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Started by Daddy, April 07, 2009, 10:51:38 AM

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Samus Aran

Quote from: lacette on April 07, 2009, 04:10:16 PM
idk what a canuck is, but yeh.



...how can you live in Canada and not know that your people are constantly being called Canucks? I mean, it's not even just Americans that do it. Canadians call each other Canucks all the time, often quite affectionately, and you guys even named your Vancouver hockey team after the term.

l a c e y

i wasn't even aware vacouver had a hockey team..
but i've never heard anyone call anyone that before.
i think you watch to many movies.

YPrrrr

Quote from: lacette on April 08, 2009, 10:47:51 AM
i wasn't even aware vacouver had a hockey team..
but i've never heard anyone call anyone that before.
i think you watch to many movies.
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Canuck Place Children's Hospital, providing specialized pediatric palliative care in Vancouver BC
The Canucks rugby Club, playing in Calgary since 1968.
The Crazy Canucks, Canadian alpine ski racers who competed successfully on the World Cup circuit in the '70s.
Johnny Canuck, a personification of Canada who appeared in early political cartoons of the 1860s resisting Uncle Sam's bullying. Johnny Canuck was revived in 1942 by Leo Bachle to defend Canada against the Nazis. The Vancouver Canucks have adopted a personification of Johnny Canuck on their alternate hockey sweater. [[2]] The goaltender for the Canucks Roberto Luongo, has a picture of Johnny Canuck on his goalie mask.
In 1975 in comics by Richard Comely, Captain Canuck is a super-agent for Canadians' security, with Redcoat and Kebec being his sidekicks. (Kebec is claimed to be unrelated to Capitaine Kébec of a French-Canadian comic published two years earlier.) Captain Canuck had enhanced strength and endurance thanks to being bathed in alien rays during a camping trip. The captain was reintroduced in the mid-1990s, and again in 2004.
Operation Canuck was the designated name of a British SAS raid led by a Canadian captain, Buck McDonald in January 1945.
"The Dark Canuck" is a song on The Tragically Hip's album In Violet Light.
In 1995, Canada Post released 45-cent postage stamps depicting Johnny Canuck and Captain Canuck.
"Canuck" is a nickname for the Curtiss JN4 and Avro CF-100 aircraft. The CF-100 was the only Canadian designed and built jet fighter to enter operational service. From 1950â,“1958, 692 Canucks were built. They remained in service until 1981
One of the first uses of "Canuck" â,” in the form of "Kanuk" â,” specifically referred to Dutch Canadians as well as the French.
"Canuck" also has the derived meanings of a Canadian pony (rare) and a French-Canadian patois[3] (very rare).
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North Plainfield High School Canucks, is the mascot of this High School in New Jersey.
The Curtiss JN-4(Can) biplane was known as the Canuck.
"Canuck the Duck", a character in Return to Zork.
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Fashion model Elyse Sewell used to refer to one of her former Canadian roommates as "The Canuck" in her livejournal.
Emily Ferguson Murphy used the pen name Janey Canuck in her writings; most notably a series of articles published in 1922 in The Black Candle.
The political cartoon character that portrays Canada is named Canuck, I don't think it's just Americans saying this akudood;

Lotos

Quote from: ra-ˈkün on April 07, 2009, 10:51:38 AM
the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand...


The US is so good, we don't need to associate with Britain's Commonwealth toothdood;

Samus Aran

Quote from: lacette on April 08, 2009, 10:47:51 AM
i wasn't even aware vacouver had a hockey team..
but i've never heard anyone call anyone that before.
i think you watch to many movies.


...I live next to Canada. I've been to Canada many times. It's not just in movies that the term is used, and I think you need to start listening to people other than yourself more often if you seriously never hear the term used. Because it really is quite common, you know.

l a c e y

Quote from: Kaz on April 08, 2009, 12:37:57 PM
...I live next to Canada. I've been to Canada many times. It's not just in movies that the term is used, and I think you need to start listening to people other than yourself more often if you seriously never hear the term used. Because it really is quite common, you know.


not here is isn't.

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