I thought it was Ooooooooooh Canada. As Joni says in a Case of You. Heather
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:North Americans (was bashing) NJC In a message dated 9/17/2002 2:20:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > What's the full name of Canada? > Good question Debra, and I hope that our Canadian brothers and sisters will answer that. My curiosity still got me to do some google searching on Canadian history. A lot of info at Canadahistory.com, but I just had to look at the category of "origins of sayings". I particularly liked this one, even though I don't think of it as a Canadian saying. "It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what was know today as the "honeymoon" " Jimmy, thinking of Mags on her honeymonth
