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dbd33 Mar 24th 2006 4:07 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by cov-canuck
Nope, all actors or musicians

Oh. I guess they're on in the day time.

cov-canuck Mar 24th 2006 4:07 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by bart2804
M8

Half these names are completely unrecognisable :)

I'm absolutely shocked...but if you tell me who you don't know I can tell you what they were in ;)

willmore Mar 24th 2006 4:07 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by dbd33
Not everyone can be Paris Hilton.


Who? :confused:

Rete Mar 24th 2006 4:08 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by bart2804
M8

Half these names are completely unrecognisable :)


Alex Trebeck - Jeopardy

Thomas Edison - dead but everyone can recall what he looked like from history

dbd33 Mar 24th 2006 4:09 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by cov-canuck
I'm absolutely shocked...but if you tell me who you don't know I can tell you what they were in ;)

I don't know :

Evangeline Lilly (Kate in Lost)

Sum 41

Dan Ackroyd

Brendan Fraser

Eugene Levy

Howie Mandel

Rick Moranis

Matthew Perry

1066 Mar 24th 2006 4:09 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by dbd33
Not everyone can be Paris Hilton.

Isn't that a hotel........

dbd33 Mar 24th 2006 4:11 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by willmore
Who? :confused:

The modern quintessence of womanhood. Star of television and internet distributed video. Fashion maven. Enemy of Nicole.

bart2804 Mar 24th 2006 4:14 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by willmore
She's an idiot with huge silicone boobs! :D

General point Willmore, but if I could get her bank balance with a set of big boobies I wonder who the idiots really are...

Are you sure they are fake? :p

dbd33 Mar 24th 2006 4:17 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 
Canada produces some dreadful but well known writers. One might say that Margaret Atwood and Romeo Dallaire are famous.

cov-canuck Mar 24th 2006 4:17 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 
See inside


Originally Posted by dbd33
I don't know :

Evangeline Lilly (Kate in Lost)

Okay, if you don't watch Lost, you could understandably not get this one!

Sum 41
A world famous alternative band from Ajax...lead singer is dating Avril Lavigne.

Dan Ackroyd
Blues Brothers, Ghost Busters, Dragnet, Trading Places

Brendan Fraser
The Mummy, Crash

Eugene Levy
American Pie, Bringing Down the House...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506405/

Howie Mandel
Canadian comic, can understand you not knowing this one

Rick Moranis
Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Little Shop of Horrors

Matthew Perry
Played Chandler in Friends


willmore Mar 24th 2006 4:18 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by bart2804
General point Willmore, but if I could get her bank balance with a set of big boobies I wonder who the idiots really are...

Are you sure they are fake? :p


It amazes me how stupid the general public can be sometimes when there's a women with no brains and huge boobs! ;)

cov-canuck Mar 24th 2006 4:19 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by bart2804
General point Willmore, but if I could get her bank balance with a set of big boobies I wonder who the idiots really are...

Are you sure they are fake? :p

Isn't her bank balance from "Daddy"?

willmore Mar 24th 2006 4:21 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by cov-canuck
Isn't her bank balance from "Daddy"?

Who are we talking about here - Pamela or Paris?

Judy in Calgary Mar 24th 2006 4:22 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 
I guess the list depends whether you confine it to live people or are allowed to include dead people. Anyway, some that come to mind:

Frederick Banting, dead scientist who co-discovered insulin

Dan Aykroyd, actor

John Candy, dead actor

Jim Carrey, actor

Michael J. Fox, actor

Lorne Green, dead actor

Jack Warner, dead, co-founder of Warner Brothers

Samuel Cunard, dead, founder of the Cunard Line

Bernie Ebbers, disgraced founder of WorldCom

Peter Jennings, dead, until quite recently anchor of ABC News

Robert MacNeil, for many years co-anchor of the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour (now the Jim Lehrer News Hour)

Morely Safer, journalist on 60 Minutes

Burton Cummings, lead singer of "The Guess Who"

Paul Anka, musician

Leonard Cohen, author, poet, singer (composer of "Suzanne")

Margot Kidder, played Louis Lane in "Superman"

Kate Nelligan, actor

Mary Pickford, dead actor

Saul Bellow, Nobel Laureate (still alive, as far as I know, at the age of 91)

Marshall McLuhan, dead author (coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message")

Lucy Maude Montgomery, dead author of "Anne of Green Gables"

William Stephenson, dead spy ("A Man Called Intrepid")

Lester B. Pearson, dead winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize

Norman Bethune, dead doctor, saved lives during the Chinese Revolution

bart2804 Mar 24th 2006 4:22 am

Re: Famous Canadians
 

Originally Posted by dbd33
Canada produces some dreadful but well known writers. One might say that Margaret Atwood and Romeo Dallaire are famous.

Margaret Atwood - yep.

Romeo Dallaire - never heard of, & I read a lot!


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