On this Election Day in the USA, I am feeling proud to be Canadian. I have been homesick like crazy and all the fighting and insulting behaviour I am seeing in the election is making it worse I miss hockey. I miss good beer (although I can buy Unibroue at the grocery store around the block). I miss snow. I miss politeness. I miss multi-party elections. I miss spelling things with extra "u"s. I miss zed.
In case anyone knows the Arrogant Worms, sing along:
Our fair country Canada is north of the USA
Our Maritimes are lovely and our prairies give us hay
You might think you Yankees are better than us Canucks
But we don't need no microchips inside our hockey pucks
We know that you have Disney world and you keep it very
clean
But we don't have Bob Dole and we can drink when we're
nineteen
We might watch your TV shows for hours and hours and hours
We'll give you Alan Thicke, but Shania Twain is ours
CHORUS
We're proud to be Canadian
We're awfully nice to strangers, our manners be our curse
It's cool in many ways to be Canadian
We won't say that we're better, it's just that we're less worse
Your beer is not to tasty but you weather can't be beat
We all fly south in the wintertime to escape the snow and sleet
We're pleased to say we've enjoyed all your southern
charms
But we get sunburnt we exercise the right to bear our
arms
CHORUS
Alanis Morissette she is our latest pride and joy
She used to sing about high school dances
and chasin' after boys
Now she's fed up and about as angry as can be
She's got one hand in her pocket
and the other's in gaurd for thee