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rburton76 - September 23rd, 2007
I thought Canada was just cities, forests, and tundra. Well, and deforested forests. Of course, I've only been there once and didn't even spend the night. Just crossed the border to pick up a tire full of heroin. Wait, maybe that happened in the movie "Crossing the Bridge". No, I did go into Canada once for dinner. I remember trying to order a pizza with Canadian Bacon. Can't remember if it drew a comment. My brother's spent a while in Canada though. Says you Canadians have a dim view of Americans, and this was before the Iraq war. But then he might have formed that conception because he was strip-searched at the border. They were keeping him in a cell, and when they found the ziplock bag of powdered creatine in his truck, the guy came by, banged on the window to his cell and held up the bag with a big smile, whereupon my brother started shouting, "You ain't got shit!" Ah, International relations. After they let him go, he told the border guard, "I thought you were the civil liberties people." The guard answered, "We're also the law and order people."

makeupmom - September 23rd, 2007
That is a fabulous comment. We're actually just a cheaper version of America. Both my parents are yankees. One hails from rural Illinois and one is from a small town just outside Philly. This means that you live close enough to the border to visit for a meal. Btw, we just call it pea meal bacon up here.
You never have a problem leaving Canada, it's when you enter that they're worried you're bringing something in.
We have a show up here called Canadians vs. Americans or Get to know Americans, something rediculously engaging of the dimwitted. They film in America and tell them outlandish lies about Canada and see if they fall for it. Such classics as "Congratulations Canada for legalizing toilet paper". Gold.
After Borat was released you were all dead to us anyways, sorry to say.
My parent's have dual citizenship, and my Mom still commutes to work in Buffalo. How long a drive are you from the border??

rburton76 - September 23rd, 2007
Aboug eight or nine hundred miles. I was visiting an aunt in upstate New York when I was in Canada. That speech Borrat gives, the one where he says, "May the great War Chief Bush drink the blood of every last man, woman, and child in Iraq," and everyone cheers - that was in Salem, Virginia. I used to live there.

makeupmom - September 23rd, 2007
Hah. That was brutal.
That movie is so fucked up and so wonderful in completely different ways.
Although for specific rediculous reasons I don't think I'll ever be able to watch it again.