Topic: Regarding Canucks name

[A Bit of Fruit]

I looked it up in Urban Dictionary.com and found the greatest definition of anything ever, i actually laughed out loud...

Canuck:

Like an American, except weaker and less inept in basic World and US History. Their daily habits include bashing Americans with unfunny and cookie cut jokes or historic "facts".

Canuck: "We burnt down the White House and invented the telephone!"
Factual History: "Umm, not really."

[Canuck]

LMAO

Canuck is just a slang name for a Canadian, and that definition is so inacurate.  They didnt even mention our usage of eh?

[Govtcheez]

I dunno, that conversation is pretty accurate.

[Perspective]

I dunno, that conversation is pretty accurate.

but we did burn down the White House and invent the telephone (and hockey and basketball too)

damn yanks,

[Ken Fitlike]

>>invent the telephone<<

*cough cough*

...Born [1847] Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland...

[Govtcheez]

>>invent the telephone<<

*cough cough*

And it was also patented in the US.

Also, the White House was burned in the War of 1812 by the British.  Even though the Canadians were a British colony, it doesn't mean Bob and Doug McKenzie came down and burned it.  There may have been Canadians involved, but that doesn't exactly mean that they burned it down.

[Ken Fitlike]

Looks like the USA have decided that an Italian immigrant was the inventor of the telephone:

(Alexander Graham Bell)
Meucci was recognised as the original inventor by the United States Congress in Resolution 269, dated June 11, 2002.

No doubt when the Hollywood movie comes out he'll have been transformed into a 6'8" blue-eyed, blonde average US American superhero type and will have added penicillin, among others, to his many inventions.

[VBprogrammer]

Bell was the one what done it...

[Perspective]

>>...Born [1847] Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland

ahhh, yes. The small town of Edinburgh Scotland, Ontario. I think i drove through there once on the way to a hockey game.

[Govtcheez]

Haha, I came here expecting to get in a fight about Canada with you, but you have defused the the issue like a true Canadian.  Makes me remember why I love you guys

[Ken Fitlike]

>>...Born [1847] Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland

ahhh, yes. The small town of Edinburgh Scotland, Ontario. I think i drove through there once on the way to a hockey game.

Haha. Nice try.

...in 1870, he moved with his family to Canada...

So, he moved from Canada to -er- Canada.

I think everyone is just going to have to accept that Meucci invented the phone because the US Congress said he did (well, according to the wonderful world of wiki, he did).

[Betazep]

I accept nothing... and you cannot change my mind.