“I have nothing against Canada. I think that Canadians might know the secret to all existence, but to us it just comes off as timid and kind and too nice, and it strikes us as lacking edge. Unless you are hijacking someone and going on a reality show with your eight kids and wearing a velour pink pantsuit, then you have no edge to us.” ThinkingKnowsKindShowsRealityMightKidsSecretExistenceNiceEdgesEightStrikesCanadaLackingReality ShowsToo NiceHijacking Author:Sloane Crosley
“I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.” KindHas BeensKidsAgeSeriousBeatsEnglandNotesEastLondonBoxingCanadaTwelveAccentsTauntingCockneysEast London Author:Lennox Lewis
“My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!” WantPlayKidsFunnyFiguresDadSticksMy DadInsaneIceCanadaHockeyNhlSkaterHockey Sticks Author:Norm MacDonald
“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.” ThinkingKnowsHandsKidsPoorGrewPaperClothesGrew UpCanadaTorontoForgedSecond HandNew ClothesSecond Hand Clothes Author:Paulo Costanzo