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Old 02-16-2009, 04:01 PM
 
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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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Old 02-17-2009, 12:04 AM
 
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Old 02-17-2009, 07:27 AM
 
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Shouldn't they have to change their names due to their offensiveness to native americans? What does Oak Park mean by the way?
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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Old 02-17-2009, 08:03 AM
 
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Chummy forgot to take his meds again.
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Old 02-17-2009, 08:04 AM
 
Location: Chicago - West Lakeview
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Shouldn't they have to change their names due to their offensiveness to native americans? What does Oak Park mean by the way?

Oak Park means land where North Atlantic cod/tuna hybrids are caught, fileted, and turned into tasty dinners.
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Old 02-17-2009, 09:07 AM
 
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What is it about this forum that brings out the mental cases...
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Old 02-17-2009, 09:15 AM
 
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Chummy Waters, shouldn't you change your screen name? It is offensive to native sharks...
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Old 02-17-2009, 10:13 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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Old 02-17-2009, 01:30 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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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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Old 02-17-2009, 03:00 PM
 
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again waste of space thread
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