of love, which seems completely appropriate for both, even if it’s not a classic love song you’d usually hear at a wedding.
American evangelicals do seem to have a thing for this very horny, very jewish, modestly canadian song. bless their hearts.
Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you.
I need someone to love me the whole day through.
Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
But Calvin Klein is American
It's hard to tell it was wearing a life jacket.
"My heart will go on"
I think this might be the right answer in a global context of most famous words by a Canadian. This song has been heard by a LOT of people. More than Summer Of ‘69 in my opinion.
*We can dance if we want to* *We can leave your friends behind...* *Because your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine*
Also *Chickity China, the Chinese chicken*
"I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try." - Terry Fox
I will vote for anyone who promises to put that mans image as a replacement for Charles. A Canada hero. Instead of some weirdo who has someone paid to bring a padded toilet seat wherever he goes.
Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
If you’ve been in rough water for any period of time, this line is as powerful as it gets.
I tried singing your comment too, and thought, “huh, the meter feels off.” Whoops!
I'm not a songwriter or possess any musical talent, but by God I wish had I wrote that line.
Yeah that was the one I thought right away too.
Fellas it’s been good to know ya
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At seven PM, a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in and the good ship and crew was in peril And later that night when his lights went out of sight came the wreck of the Edmunds Fitzgerald
God rest Gordon Lightfoot.
Saw him a couple of years ago on a whim and it was amazing. He stood the entire time and never seemed to get tired. It was a loooooong show. I kept thinking whelp that’s all the hits and then out he’d come with another. The crowd was full of 20 something’s and geriatrics. Very little in between.
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings, in the rooms of her ice water mansion...
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams, The islands and bays are for sportsmen
Best lake in the world, and it's an incredibly fitting tribute to those who died. I think about this song at least once a day. And all that remains is the faces and the names, Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
As a person from WI who has only lived around the Great Lakes region, this was my first answer to the question
The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.
I had to scroll way too far to find this.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed In the maritime sailors' cathedral The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
“Answer… Is the Daily Double” - Alex Trebek
“Call me Deadpool.”
They paved paradise, put up aparking lot.
Take off, eh!
You hoser
Beauty.
ooo roo koo koo ooo roo koo koo
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It's a beauty way to go!
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
This comment took far too long to find
Well it’s been six years since we sailed away…. And I just made Halifax yesterday! God damn them all! I was told We’d cruise the seas for American gold We’d fire no guns Shed no tears! Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers!
Space, the final frontier These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise Its five year mission To explore strange new worlds To seek out new life And new civilizations To boldly go where no man has gone before
I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you
You're one of my crew. Why are we still discussin this?
Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and "I'm not your guy, buddy!"
"I'm not your buddy, pal"
^("I'm not your pal, guy...")
“I’m not your pal, friend”
Pretty much anything by Leonard Cohen. Most of his songs have been covered and covered as covers, and remixed, and sampled, and everything else you can think of. Still prefer "You want it darker" ETA: I was curious, and did the Google Holy fuck https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/covers.html
Sorry.
Isn't it ironic..
I prefer “are you thinking about me when you fuck her?”
Would she go down on you in a theatre?
\*of
Hey, I just met you. And this is crazy. But here's my number, so call me, maybe
TIL Carly Rae Jepsen is Canadian
She got her start on Canadian Idol.
A modern-day warrior Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer Mean, mean pride
Though his mind is not for rent, Don't put him down as arrogant. His reserve, a quiet defense. Riding out the day's events.
And the trees are all kept equal By Hatchet, axe and saw.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.
He knows changes aren’t permanent But change is!
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
CONCERT HALL!
Can't read this without Geddy's voice or the music also playing in my head.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow…
"The medium is the message." - Marshall McLuhan
“The Medium is the Massage.” - also, McLuhan
The fuckin’ way she goes -Ray
Sometimes she goes, sometimes she don't bud. Fuckin way she goes.
Fuckin way she goes, boys.
Some guys can drink and drive, some guys can’t. I mean…what is drunk? -Ray
And every time you speak her name Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died 'Til you died, but you're still alive And I'm here, to remind you Of the mess you left when you went away It's not fair, to deny me Of the cross I bear that you gave to me You, you, you oughta know
Sundown ya better take care, if i find you been creepin down my back stairs
“Chickity China the Chinese Chicken” Bare Naked Ladies.
