Are they special? (Page 3) Becca76: well ive thoroughly enjoyed telling you how it is Ohno but i really must go! Bye for now!  N remember...who's ya daddy!   lavendar_star: yeah yeah ohno, well to keep you upto date you missed the awesomeness of team GB we came third to one nation 5 times our size n another 20 times our size n in the end despite the initial security concerns nothing went wrong at all. I heard you guys never broadcast the paraolympics in Canada on TV.  I thought you guys were more enlightened then that.  ohnonotthatguy: How many Olympic games has England been hosts 1) Montreal 1976 2) Calgary 1988 3) Vancouver 2010 lavendar_star: That's not the real Olympics that's the winter Olympics try again. We have had two summer Olympics in the last 100 years. Also its about how many medal you win but I can understand why you are avoiding that part. ohnonotthatguy: Paralympics where shown here in Canada on CBC tv. OH that's the winter Olympics. You Brits are just jealous  lavendar_star: Oh sorry there bad reporting here about the para games,  we family but jealous of all that snow we barely can handle the bit of snow we get here. But at least we didn't produce Justin Beiber n Celine Dion. (Edited by lavendar_star) ohnonotthatguy: Nothing wrong with Celine,now the Justine Beaver kid something about his hair. Yeah we have the RCMP and their horses. Stampedes in Alberta (Edited by ohnonotthatguy) jink88: Canadians have: most freshwater in the world invented the zipper peacekeepers reversing falls Bay of Fundy (highest tide in the world) Mounties diamonds and not blood diamonds either superman basketball ginger ale Polar bears maple syrup government owned banks ohnonotthatguy: thanks Jink88 i was wondering when a fellow Canuck was going to hop on board.  We have also geese Mountain goats Moose ohnonotthatguy:   Insulin, Treatment for Diabetes [1921, Frederick Banting, Charles Best] Telephone [1876, Alexander Graham Bell] Light Bulb [1874, Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans] Five Pin Bowling [1908, Thomas F. Ryan] Wonderbra [1964, Louise Poirier] Pacemaker [1950, John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callaghan] Robertson Screw, 1908 [Peter Robertson] Zipper [1913, Gideon Sundback] Electric Wheelchair [1952, George Klein] Poutine [1957, Fernand Lachance] Cobalt-60 "Bomb" Cancer Treatment [1951, Harold Johns] Java Programming Language [1994, James Arthur Gosling] Bloody Caesar [1969, Walter Chell] Canadarm [1975, Spar Aerospace/NRC] Standard time [1878, Sandford Fleming] Electron Microscope [1939, James Hillier, Albert Prebus] Ski-Doo [1922, Armand Bombardier] BlackBerry [1999, Mike Lazaridis] Radio Voice Transmission [1900, Reginald Fessenden] Birchbark Canoe [First Peoples] Basketball [1892, James Naismith] Retractable Beer Carton Handle [1957, Steve Pasjack] UV Degradable Plastics [1971, James Guillet] Instant Replay [1955, CBC's Hockey Night in Canada] Goalie Mask [1959, Jacques Plante] Marquis Wheat [1908, Charles Saunders] Pablum [1930, Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Frederick Tisdall] Lacrosse [First Peoples] Electric Oven [1892, Thomas Ahearn] Steam Fog Horn [1853, Robert Foulis] Walkie-Talkie [1942, Donald L. Hings] Alkaline Long-Lasting Battery [1959, Lewis Urry] Paint roller [1940, Norman Breakey] Electronic Music Synthesizer [1945, Hugh Le Caine] WeeVac 6 [1990, Wendy Murphy] Green Garbage Bag [1950, Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen, Frank Plomp] Snowblower [1925, Arthur Sicard] Self-propelled Combine Harvester [1937, Thomas Carroll] Instant Mashed Potatoes [1962, Edward Asselbergs] Explosives Vapour Detector [1985, Lorne Elias] Marine Screw Propeller [1833, John Patch] Plexiglas [1931, William Chalmers] Key Frame Animation [1969, Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein] CPR Mannequin: "ACTAR 911" [1989, Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault] G-Suit [1941, Wilbur Rounding Franks] Ardox Spiral Nail [1954, Allan Dove] Automatic Lubricating Cup [1872, Elijah McCoy] Crash-Position Indicator-CPI [1957, Harry Stevinson] Caulking Gun [1894, Theodore Witte] Separable Baggage Check [1882, John Mitchell Lyons (Edited by ohnonotthatguy) Becca76: Awwww bless thats a cute lil ya got!  However, I said England provided 54% OF ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTIONS i.e. the stuff that has shaped the western world ...Now, if you wish to start on about trivial or all inventions there's ever been... then that figure goes up...n i really don't wish to upset you by saying how much....you can look that up yourself! Alexander Bell sorry he was a Scotsman, and educated here hes on our list he emigrated to Canada but born n bred here...! So errr...if you just get ya lil paint roller n cross him off! lavendar_star: That's all great but remember my Canadian friends what language you did it all in English.  (Edited by lavendar_star) ohnonotthatguy: ok so Bell boy was a Scot. Western world well i guess Insulin wasn't that important than,neither was the light bulb. Yeah and the Wonderbra (scratches head) Becca76: Look owing to my big kind BRITISH heart im gonna bail you out the sheet here cuz i think u need my help....becoz im your daddy....... well u missed WIRECLUB !!! like THE MOST AWESOME website ever ever made!!  ohnonotthatguy: have been on here for almost 4 years,i can do without it.have better things to do with my free time   (Post deleted by Marie Cretyou ) | Off Topic Chat Room Similar Conversations |
