So you think you can speak Canadian eh??

[Fencergrl]

This weekend left me feeling patriotic. Here’s a couple multiple choice questions to kick start this thread….

Bob and Doug’s two-four anniversary was this weekend. Who are these two people?

a) Canada’s first gay married couple.

b) Fencergrl’s relatives Bobby-Jean and Doug from Moosejaw, Saskachewan.

c) Bob and Doug McKenzie, two beer-drinking hosers.

d) A couple of long-living penguins, that are famous in Canada.

[Fencergrl]

If your Canadian co-worker calls you a “knob” he thinks…

a) You’re an idiot. You probably asked him if he lived in an igloo.

b) You’re tough. The term derives from hockey. The top portion of the stick is called the knob. This is often the part that will end up shoved into your opponent while checking roughly. To shorten the phrase Canadians call tough, rough people “knobs”.

c) You’re good at seeing opportunities/ opening doors of opportunity for yourself.

d) You’re fleshy/ blubbery. Derives from the Inuit/ Eskimo term “Nobbeswen”, which is the blubber off seal. This has been anglicized and shorted to “knob”.

So which is it?

[latenight]

This weekend left me feeling patriotic. Here’s a couple multiple choice questions to kick start this thread….

Bob and Doug’s two-four anniversary was this weekend. Who are these two people?

a) Canada’s first gay married couple.

b) Fencergrl’s relatives Bobby-Jean and Doug from Moosejaw, Saskachewan.

c) Bob and Doug McKenzie, two beer-drinking hosers.

d) A couple of long-living penguins, that are famous in Canada.

C----and an all time favorite movie. A real beauty, eh?

[piste off]

This weekend left me feeling patriotic. Here’s a couple multiple choice questions to kick start this thread….

Bob and Doug’s two-four anniversary was this weekend. Who are these two people?

a) Canada’s first gay married couple.

b) Fencergrl’s relatives Bobby-Jean and Doug from Moosejaw, Saskachewan.

c) Bob and Doug McKenzie, two beer-drinking hosers.

d) A couple of long-living penguins, that are famous in Canada.

The answer is C. Pass me another Molson, eh! Do I get some back-bacon as a prize?

Second City was by far the funniest tv program ever... What a cast!!!

Rick

[Fencergrl]

You are both right....
Yes in true Canadian style, Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis would sit round, get drunk on Molson Canadian and ad-lib the "Canadian content" portion of the show with the tape rolling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_and_Doug_McKenzie

Another hilarious (and lesser known show) "A Repair to Remember". It featured a woman called Mag Ruffman. She would drink gin prior to doing her home improvement show... it was very funny (but not useful). She did an awful job at everything... then a commercial break.... Upon return, it would be all fixed up by the crew... then she would proceed to have everything go horriably wrong.

The humour in watching this woman fumble her way from project to project was funny as hell for someone who's quite good with such things.

Anybody able to try for the second multiple choice question??? What is a "knob" in Canadian??

Go on eh? How hard can it be??? Don't be such a hoser eh? and answer the question...

[D'Art]

I want more of the phrases where we had to think up the translation. They got me lots of rep.

[Fencergrl]

I'll think of some tomorrow.... but you can earn rep today if you guess correctly about a "knob".

[jBirch]

"That knob is hooped."

James.

[Monash_Armourer]

Being Australian, am I the only one who thinks the term "knob" is funny? Especially in use as either C or D?

[D'Art]

I'll think of some tomorrow.... but you can earn rep today if you guess correctly about a "knob".

I would guess at option a), since that's the way they'd be described in the part of Scotland I'm from (if they were being polite).

[D'Art]

"That knob is hooped."

This person likes to wear fancy condoms, while having sex?

[Fencergrl]

Being Australian, am I the only one who thinks the term "knob" is funny? Especially in use as either C or D?

I think Canadians and Australians have simliar humour...

[Fencergrl]

I would guess at option a), since that's the way they'd be described in the part of Scotland I'm from (if they were being polite).

The answer is eh?... ummm I mean a!!.... so you are correct my friend. I made up the other three answers... so don't grin when you get called a knob or try and hide your blubber....you are gently being insulted...

And for any other Canadians who are confused by "Nobbeswen"... I made up that word as well.... yup just started with nob and added letters until I thought it looked a little like an Indian word.

[jBirch]

I think Canadians and Australians have simliar humour...

Yeah, but "Stop playing with that Knob!" is unlikely to garner the giggles it would elsewhere in the Commonwealth...

James.

[Monash_Armourer]

I think Canadians and Australians have simliar humour...

I actually managed to find it in the Australain Macquarie Dictionary, the 1981 edition I think. I love this dictionary!

[Fencergrl]

Yeah, but "Stop playing with that Knob!" is unlikely to garner the giggles it would elsewhere in the Commonwealth...

James.

LOL.... that's true!

[Fencergrl]

Okay D'Art... I know you missed this thread.

Once again I am surprised how many common words are Canadian slang that you folks south of us don't use.

Rep for who ever who can tell me what this Canadian slang word means:
studmuffin

[CvilleFencer]

Okay D'Art... I know you missed this thread.

Once again I am surprised how many common words are Canadian slang that you folks south of us don't use.

Rep for who ever who can tell me what this Canadian slang word means:
studmuffin

I hot/buff/ripped guy, rather like myself?

[Fencergrl]

Why of course m'dear.... I just want to know how you managed to get your picture in my Canadian dictionary beside the definition?

Next word...
barley sandwich

[CvilleFencer]

Why of course m'dear.... I just want to know how you managed to get your picture in my Canadian dictionary beside the definition?

Next word...
barley sandwich

I know this one also... Maybe I am a Canudian and just didn't know it! I even really like poutine... Should I let someone else answer?