Alaska

They're awfully nice to strangers, their manners be their curse!

It depends on where you are in Canada. My grandmother once visited Canada, and she got lost, and the Canadians would only speak French to her, because they knew she was American and that she could only speak English. Not one single person helped my grandmother out.

Now, I'm not condemning the whole country, and that's the point. There's quite a bit of room for inaccuracy when you classify a whole country with a certain characteristic.

anonymous, those are the french canadians. its like a mini version of france here in north america. almost every other canadian hates the french canadians. Everything would just be better if the french all over the world dissapeared.

guyfromupover , or just the stereotypical "French asshole" attitude, instead. I'd like not to die merely for my heritage, thank you.

ah damn. didn't know there were any french people on here, although i guess i shouldn't be suprised, it is the internet after all. And its not really french i'm angry at, its the attitude about half of them have. its a bit of a piss off and most people just classify it as "damn friench" so please accept my apologies, my rage got the best of me.

And they say the internet can't be a nice place.

And that's the kind of over-generalization I'm talking about, so the point is being missed. I'm sure there are even some nice French Canadians. When you have preconceived ideas of what a person is like based on stereotypes, it makes it so you don't have to think about the individual.

damn. this turned serious from matt's funny cartoon. I'm not saying anything after this, Matt sorry for fighting on the internet on your website.

No, no. French Canadians are all jerks- if for no other reason they didn't support Terry Fox. Dammit Quebec, he was the closest thing we had to Lance Armstrong! WHY DO YOU HATE OUR FREEDOM QUEBEC!?

Ahem. As a side note, most Canadians would rather have the San Juan Islands and Washington back. Seriously, those were actually PART of Canada, until Britain decided to hand them over to America. That's one of the reason's we had the Canadian Revolution, also known as the "Super-polite-get-together-and-ask-for-independence Revolution".

We're not fighting. We're just talking. Why must it be a fight? But there's no point, I suppose, in talking now, since the other party considers this a fight, I guess. Sorry, Matt, for... having a serious discussion over a problem I see in the way people think?

"And its not really french i'm angry at, its the attitude about half of them have. "
I'm learning about this in school right now! And when the vote went out for Quebec to go off on its own, the result was only 40% wanted to, and now we're too inter-tangled to separate without killing each other economically.
I think BC and Alberta should make our own country. :3

Apostrophe fail.

Wow, how the hell did that happen? Fixed.

Awesome, the system works.

Shame is a strong motivator.

Couldn't this apply to Maine as well. Heck that state is completely surrounded by Canada!

At least Maine is attached to the rest of your country.
Oh but we don't want your stupid Alaska. Pawn it off on Russia
With Sarah Palin still inside

Okay, we'll take Alaska, but you can keep Sarah Palin.

Burn.

As a non-American, including non-Canadian, I'd say you guys would improve a lot as a country without Alaska.
I mean, what's the deal with Alaska? Sarah Palin and... mooses?

I'm Australian and I agree. What's the point of Alaska anyway?

!GRAMMAR POLICE!
I believe the correct plural of moose is moose.
;D
Grammar Police, keeping the internet safe from bad grammar. One comment at a time.

actually i think it might be meese or meeses

i believe the plural of moose is meese.

Alaska is our leading producer in oil. Without it our economy would suffer more. :3

damn hiveminds... meeses... lmao i was thinking that too.

Moosen! I saw a flock of moosen!

hahaha I love Brian Regan!
"Many of them! Many much moosen!"

moose, meese, who cares :] just as long as australia doesn't get any american states, tee hee :D

The point of Alaska is seeing Russia from your house.

It's a terribly good view if I do say so myself.

This reminds me of the adverts for that CBC show where they asked all the people what the plural of "Moose" and they said all the below. Turns out, the Grammar Police is correct.

Some of us do! =D

alrighty then. and besides, you would fit better in canada anyways. We have monopoly money.

Being a Alaskan I do NOT find this offensive. Kinda funny actually. Though I must say, to those who think America would be better off without Alaska, incorrect you are I must say.

As a Canadian, I can tell you we don't want Alaska. Someone mentioned Maine though... we'd take that.

