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Old Mar 7th 2008 | 12:42 pm
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Famous (if you're a nerd) nerds:

Steven Pinker
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Dorothy Smith
Helen Fisher
Erving Goffman
 
Old Mar 7th 2008 | 12:44 pm
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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.
 
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Famous (if you're a nerd) nerds:

Steven Pinker
BirutÄ— Galdikas
Dorothy Smith
Helen Fisher
Erving Goffman

Blimey, even google doesn't know who they were. Were they a curling team?
 
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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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Old Mar 7th 2008 | 12:49 pm
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Blimey, even google doesn't know who they were. Were they a curling team?

Please return your pocket protector: you're not worthy.
 
Old Mar 7th 2008 | 12:50 pm
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Talking of Karla Homolka, if she posts on here, what to you think her username is?
 
Old Mar 7th 2008 | 12:53 pm
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Originally Posted by dbd33
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.
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).
 
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Sandra Schmerler, Dr. Roberta Bondar, Harry Belafonte.
 
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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.
 
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
Ah yes... 'JD Roberts'. He did that 'new music' music show or Much Music or something too. He always struck me as an asskisser.
 
Old Mar 7th 2008 | 4:09 pm
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Old Mar 7th 2008 | 7:18 pm
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Jack Black ? Rush progressive rockers , Sum 41 teen punk band .
 
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I believe the most famous Canadian is BACON! Get it? Canadian Bacon is the best!!!
 
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Joni Mitchell
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That explains alot!!!!!!!
 


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