Anthony

>You're saying this on the basis of one response.  Besides, we're not all
>Quebecers any more than you folks south of the border are all Texans.

No, not one responce, you should read my hate mail. Quebecers are quite 
consistent in their reaction when they are butt of a friendly joke. I 
have dove with English Canadians and find them to be good dudes with a 
great sense of humor. But the French Canadians I have come across are 
consistently aloof, rude and not fun to be around. That's why it is such 
fun to twist you FC's tails. The smallest perception of a slight and you 
all go apeshit.

>The rest of us Canadians (and there are a number of us on Techdiver) are
>a bit of a blend of Brit, Quebecois, and a bit of Ozzie for flavour.  And
>then of course there's the Dutch and Scots and suchforth.  It's said that
>the national character has never been defined in terms of what it _is_,
>but that all Canadians are agreed that being Canadian means that whatever
>we are, we're not Americans.
>
>BTW, you don't mention the response from an insulted American.  Probably
>because he wouldn't say anything.  Insult an American and all he feels is
>the recoil.  :-)
>
>>So the next time you are going out on an extended dive trip, it would 
>>behove you to do a nationality check so that you know what you are in 
>>for...
>
>It's probably even more important to find out how many of your companions
>for the trip are on Techdiver.  This summer, a couple of fellows were
>watching me gear up on a dive boat out of Kingston, Ontario, and one
>commented to the other "Hmm, he wraps his long hose correctly.  I think
>George would approve."  I didn't need to ask which George he meant, or
>which lists he might be telling if I subsequently fucked up.

Yep, I've seen this too, and it is fun. What is also fun is to start 
preaching "Horgartianism" in a loud voice on a long boat trip. Your 
fellow divers start edging away from you. And as you get increasingly 
enthusiastic, lacing your spit-spewing speech with such things as 
"fucking strokes" and "butt-mounting transvestites" they start reaching 
for their guns or something heavy to hit you with. I think I will leave 
the evangelism to George.

   Jim

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