Happy Birthday

[Mayerling]

I dd post a Canadia one somewhere, but maybe that was another forum, I thought it was here.

But Canada Day isn't as widely known as 4th July for some reason.

I guess most have no idea when Australia day is without Googling it.

I suspect that Canada Day isn't as widely known as the 4th of July because we Yanks are bigger show-offs regarding our national birthday celebration (by the way, I don't mind it being on the anniversary of the so-called signing of the Declaration of Independence (which actually spread over a longer period that one day), but why don't we celebrate the anniversary in September when the Constitution (in it's original form without any amendments) was completed and handed around for the 13 states to ratify? I think it's due to the Declaration popping up as a statement of why we are having a revolution to break with Britain in the start of a war - whereas the meetings in Philadelphia for the Constitution were to repair the Articles of Confederation originally, and were set in motion as a response to Daniel Shay's revolt in Massachusetts in 1786, The Declaration seems a cleaner break than the Constitution (which was a series of compromises).

Anyway, the creation and signing of the Declaration resulted in a really good musical and film, "1776". Can one see a film called "1787" with the character of James Madison singing a tune called "Three-Fifths Compromise"?

Jeff

[GUT]

Ok, I'll take that as a belated Happy Birthday to Canada on JULY 1st too, as we are part of Continental America, which seemingly passed with nothing louder than a whisper beyond our borders. Though the bloody fireworks on the night in question were enough to waken the dead!!

I dd post a Canadia one somewhere, but maybe that was another forum, I thought it was here.

But Canada Day isn't as widely known as 4th July for some reason.

I guess most have no idea when Australia day is without Googling it.

[Wickerman]

To all my 'Merican friends.

Ok, I'll take that as a belated Happy Birthday to Canada on JULY 1st too, as we are part of Continental America, which seemingly passed with nothing louder than a whisper beyond our borders. Though the bloody fireworks on the night in question were enough to waken the dead!!

[GUT]

Sorry it ain't 'Straya yous all live in.

[Rosemary]

Sha 'ti bébé

GUT.

[GUT]

To all my 'Merican friends.