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	Humour at AllExperts
		A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context.
		White once said that "Humour can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, as follow.
		In this context, humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/hu/humour.htm (1719 words)

	EPL.ca: Canadian Humour in Books
		Canadian humour writers use familiar settings, familiar voices, and a common history to tell a funny story.
		A great place to start when looking for Canadian humour is the list of the winners for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour which are handed out annually for humourous works by Canadian authors.
		The most wicked, yet profound use of humour is by Mordecai Richler in his novel Barney's Version, (c.1997).
	www.epl.ca /EPLCanadianHumourBooks.cfm (611 words)

	Piggy - Humour - Early Canadian Long Poems - Canadian Poetry
		Where Richard Cory is elevated to more than royal proportions, the Canadian hero will be correctly praised “be he little or big.” While Cory “was a gentleman from sole to crown, / Clean favoured,” the Canadian benefactor “cares not a fig to be neat or trig,” and indeed often wears the soil of honest labour.
		Such a trenchant challenge to the canon imposed by the ruling liberals of Canadian politics and culture, shaped as it is by their foreign masters, was bound to be suppressed and censored by the satraps in the country’s academic elite.
		Here the Canadian poet exposes the grandiosity of the U.S. culture of banditry and piracy by introducing the only moment at which her juicy protagonist shows any tendency to larceny.
	www.uwo.ca /english/canadianpoetry/longpoems/piggy/starling.htm (1270 words)

	News Release - Canadian humour course is no laughing matter - Nov 27, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Not much, unless you’re one of the students enrolled in Irwin Shubert’s Canadian Studies 391 course in Canadian humour.
		Canadians tended to favor jokes whose main subject was foolish, or made to look foolish by someone else.
		The course readings range from early examples of Canadian humour, such as Paul Hiebert’s skewering of academe, Sarah Binks, to Stephen Leacock’s Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, to Calgary comedian Will Ferguson’s recent lampooning of the publishing industry, Generica.
	www.sfu.ca /mediapr/print/news_releases/features/features11270203.html (227 words)

	Studies in Canadian Literature
		While collapsing idealism is generally the source of both irony and satire, in early Canadian humour the dream of a new world utopia meeting reality is a steady invitation to satire; and an escape into pastoral memory and convention a constant ironic fancy.
		Humour, in fact, really could only embrace woman when she fell from her pedestal and became thereby a proper object of satire and reform.
		And on the international scene, the Canadian gentleman in the sketch "Abdul Azziz Has His: An Adventure in the Yildiz Kiosk," fantasizing about his nation's international impotent role, is finally positively personified as a male professor dressed in the pioneer garb of poke bonnet and plain fl dress.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol7_2/&filename=Rasporich.htm (3106 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Canadian humour can best be characterized by self-deprecation.
		For instance early in the book he defines some terms that differ between Canadian and American English (besides their annoying habit of removing the letter “u” from words such as “humour” and “candour”).
		Canadians proudly have universal medical care and die in hospital corridors like flies, waiting for beds.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=2404 (914 words)

	Canadian humour (PS WE RULE HOCKEY) - Nursing - allnurses.com
		A Canadian is walking down the street with a case of beer under his arm.
		An American and a Canadian were riding in a car together and were involved in a very bad accident.
		A Canadian considers it one of the great thrills of life when snow doesn't stick to his shovel.
	allnurses.com /forums/f58/canadian-humour-ps-we-rule-hockey-14492.html (1660 words)

	Dust my Broom » In the Groove » Americans import Jim Carrey
		Many Americans are torn on the issue and believe that they should be free to get their humour where-ever they can find it without the government standing in the way.
		The Canadian Broadcasting System (CBC), negotiates for American humour on behalf of millions of Canadians and is therefore able to purchase American humour at a large discount.
		Surplus American humour is then re-packaged as Canadian humour and sold back to the US at half the price.
	dustmybroom.com /?p=227 (394 words)

	Daily Humour www.iconvillage.com
		Plasticbenjamin - E-zine devoted to Canadian political and cultural miscellany by young argyle-obsessed journalists.
		Canadian Internet Licensing Board - The CILB is a special operating agency authorized to process and issue English Language Canadian Web Site Licences under Canada's new Information Highway Act.
		Canadian World Domination - General headquarters for Canadians who are taking over the world and re-designing it to suit their aims.
	www.iconvillage.com /Humour/index.html (375 words)

	Canadian Hockey Humour: Jokes about Hockey
		Once the train leaves the station, one of the Canadians leaves and walks over to the other bathroom where the Americans are hiding, knocks on the door and says, "Ticket please!"
		A Canadian hockey fan, an American fan and a Swedish fan were all in Saudi Arabia, sharing a smuggled crate of alcohol.
		The Canadian fan was the last one up (he had finished off thecrate), but before he could say anything, the Sheikh turned to him and said: "You support the greatest team in the world, your country has the best and most loyal hockey fans in the world.
	www.canadianaconnection.com /cca/hockey.html (1004 words)

