canuck
n. resident or former resident of Canada
v. (transitive) to end every sentence with "Eh?"

Ya gotta love them Canucks. As any good friend would do, when the USA derails itself, Canada is there as a friend (but not as an enabler). The Canadians are first to offer kind words no matter what we do, and never publicly judge us. Canada doesn't complain when US citizens travel the world in drag, as Canadians. This is because when the USA manages to offend the rest of the world, countries eagerly accept Canadian tourists. As a result, Americans abroad downplay their USAness, instead sporting Maple Leaf logos.

Canadians are the most polite, most considerate people in the world. Recently, former USA president Bush 43 (one of the world's most despised people), visited Calgary, Alberta. Canucks did turn out to protest his visit. It was history's most peaceful anti-Bush protest. To the extend that things 'got out of hand,' Mounties (or perhaps local police) had to intervene. But consider the intervention: on TV we witnessed 2 or 3 police officers pushing a protester backwards, away from the Bush entourage. After pushing 15-20 feet (4.54 - 6.06 metres), the cops released the guy and turned to walk back to the protesters' picket line. And the Canuck turned and walked the other way.

Let's face it: in the USA (especially Los Angeles), the odds were about 2:1 that the protester would have been Tasered, beaten to near or beyond Traumatic Brain Injury, and carted off to jail, bloodied, bruised, and concussed. If the guy collapsed or died in jail, it would have been because "he fell in a drunken stupor and bumped his head on the soft walls or floor of his comfortable well-lit cell."

Ah, those Canucks.... ya gotta love 'em.

CAUTION: all bets are off if you hand a hockey stick to a Canadian.