Those that only other fellow Canadians can appreciate. ; ;D Have you ever called Disney to make (or rather tried to get) a reservation for Le Cellier? ; With my job, I do so on about a weekly basis. ; After doing so for the past 6 years, I have yet to come across one out of the 1,500 or so Rep's in Disney Dining who can properly pronounce the name of the Canadian pavilion restaurant. Americans don't realize it's French and therefore don't know how to pronounce it as it should be; Le Cell e a. But rather, they pronounce it phonetically; Le Cell e er. It's hilarious! ; My next favourite only happens about 40% of the time and it is when the rep will ask me for the home address of the Disney guest: "City?" they'll ask "Toronto" I reply. "what providence?" I of course always purposely pretend that I don't understand them. ; "Um providence? ; Do you mean province?" "No; providence." : Priceless!
Oh sometimes you hear the funniest things coming out of cast members mouths when they find out you are from Canada. When Sean and I went to the Canadian pavillion we had stopped to talk to one of the cast members. ; He said they get a lot of school groups that drop by. ; He was telling us some of the questions that get asked. ; I can't remember a lot of them, but the one that sticks in my mind is. "Can you write my name in Canadian?"
"Can you write my name in Canadian?" LMBO! I love when I'm there in like July and talking with a Disney CM, they ask where I'm from. ; I say "Toronto, Canada" and they answer "wow, must be nice to get away from all of that snow!"
I always find it amazing that we can know so much about American's and their country, yet they know absolutely nothing about us. Being from Southern Ontario it is even better because they don't realize that they have States that are further north than what we are>>>>>DUH! ; If they don't have snow all year round and live in igloos with polar bears walking around, why would they think that we do that?? I have found the same with the "Le Cellier" being Le Cell????? ; ; Way too funny!
Not Disney Related, but when we were on our honeymoon cruise, we met up with a family from New Mexico, and ended up sharing a cab with them to a beach. ; We became honorary members for the day. ; But once they found out we were from Canada one of the D's (they were all named starting with D) ask if we owned mukluks. ; I think Sean and I both laughed at that point. ; I would love to know why they are so clueless about Canada when we were taught so much about US in school. ; I guess they never were, but I think some education is needed so they don't think we live with polar bears. ; You have to be really far north to see them. ; My sister lived in Kugluktuk, NWT for a year and that was pretty far north and still no polar bears there. ; Grizzlys yes. Thankfully they updated to O Canada movie at the Canada Pavillion, hopefully it gives people that don't live in Canada a bit more perspective of what the country is actually like.
I am hoping that the Canadian movie does just that Minnie, I have yet to see it, but it is on my list of things to do our next visit!
The only real relevant thing I recall was when my Jungle Cruise skipper asked if anyone in the boat was from outside the USA. I raised my hand and he asked where I'm from. After responding that I was from Calgary, he went on with his spiel until he made some kind of lame duck derogatory joke about the Calgary Flames. Not being a hockey fan myself, he received what was probably my coldest reply ever: a completely deadpan and expressionless "I don't care." I almost felt like making it up to the poor guy by calling in a compliment for him to the park ^_^
