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Mar 8th 2008, 12:42 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

Famous (if you're a nerd) nerds:

Steven Pinker
Birutė Galdikas
Dorothy Smith
Helen Fisher
Erving Goffman

Mar 8th 2008, 12:44 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

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Originally Posted by Elaine B.

Does anyone outside Canada know who she is? When we moved here in 1999 my OH's family couldn't believe I'd never heard of her.

Surely she's as famous as JD Roberts or Tommy Douglas, people who are famous as Canadians are few and far between .. Pierre Trudeau, Celine Dion, that guy who whined "The needle and the damage done", most everyone else is famous and incidentally Canadian.

Mar 8th 2008, 12:45 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas

Famous (if you're a nerd) nerds:

Steven Pinker
Birutė Galdikas
Dorothy Smith
Helen Fisher
Erving Goffman

Blimey, even google doesn't know who they were. Were they a curling team?

Mar 8th 2008, 12:47 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

Tommy Chong (Cheech & Chong)
Sarah McLachlan
Rick Moranis
Terry Fox
Randy Bachman (BTO)
Steppenwolf
Our Lady Peace
Crash Test Dummies
Martin Short

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Mar 8th 2008, 12:49 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Blimey, even google doesn't know who they were. Were they a curling team?

Please return your pocket protector: you're not worthy.

Mar 8th 2008, 12:50 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

Talking of Karla Homolka, if she posts on here, what to you think her username is?

Mar 8th 2008, 12:53 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Sounds about right. Actually the only one of the above I'd heard of before I got here was Celine Dion

Actually it drives my OH nuts when people point out so and so is Canadian (BTW he's Canadian

Mar 8th 2008, 1:53 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

Sandra Schmerler, Dr. Roberta Bondar, Harry Belafonte.

Mar 8th 2008, 2:14 am

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Re: FAMOUS CANADIANS

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Originally Posted by lizwil98

I thought it was Banting and Best who discovered insulin, but after I googled them it turns out it was Banting and MacLeod.

MacLeod was the boss; he hired Banting. Charlie Best was a medical student working in the lab for the summer. MacLeod was away on vacation when the critical experiments were performed. The fact that MacLeod and not Best shared the Nobel prize remains controversial.