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Papa_Complex
03-07-2013, 11:05 AM
I have my doubts that many Americans have ever heard of the guy, but Stompin' Tom Connors was a Canadian folk music icon. He wrote simple songs that all Canadians could relate to. I doubt that there is a single person, who was born and raised in Canada, who doesn't know "The Hockey Song" or "Bud the Spud."

He died, yesterday, at the age of 77.

http://www.stompintom.com/
Trip
03-07-2013, 11:22 AM
"The Hockey Song"

oh, canada.... always making things so easy to pick on you...
Papa_Complex
03-07-2013, 11:30 AM
oh, canada.... always making things so easy to pick on you...

Right, like you guys never had someone write a song called "Take me out to the Ball Game" :skep:
anthonyk
03-07-2013, 03:44 PM
I still miss Stan Rogers.
Papa_Complex
03-07-2013, 05:02 PM
That's going back a bit.
Sixxxxer
03-07-2013, 08:32 PM
I just heard the hockey song on my ride home from work tonight...
Particle Man
03-08-2013, 04:58 AM
We have some of your um, OTHER singers you can have back to fill the void....
Papa_Complex
03-08-2013, 07:11 AM
We have some of your um, OTHER singers you can have back to fill the void....

There's a reason why you guys have 'em. This guy was one seriously proud Canadian and wouldn't compromise what he wanted to sing about, just to get a contract.
CasterTroy
03-08-2013, 08:14 AM
There's a reason why you guys have 'em. This guy was one seriously proud Canadian and wouldn't compromise what he wanted to sing about, just to get a contract.

I'm sorry, but you guys still aren't forgiven for Celine and Bieber
Papa_Complex
03-08-2013, 08:18 AM
I'm sorry, but you guys still aren't forgiven for Celine and Bieber

We don't want to be. They're our revenge for you taking all of our good comedians and hockey players.
OneSickPsycho
03-08-2013, 08:43 AM
We don't want to be. They're our revenge for you taking all of our good comedians and hockey players.

Yeah, but look what we did to Michael J Fox...

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/120439.gif
Papa_Complex
03-08-2013, 10:00 AM
Good. Let the ex-pat PAY for his health care.
Trip
03-08-2013, 10:45 AM
We don't want to be. They're our revenge for you taking all of our good comedians and hockey players.

And women... LOL

I miss smallville for Erica Durance and Kristin Kreuk
Papa_Complex
03-08-2013, 12:08 PM
And women... LOL

I miss smallville for Erica Durance and Kristin Kreuk

Kruek is doing a remake of the "Beauty and the Beast" TV show, in which she plays a cop who finds the 'beast'; some run-away soldier who was experimented on.

Durance had a TV show playing a doctor, whose husband (played by Michael Shanks, who is married to another Canadian hottie Lexa Doig) was in a car accident and ended up in a coma. He follows her around as a disembodied spirit.
Particle Man
03-08-2013, 07:53 PM
I'm sorry, but you guys still aren't forgiven for Celine and Bieber

We don't want to be. They're our revenge for you taking all of our good comedians and hockey players.

I definitely think we got fucked in that deal.