Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 20, 2012

My answers (partly guessed, partly known): d, a, b.

Jojo I believe the only thing east of Newark NJ is the Atlantic Ocean and Europe.

All the lists end with “eh”.And there’s a little bit of Canada that’s south-east of Detroit.

I was just north of Lake Superior and pulled up to a stop sign. Somebody had spray painted eh? Next to the word STOP. Yes, There is a bit of Canada south of Detroit. There is also a point in Panama where the Pacific is to the east, and the Atlantic is to the west….

Eh?

It’s called a one dollar coin. It has a picture of a loon on it so it gained the nickname loonie. It was made “official” in 2006, 19 years after it was first released. A toonie (the correct spelling) is a two dollar coin that came out in 1996. Calling it a toonie is joke. And I mean that as in an actual joke, ha ha type of thing. A two dollar coin is worth two loonies, so it’s a toonie. We’re probably one of the few countries who named their money on a joke.

Their real money is however a Maple.

the canadians beat the soviets in hockey in the 1972 summit series. paul henderson’s shot on goal. plus, remember when gretzky passed to mario lemieux to score. and, there are a lot of celebs from canada, michael j fox, ryan reynolds, wayne gretzky, william shatner, etc…

How do you spell Canada?C, ehN, eh…

Since the answers aren’t in alphabetical order, all the lists end with a – which sounds a bit like “eh” (which a lot of folks think Canadians say a lot at the end of sentences!)

It’s called a loonie because the $1 coin has a loon on it, and (less obviously) because it’s introduction was met with some resistance and people wanted to make fun of it. So they called it a loonie. Plus it’s way easier to say than one-dollar-coin.

A toonie is a $2 coin, and it’s called that because it sounds like “loonie” (it has a polar bear on it).

As for why they end with “ie” instead of “y”, it’s because we speak the Queen’s English instead of the bastardised American tongue Do yourself a favour and just think of it as a horse of a different colour ;)

Seen in a bar in Banff: “Eh? Eh? Meeting Nightly at 9 pm.”

By the way, when the maple-leaf flag came out, some joked that the image isn’t a maple leaf at all, but in fact the profiles of Liberal and Conservative politicians jammed together forehead-to-forehead and yelling at the top of their lungs. Look closely, you can still see that… kinda like the “is it a vase, or is it a pair of faces?” illusion.

I love taking visitors to Detroit, showing them Windsor Canada on the other side of the river, and asking them what direction they’re looking. They always say “north”. :)

It’s another reason why most of us wonder what the heck Journey meant in their song “Don’t Stop Believin’” when they sing that the guy was from South Detroit.. Huh. Guess they mean that he’s from Canada, eh?

I actually think that Canada’s flag is one of the best-designed flags in the world. It’s simple enough that a child can draw it, while still being instantly recognizable, and distinctive to the nation itself.And I think that if Canada ever adopts a five-dollar coin, they should put an albatross on it, so it can be the Goonie.

I read everyone’s comments and I still don’t understand the strip.

Canada? It’s spelt with a “C” eh and an “N” eh and a “D” eh?

It’s ok, I’m a Canadian . . .

I’ve heard that some Canadian wags call the two dollar coin a moonie because it has “the queen on the front with a bear behind.”

Pengawins is practicacally chickens

Having grown up with a grandmother who emigrated from Canada the kids in our family were used to hearing the “ay” very often and even teased Nanny about. I’m sending this on to my sibs who don’t get this comic where they live. Love it!

So… when they where trying to come up with a name for the country, before it was called Canada, a bunch of folks got together, but some scrabble tiles in a bag and had this one fella pull them out and read them: “Ok, first one is a ‘C’ eh, next a ‘N’ eh and last is a ‘D’ eh.”

Answer: all of the choices to the answer end in a) pronounced ’eh. Now you get it, eh?

A few years back an enterprising Canadian produced a coin bank in the shape of the Canadian House of Parliament, called it a Loonie Bin.

All of the lists and with “a” like the way they named the country. They picked letters out of a hat. “C” ay, “N” ay, “D” ay.

Or up a mark, eh?

But if their national symbol is a maple leaf, why is the first word of their national anthem “Oak”? ;-)

Huh?

“C’est un scandale! L’examen n’est pas en français, et je refuse de le prendre!”

If you get all the answers right and guess the trick format, you’ll be given an “Eh? Plus.”

