It's that time of the year.....

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Cornell

This is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada....so to the rest of you Canucks on the board ...Happy Thanksgiving.

Cornell,

I hope you (and the other Canucks here) have a great Canadian Thanksgiving!

I found this helpful link about Canadian Thanksgiving...

What is Canadian Thanksgiving, Anyway?
http://www.good.is/posts/what-is-can...sgiving-anyway

I like Canada, the times I've visited there... I've spent a little bit of time in Toronto, and also visited Vancouver. Oh, I've also been on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

Back in my physics days, while I was working in Sydney (Australia), my boss was from Calgary. (He ended up going back to being a Professor at the University of Calgary, where he still is today.)

I've always wondered - why are Canadians so funny? Not many people know, but so many comedians and comedic actors in the US are actually Canadians (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Michael J. Fox spring to mind).

When a country's currency is made up of "loonies" and "toonies" - I think it's a good sign of a country with a great sense of humo(u)r!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best wishes,

Dien

[MMacGillivray]

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

I've always wondered - why are Canadians so funny? Not many people know, but so many comedians and comedic actors in the US are actually Canadians (Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, and Michael J. Fox spring to mind).

It's the great influence of the Scots and Irish, I'm sure LOL

One of these days we'll get across the pond to visit Canada - I know that Sandy loves Vancouver and I'd love to cross the Canadian prairies ....

Margaret

Hi Dien:

Thanks.

Don't know why the number of comedians are so prolific other than Canadians in general seem to have a greater sense of humor about everything...perhaps an overall happy outlook towards everything.

Thanks for the Thanksgiving link....it pretty much summed it up correctly.

When I was a kid we used to have rotating threshing bees at the different farms... where all the local neighbors would congregate to help a farmer on a specific day bringing in the crops with the grains running through the threshing machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshing_machine) to separate the grain. While the men and male children labored in the fields and running the thressher, the women folk were preparing the huge meal served late in the evening after the crops were in....fond memories of this though you knew when the day was done that you had indeed done a days work.

This usually preceded the Thanksgiving Day but nowadays farmers are still taking in crops well after Thanksgiving Day.

Nice to know you have visited our fair country and found it pleasing.

Thanks again.

Cornell