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[the_fair_maiden]

I was on a tripwith my marching band once and we ended up going to six flags.  Now I am Canadian and we were in the United States, somewhere around Chicago I think, and I was wearing a bunch of Canadian stuff...why I'm not exactly sure, I guess I just really wanted everyone to know I was Canadian..I'm weird like that.

Me and my friends were

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[frenchthebully]

I'm just surprised they didn't start asking me if I lived in an igloo.

Jeez, next you'll be telling us you're not at all interested in fur trading.

[consortofvenus]

Oh please. That industry died years ago. Now we all guide tourists in canoes from town.

[consortofvenus]

town to town*

[timisonlj]

She can't live in Vancouver. There's a Julie in my film studies class, and Canada clearly only has one Julie -- I've met her, and she's in Edmonton!

[abitofanenigma]

Being Scottish (well, half...) I get a lot of this from Americans with Scottish ancestry. It's kind of a running joke among the Scottish and Irish, that somehow we're going to know every american's ancestor!

Having said that, when I said that my boyfriend was from the US, a lady at my work (who used to live in the US, about 20 years ago...) asked me if I knew one of her old friends. She lived in michigan I think, so how the hell my boyfrined would know him, being from Seattle and all I have no idea. How many of hundreds of millions of people are there in the US anyway? pfft..

[abitofanenigma]

bah, spellcheck before posting...

[romq]

How many of hundreds of millions of people are there in the US anyway?
Three. ;-)

[crassy]

I think this happens just about everywhere with Americans. Very sad :(

[atdelphi]

*laughs* I was in Indianapolis once at a convention, and when I told a man I was from Canada, he asked me if I knew "John Franklin from Saskatchewan." I tried to explain to him that, him being from Texas, it was the equivalent of asking him if he knew "John from Iowa." I mean, we may only have a tenth of the States' population up here, but that's still a lot of people over a lot of space.

Whereabouts in Northern Ontario are you from? (I ask because while Canada is Really Big, Northern Ontario really isn't.) I'm from Kirkland Lake originally, myself. :-)

[the_fair_maiden]

I'm from Sudbury.

[atdelphi]

The big city. *g*

[auraian]

I might be moving to Sudbury :(

(and I'm only a little sad 'cause most of my family and friends are still in Windsor)

[dancing_minerva]

Sadly, I've run into these -nearly identical- comments on a regular basis. I don't get why I had to learn the US states and capitals, topography and history in Junior High (being Canadian)... And somehow, a good many Americans honestly believe the igloo type stories.

Ugh.

[wrestlingdog]

ICON LOVE!!

[sarcasm_hime]

While driving back to Toronto from Costume-Con in St. Louis, we stopped at a Waffle House somewhere in Ohio. When we mentioned we were from Canada he made the usual "oh it must be cold there" noises so I joked "Yeah, it's cold all year round and we live in igloos and stuff"...and he BELIEVED ME. He replied with a very genuine "wow I guess I don't want to go there". We just boggled and then my friends tried to explain that I'd been kidding.