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[ls650]

[thelmadatter]

[Guy Courchesne]

I can understand the N word...that term has a lot of cultural and historical baggage attached to it that remains very current. But Canuck? Like LS notes, there's a hockey team with that name, and even then, it wouldn't fall into the same politically-correct camp targets as the Kansas City Chiefs, or the Chicago Blackhawks...

You'll find the term Canuck used as a term of national pride, all throughout the 20th century, in war, sport, and politics. It doesn't mean French Canadian as quoted by some very ill-informed websources. We call them frogs.

Now, before you go and say "what? But Guy is French Canadian and he's saying 'we call them frogs'", you'd do well to get both a history and geography lesson on Upper and Lower Canada, as well as Manitoba.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[thelmadatter]

ji ji ji .... see, now thats the kind of use of these so-called taboo words that takes the sting out of them...

[M@tt]

i've never heard an american use the word canuck. the only people i've heard use it are canadians to refer to themselves. in fact i think it's high time we create an offensive term for our excessively inoffensive neighbors to the north.
guy do you have any ideas?

[Guy Courchesne]

How about icerats? Puckheads? You can do better...

C'mon puckheads! Circle the dogsleds...we's aboot to recreate 1812.

[samizinha]

I remeber Pat Buchanan trying to get a rise by calling Canada "Soviet Canuckistan", but it just amused me.

[RyanS]

Thats a good name. We will be a Socialist Turkish republic.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[sickbag]

I'm from the UK - the rolling South Downs of England to be precise.

[leslie]

Bye

[corporatehuman]

just curious, why do they call it the armpit of America? is it really that bad?

Dear Matt:

Yes and no. Historically New Jersey has -always- been a transportation corridor between Philadelphia and New York. Today it is primarily defined by the New Jersey Turnpike, a gigantic monolithic highway that goes straight into New York. This is what most people think of when they think of New Jersey, and rightly so, as most people are passing through.

Besides that it is also the primary caregiver of New York City's garbage. And two of its biggest cities, Trenton and Newark, are practically run by gangs. It has the highest car insurance in the country, and also some of the highest taxes.

There's this great sign on the toll-free bridge (anyone see this) off of the Route 1 (South or North) bypass as you enter Pennsylvania from Trenton that reads: TRENTON MAKES THE WORLD TAKES. This, to me, explains it all.

- Chris

[M@tt]

i feel like i need to visit. it's obviously an important slice of america that i need to see firsthand. i'm being serious, i feel like there are so many references to nj and its people and i'm just clueless what that's supposed to mean. my limited experience is that basically every time some idiot girl on her cellphone in an SUV almost hits me, i notice NJ plates as she's driving away. but there are all those other things like the jersey turnpike (a famous turnpike!? seriously, how many famous turnpikes are there? that merits a visit), jersey shores (not sure what this is), jersery girls (often refered to as jersey b*tches here but i think it's because of their driving), guidos (are these jersey guys?), atlantic city(is that in NJ?), and, ummm... it seems like all the shady people selling stuff online are from NJ or brooklyn. the karate kid was from somewhere in NJ, right? and then there's rutgers, which i read an entire book about in sociology 100.

[ontoit]

New Jersey,

Frank Sinatra.

That's all it needs to qualify as a World Heritage Spot!