Labour Day Weekend: Thank Canada

[BigBlueBalls]

I bet many people here never knew that a holiday that they celebrate every year originated in Canada.

Labour Day: the holiday Canada gave the world
http://www.nupge.ca/news_2003/n01se03a.htm

So when you're out there celebrating or just sitting at home enjoying the long weekend, remember to thank Canada for this international holiday :P

[Eudaimonism]

Canada kicks fucking ass! One more reason to love where I live <3

[DevlinEdora]

Yeah, we kick ass, eh.

[wwwyzzerdd]

Eh, but we spell ours without the "u." That gives us more time to party rather than write 1 more letter.

[hektur]

I love my country we pretty much kick ass. :D

[Gunkster]

Yes, Canada owns, but I'm just a country boy living in Texas. Mexicans own Canadians any day of the week.

[losiglow]

Other than spelling the word "Labor" wrong, I'm down.

LoL. "Labour" ---- Lay-boo-er "Labor" ---- Lay-bore
Which one is right? How do you pronounce it?

[wwwyzzerdd]

At 9/1/06 03:06 PM, losiglow wrote: Other than spelling the word "Labor" wrong, I'm down.

LoL. "Labour" ---- Lay-boo-er "Labor" ---- Lay-bore
Which one is right? How do you pronounce it?

Technically, we spell "labour" wrong, seeing how the spelling originated in England; birthplace of English.

[kirbykiller4]

im pretty much fine with canada.but even more important thank the jews for saturday being a day off.every saturday of the year that is.

[UltraSexyMrBig]

canada rocks feel proud to live here guys!

[Orangebeef]

eh, igloos, maple syrup, hockey, geese.

yuuupp...

[mamatequila]

Yeah you're welcome you ingrates.

go back to making fun of our hockey and lacrosse and french-canadians and shit. We're too nice to take the holiday back now.

[Seasons]

Lolcanada.

[MCSMstudios]

At 9/1/06 03:09 PM, kirbykiller4 wrote: im pretty much fine with canada.but even more important thank the jews for saturday being a day off.every saturday of the year that is.

I thought that was the communists, you know, Karl Marx and that lot. Maybe he was a Jew.

[JohnStephens]

America has a Labour day too be we just spell ares Labor day.

[BigBlueBalls]

At 9/1/06 03:41 PM, mamatequila wrote: Yeah you're welcome you ingrates.

go back to making fun of our hockey and lacrosse and french-canadians and shit. We're too nice to take the holiday back now.

They'll probably just forget about this and go back to thinking that Labour Day is an American holiday and say things like "what did Canada ever invent? All I know of is maple syrup, igloos and hockey" :P

At 9/1/06 04:23 PM, JohnStephens wrote: America has a Labour day too be we just spell ares Labor day.

Yeah I know, the point of this thread is that it originated in Canada... and Labour is spelt with "our" in every other English nation except the U.S.

Canadian: colour
American: color

Canadian: armour
American: armor

...and so on.

[Redface]

I guess Canada doesn't suck so much after all...

[MortifiedPenguins]

Thats pretty sad if your biggest claim to fame is because a holiday with no meaning nowadays.

[DRAINTHEBLOOD]

At 9/1/06 05:33 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Thats pretty sad if your biggest claim to fame is because a holiday with no meaning nowadays.

maple syrup
free health care
moose
cold weather
niagra falls
cn tower
harbouring terrorists

were famouse for lots of things

[BobbyJenkins]

I WANNA GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[tawc]

we dont get labour day,

[BigBlueBalls]

At 9/1/06 05:33 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Thats pretty sad if your biggest claim to fame is because a holiday with no meaning nowadays.

Did I say it was our biggest claim to fame? It's just one of numerous others, most of which you probably don't even know of.

Also, no meaning? Funny how so many Americans celebrate it then. I know my uncle in North Carolina takes everyone on a trip down to Myrtle Beach every Labour Day weekend. How many international long weekends is the U.S. responsible for?

[FineAsFaux]

Oh, jesus. I had to paraphrase a 2-page story on the history of Labour Day.

You can only imagine how entertaining that was.

[smazgoggle]

whats labour day... sounds like hard work, is it doing un waged labour by shovelling snow! sounds... good...