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Black Friday tends to cause a bit of chaos every year. Especially because it’s not so much a single day of good deals as a constantly expanding period of non-stop sales (and annoying ads). It ...
Johnny Canuck is a fictional lumberjack and a national personification of Canada. [1] He first appeared in early political cartoons dating to 1869 where he was portrayed as a younger cousin of the United States' Uncle Sam and Britain's John Bull.
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The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
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Michael Palin performs "The Lumberjack Song", with Connie Booth as his "best girl.". The common theme was of an average man (usually Michael Palin, but in the City Center and Hollywood Bowl versions by Eric Idle) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job (as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.) and then announces, "I didn't want to be [the given profession].