CANADA! We only got to enjoy a few square kilometers of Canada (I'm not sure how big that is in Canadian area calibration, like 12 hectares?), but boy were they faboulous. Surely the rest of the country is as gorgeous as the chunk we saw, all covered in waterfalls, rainbows and wax museums. Everything I know about Canada I learned as a youngster while watching the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The good folks that ran Nick-at-Night never explained if Rocky or Bullwinkle were actually Canadians, but I suppose that since there are more flying squirrels and mooses in Canada than there are in the US, its a pretty safe bet that they are or were. One of Rocky's little cartoon segments was "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties". This guy was an all out stud in red, and his horse had the coolest name ever! Dudley's arch nemesis, Snidley Whiplash was voiced by Hans Conried who has the best old timey villain voice ever. He was also the voice of Captain Hook on Disney's Peter Pan. Cool, eh. If you ever want to brush up on your Canadology, I'd say looking up Dudley cartoons on youtube is a fabulous idea, especially the episode about fur smuggling.
Here's me posing behind a Mounty display in the visitors center at Niagara Falls, I should have saluted. Apparently some Mounties molt. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police still stands as Canada's largest police force, with 24,578 officers. I bet it takes about 2 yards of scarlet to make each red coat, which would require nearly 28 miles (96 hectares) of red fabric just to outfit the current mounties. That does not include the material required to dress up the horses. Canada would be wise to have RCMPs staff the border patrol gates so that people like me that have a goal to meet one could do so right off the bat.
CANADA! We only got to enjoy a few square kilometers of Canada (I'm not sure how big that is in Canadian area calibration, like 12 hectares?), but boy were they faboulous. Surely the rest of the country is as gorgeous as the chunk we saw, all covered in waterfalls, rainbows and wax museums. Everything I know about Canada I learned as a youngster while watching the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The good folks that ran Nick-at-Night never explained if Rocky or Bullwinkle were actually Canadians, but I suppose that since there are more flying squirrels and mooses in Canada than there are in the US, its a pretty safe bet that they are or were. One of Rocky's little cartoon segments was "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties". This guy was an all out stud in red, and his horse had the coolest name ever! Dudley's arch nemesis, Snidley Whiplash was voiced by Hans Conried who has the best old timey villain voice ever. He was also the voice of Captain Hook on Disney's Peter Pan. Cool, eh. If you ever want to brush up on your Canadology, I'd say looking up Dudley cartoons on youtube is a fabulous idea, especially the episode about fur smuggling.
Here's me posing behind a Mounty display in the visitors center at Niagara Falls, I should have saluted. Apparently some Mounties molt. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police still stands as Canada's largest police force, with 24,578 officers. I bet it takes about 2 yards of scarlet to make each red coat, which would require nearly 28 miles (96 hectares) of red fabric just to outfit the current mounties. That does not include the material required to dress up the horses. Canada would be wise to have RCMPs staff the border patrol gates so that people like me that have a goal to meet one could do so right off the bat.
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Rocky and Bullwinkle are from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.
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