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ST List Quiz: According to cbc.ca, these are the "Top Ten Greatest Canadians" - ty97 Sep 22, 08:08 49
- Beryllium -- nm - psilotum Sep 22, 08:16 1
  - He's my choice! -- nm - con_carne Sep 22, 08:16
- the guy who lead the fight for gov't run healtcare (can't remember the name), Farley Mowat, Guy LaFleur -- nm - crash davis Sep 22, 08:15 1
  - That's Tommy Douglas (Kiefer's grandpa), and he won, btw. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:16
- Terry Fox -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:14
- Keanu -- nm - con_carne Sep 22, 08:14
- Trudeau -- nm - Shaun Sep 22, 08:14 1
  - yes -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 08:15
- The full list, including mini-biographies (Learn a Canadian today) -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 08:14 7
  - those can't really be the 10 greatest Canadians. -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 08:16 2
    - depends what you define 'great' as. read the bios. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:17 1
      - (although i can't even BELIEVE Don Cherry made the list.) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:17
  - What, no women? -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 22, 08:15 3
    - women are icky -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:16 2
      - and are busy in the kitchen -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:16 1
        
        and making babies -- nm - decline Sep 22, 08:17
- Louis Riel -- nm - Shaun Sep 22, 08:13
- Mike Myers -- nm - decline Sep 22, 08:13
- Rick Moranis -- nm - decline Sep 22, 08:13 5
  - a lot (most?) weren't performers, fyi. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:13 4
    - There are famous Canadians who aren't actors? - decline Sep 22, 08:14 2
      - *greatest* not *most famous*. :) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:15
      - Or incredibly hot women?? -- nm - con_carne Sep 22, 08:15
    - several scientists, a couple of hockey people. - ty97 Sep 22, 08:14
- Anne Murray -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 22, 08:13
- the dude who invented maple syrup? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:12
- i was at the final taping, so i won't play. (the americans won't know a bunch of them.) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:12 1
  - I haven't heard of most of them, I admit. -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 08:12
- Alanis? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:12
- Avril Lavigne -- nm - decline Sep 22, 08:12
- Rogers, Irving -- nm - Shaun Sep 22, 08:11
- Bullwinkle -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 08:10
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- Celine Dion -- nm - amoxy Sep 22, 08:09
- they were eventually ranked though. - Reagen Sep 22, 08:09
- I'll take ten people I didn't know were Canadian for $100, Alex -- nm - con_carne Sep 22, 08:09
- they were able to find that many? :) -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 08:09
- Tommy Douglas, Wayne Gretzky -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 08:09 7
  - Since when am I friggin Canadian?! -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 08:11 3
    - so that's where some of Kiefer's genes come from -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 08:12
    - sinec yesterday, you were deported. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:11 1
      - Well, I shall make the best of it, and start an acorn-shipping-with-ice-skating-couriers service. - TFox Sep 22, 08:14
  - I don't know who Tommy Douglas was -- nm - amoxy Sep 22, 08:10 1
    - father of our 'socialized' medical system. :) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:11
  - yes, and yes -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 08:10
- Bell, Cherry (ugh) -- nm - Shaun Sep 22, 08:09 1
  - Alexander Graham Bell, yes (he was Canadian?!). Don Cherry, yes. -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 08:09
- Geddy Lee!!! nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:08
- Celine. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:08
Plaxico Burress starts his prison term today. -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:06
Landbeck, from B2, sorry to hear about the job loss - amoxy Sep 22, 08:01
So, yesterday I found out that one of my favorite contemporary authors is Canadian and lives in Toronto -- (link) - con_carne Sep 22, 07:59 29
- #30 most popular author at LibraryThing (by number of copies of books in libraries) -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 08:04 1
  - . -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 08:05
- Bryan Adams is Canadian?? -- nm - con_carne SI Sep 22, 08:04 1
  - I'm learning, I'm learning :) -- nm - con_carne Sep 22, 08:07
- Margaret Atwood is probably the most famous writer in Canada. :) -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:03 23
  - Michael Ondaatje would give her a run if anyone could spell his name. - Reagen Sep 22, 08:06 19
    - In French, Marie-Claire Blais is hugely famous. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:08
    - that must be an interesting boat. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:07
    - Ian Rankin has writtem a ton of books. -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:06 16
      - we've got a decent claim on William Gibson. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 08:07
      - but if you asked 10 people on the street to name a canadian author, i bet 9 of them would say Atwood or Alice Munro off the top of - Andie Sep 22, 08:07 14
        