	SatireWire \| CANADA SENDS SMOKESCREEN OVER U.S. BEFORE CANADIAN INVASION
		Ottawa (SatireWire.com) — Embarrassed Canadian generals today conceded an overzealous officer defied orders and started fires in Quebec to shroud the eastern seaboard in smoke before Canada had finished preparing its full-scale invasion of the United States.
		Despite the lack of surprise, many Canadians have urged the military to push on, arguing that if they can't take the U.S. by force, they can at least sneak into Detroit and take back the Stanley Cup.
		Meanwhile, Stan Keyes, MP for Hamilton West, suggested Canadians use the ash cover to hide from Washington until relations return to normal.
	www.satirewire.com /news/july02/canada_invasion.shtml (452 words)

	Canadian World Domination! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Welcome to the General Headquarters of the Campaign for Canadian World Domination.
		The Generals are Canadians who are taking over the world and re-designing it to suit their aims.
		The systematic destruction and sublimation of all opposing the Canadian reign -- and the polite, yet horrifically brutal, control of our future territories of conquest.
	cwd.ptbcanadian.com /index2.html (396 words)

	The Surly Canadian - Essay Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Canadian Humour Within - Staying a smoker is hard in Canada because there are so many things to pressure us to quit.
		Things to Do During a Graveyard Shift - If you ever wondered what it is that I do that warrents an obscene amount of pay my way, take a gander at this piece of work.
		Canadian Agents - An account of one of the happiest moments in my recent life.
	www.surlycanadian.com /essays.html (556 words)

	The Hammer - Canadian Satire, Humour and Hard-Hitting News
		The Hammer - Canadian Satire, Humour and Hard-Hitting News
		Amazingly, the new Conservative Government managed to live up to their promise almost until they were sworn in.
		Prime Minister Harper provided Canadians with open, accountable government for a whopping 17 minutes prior to becoming Prime Minister earlier this week, until he successfully lured David Emerson from the Liberal cabinet.
	www.thehammer.ca (318 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Penguin Book of Canadian Humour: Books: Will Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Humour is the type of book that I've been looking a long time for: the crème of Canadian humour literature and cultural experience (if there is such a thing) in a lovely and well-edited tome.
		The book spans this country in ways never properly put forth in texts and gives the Canadian reader a greater sense of the width and breadth of their cultural landscape.
		I suppose humour is the kind of thing that is appreciated by few- and even lesser so by jaded book reviewers looking for a quick punch.
	www.amazon.ca /Penguin-Book-Canadian-Humour/dp/0670064432 (889 words)

	A Good Canadian Website - Canadian Content For Canadians, By Canadians, About Canadians - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The underlying idea in this great Canadian movie (that rates on par with The Mouse That Roared and Wag The Dog), is that it is better not to go to war, because a war with Canada wouldn't last long enough.
		Canadians take pride in their unique culture, and it can not be represented any truer than with late great Canadians such as our beloved John Candy.
		Just like their American counterparts, Canadians give thoughtful presents to loved ones, sing Christmas carols to the neighbours, and get loaded on rum-spiked eggnog before taking the snowmobile out, with children in tow, to pick up a traditional aluminum Christmas tree.
	www.goodcanadian.com (753 words)

	Bridge at the Corners: The Canadian Club (Humour & Technical) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Canadian Club revolves around a few basic rules and theory points: With two 5+card suits (11 to 15 HCPs) open the higher ranked suit first--even if you show a 5-card suit before a 6+carder.
		To Canadian Club pairs this smacks of "advanced balancing", taking a push before there is one.
		The Canadian Club uses the "52 Pickup" formula, the options ranging from 5 undertricks to 2 undertricks, accounting for how many tricks the Opener may pick up on defence.
	www.firesides.net /canclub.htm (17361 words)

	Humour online
		Humour is a big thing on the Internet, whether you spell it Canadian style, or American style
		Humour, facilitated by technology enhancing communication, is one of the common elements of all societies and it also makes sense that the "Internet and its Impact on Society" would include facilitating the spread of humour.
		Humour is often associated with cultural background which = nation or country you come from.
	www.witiger.com /ecommerce/humour.htm (955 words)

	Canadian humour - Improv comedy with rat traps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Certainly no one thinks it is an amusing place to live, and Americans have often considered Canada to be a de-facto penal colony of sorts.
		Surprisingly, Canadian comedians are subtly famous the world over, starring in major motion pictures and generally flying under the radar.
		Canadian comedy is, actually, side-splittingly funny with a touch of raw bizarre surrealism.
	www.moviecritic.com.au /canadian-humour-improv-comedy-with-rat-traps (456 words)

