There seem to be two kinds of ant jokes - those that start with ant, and those that conclude with ant. How many jokes could there be with words that start with ant? There are almost 5,000 words. In comparison there are only 533 words that end with ant. These seem to be the funniest jokes.
The pavement ants seem to have concluded their nest-cleaning activity as there are little bits of ant rubbish on the driveway. My street is a very quiet one so I can sweep the grass edging without any worries of any cars - careening or even creeping on my street.
Did you know that the busiest road in the world is Highway 401? It carries 420,000 vehicles per day. Remember our Niagara Falls statistics of 13,000,000 million visitors - they might make a contribution to the load.
We can find out the busiest intersections in the world. Here's the list - look how many US intersections there, and even 2 in Canada. I can't imagine this is on someone's bucket list - but it has to be with 7.5 billion people and various bucket lists.
Place Charles de Gaulle- Paris, France The “Magic Roundabout” - Swindon, UK Nanpu Bridge Interchange - Shanghai, China Porta Maggiore - Rome, Italy Knight St and SE Marine Dr, Vancouver, Canada “The Plough” - Hemel Hempstead, UK The “Beijing Intersection” - Beijing, China Spaghetti Junction - Atlanta, USA Spaghetti Junction - Birmingham, UK Armdale Rotary - Halifax Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard - Pembroke Pines, US Gibraltar Airport, Gibraltar I-95, I-287, NJ 440, and CR 514 Intersection - Edison, US Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange - Los Angeles, USA Kathipara Junction - Chennai, India Times Square - New York, USA Meskel Square - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ha Noi Intersection- Hanoi, Vietnam Shibuya Crossing - Tokyo, Japan
It's our 150 celebration day in Canada. The listing of fireworks is so long that it is in alphabetical order - noise started last night at midnight. Here are a few ways to distinguish us:
You Might Be Canadian If:
Your municipality buys a Zamboni before a bus.
You understand the Labatt Blue commercials.
You bring a portable TV on a camping trip so that you don't miss Hockey Night. You can repeat the entire Molson's Canadian 'The Rant'.
You know all the words to "If I had a million dollars" by The Barenaked Ladies, including the inter-stanza banter between Steven and Ed.
You dismiss all beers under 6% as "for children and the elderly." You remember when Alanis Morrissette was "Too Hot To Hold".
You watch MuchMusic constantly, in the hopes of occasional fleeting glimpses of The Tragically Hip.
You can sing "O' Canada" in French and actually know what the words mean. You think Peter Mansbridge is sexy.
You killed your best friend for Another Roadside Attraction tickets.
You think Great Big Sea isn't Atlantic-centric enough. You know the names of all the guys in Sloan.
Martin Regg Cohn's article in the Toronto Star seems to sum our our perspective now.
"Nothing puts Canada’s tensions in perspective quite like witnessing other people’s conflicts abroad, as I did while at the Toronto Star’s bureau in Jerusalem in the late 1990s."
Regg says: "As a country we are far more rounded, grounded and grown-up. We have reinvented multiculturalism, and begun a belated journey of reconciliation ... Canada has always been light on jingoism, chauvinism and patriotism. But do not mistake the muted enthusiasm of today for a lack of idealism about tomorrow ... At 150, Canada is a far better place, in a far better space than ever before..."
