Monday, April 6, 2026

How Canadian are you?

I thought this was interesting.  Enjoy:

So, how Canadian are you, anyway? Take this quiz and find out!

When a sentence starts with “So buddy comes over to the shop,” what is buddy most likely to be? 

  • A friend? 

  • A police officer? 

  • A well-meaning idiot? 

  • Or literally someone named Buddy.

"Dave is a massive tool." Is Dave...

"That concert was mental." Was it...

  • Insane in a good way?

  • Did something go badly wrong?

  • Did it feature a lot of sensory experiences?

  • Or did it make you think deeply?

Your friend tells you to "Just give 'er." Should you...

  • Cave in to something you don't want to do?

  • Give someone a gift?

  • Accelerate your car fast?

  • Or ignore what someone's telling you?

If you ended up at the legion after, what did you most likely do next?

  • Played lacrosse?

  • Drank beer?

  • Read your anime story to an audience?

  • Or cleaned up moose shit?

If Sarah is a "real keener," is she...

  • Enthusiastic to the point of being annoying?

  • Good at telling jokes?

  • Someone who cries too easily?

  • Or a busybody?

Someone hands you a two-four. Do you...

  • Drink it?

  • Burn it?

  • Use it to build a house?

  • Or hand it right back and apologize?

What do you put in a parkade?

  • Juice?

  • Your children?

  • Your car?

  • Or nothing, because parkade is a word I just made up?

If buddy biffs it, what did buddy do?

  • Slip and fall?

  • Miss an opportunity?

  • Dance like Elaine from Seinfeld?

  • Or fall asleep at an inopportune moment?

The garburator is broken. You should call...

  • The police?

  • Your city's garbage pickup people?

  • An appliance repair person?

  • Or a linguistics professor?

ANSWERS:

  1. Buddy, in this context, is most likely to be an idiot.

  2. A massive tool is also an idiot.

  3. If something’s mental, it’s like metal — hardcore, in a good way.

  4. If you’re givin’ her, you are pedal to the metal in your car

  5. If you’re at a legion, you’re probably drinking.

  6. Keeners are enthusiastic about things to the point of exhaustion

  7. two-four is a flat of beer (24 beers)

  8. parkade is a multi-storey parking structure

  9. If you biff it, you’ve fallen. And people probably laughed at you. (Note: In the eastern parts of Canada, "biff" is more likely to mean you've thrown something. In other parts, "biff" means to vomit.)

  10. garburator is a garbage disposal grinder in a sink

 
 

Lunch with a great group of women!

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