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Canada: Land of Give'r

canada-maple-leaf.JPGThe past holiday weekend offered a bevvy of Seattle activities, from the Folklife Festival to Sasquatch, to SIFF, and we’re sure there’s more. Well, we’re pretty sure, because some of us went to Canada instead. Just a quick jaunt to Vancouver on Sunday for some biking; perhaps we’d even try to catch the Bloc Party show that evening at the Commodore since somehow we’ve missed out on every other opportunity to see them in what has been a near blitzkreig of Bloc Party show dates in Seattle over the past few months.

Instead of talking about our biking adventures, or going on about how we managed to miss yet another Bloc Party gig (that’s 4 for any of you keeping count), Seattlest would like to introduce you to our now-favorite entry into the Canadian slang lexicon: Give’r.

Fans of the movie FuBar, which is something of a Canuck bastard cousin of the Spinal Tap genre, may be familiar with this term. Seattlest has decided it is our favorite new word. While akin to its American-English variations like “Try real hard” or “Give it your best shot” or “Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all…”, and other equally namby-pamby, wordy variations on the same theme, our neighbors to the north sum it all up in one tidy, straight-to-the-point package: Give’r.

We’ve quickly discovered that the applications are endless:

Quitting your job? Give’r.
Muscling your way onto the stage during the Snoop Dogg show? Wicked give’r.
Fly off your bike into a tree? Not enough give’r.
Bush to Iraq: C’mon now, give’r.
"Nurse, give me 30cc's of epinephrine and a scalpel, stat give'r!"

And here’s a softball for the Canadian arm of Nike courtesy of our most recent trip to Canada, and all Seattlest asks for is a little side-buffet of the royalties from this one: Just Give’r.

Try it at work this week, and let us know how it goes: "That’s a double-double, extra hot…Give’r!"


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By Courtney in , on June 2, 2005 10:29 AM

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  • Martinon Homeboy

    Man whats going on here? I'm having a hard time reading allthis, so I'll just go play Ball Hockey and make Dirt Bike Noises with my mouth. Later Bois, NAAAN NAAAAAN NEN NEN NEN NAAAAAAAAN NAAH NAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  • Martinon Homeboy

    Man whats going on here? I'm having a hard time reading al this, so I'll just go play Ball Hockey and make Dirt Bike Noises with my mouth. Later Bois, NAAAN NAAAAAN NEN NEN NEN NAAAAAAAAN NAAH NAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  • Yeah, bois jus know how to give'r round here in the north. Don't know what causes it, maybe all the snow shows how to get er' done. 4wheelin' out in the woods budskis, Givine'r's dope boiis.

  • KBM boooooooiiis

    If you wanna give'r you gotta check out the shows at the KBM and park your 4-wheeler in Sean Sweet's lawn boiiiiiis and then wreck some lawn chairs in Matt Hussey's backyard. The KBM: All the free beer you could want, once you break in and take it. Get 'er done.

  • Margo

    Nice Kiss shirt loser.

  • mad skin tearer

    fawk boiiiis just seein if anyone wanted to match up on some crazy skin tears, grand bay area boiiis? aaaaaayyyyyoooooooo! this internet site here just gets er done, really captures the heart and soul of my generation. anyways boiiiishhh jusht hit me up if you wanna go on my 4 wheeler boiiishhhhhhh aaaaaaaaayooooooooooooo

  • blubby

    Give her. Die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die. big whombat weave and giverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. bleb

  • Giv'r Budday

    Hey there budsephs id just liek to point out that the majority of giv'rs live in hick populations especially in eastern canada like newbrunswick where theres lots of them workin class folk and all that them sons of theres drink and party and ride them atv and yell giv'r and another term you didnt which is just effin get'r done buddayyy!!

    Giv'r for life budday

  • Canada Bob

    Giv'r is short for Give Her Hell. Which is a common motorhead term from long ago. With the rise in sled use the term has migrated from the BC timber towns to Whistler and finally into Van "hipster" lingo. Kids in the middle of nowhere have been yelling Give'r! on their motox bikes and snowmobiles for 40 years.

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