Don't quote this as fact, but I always assumed it came from Scot's dialect. You got more than Frenchies up there(luckily) :^P
Interesting. :hmm:
KT
#1 reason to hate the US - Americans still use the british systemmetric system - too much damn work to convert into Gallons.
Obligatory Arrogant Worms post:
"It isn't what you do with it; It's the size that counts!"
Canada is Really Big
I'm just gonna make it one link so it's less work for the Americans... this song is the best!
This part was funny though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
The British scored an important early success when their detachment at St. Joseph Island, on Lake Huron, learned of the declaration of war before the nearby American garrison at the important trading post at Mackinac Island in Michigan. A scratch force landed on the island on July 17, 1812 and mounted a gun overlooking Fort Mackinac. After the British fired one shot from their gun, the Americans, taken by surprise, surrendered. This early victory encouraged the natives, and large numbers moved to help the British at Amherstburg.
When you read about the War of 1812 in American history books in high schools its more like "There was a war in 1812 with the British...moving on!"
wait, no mention of the torching?
It has of course been years since I was taking US history in high school/middleschool but the white house being burned down is kind of one those historical facts you tend to remember if you hear it. And I wasn't aware of it until Western Civ in college, where they actually present things from a somewhat non-American perspective. I guess it was to embarrassing a fact to print in our particular high school text.
The most LOLtastic American war was probably the Spanish-American...isn't that the one where an old shitty boat blew up (most likely because it was shitty) and we basically blamed an industrial accident on made up Spanish terrorists as an excuse to invade then hapless Spain? It's hilarious events like this that make George Bush blaming 9/11 on Saddam Hussein seem slightly less ridiculous...from a historical perspective.
IIRC, I think my text book blamed the spanish-american war on "yellow journalism". It could probably be renamed Glen Beck-ism.The most LOLtastic American war was probably the Spanish-American...isn't that the one where an old shitty boat blew up (most likely because it was shitty) and we basically blamed an industrial accident on made up Spanish terrorists as an excuse to invade then hapless Spain? It's hilarious events like this that make George Bush blaming 9/11 on Saddam Hussein seem slightly less ridiculous...from a historical perspective.
But Hearst became a war hawk after a rebellion broke out in Cuba in 1895. Stories of Cuban virtue and Spanish brutality soon dominated his front page. While the accounts were of dubious accuracy, the newspaper readers of the 19th century did not expect, or necessarily want, his stories to be pure nonfiction. Historian Michael Robertson has said that "Newspaper reporters and readers of the 1890s were much less concerned with distinguishing among fact-based reporting, opinion and literature."[16]
Pulitzer, though lacking Hearst's resources, kept the story on his front page. The yellow press covered the revolution extensively and often inaccurately, but conditions on Cuba were horrific enough.