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Important Canadian Inventions

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Lifer
Insulin - Important
Basketball - Important
Hockey - Important
Foghorn - Less oil spills, make your own decision
Paint roller - Name an American interior designer who hasn't used one 😀

I need some more time to think of more...
 
harpomx, IMHO, Molson Ice is one of the smoothest Ice beers out there. Better than butt ice, or ickhouse.
 
To quote the Simpsons, "How you say - your beer is like swill to us, what I mean to say is only a swine would drink your beer."
I like Keith's. Don't like much of the Molson ice stuff, even though I did go through my Molson XXX back in Jr. High.
 
I'm trying to remember all the inventions they show on those Vignette mini-commercials on TV. The hockey mask was one.
 
Alright, we'll take him back - but we get Brett Hull, too. Actually, forget that, Bryan can't even sing our national anthem.
Okay, how bout Bryan Adams for Hanson? Equally defective?
 
I can personally vouch that insulin was invented in Canada. Did a Biology class report on it last year. I guess anyone could just look that up in the encyclopedia, but .... I said so.


If you want to make this into a national pissing contest, we can start with the telephone, television, and airplane, and when you're done matching those we'll move on to nuclear weapons, faulty martian landers, and, oh yes, THE INTERNET.
 
Basketball was *not* invented in Canada. What exactly are you smoking?

from Encyclopedia Britannica

The only major sport strictly of U.S. origin, basketball was invented by James Naismith (1861-1939) on or about Dec. 1, 1891, at the International Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College), Springfield, Mass., where Naismith was an instructor in physical education. Naismith prepared a set of 13 simple rules embodying five principles that still govern today's game:
 
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