It has come to my attention that you people in the US don't always understand what we Canadians say. We have to carefully and slowly speak Canadian whenever we talk to you. It gets old real fast.
So I've decided that those at DKos need a few lessons in Canadian. Not to worry...I'll take it easy on you sookies so's yer don't get owly and rattled and call us hosers.
Lessons begin over the snarly gillynet
Lesson One: What Not to Use
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Hoser - a derogatory term for a Canadian. Generally means "loser". As in "Watch where yer going, you hoser!". Origins: before the invention of that wonderful machine, the Zamboni, the losing hockey team had to hose off the ice. Also refers to gas thieves from the 1930s Depression era.
Canuck - again a bad word for a Canadian...as long as it was anybody but a Canadian using the term. IOKIYC! For instance; a Canadian calling another Canadian a Canuck is a term of endearment. For anybody else to use the word is grounds for a smackdown!
Newfie - a Newfoundlander or Labradorian. To call someone a Newfie is somewhat insulting and amounts to basically calling them a joke. Origin: all the really insulting "Newfie " jokes were used by Frogs (French Canadians) and Squareheads ( Anglophiles). However, Newfies calling each other Newfies is no problem. They wear it as a badge of honour.
Lesson Two: General Terms:
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Loonie - No, not an escapee from a mental institution! It's the name of a Canadian one dollar coin. We don't use paper $1 bills anymore since some ijit though how much fun it would be to make getting smacked by a purse really hurt! It was named after the loon that thought it up.
Toonie - a Canadian two dollar coin. Yep, you guessed it.... another brilliant way to make sure people drowned after falling in the drink with a pocketful of change. That or make sure you're constantly hitching up your pants. So named because apparently no-one at the Royal Mint could come up with a better name.
Homo milk - err, no..not that! That would be LGTB milk, although how you could tell a gay cow from a straight cow anyway....never mind. It's slang for homogenized whole milk (3.4%).
Two four - (Aka a flat or a suitcase) any Canuck over 21 knows these words. It's what we call a case of twenty four cans of beer; the amount it takes to get a Canuck drunk.
Klick - What we call a kilometer. There are 1.609 klicks in a mile, for you 'muricans who are stuck in the 19th century.
Chinook - (pronounced shinook) a warm dry wind that blows off the east slopes of the Rockies and into the interior of Alberta. Without this phenomenon, Alberta would remain frigid all year and ...well, not that it matters.
Sookie - a softie; a crybaby; a weak person. Usually a term of some endearment towards children, but adults are expected to be...you know...grown up and tough!
Forty pounder - a forty ounce bottle of alcohol. The usual size any decent Canuck buys to consume all by their onesome for the evening. For a party one brings three forty pounders and 4 flats.
Fuck The Dog - generally means to do nothing much. Sometimes known as screwing the pooch or making puppies. One of the main pastimes of Canucks.
Giv'n'er - a term used for any really enthusiastic activity. Usually denotes partying hard. As in " We was just giv'n'er last night". Diminutive of giving her.
Ginch - (aka Gonch) male underwear...nuff said.
Had the biscuit - something broken beyond fixing, as in: toast, done in, gonner.
Dead Bird in a Box - alludes to Kentucky Fried Chicken ( aka: Kentucky Fried Pigeon or Kentucky Fried Rabbit).
Scare Canada - affectionate term for Air Canada.
BC Bud or BC Hydro - marijuana (pot) grown all over BC in grow operations. Rumour has it that this lucrative cash crop is what contributes most to the provincial economy.
Down South - what we Canucks call the United States, and what contributes most to the BC economy.
Owlie - grump
Poverty pack - a six pack of beer. Bought by those too poor to afford a proper drunk.
Rotten Ronnie's - McDonald's...need I say more?
jib - Methamphetamine, BC and parts of Canada's other source of income.
Eh - an interjection meant to ascertain the interest or agreement of the person being spoken to. As in: "Good game, eh?" Made famous by Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Sources:
http://www.canadaka.net/...
http://www.wikihow.com/...