	Amazon.ca: How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One): Books: Will Ferguson,Ian Ferguson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Instead, the Ferguson brothers boldly assert that, since they have both been Canadian their whole lives, they are uniquely qualified to dissect Canadian society.
		how to be a canadian is a true hand book for those who want to blend in on there trip to canada and now to be more canadain for those who are already one.
		It may poke some fun at canadian things, but they are so true and you can't deny it.
	www.amazon.ca /How-Canadian-Even-You-Already/dp/1550548913 (1082 words)

	Memorial University of Newfoundland - Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Canadian literature, nineteenth century Canadian humour and satire; Canadian women's humour
		Bibliography of Canadian humour, from 1752 to present
		The humour of Jessie K. Lawson, May Agnes Flemming, and others
	www.mun.ca /research/directory/index.php?content=browse.php&researcher=311 (30 words)

	Purse Lip Square Jaw: Canadian!
		phil - from what i understand, canadian humour is often inaccessible to non-canadians, but especially to americans.
		but then again, even if lots of people think they're american, or that they suck, lots of famous comedians are canadian...
		There is a nice in-your-face quality about [what I think of as] Canadian standup - you immediately notice the absence of the yes actually I am considerably cooler and smarter than you gloss that characterises [what I think of as] USAn standup, even at its most edgy.
	www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2006/07/canadian.php (269 words)

	Folkstone Design: Canadian Elections
		Canadians from all points on the political spectrum, all regions and all walks of life are joining FVC to demand a fair voting system Ð a fundamental requirement for healthy representative democracy and government accountability."
		Canadians have excelled at comedy and humour in many domains.
		There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French.
	www.folkstone.ca /main/community/CDNElection/CDNElection.html (3805 words)

	FactsCanada.ca — Friday Feature 2001-16Fr — Canadian Humour on the Web
		I will outline each of the sites, give a Canadian relevance factor if it is there (although humour is experienced on a worldwide scale), and provide you the link so that you can see and judge for yourself.
		The Generals are Canadian chicks who are taking over the world to re-designing it to suit their aims." They then go on to tell you how they are going to accomplish this feat.
		Her writing is marvellous and she has quite a good sense of humour, therefore I decided to include her site in this list if for nothing else than to allow you another little escape from your daily toil.
	www.factscanada.ca /friday/friday-2001-16-10-19.shtml (3726 words)

	that canadian girl » Humour with a u in it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But it’s that time of the year again: Red Nose Day happens in March and the noses are on sale at Sainsbury’s.
		Thankfully, Travelocity proved they have a bit of a sense of humour and did not attempt to slap an ASBO on the poor sods who created the parody.
		You are currently browsing the archives for the Humour with a u in it category.
	www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk /blog/categories/general-entries/jokes (2811 words)

	Doug’s Dynamic Drivel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 2005, the Canadian Labour Congress said a single person working full-time in Canada needed an hourly rate of at least $10 to reach a poverty-line income.
		Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987.
		But if you have the time or want to know the details of his 4 years of tribulation read the long version (start at the bottom of the page) then write your congress critters and demand justice by the US for him.
	www.thealders.net /blogs/archive/001754.html (3721 words)

	Vancouver Forum - Canadian Humour or Lack of it.
		In response to you, no I haven't lived in another country, however, I have live in three different provinces, and have moved over 17 times in my life (I was a navy kid).
		You can't put Canadians all into one basket and say we are all alike, on the contrary, the west coast is very different from the east coast.
		Posted - 4/5/2005 10:02:00 AM There isn't a 'Canadian' humour anyway....it is a big country....with regional quirks and humour.
	www.discovervancouver.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16203 (1022 words)

	DURTY DAN'S CANADIAN CORNER
		It takes a special Canadian to be a Canadian Redneck, eh.
		CANADIAN CONTENT TV The solution to not having to watch crappy Canadian TV shows, eh.
		Canadians call their home towns some strange things, eh.
	durtydan.paintballresource.org /www.durtydan.com/ddcc/ddcmain.html (195 words)

	yet another f*$#&@! learning experience » Canadian Politics
		Karla Homolka was released from prison this weekend, to no small amount of public anger and frustration.
		The case of “Johnathan”, a 12-year old killed in suspicious circumstances, has been declared a mistrial after the prosecution’s star witness (the girlfriend of one of the youth accused) compromised her side of the story after her interests in blood, pain, cemeteries and knives was discovered on a vampirism-oriented blog.
		You are currently browsing the archives for the Canadian Politics category.
	www.yafle.com /archives/category/canadian-politics (577 words)

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