Heritage Minutes

[ivyblossom]

In Canada, we have heritage minutes on tv. Other people have things like "history classes", but not us, no way. We like to learn our history in 60 second dramatizations on tv.

Marshall McLuhan: "The medium is the message." My favourite part of this one is where he says a lightbulb is an information medium. How would you catalogue that?

Irish Orphans in Quebec: why 'Johnson' is a perfectly French-Canadian name. This one makes me a little weepy.

"Doctor Penfield, I can smell burnt toast!" A perennial Canadian favourite.

Superman. Yes, we do claim Superman, you have a problem with that?

The underground railroad.

We row, too. I just like videos of men in pretty caps.

Kanata. The classic mistranslation that named the proud land in which we live. I hereby rename this nation PANTS.

How we got that funky flag. Yes, someone DID think about it before slapping a leaf on a white background!

The Halifax Explosion. This one is a weeper.

We like Jews, too!

I dun wanna go to class! Wah!

Comments

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing that the Irish orphans came with Canadian accents? Why, they don't need to keep their surnames now...all I can tell is that they were reluctant to be French.

Thank you for this treasure trove of knowledge.

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

And how can something so badly acted make me tearful at this hour of the morning?

[manzai.livejournal.com]

I can actually put that thing about the Jews in perspective ... I think. Jews were thrown out of every European country during the Middle Ages, and it wasn't until Napoleon made them citizens of France that they were even seen as anything except second class citizens. Seeing that this was about Quebec, and Quebec was traditionally French ... maybe that had something to do with it?

I dunno. Maybe I'm dreaming, too. I've yet to have my total intravenous caffeine drip.

[eisakay.livejournal.com]

In Canada, we have heritage minutes on tv. Other people have things like "history classes", but not us, no way. We like to learn our history in 60 second dramatizations on tv


LOL. Yes! hee. The things I learned seeing those on TV.

[q52.livejournal.com]

Everything I know about history came from watching Heritage Minutes. I have undying <3 for "Burnt Toast". :D

[http://users.livejournal.com/__hibiscus/]

The Halifax explosion *is* a weeper. But the Dr.-Penfield-I-smell-burnt-toast owns me.

[auntbeast.livejournal.com]

you said "pants." *giggle*

are these the ones that are sponsored by canadapost? because i really wish they'd spend their money on the postal system, which sucks donkey dick, instead of history ads, as much as i like these.

my absolute fave, however, is the penal reform one with diane d'aquila slapping the leather thong on the desk and shouting "is this NORMAL???!!!" she so rules.

[wolfling]

I love the heritage minutes -- why not learn Canadian history in sixty second bits on tv? Thanks to Schoolhouse Rock that's how I learned the basics of grammar and science and American history...

The Kanata one is a favourite, and the Halifax explosion; I like also the one about how "Nice Men don't want the Vote" and the one about the national anthem, among others.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

We like to learn our history in 60 second dramatizations on tv.

Americans, at least those of a certain age, learned theirs from two-minute ditties collectively called "History Rock (http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/preschool/schoolhouserock/)," accompanied by cartoon figures acting out the thing the song is about. No lie. :-)

-J

[kerri]

Heehee. I love those! I seriously remember more from them than I do from actual History classes.

Well, maybe not quite, but still. I like 'em! :D

[mrmonkeybottoms.livejournal.com]

HEEEEE!

At work (I work in a restaurant) if the toast gets burnt, I will always shout, "Doctor, I can smell burnt toast!" It always gets a laugh.

The orphan one is the worst acting ever. "Molly...Molly Johnson, sir." Or whatever.

I hated the underground railroad because the daughter freaks out so much that there is NO WAY that people wouldn't have figured out something fishy was going on. Hey, I've got an idea, don't run screaming and shouting out of the church! And then, dont follow that up bu suddenly stopping and gasping loudly while looking at the wagon full of church pews coming up. THEN, don't go back inside the church.

I know it's not the same thing, but I loved 'The Logdriver's Waltz". We Canadians are a wacky bunch.

[auntbeast.livejournal.com]

if you ask any girl from the parish around what pleases her most from her head to her toes, she'll say, "i'm not sure that it's business of yours, but i do like to waltz with the log driver."

[mrmonkeybottoms.livejournal.com]

The Log Driver's Waltz pleases girls completely!

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

My favourite part of this one is where he says a lightbulb is an information medium. How would you catalogue that?

Lightbulb cataloging? Refer to ch. 10 of AACR2 (Three-dimensional artefacts and realia). heh.

My library-nerd is showing. Leaving now.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

*worships*

Are you a cataloguer?

Are you single? I think I have a thing for cataloguers. My kink exposed! Catalogue me, catalogue me! Pull out your AACR2, read me those rules in a sultry voice. Yeah baby, yeah! Now convert it to MARC 21.

*faints*

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

LOL. I'm actually an unemployed-hopefully-soon-to-be cataloger. Pretty much all my extracurricular work was in cataloging and I did my internship cataloging at the University's library... Yay for cataloging!

Hm. What about metadata? Get down with that funky Dublin Core.

100 1  Blossom, Ivy.
245 00 Library student extraordinaire : $b and Harry Potter fic writer / $c Ivy Blossom
260    Somewhere in Canada : $b Ivy Blossom's mother, $c Ivy Blossom's birthdate.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

*fans self*

So, would you like to come over and see my etchings?

Did I mention that librarians make MUCH more money in Canada than they do in the States? Check it out, my dear. :)

[donnafantastico.livejournal.com]

How we got that funky flag. Yes, someone DID think about it before slapping a leaf on a white background!

"Prime Minister, and Mr Diefenbaker! I was just talking about you. Are we uh, are we all going to the same party?"

That's my favourite. Also, "Is THIS normal!?"

Everything I learned, I learned during commercials on The Simpsons.

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

I wanna live in Canada and get minute history lessons.

[xingvision.livejournal.com]

I find the most amazing thing about those is the fact that they can jerk at your heartstrings or make you pee yourself laughing within the timespan of a minute each.

Yes, I took the time to watch all of them. :D

[gwenlister.livejournal.com]

I didn't know we had access to the Heritage Moments! How fun is this! I lovethose things...

oh yeah -- and can I be a member of veelarecs? ;)