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   The War of 1812 bicentennial, which most Americans don't even know is a thing, is drawing Canadians out of their igloos by the thousands for rousing re-enactments, celebratory Molsons, and presumably a few pick-up games of curling

15 Jun 2012 11:21 AM   |   4305 clicks   |   USA Today
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vernonFL    [TotalFark]  
Here in Baltimore we're having a big party with old tall ships, modern Navy ships, the Blue Angels, etc... to celebrate.

15 Jun 2012 09:38 AM
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Mentat    [TotalFark]  
It was a tie!

15 Jun 2012 09:49 AM
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Ennuipoet    [TotalFark]  
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FTA: Canadians, whose forebears helped repulse several U.S. invasions in 1812,

15 Jun 2012 10:04 AM
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Generation_D     
Read a Canadian high school history book. They won, it says so right there.

15 Jun 2012 10:05 AM
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WTF Indeed     
Look at those dirty icebacks celebrating their "victory". I'm sure they'll be pissing maple syrup once we send a few divisions up there to shut those poutine-eating sons of biatches up.

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!

15 Jun 2012 10:19 AM
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I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey     
In the bicentennial of the Mexican-American War, will we reenact the battles using illegal immigrants?

15 Jun 2012 10:29 AM
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PacManDreaming    [TotalFark]  
My ex is Canadian(yeah, yeah...I know) and she loved to antagonize me with this song by the Arrogant Worms. I gotta admit, the song is actually funny. Historically accurate? Not so much.

15 Jun 2012 11:01 AM
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Mentat    [TotalFark]  
PacManDreaming: My ex is Canadian(yeah, yeah...I know) and she loved to antagonize me with this song by the Arrogant Worms. I gotta admit, the song is actually funny. Historically accurate? Not so much.

Counter with this

15 Jun 2012 11:14 AM
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Nabb1    [TotalFark]  
Oh, bless their hearts.

15 Jun 2012 11:16 AM
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NutznGum     
It is? I haven't talked to a single person who gives a damn.

15 Jun 2012 11:22 AM
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Oldiron_79     
Someone dig up Zombie Andrew Jackson

15 Jun 2012 11:22 AM
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WhippingBoy    [TotalFark]  
PacManDreaming: My ex is Canadian(yeah, yeah...I know) and she loved to antagonize me with this song by the Arrogant Worms. I gotta admit, the song is actually funny. Historically accurate? Not so much.

It's not as much fun to poke American's with a stick anymore, now that their empire is crumbling...

15 Jun 2012 11:22 AM
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theurge14     
How adorable.

15 Jun 2012 11:23 AM
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fireclown     
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The Tricentennial is going to be truly rocking.

15 Jun 2012 11:25 AM
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zulius    [TotalFark]  
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Their beer sucks...

15 Jun 2012 11:26 AM
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Wise_Guy     
WhippingBoy: PacManDreaming: My ex is Canadian(yeah, yeah...I know) and she loved to antagonize me with this song by the Arrogant Worms. I gotta admit, the song is actually funny. Historically accurate? Not so much.

It's not as much fun to poke American's with a stick anymore, now that their empire is crumbling...


You'll be knocking on our door when you finally decide to throw off that English yoke.

15 Jun 2012 11:26 AM
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The_Sponge    [TotalFark]  
Subby forgot to mention the Rush concert....with special guests Gordon Lightfoot and Snow.

/A licky boom boom down.

15 Jun 2012 11:27 AM
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NittLion78     
Honestly, if you guys wanna go ahead and burn down DC again, I won't stop you.

15 Jun 2012 11:29 AM
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KiplingKat872     
NittLion78: Honestly, if you guys wanna go ahead and burn down DC again, I won't stop you.

I would provide some beer, good beer, for that party.

15 Jun 2012 11:31 AM
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hasty ambush     
Generation_D: Read a Canadian high school history book. They won, it says so right there.

"Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany.
That's because they surrendered to the British."

15 Jun 2012 11:31 AM
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Nabb1    [TotalFark]  
If you guys want to come down for a reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans and get stuck in the mud in Chalmette and get eaten by alligators while we pick the rest off one by one, I'm game. We'll be firing blanks, of course, but I can't make any promises about the alligators.

15 Jun 2012 11:31 AM
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theurge14     
"Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.

15 Jun 2012 11:31 AM
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lazymojo     
I know it's a thing.

I did a book report on Oliver Hazard Perry when I was in 5th grade. But then again, I'm a lot smarter than most of my dumbass fellow Americans.

Years later, I feel that I enjoy Great Lake's Brewery's "Commodore Perry I.P.A." on a more profound level than other beer drinkers.

15 Jun 2012 11:32 AM
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LostInTO     
I'm not leaving my igloo for it.

15 Jun 2012 11:32 AM
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Flappyhead     
theurge14: "Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.


Except we just took one of yours.

15 Jun 2012 11:32 AM
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RussianPooper    [TotalFark]  
Celebrate? Fine. Reenact? Lame.

15 Jun 2012 11:33 AM
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Disposable Rob     
Will it include a traditional burning of the White House?

15 Jun 2012 11:34 AM
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theurge14     
Flappyhead: theurge14: "Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.

Except we just took one of yours.


Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.

