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05-15-2008, 07:56 AM
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Location: Toronto
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without regard to position, I note that while Canuck is used as a sports team name, so is Yankee, and Red Skin.
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05-15-2008, 10:30 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nickjbor
without regard to position, I note that while Canuck is used as a sports team name, so is Yankee, and Red Skin.
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It's one word, The Washington Redskins. That one's pretty bad though, I have to be honest. |
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05-15-2008, 10:49 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonrise
It's one word, The Washington Redskins. That one's pretty bad though, I have to be honest.
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Nonsense. It refers to warriors coating their body with red clay. Poll after poll shows Native Americans care not about these things. Indeed it was a tribe who asked the late George Allen to switch the helmet insignia from an R to an actual Native American man. Looks proud, dignified and very cool. Hail to the Redskins I say!
Now of course, Chief Wahoo....  |
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05-17-2008, 09:00 PM
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I am a cancer survivor I really could not careless what anyone called me..I do not find Canuck offensive .."don't sweat the small stuff and being called whatever to me is small stuff...more important things to worry about..
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05-17-2008, 11:47 PM
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Location: Toronto
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um... okay?
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05-19-2008, 07:31 AM
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Location: Burkina Faso
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What about hoser?
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05-19-2008, 07:08 PM
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Location: Ontario
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The term "hoser" was invented by Second City Television characters Bob and Doug MacKenzie.
Their skits were also heavily laced with "take off,eh!", "beauty, eh", and a few other phrases which purported to represent the vocabulary of the average beer-drinking, back-bacon-eating, resident of the Great White North.
It's doubtful any of the terms would be offensive.
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05-24-2008, 10:18 AM
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Saw a nice-looking woman driving a Chevy near Cleveland with the vanity plate: "CANUCK".
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05-26-2008, 03:30 PM
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I thought about this when I first started going out with "my Canuck". I mean, what else am I going to call him?
I did ask him outright about what he thought, and he had absolutely no issues with it. So, "my Canuck" it is.  (Or "THE *#$^%^ Canuck when I'm mad at him...LOL)
I'm a Yank (or when he's mad at me a %*@#& American) so it all evens out. IMO, there are WAY more important things to stress about. |
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05-26-2008, 05:02 PM
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Canuck offensive? Heck no. Just don't confuse me for an American...THAT'S offensive.
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