Dem dere Canadians do grow some good lookin' wimmin, eh?
Bear in mind that the ill-fated Dorothy Stratten (See the movie, "Star 80") was a Canadian, as have been many other Playmates. Many come from British Columbia, but two really hot blondes from Alberta or Sask. (I forget which) pulled up to the gate where I was directing traffic one day at Lowry AFB in Denver. I mentioned that I was about to be transferred to their country, to Newfoundland.
"OOOH", squealed the driver. "You won't like it!" She was pretty nearly right, too. Rather rustic.
Boy, were they hot. I still rememeber them, and I'm from Texas, also famed for beautiful women. But Western Newfoundland had more average ones, outstanding examples being fairly rare. (Yes, I know that Shannon Tweed came from St. John's, across the island.) I dated one Canadian nurse here, and another lived next door to me for a time. Both were hot. Alas, the neighbor one had a few bats in her belfry. I think she sneaked drugs from the hospital where she worked and may have had PTSD from her time in Iraq. But she sure looked good in a tight tee shirt with a camel on it.
Did you notice the prevelance of Chinese in the film? Believe it. They have a bunch up there. The menus in Newfoundland restaurants have Canadian food on one side and Chinese on the other. I quickly learned that it was safer to order Chinese.
But I got along pretty well with one younger Chinese guy whose family ran a restaurant. He used to take me in the back to show me nice salmon and trout that he'd caught, knowing that I fished.
They knew that I was American, although I didn't wear a USAF uniform off base. Maybe I didn't say, "Eh" enough...
Anyway, the old guy who owned the place gave me stony looks when I paid and he often read mainland Chinese newspapers. This was at a time when the US and China were hardly friends.
One day, I asked the younger guy why his grandfather seemed not to like Americans much.He laughed and said, "Grandfather is Chinese. I'm Canadian."
My roommate married a Newfie girl whom we'd both dated and took her back to Chicago. She was thrilled to marry a Yank. Most of them lusted to do that and get to "the world." That's probably less common with mainland Canadians.
The scenery was indeed breathtaking. They have some lovely country up there. Just don't plan to carry a gun.
And it's too much of a socialist nanny state for me to be happy there. And it's cold, eh?
I hope that this doesn't upset our Canadian members. We do need NORAD, if that's still operating. And it's in our mutual best interest to be good neighbors.