I’d have thought that the first one would include 1867 as a choice, since that’s when Canda’s “birthday” is.

d – 1965c – Barrow GAb – loonie

Nice one, Jef. Only I did not know the one aboot the flag.

Actually @AshburnStadium right now the US dollar is 1.002 to 1.00 Canadian dollars so the US dollar is just a tad more than the Loonie. I was just in Toronto a little over a week ago.

loonie because of the picture of a Loon on the coin.

(a) is the last answer shown to every question because it’s Canada, eh?

Do you get it now, ay? That’s how Canadians talk, with an a at the end of their sentence

ampeck: For the last few months, our Canada Pension cheques gave us more US funds than the original Canadian figure – and that is after the Bank of America (their “translator” of dollars) had removed their exorbitant fee. At the same time, the Dalla Snooze was claiming the US dollar was higher than the Canadian. Who are you going to believe – a propaganda sheet or money in the bank?

Okay, I finally got it after reading some of the comments. I did know two of the answers, i.e. South of Detroit, loonie. I grew near the Detroit area. Now I feel silly for not getting the “eh” part. I have friends from Alpena MI and they talk that way, too. Canada is the best neighbor any country could hope to have – ever!

The questions were easy, it’s the cartoon that I don’t understand.

“American students being tested on questions about Canada. Does this actually happen?”

Social Studies class, yeah. But given how little US residents know about any country other than the US, I can understand your confusion. :-)

how can Canada be south of an American city?All of the questions end with an A much like Canadians end many statements with an eh. ROFL funny as heck

took a minute did not see all the last ans. were “A” (eh) good one had to think it hurt

Thank you Varnes, it took a minute, but I finally got it, :-)

if you don’t get this, I guess you’ve never talked to a Canadian, eh?

It’s not just Canadian. I grew up saying “Eh?” all the time in Central Maine (“Central Maine” being a technical term for the Waterville area, even though it’s not remotely near the state’s center.) And I didn’t pick it up from my parents, who were from Troy and Brooklyn, New York. It means what people in some other regions mean when they say, “Right?” or what other people in still other regions mean by, “Y’know?” Perhaps it’s related to French, ”Hein?”, or to the old habit in England of /beginning/ sentences with “Eh.”

Something you need to remember is that the cartoonist lives near Detroit so he knows the little trivia that part of Canada is actually south of Detroit.

If you love America, then you should learn to understand it better. We were founded as a free nation that has devolved into a mixed economy, a mixture of constantly shrinking freedom and ever-growing controls. In that mixed system, crooked businessmen will seek government favors and even honest ones will lobby to try to defend their rights. Meantime, the anti-American principles that have infiltrated over the last century and a half have caused most Americans to assume it is the government’s purpose to run everything and that all businessmen are greedy bastards that must be kept in chains. But there is no separation between human rights in general and economic rights, for without economic rights, no other rights are possible. Just look at the Soviet Union.

I am a Canadian, and this joke about Canadians ending their sentences with “eh” is a gross exaggeration. Far worse is the constant use of “you know”, “right” or “like” every few words that knows no nationality.

…and don’t forget, when the toonie first came out, there was a debate about what to name it. (For those of you who don’t know, it’s got a Polar Bear on it, and like all our other coins, it has the Queen on the back.) Ok, so one idea was the “moonie” because “it has the picture of the Queen with a bear behind!”

“Yes, the Canadian flag DOES have bars.” Of course. Anyplace with as much winter as Canada has bars everywhere.

Okay, eh…. Oak anada is not the real start of the anthem, you know, and for all those who still don’t believe it, look at a map, a part of Canada loops south of Detroit, you know,and I certainly agree that the exaggeration of the use of “eh” is overdone, and even if it weren’t, it’s better than “like”, “you know”, you know. I like the idea of Je ne parle jamais en anglais!

The $2 coin is also called a doubloon, but cannot be broken into eight pieces.

This strip now discussed on http://comicsidontunderstand.com

‘Eh is really more of an “English speaking Scandinavian” thing. There is a popular bumper sticker here in Mich. that says “Say ya, to da U.P., ’eh?”. I’ve had my share of conversations “wit da Yoopers too, ’eh.” And us Detroit area kids got a bit of an education about Canada. The Canadian flag prior to 1965 was similar to Australia’s. Both national anthem’s are played at a lot of sporting events along the SE Mich, and SW Ontario border.