        Farley Mowatt, Pierre Burton. -- nm - Beaker Sep 22, 08:14 1
        
        Burton certainly has the volume. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 08:15
        
        Unless you're in Quebec :) -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 08:09
        
        Douglas Coupland. - Reagen Sep 22, 08:08 10
        
        also, John Irving is Canadian and American (lives here), but no-one knows that. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:10
        
        oh come on. he's Canuck, really? -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:09 7
        
        he's so Canuck, he's written multiple books on how much of a Canuck he is. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 08:10 5
        
        also, I had no idea he was gay until I saw his documentary, at which point I was thinking "how did I not know he was gay?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 08:14 2
        
        and, i didn't know that till this very second. who knew? -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:15 1
        
        I'd actually seen him do a spoken word reading and didn't pick up on it. But then I saw Souvenirs of Canada and he's kind of fllllaaming. -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 08:17
        
        You guys need like a hat or an accent or something - con_carne Sep 22, 08:12 1
        
        why do you think they put those little flags on their suitcases? -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:14
        
        vancouver. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:10
        
        oh, no, that's good. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 08:08
  - I'd say probably one of the most famous Canadians period. -- nm - Shaun Sep 22, 08:05
  - Booker prize, right? I love her. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:04 1
    - according to wikipedia - awards list within - Andie Sep 22, 08:06
- News Hour interview where I found all this out. She is... quite a character. -- (link) - con_carne Sep 22, 08:02
Because ST cares: My new bedding (which you helped pick out) should arrive tommorrow -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 07:58 6
- I really need to buy some new bedding. -- nm - decline Sep 22, 08:05
- excellent choice! -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:04
- so you are graduating from the cedar wood chips? nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:02 3
  - this made me laugh. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:03 2
    - something somewhere just exploded. nm -- nm - groiny Sep 22, 08:05 1
      - I hope there were cedar chips on the floor. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:06
And it's opera season again! The Met season got off to a rousing start last night with a new production of Tosca -- (link) - znufrii Sep 22, 07:55 1
- To think with football season starting, I was worried there'd be too many ST posts that would fly over my head -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 08:03
The 2009 Polaris Prize winner is Fucked Up. -- (link) - Reagen Sep 22, 07:55
"No, you can not borrow my t-shirt...How about instead of standing there looking shocked, you do your fucking laundry?" -- nm - oblique Sep 22, 07:51 2
- I warned you that your mother joining facebook would only lead to bad things. -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:54 1
  - *queues porn music* - groiny Sep 22, 08:03
Alcohol may be beneficial in the case of brain injury........ -- (link) - MojaveMeg Sep 22, 07:49 1
- Hair of the dog! -- nm - mara Sep 22, 07:50
Seasonal affectedness disorder - I am fine with winter, so long it's cold enough to ahve clear skies and sun. March-April is bad though - clouds and - Roger More Sep 22, 07:49 2
- laughing. I think you meant "affective." You may be affected, but I don't recall. -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:05
- I think I have a full-fledged phobia of the outdoors at the onset of spring, thanks to my allergies. -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 07:50
Is today Texas's day for a deluge? -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:45
ST Poll -- How many Senators who voted to cut off funding for ACORN voted *against a contractor reform bill in 2006? -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 07:43 5
- (dare i ask about the *?) -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 07:43 4
  - it was supposed to have a mate on the other side of the word to add emphasis. sfek -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 07:44 3
    - i thought it might denote "unicorn against". i will now return to not answering the poll. :) -- nm - TFox Sep 22, 07:49 2
      - fair enough. -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 07:50 1
        
