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Originally posted by Leus
I thought Canada was in America... :-)
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Nic has problems distinguishing "the United States" from "America "too.
This is largely an issue of lazy nomenclature. Yankee haters have had a problem ever since 'den of the running dogs of the capitalist power structure' fell out of vogue at the end of the cold war. "The Great Satan" was popularized for a while just before then by that fun-loving Iraninan mullah, but somehow just doesn't have the same ring to it.
But as for "America" (meaning all land area in the Western Hemisphere except Antartica--and no cracks about "Little America", OK?) vs. "The US" vs. "Canada": not to worry--there is a solution...which begins to materialize in strip 5 of 11 of "For Cod and Country", where we hear the aliens Neil and Bob ("Is that your names or is that what you do?") say:
Read the series at:
http://www.goats.com/archive/021023.html
...and don't forget during the codpiece prolog that if you pronouce "American" properly it comes out "merkin"--glossed as a wig for pubic hair.