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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
How American Are You? by Expat
After blaming the Expatriate Fudge Factor (props to Matt for coining the term!) for my less than perfect performance on The Ultimate Canadian Test, I thought that I would test myself to see if assimilation has taken ahold of me and stripped me of my Canuckitude.
I was doing the test and it seemed vaguely familiar, and when I was almost finished I realized I'd already taken it after seeing it posted on a message board. Apparently taking it twice was of no help whatsoever, as I still scored just 30%.
Just yesterday I said to Nancy that I thought you might be a Republican and I worried that I might occasionally offend you! Now I find out I've only offended you by thinking you were Republican! My deepest apologies, seriously.
And as for the American quiz, I'm sure my score suffers everytime I respond to the question about that stupid Lee Greenwood song. Gah, I hate that song! It was first released while I worked at a country music station in Canada, and we had to play it because it was popular, and I think it just made us feel weird. It's so serious. You know that if there was a "Canadian pride" song it would have to mention beer and fishing and self-mocking stuff. Even when Stompin' Tom gets patriotic, he still sings about drunk people :)
Nah... nothing offends me! I would have thought that my frequent rants against Fox News would have given my views away though. :p
What on earth was that Greenwood song doing on a Canadian radio station? You would think that the CRTC would have jumped all over that! ;) LOL
I was trying to think of a serious Canadian pride song, but most of them are quite tongue in cheek as you say. Although, I have to admit that I like that about Canadians. We tend to have a sense of humour about ourselves. I think that it is dangerous to take oneself too seriously.
My favourite song at the moment is "Canadian Man" by Paul Brandt, simply because I dig the irony of it! I wanted it to be played at our wedding, but it was a no go. LMAO
"Canadian Man" sounds like something Stompin' Tom would have written, too :) I forgot that every Canadian song has to have a "skidoo" in it as well. Beer, hockey, skidoo.
Maybe your husband didn't want it played at your wedding because he's not a Canadian man, and didn't want people assuming you were hiding any surprises under your dress.
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