Re: cab conversation (GG on/off the Record)

[John Hill <jphill@home.com>]

Anne Smith wrote:
> 
> Q1.  Is it true that "Up there we[Canadians]'re used to
> having windows up"?  Or is it just joking?
> 
> I agree with John Hill's explanation of this question.   My parents were of
> GG's generation .  They used to tell stories of foreigners coming to Canada
> in the summer with their skis looking for snow. It was a big joke 60 or so
> years ago that foreigners thought we lived in igloos and had ice and snow
> all year around .

You're right, Anne.  I don't know about 60 yrs. ago, but....

You can't imagine what I've had to put up with since moving
to the States regarding *slugging baby seal pups*!  Sometimes I have
to tell folks that there are no ice floes around where I grew up
(Kitchener-Waterloo) and that I've never actually set foot in
Newfoundland or Labrador!  And the Nanook jokes.....my God!

OK....lots of this has been good-natured joking, but
I'd stand behind my original statement about most Americans being
generally uninformed about Canada.  (And quite often the response
to that is, "Well of *course* we don't know anything about Canada...
why *would* we?)

jh