15 Jun 2012 11:34 AM
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rufus-t-firefly     
WhippingBoy: PacManDreaming: My ex is Canadian(yeah, yeah...I know) and she loved to antagonize me with this song by the Arrogant Worms. I gotta admit, the song is actually funny. Historically accurate? Not so much.

It's not as much fun to poke American's with a stick anymore, now that their empire is crumbling...


Let me know when Canada decides to become a republic.

15 Jun 2012 11:34 AM
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Nabb1    [TotalFark]  
theurge14: Flappyhead: theurge14: "Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.

Except we just took one of yours.

Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.


There haven't been any Southerners in Atlanta since the early 1980's.

15 Jun 2012 11:35 AM
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theurge14     
Nabb1: theurge14: Flappyhead: theurge14: "Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.

Except we just took one of yours.

Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.

There haven't been any Southerners in Atlanta since the early 1980's.


Not helping, bro.

15 Jun 2012 11:35 AM
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theolinc     

15 Jun 2012 11:36 AM
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AKTurkey     
The_Sponge: Subby forgot to mention the Rush concert....with special guests Gordon Lightfoot and Snow.

/A licky boom boom down.


Don't be an informer

15 Jun 2012 11:37 AM
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Disposable Rob     
theurge14: Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.

Down here, we call it the War of Canadian Aggression.

15 Jun 2012 11:37 AM
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Lost Thought 00    [TotalFark]  
The Bicentennial was last year. They are a year late to the party

15 Jun 2012 11:37 AM
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redundantman     
America Jr.

15 Jun 2012 11:38 AM
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Woolwine     
Disposable Rob: Will it include a traditional burning of the White House?

Shortly after we burn down Toronto, but before we reenact snatching victory from the jaws of defeat at Baltimore followed by massacring the British at New Orleans.

15 Jun 2012 11:38 AM
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theurge14     
Disposable Rob: theurge14: Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.

Down here, we call it the War of Canadian Aggression.


Province's Rights!

15 Jun 2012 11:38 AM
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imontheinternet    [TotalFark]  
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Didn't we win the war in 1812? Who's that old lady on your money?

15 Jun 2012 11:39 AM
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Glenford     
More like our wannabe Teabagger government trying too hard to instill some US style patriotism. I've heard very little about this, other than the $28 million they are spending on it. Fiscal restraint my ass.

15 Jun 2012 11:39 AM
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Flappyhead     
Disposable Rob: theurge14: Oh Atlanta? They're southerners, they're used to losing things and denying it. They don't count.

Down here, we call it the War of Canadian Aggression.


+1 Internets for you.

15 Jun 2012 11:40 AM
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nijn_grrl     
Hey, if Canada wants to take Detroit back...I'm totally cool with that.


/wait, they didn't take it?
//we gave it up?
///and we asked for it back?

15 Jun 2012 11:40 AM
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theurge14     
Glenford: More like our wannabe Teabagger government trying too hard to instill some US style patriotism. I've heard very little about this, other than the $28 million they are spending on it. Fiscal restraint my ass.

$28 million in Canadian money is pretty cheap, no?

15 Jun 2012 11:40 AM
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Tom_Slick     
Flappyhead: theurge14: "Thanks to the war," says John Sek, the Canadian re-enactor who wears a blue coat, "we're not waving an American flag today."

Beware, John Sek. We're already taking your NHL teams and sooner or later we're coming for your flag.

Except we just took one of yours.



Canadians always cross the border to buy products you can't get at home for a reasonable price.

15 Jun 2012 11:40 AM
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Emrick     
How do Canadians feel about being royal subjects?

15 Jun 2012 11:41 AM
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BronyMedic     
Glenford: More like our wannabe Teabagger government trying too hard to instill some US style patriotism. I've heard very little about this, other than the $28 million they are spending on it. Fiscal restraint my ass.

Of course, of course. I forgot how the Canadian way of waging war was. I mean, they even won Normandy at Juno Beach by walking ashore holding a white flag, and politely offering what Canadians claim to be "Beer" and jovial conversation.

/wait a second....

15 Jun 2012 11:41 AM
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Nabb1    [TotalFark]  
Glenford: More like our wannabe Teabagger government trying too hard to instill some US style patriotism. I've heard very little about this, other than the $28 million they are spending on it. Fiscal restraint my ass.

Hey, now, you guys played a pivotal role for the British in a war that could best be most charitably described as a draw for them, and the US really didn't care how it got framed because they got the British to agree to stop the Royal Navy's harassment of commercial trading vessels sailing under US flags and seizing their cargo and pressing their crews into service.

15 Jun 2012 11:42 AM
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Tomahawk513     
KiplingKat872: NittLion78: Honestly, if you guys wanna go ahead and burn down DC again, I won't stop you.

I would provide some beer, good beer, for that party.


I'll make poutine.

15 Jun 2012 11:42 AM
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meow said the dog    [TotalFark]  
Canadians drink Molson? LAUGHTER OL!

15 Jun 2012 11:42 AM
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Notabunny    [TotalFark]  
Canadians are like your cousin who only comes by 2 or 3 times a year. You like him, and you're glad to see him, but you're always thinking, "Why is he like that?". Now I get it. It's a sense of superiority. They kicked our butts and those dirty ice backs (thanks WTF Indeed) have been holding it over our heads for 200 years. Fine, be that way. I'm raising a beer to you right now, Canada, (Anchor, made in America) but I wearing my grumpy face. I hope you're happy.

15 Jun 2012 11:43 AM
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