Yah, but on the plus side, there's hockey - i.e. "come on inside - the ice there is warmer than outdoors" - and getting plastered indoors with your pals, eh?

Urban legend has it that a common mis-hearing of the Canadian national anthem's opening lyrics is "O, Canada, we stand on cars and freeze."

[QUOTE=ewmayer;528740]Yah, but on the plus side, there's hockey - i.e. "come on inside - the ice there is warmer than outdoors" - and getting plastered indoors with your pals, eh?

Urban legend has it that a common mis-hearing of the Canadian national anthem's opening lyrics is "O, Canada, we stand on cars and freeze."[/QUOTE]

Yes....

and

That's a good one!

[QUOTE=dcheuk;528737]Wow, thanks for the replies folks.

-100F? OMG You know when its really cold when Fahrenheit < Celsius.

:rajula::rajula::rajula:

I guess that makes me weird wanting to move to somewhere much colder and becoming a Canadian. :smile:

Two of the schools I applied are in Winnipeg, MB and in Regina, SK. One of my reference writers laughed when he saw my `list of Canadian schools' were followed by Hawaii.

I heard it is very windy up there in MB and SK just like here in Iowa or North Dakota. Friend of mine from Edmonton said the bigger cities are warmer due to `pollution.'[/QUOTE]

Winnipeg (aka Winter Peg), Regina and Edmonton and possibly the 3 coldest cities in the 10 Provinces … there are few places colder in the far North.

If you make it to Regina we'll have to get together.

[QUOTE=petrw1;528744]Winnipeg (aka Winter Peg), Regina and Edmonton and possibly the 3 coldest cities in the 10 Provinces … there are few places colder in the far North.

If you make it to Regina we'll have to get together.[/QUOTE]

Winterpeg lmao must be caused by being inland, Vancouver has very similar latitude as Winterpeg but not anywhere as cold. Victoria is ... well it's Victoria. Well then Saskatoon must be even colder.

Yeah for sure man.

[QUOTE=petrw1;528744]Winnipeg (aka Winter Peg), Regina and Edmonton and possibly the 3 coldest cities in the 10 Provinces … there are few places colder in the far North.

If you make it to Regina we'll have to get together.[/QUOTE]
When I was a kid, my parents had a record album called [b]The Weavers[/b], recorded by a group of that name. I don't know how many times I listened to it, but it was a lot.

The last few posts remind me of one of the songs on that album entitled [i]The Frozen Logger[/i].

[URL="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee"]The Cremation of Sam McGee[/URL]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;528852][URL="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee"]The Cremation of Sam McGee[/URL][/QUOTE]

I don't know where I know that from, but I know it well. Audio-streams as a very young youth; I don't remember if it was delivered by record-players, on the radio, or recited by humans.

If I may please share... While I miss living in Canada, and the welcoming diversity of its people, its culture, and its food (OMG, the food!), I *don't* miss the cold.

As a kid growing up in sometimes -40 degree weather, walking ~1 km to the school bus ("up-hill both ways!"), those who could spit would sometimes launch a "payload" as best they could at a 45-degree angle above the virtual horizon.

If the conditions were /just/ ideal, it would have formed into a small ball with a frozen shell by the time it hit the ground, and would then bounce along the ice in front of us...

Physics in action... :wink:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;528852][URL="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee"]The Cremation of Sam McGee[/URL][/QUOTE]
Why, thank you, sir!

Coincidentally, I had been meaning to look this up. I had heard it as a kid at summer camp several different years. The [strike]ward attendants[/strike] camp counselors recited it from memory.

[QUOTE=Dr Sardonicus;528849]When I was a kid, my parents had a record album called [B]The Weavers[/B], recorded by a group of that name. I don't know how many times I listened to it, but it was a lot.

The last few posts remind me of one of the songs on that album entitled [I]The Frozen Logger[/I].[/QUOTE]
You mean these guys?
[YOUTUBE]h6OeFBmfsEw[/YOUTUBE]
or these?
[YOUTUBE]-9KWPeKiU-g[/YOUTUBE]
:wink:
I currently have no computer sound to audit these clips. I do know the song by heart. :smile:

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;528852][URL="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45081/the-cremation-of-sam-mcgee"]The Cremation of Sam McGee[/URL][/QUOTE]
Thanks for posing this. I had not seen it in its entirety in some time.

Today is my 20th wedding anniversary! :w00t: It has been a great 20 years together with many years and adventures ahead of us.

The cherry on top is that I have been away for a week and am able to return today instead of tomorrow.