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Mr. Gumby has been called to serve in the Toronto West mission (he won't be in Toronto, but will get a lot of the area west of it). Hooray! Pay him tribute.
That's great. One of my best friends served in Toronto and met fabulous people and raves about it all the time. The cool thing about Toronto is that you get to work with a lot of cool foreign people and you eat realy well. Hooray!
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Oh, Thank you for all the Congrats and Tributes. My area consists mainly of the east half of Ontario. Goes up to James/Hudson Bay, cuts down on the west to about 1/3 of Lake Superior, borders Quebec, goes all the way down to Leamington, but doesn't include most of the Eastern most part of Ontario. Hope that helps.
I wish I had a website that I could post the map that I recieved.
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Just wondering, but is it true that Vinegar and Salt are popular condiments?
My cousin said that they recieve a like thing of vinegar with their fries/chips (pending your American or British)
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I was called to serve an English speaking mission, but that doesn't mean I will only run into people who speak english.
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Well for me I would say congratulations but I guess that would depend on what you wanted, so a general very big congratulations on the mission in general!
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Salt and Vinegar/Ketchup flavored potato chips are the most commonly sold flavors in Canada. The Vinegarand salt on fries is a British thing, and only succeeded in Canada for some reason (Like the whole lack of revolution thing)
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Honestly though, it's a great city, even though I've only lived here for a month and a half, I can say that. Even when it rains, it's a great city.
And Hobbes, although Quebec is the only officially mostly french-speaking province, there are pockets of francophones all throughout Canada, Canada is a bilingual country but some cities are more bilingual than others: Ottawa for example. Toronto, although not bilingual, is filled with people of all nationalities and languages; Fracophones, Anglophones and Allophones are all very prelevent.
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Ah, this is a special Canadian word. (I actually just learnt it today, but I'm being stuck up and pretending everyone should know- sorry about that) Allophones is everyone who isn't a Francophone or and Anglophone.
If you look it up at dictionary.com you see it actually says it's a Canadian word. (It's very exciting!)
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Thanks, I've been brushing up on Canadian Slang, but it doesn't comfort me that every website I've been to talks about a two-fer/two-four which is a 24 pack of beer. Posts: 312 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Yeah, you'll have to learn how to drink beer, eh. (Heh, I dated a girl from Canada who said Eh all the time. It was great).
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quote: Yeah, you'll have to learn how to drink beer, eh.
Um... I don't think I'll be drinking any beer. Not only is it against my beliefs but it's also kinda dumb to do.
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Nothing inherently dumb about drinking beer. Drinking too much beer, sure, but its perfectly simple to drink beer in moderation without ill effects, merely enjoying the taste. Don't assume something is dumb merely because of the examples of a few. For instance, imagine college students playing with whipped cream. One should not assume using whipped cream is dumb because college students do dumb things with it.
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Fugu makes an excellent point. I've seen college students do dumb things with a blue-green laser and an electron microscope, strongly suggesting that it's not the things themselves which are to blame. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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