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02-16-2009, 05:01 PM
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Which is the better native american town name, Algonquin or Oak Park?
Shouldn't they have to change their names due to their offensiveness to native americans? What does Oak Park mean by the way?
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02-17-2009, 01:04 AM
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There's beauty in the solace of not giving a damn.
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02-17-2009, 08:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chummy Waters
Shouldn't they have to change their names due to their offensiveness to native americans? What does Oak Park mean by the way?
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What? 
Well, Oak is a species of tree and a park is a man-made bucolic setting usually within an established urban location. I don't think these two words have much relation to anything Native American. |
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02-17-2009, 09:03 AM
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Chummy forgot to take his meds again.
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02-17-2009, 09:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chummy Waters
Shouldn't they have to change their names due to their offensiveness to native americans? What does Oak Park mean by the way?
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Oak Park means land where North Atlantic cod/tuna hybrids are caught, fileted, and turned into tasty dinners. |
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02-17-2009, 10:07 AM
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What is it about this forum that brings out the mental cases...
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02-17-2009, 10:15 AM
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Chummy Waters, shouldn't you change your screen name? It is offensive to native sharks...
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02-17-2009, 11:13 AM
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Wow, you're right GoCUBS, but you'd have to change your's as well, it's offensive to Sox fans.  |
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02-17-2009, 02:30 PM
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Oak Park is Kickapoo for "we never tire of telling you Hemingway used to live here".
Some historians disagree and say Oak Park is actually Pottawattami for "how did we ever let that Macedonian guy with the Maxwell Street Polish sausages buy the biggest house on north Ridgeland"
I tend to agree with Professor Barnes at Wright Junior College who thinks it's Miami for "Trinity girls are easy"
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02-17-2009, 04:00 PM
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again waste of space thread
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