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Old 02-23-2009, 02:23 PM
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Re: The Holocaust-denying Bishop
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Originally Posted by Sean View Post
That actually bugs me too.

Yeah, an exception for me is "americans". I know that people from north, central, south america bristle at people from the united states monopolizing the the word for themselves. And i'm really sympathetic. Its just that they also have a really cool country name too. So they can be called things like canadians, bolivians, brazillians, etc. Are we expected to be known as united-statesians? Seriously, throw us a bone.
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