Are buses really THAT hard for you Canucks?

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"The suspect in Mr. McLean's killing -- a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg -- appeared in court yesterday.

Ms. Hébert says she was travelling through a snowstorm on a mid-afternoon Greyhound bus from Montreal to Ottawa on Jan. 22 when a man who had locked himself in the washroom began using a razor blade to peel off his own scalp."

Can't you Canadian's understand that Greyhound buses are to move people back & forth and are NOT to be used as mobile decapitation units??!?
 
Poor guy was probably stuck in a seat next to an American tourist...
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Yeah, sitting next to an American tourist who kept tacking "Eh?" on the end of every sentence. As annoying as hearing a visitor to New Orleans pronounce the town's name as "Noo Or-LEENS."

My mother was from Saskatchewan, and I never heard her say "Eh?" like Bob and Doug MacKenzie in my life. (Maybe it's just a Toronto thing?)
 
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
Yeah, sitting next to an American tourist who kept tacking "Eh?" on the end of every sentence. As annoying as hearing a visitor to New Orleans pronounce the town's name as "Noo Or-LEENS."


I can handle the uninformed "Noo-or-LEENS." I can't handle the fake "Nawlins." But I'm from a place called Natchitoches so what does it matter?

The peeling scalp thing, wow, that's a new one. My brother was taking an Amtrak yesterday from Illinois to San Fran. I advised him not to sit next to anyone with a survival knife....
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Half of the folks I know up in Saskatchewan (about 100 people living in Saskatoon and Moosejaw) are frequent spewers of the "Eh" vernacular. The folks I know from Ontario...not so much...unless they've had a few pints of Canadian.
 
Originally Posted By: pickled
Half of the folks I know up in Saskatchewan (about 100 people living in Saskatoon and Moosejaw) are frequent spewers of the "Eh" vernacular. The folks I know from Ontario...not so much...unless they've had a few pints of Canadian.

Seems to correlate with edumacation too - IE the whiteness of collar is inversely proportional to the quantity of "eh."
 
Originally Posted By: pickled
Half of the folks I know up in Saskatchewan (about 100 people living in Saskatoon and Moosejaw) are frequent spewers of the "Eh" vernacular. The folks I know from Ontario...not so much...unless they've had a few pints of Canadian.


Hm. Well, my mother's parents were from Sweden and Ruthenia (eastern Europe), so they may not have picked that "eh" business up, and so Mom wouldn't have either. She was born in 1916, too.

By the way, do any of your Saskatoon or Moose Jaw contacts refer to a Phillips screwdriver as a "French" screwdriver? My mother did, but I've never run across anyone, Canadian or not, who uses the term. (I have a bad habit of saying, "Pass me the French screwdriver," and making people very nervous.)
 
LOL...yeah a very keen observation indeed. R squared around 90 I would say with that correlation. These were mostly factory floor workers and supervisors I was dealing with during a long consulting engagement in the lovely Saskatchewan winter. I was saying Eh a lot myself, but more in the context of F'n Eh it's cold and windy here!!!!
 
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral
...I have a bad habit of saying, "Pass me the French screwdriver," and making people very nervous...


I wonder what would happen if you stood up on a crowded Canadian bus & screamed that?
 
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accent IMO is "OOt and abOOt". One runs into it in Minnesota & closeby. Movie "Fargo" was delightful & probably pretty fake.
 
Originally Posted By: eljefino
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accent IMO is "OOt and abOOt". One runs into it in Minnesota & closeby. Movie "Fargo" was delightful & probably pretty fake.


When I lived in Southern Saskatchewan I worked with a lady who was originally from North Dakota. She sounded like she was pulled right off the set of "Fargo". That was the only time I've heard that accent, aside from the movie. I've never heard anyone say "aboot" except in a joking way, but I hear and say "eh" a lot. I mostly use it as a greeting, but it's also a good way to end a sentence, eh!

I have to admit that I would probably lose it too if I ever had to ride a bus for a significant distance. All the discomfort of an airplane, but it takes waaaaaaaayyyyyyy longer! Sure, I took a couple of long bus rides to the mountains in university, but we had a lot of alcohol and herbal cigarettes to keep us busy.
 
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