        the answer -- (link) - znufrii Sep 22, 08:10
T-shirt I just saw - con_carne Sep 22, 07:40
~For he himself has said it, and it's greatly to his credit, that he is an Englishman! He is an Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-englishman!~ -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 07:35 3
- "Very well. I shall send you to ~heaven~, before I condemn you to hell." -- nm - Reagen Sep 22, 07:53
- "Sideshow Bob, you're under arrest!" - con_carne Sep 22, 07:43 1
  - "Bake him away, toys!" -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 07:45
LYC: More Michael Jackson rehersal footage released "Human Nature" he still had it -- (link) - MDH Sep 22, 07:32 [youtube]
Does ABC Hulu their shows like Fox? I want to check out Modern Family, but it's on at the same time as Glee. -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:30 5
- Some of them. -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:32 2
  - Modern Family is indeed on Hulu. -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:35 1
    - egggcellent, thanks -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:43
- ABC streams their shows on ABC.com -- nm - oblique Sep 22, 07:30 1
  - Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's not go all crazy now. -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:33
ST Tech help: Does anyone here have experience imaging computers that have whole disk encryption? - Inigo Sep 22, 07:28 9
- Is the hardware you're restoring to identical as what you imaged? I've had good luck with the ScriptLogic tools -- nm - oblique Sep 22, 07:38 1
  - It is in this particular attempt, but we'd want to be able to restore to different drives in cases of drive failure. -- nm - Inigo Sep 22, 07:48
- In my experience, imaging and encrypting are separate steps. - Fuzzy Sep 22, 07:34 1
  - Yeah, that just adds an extra day to the restore process. Which is what we're hoping to avoid... -- nm - Inigo Sep 22, 07:37
- I like pudding. -- nm - Diva Sep 22, 07:29 4
  - That statement is more helpful than some of the tech support I've talked to. -- nm - Inigo Sep 22, 07:33
  - heh - Whenever I had friends that would start talking computers to me, when they got past a point I had any idea what they were trying to explain I'd - Cuzzin Todd Sep 22, 07:32 1
    - :) -- nm - Diva Sep 22, 07:39
  - "Banana." -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:29
"It tastes like chocolate, but it smells like oranges." - nubby Sep 22, 07:27 6
- Why? - kelly Sep 22, 07:29 5
  - There are certain things people have been known to smell before a trauma such - HdnAgnda Sep 22, 07:32 2
    - Thanks. - kelly Sep 22, 07:42 1
      - No you don't want to thank us. Now when you smell oranges or bad eggs, your first thought will be "Uh-oh." ;) -- nm - HdnAgnda Sep 22, 07:46
  - spoiler - nubby Sep 22, 07:31 1
    - Interesting...thanks. -- nm - kelly Sep 22, 07:32
I read the caption for the Whitehouse photo and I had to look twice -- (link) - oblique Sep 22, 07:25 [flickr] 3
- damn, this version is cute -- (link) - ty97 Sep 22, 07:27 1
  - So, he's Toby. -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:28
- "This could be like Daredevil, only more... Daredevilly!" -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:26
niiiiiiiiiice. -- (link) - Beryllium Sep 22, 07:24 [Image]
Kids.woot is pretty cool today -- (link) - oblique Sep 22, 07:24
Also banned in Wiggieworld: Any use of the word -- nm - ralph wiggum Sep 22, 07:22 10
- --? -- nm - amoxy Sep 22, 07:59
- You're outlawing words now? -- nm - Inigo Sep 22, 07:29 2
  - Also outlawed: C-Listers. nm - ralph wiggum Sep 22, 07:40 1
    - Sweet. D-listers are a-okay. -- nm - Inigo Sep 22, 07:49
- "moist"? -- nm - nubby Sep 22, 07:28
- snaggletooth? -- nm - ty97 Sep 22, 07:24
- Jim will be disappointed -- nm - Roger More Sep 22, 07:24
- oh, you tease. -- nm - Andie Sep 22, 07:23
- "Crackberry" nm - ralph wiggum Sep 22, 07:22 1
  - we call ours "crapberries". -- nm - loosilu Sep 22, 08:07
Comparing public outrage to actual hazards in a very pretty graphic -- (link) - oblique Sep 22, 07:21 [Image]
*start a conversation to get things moving* -- nm - znufrii Sep 22, 07:21

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