Don't take Maine! How abuot... I dunno, Michigan or something? Yeah, Michigan and Alaska!

Meh, as another Canadian, I say if we took over Alaska, and maybe maine, then we could have more land-mass then russia. Effectively making us the world's biggest country.

And no thanks, no Michigan. How bout "Niw Yark"? You guys don't need that one, do you?

I doubt you want Michigan's bipolar weather.

we already have horrid weather. how about we take michigan, alaska and maine and give you vancouver island in return?

fine, but you then have to take both Palin and anyone from the Bush family.

I think I may speak for Vancouver Islandites when I say we don't want to be traded!!
And our weather is just as bi-polar as Michigan's.

I agree with Anonymous above. I say us... Vancouver Islandites? should stay with Canada. It's like a ton of small Vancouver's; except, way more weed.

We'll trade you Quebec for it....heh heh heh....

But quebec isn't all that bad... just ignore the complaining french and its rather pleasent...

Coming from somebody in Maine, we're A) not completely surrounded by Canada, B) contemplating being part of Canada (part of the state once belonged there anyway), and C) sick of being overlooked by our own country...SO please, give us the health care benefits. Northern Maine is basically Canada anyway. :P And our bipolar weather would fit rather nicely with Canada's.

being from Michigan i must say, you don't want us, and i don't want complaining french canadians. The Red Wings should stay American :D

I'm a nice French Canadian. Someone said early in the comments that people were only speaking in French to his grand mother. Well, it's easily explainable by the fact that 50% Quebecers only speak French... I'm sure they were very sorry that they couldn't help. And I can also say that most of us are very nice people. :D

I do believe they were sorry they couldn't help, but 50% of the Quebecers who only speak French? That is just plain arrogance.
Hell, I'm from the Netherlands and everyone speaks English here...
(not saying everyone is good at it, but at least they try)

As what to do with Alaska? George Carlin had some great ideas for locking all prisoners up in one state... Any takers? :D

Better than the fact that 50% of Americans only speak Spanish. >.>

Oops, did I say Americans...

well Maryland has bipolar weather but it's no where near Canada and I'm sure you guys don't want it at all... I don't think bipolar weather is really relevant to the whole conversation, just saying

Uhm... No. I'm not Canadian. Wouldn't I be more Russian, anyways?

It's good that America has Alaska. If the Russians ever try to get to Canada by going East they would hit America first and we would be safe.

Why would Russians want to invade Canada?
They should invade the US or maybe China because its beside China

Sarah Palin sucks. Don't assume that all Alaskans like her. I'm from Alaska; and from her hometown. Guess how I feel about her. (hint: look at the first sentence again.)

Because if we give Maine to Canada, we give new Hampshire to Canada. And I prefer to be American. Kthxbai,

Hey, you guys want New Mexico? America hardly remembers us anyway and I'd much rather be Canadian right now. No? You sure? Damn...

New mexico, Texas, and the southern half of califoria are gonna become part of mexico soon... just pointing that out there...

yeah, I can see how SoCal, NM, and Texas could be taken over by Mexico, the U.S would sell us off to fix their debts, but it would be hard to do because Mexico is more broke than us so Ha! Anyway, as much as I love unregulated crime, corrupt government officials and low education rates with competitive pricing on the latest controlled substance (all of that was sarcasm), I just dont want to be part of Mexico. I would have to learn spanish fluently instead of just for two years as a foriegn Language requirement. I could do that, and it would be a good Idea in CA anyway, I just dont want to.

Have Quebec, they suck. God, they don't even obey the charter of rights!

Yep. Annoying-ass half-frogs always-using-dashes.
Just kidding.
But seriously, they don't even speak English. Like WTF?

I've always wondered why it was the only prov- er, state I could remember.

@ Anonymous... who said Canadians only spoke French to his/her grandmother.


As a message from English speaking Canada: Don't lump us in with Quebec. They don't necessarily follow the characteristics of other Canadians. Hell they're the only province to veto the senate's decision multiple times, restricting the right to use entirely English signage. It's bullshit.