With all the "looking for paddlers" postings on this forum, I start to wonder if you shouldn't start putting their photos on milk cartons.

How the heck do you Canadians lose so many paddlers?

"How the heck do you Canadians lose so many paddlers?"

It's a big country, and some of it is like the junk drawer in your kitchen. Suff goes in, you forget about it, and then one day you have to ask; "Honey, where's the BBQ starter? And by the way, have you seen 5-Left anywhere? I swear I just saw her last week, but know I can't seem to locate her."

and we're too polite to use the more accurate "looking for better paddlers"

Thanks for the chuckle.

OK, a few things to note here...
When Canadian teams lose paddlers and they want results, the milk carton thing won't work. We post our paddler pics on beer boxes.
Herein lies part of the problem.
By the time our paddlers are done at the Dragon Boat "Bonspiels", and get thrown out of the beer tent, nature takes over and its time for the paddler to piddle.
They walk out to the bushes to take care of business, and we never see some of them again.
Oh sure, some of them get lucky and are returned by the local hunters, and some are found by a string of other errant piddlers who return like a bunch of drunken lemmings, but the vast majority are sacrificed to the beer gods and are often mistaken for Bigfoot(Bigfeet?)with ass pads and dish gloves!
A few are found years later eating from trash bags with no memory of the past few "Spiels".
Dragon Boating is a dangerous sport, and should be regulated as such, but thats a different string.

I wonder why the Germans (fueled by beer and bratworst) don't suffer the same problem?

Ah, what a wonderfully diverse world it is!

Germany is much less dangerous than Canada when it comes to freaks of nature.

What! are you joking?

Germans have some kind of fetish with all things Anal. Creepy stuff.

When nature calls stay outta my way, Canada rocks!