There are no stupid questions
- Does anyone in Quebec know English?
- How do Canadians buy bathing suits?
- Do you take a dogled to the border?
- Doesn’t your igloo melt when you heat it in the winter?
Answers:
- Je m’excuse?
- We wait until we cross the border.
- Yes. There’s a kennel there for the dogs.
- No. Just in the summer.
(Note: I have been asked every one of these many times.)
November 26th, 2004 at 11:11 am
Ha,ha,ha,ha. Well - so last night my cousin and I (the 2 Hungarians in the party) had to put up with being asked if we were stilly hungry, and then the asker would mock-hit himself on the forehead in mock-realization and say, oh, that’s right, you’re from Hung(a)ry. I’ve been hearing that one since I was 6.
November 26th, 2004 at 12:37 pm
Yeah. There are also a lot of jokes based on names that really aren’t funny if you’re born with that name.
What frightens me is that these questions are *serious*.
November 26th, 2004 at 4:17 pm
That is frightening.
November 26th, 2004 at 10:27 pm
Yes, rather. Not to put down the intense irritation caused by the same stupid joke over and over and over about your name/country/whatever. The only reason I’m not chiming in is because it’s either about my name, which I’m unwilling to put here, or about friends’ quite unusual names, and they presumably would not want the same stupid jokes made ON THE INTERNET.
November 27th, 2004 at 1:40 am
Yes, yes, I dealt with this a lot when I started college in the US (having grown up in another country, despite being American). Cracked me up when these folks professed to know what everything about where I was from (they were so wrong) and would even try to correct me. Wait? Who lived there?
November 28th, 2004 at 1:41 pm
Heck, they do it with states, too. No, California is NOT sunny all the time!
November 29th, 2004 at 1:19 pm
Not even southern California? I want my money back! It’s what all those detective novels say. Next you’re going to tell me that I can’t rely on them for legal advice, either.
December 1st, 2004 at 1:10 am
When I traveled to California with the high school band as a kid, we were asked if we wore shoes, whether we carried our lunch to school in pails, and if our water was safe to drink. (In case that balances out any regional barriers! :)) They obviously had the Beverly Hillbillies opinion of us, but to be fair, I don’t think it was Californians but Canadians there for the winter.
December 1st, 2004 at 10:25 am
California? No. Florida, definitely.
So, do you wear shoes?