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rek
06/10/09

In reply to Scientists Design The Next Best Thing To A Space Elevator
These comments are just sad. Don't you have Wikipedia down there in Americastan?

Some examples: the Walkie-Talkie, the hydrofoil, the Blackberry, the Canadarm (you know, the robot in space?), basketball, IMAX, ice hockey, and peanut butter.
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botanicidal
06/10/09

@rek: Yep! And don't forget the CANDU Nuclear Reactor.

Oh and if you start noticing a shortage of medical isotopes, for you know, things like x-rays, cancer treatments, etc... well, that's our fault. Our reactor kicked the bucket.
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goldfarb
06/10/09

@botanicidal: Naismith, a Canadian, invented Basketball in the US.

/Anchorman Voice

wow - look how awesome we are:

[www3.sympatico.ca]
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ParryLost
06/10/09

@rek:I say we should take over Washington again, like we did in 1812, to teach 'em a lesson.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
06/10/09

@ParryLost: Sorry, that was the Brits. They still owned you back then and told you where to go and who to fight. Plus, you still have an old lady from a dreary island on the other side of the ocean on your money.
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TrollSlayer
06/10/09

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Canada has scientists? Sorry. I'm always just a little skeptical when anything, not boring, comes out of Canada.
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Pope John Peeps II
06/10/09

@TrollSlayer: and the trollslayer becomes the troll. Thus completing the internet life cycle, and showing the burgeoning beauty and savagery of the electronic animal kingdom.

Join us next time on Animal Planet, when we don our protective suits and explore the world of "furries".
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Damonicus
06/10/09

@TrollSlayer:

Not boring:

Sarah Chalke

Nicole de Boer

Evangeline Lilly

Rachel McAdams

Carrie-Anne Moss

...to name a few.
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
06/10/09

@Damonicus: I actually find Carrie-Anne Moss to be pretty boring.
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