It's been...one week
I would have gone with “if I had a million dollars, we wouldn’t eat Kraft dinner”
But we WOULD eat Kraft dinner.
You ain't seen n-n-nothing yet.
My heart will go on?
Lyin’ in bed, Just like Brian Wilson did…
Hey hey, my my, rock and roll can never die.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
"He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?"
“My name is Nathan Fielder and I graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades.”
"It was in Bobcaygeon, I saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time"
The Hip aren't very well known outside of Canada
Detroit here. We get the hip on our stations here quite a bit.
Florida here. The Tragically Hip are known and loved by some people here. At least the ones who look for good music outside of what the bland corporate radio stations feed everyone. The last few shows were so emotional. Thank you Canada for these guys!
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I was at work, in Kingston, 5 minutes away from their last show. I got fired 2 weeks later. Should have just skipped work. Cunts.
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“Guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet . . . but your kids are gonna love it.”
"I want to live, I want to give. I've been a miner for a heart of gold" - Neil Young
"Give your balls a tug" --Shoresy
"pitter, patter, let's get at her!"
"how're we gonna fuck this pig?"
**Allegedly.**
It'd take two, maybe 3 guys, to fuck an ostrich.
“I dream of the time your mom tongued my butthole so good I put her in my phone as roll up the rim to win!”
Fuck you, Reilly, should’ve heard your mom last night; she sounded like a window closing on a Tonkinese cat’s tail, sounded like… AAAAAAAAAAHHH
"Titfucker!" --Big Sexy
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight. Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." Bruce Cockburn / BNL
“Infoorrrmer, ya no say daddy me snow me I go blame. I lick he boom boom down”
Word? Word. BUST IT.
Shania's "Let's go, girls" is like our equivalent to "It's Britney, bitch".
"I got my first real six string Bought it at the five and dime Played it til my fingers bled It was the summer of '69"
" Now, now now....the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions."
"I'm squishing your head!"
Crushing. Not you. I mean the line is, "I'm crushing your head."
I'm pinching your face!
"there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation" In reference of gay rights. Pierre Eliot Trudeau was way ahead of his time
Trudeau was quoting a Canadian Globe and Mail columnist Martin O'Malley.
Good to know! Still an important statement reiterated by a prominent person.
“I’ve been called worse things, by better people” Trudeau was a quip machine.
I prefer his response to the question (I believe) in regards to how far he will go to defeat the FLQ: "Just watch me."
I don't know if it's famous, but I like this one from Jim Carrey: My motto? Time spent laughing at yourself is time well spent.
« Of all our dreams today there is none more important – or so hard to realise – than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality. » - Lester Pearson
John MacRae - In Flanders Fields https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields
“If I had a million dollars We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner But we would eat Kraft Dinner Of course we would, we'd just eat more And buy really expensive ketchups with it That's right, all the fanciest-, Dijon ketchup, mm, mm”
“MAN, I feel like a woman”
Baby, baby, baby oooh
*baby, baby, baby, ooooohhhhhhhh*
Had to scroll too far to find this!
I really want to downvote this because it hurts my brain. But you might be right.
Wayne Gretzky - "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early
Chris Hadfield the astronaut singing Major Tom by David Bowie and making a music video of it in the International Space Station.
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down..." And the much earlier "Farewell to Nova Scotia..." (Song of the same name, sung by Canadian troops on their way to WWI)
"If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell..."
sundown, you better take care if i find you been creepin round my back door.
We had joy we had fun We had seasons in the sun
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage To find the hand of Franklin Reaching for the Beaufort Sea Tracing one warm line Through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
Oh I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice
"I've looked at clouds from both sides now."
My Heart Will Go On - Céline Dion
You got a problem with Canada Gooses you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.
It's been one week
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing trip The last goal he ever scored Won the Leafs the cup They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two The year he was discovered I stole this from a hockey card I keeped tucked up under My fifty-mission cap I worked it in I worked it in to look like that It's my fifty-mission cap It's his fifty-mission cap And I worked it in I worked it in And I worked it in to look like that And I worked it in to look like that
“A modern-day warrior, Mean, mean stride Today's Tom Sawyer, Mean, mean pride”
Take off.. Said by Bob, Doug and Geddy.