Well, at least, it was on Tuesday; which was when I planned to post this. The thing is I started drinking Blue Beavers just after arriving at Sebekia on Friday afternoon, and I didn’t stop until the wee hours of Wednesday morning. I remember there were some people, and then there was some loud explosions coinciding with bright lights. I found some pictures of fireworks on my camera, so I guess that explains it. Everything else is pretty hazy for me…so obviously it was one hell of a frakkin’ great week-end! 
I had to take a long hot shower before sitting down to write this. I was covered with campfire-smoke, Off (mosquito repellent), sunscreen, weasel hair, cheese from Tim’s exploding smokies, and a variety of other unidentifiable grime and grease. Fortunately, that can of beans I had for supper last night has finally worked it’s way out of my system.
In case any of our foreign Beer Buddies aren’t aware, Canada Day is a celebration of the day The Great Gretzky comes up from his fabled home in L.A. and gives hockey sticks to all the children who have been good throughout the year. If they’ve been bad they only get a hockey puck in their stocking. We leave out Big Mac’s and 7-Up for him to eat and some people will even leave out his rookie card in hopes that he might sign it.
Of course you could read about the “real” origin of Canada Day, but my reality is for more exciting. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to slowly wean myself back to a mere six-pack of Blue Beaver before the week-end. To all of our fellow Canadian Beer Buddies out there (you know who the four of you are), “Take off, eh!”
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9 responses so far ↓
1 Corrina // Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Um… You were covered in WEASEL hair?? LMAO.
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2 Canucklehead // Jul 3, 2008 at 5:42 am
I saw your note about the double-double over at my place. I assumed the official drink was Blue Beaver? Anyway, I put together a small mosaic that I hope you will enjoy:
http://www.canucklehead.ca/love.html
Cheers!
3 trade show display // Jul 3, 2008 at 6:19 am
hi Guys, I’m not a Canadian (I’m not one of the “four”), but I’ll raise my glass to Canada! Any excuse to drink another beer.
Seriously though, well, not seriously though, very funny post, yet again. Your description of the smell of stale smoke, off, sunscreen, and I-would-add-sweat takes me back to the carefree days of my childhood and camping. We ate smokies back then, but I don’t remember any cheese. Must be a new thing.
Three Cheers to Canada!
~ Steve the reminiscing trade show display guy
4 Tammy // Jul 3, 2008 at 2:49 pm
OMG I love your explanation of Canada Day!!! That’s hilarious!!!
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5 Ernie // Jul 3, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Corrina: I got out to the camp site and I was attacked by like six or seven of the rodents. They were jumping on me and kicking and biting me. It was a nightmare.
Canucklehead: That’s is a highly Canadian Mosaic. Seeing Joey Jerimiah really brought back some memories.
Mr. Steve Display: You don’t know what you’re missing if you’ve never had a smokie with cheese. It would be like if you had a big tube chock-full of tasty chemicals and then you added more chemicals that tasted even better.
Tammy: What did the Great Gretzky leave for you? I got a picture of his wife during her Police Academy days.
6 Canucklehead // Jul 3, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Ernie, you have to actually be me to get 100% - it is all subjective. (But 99 was totally right!). Anyway, you’ll be happy to know I’ve bestowed an award upon you for your trouble. You can get it here:
http://canucklehead.ca/badge.html
As a winner, you are also entitle to pass it on - show you know others that are worthy. Cheers!
7 Jean from Koala Bears // Jul 4, 2008 at 1:11 am
It’s pretty funny that Canada, and USA have similar dates for their Independence day. Especialy consindering that the two countries are close to one another.
8 JD at I Do Things // Jul 7, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Where do I sign up to be The Great Gretzky? Going from house to house, picking up free Big Macs, dropping off a hockey stick or puck…sounds sweet!
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9 Petra // Jul 14, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Your scenario of Canada Day sounds like alot of fun! I would get a mess load of hockey pucks tho… not sure what I would do with all of them. Use them as coasters, for my beer perhaps…
Hoser…. hehe… you left that one out…. oh hell, I just busted myself for knowing about Bob and Doug….
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