Flame Fest - Subject: Massachusetts is a stupid name for a state/prov

[yvr girl]

It's way too long. I always need to check my spelling and it's hard to say when you're drunk...sometimes even sober.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. here's a stumper

What do you call someone from Massachusetts? A Massachusettsan? Probably not.

Your (wiseass) answers will be appreciated.

[sniffa]

2. masshoLe of course

:evilgrin:

[Bill McBlueState]

4. knew that was coming!

thanks, sniffa.

[sniffa]

5. np

i embrace the nickname.

[yvr girl]

6. If I have a hard time saying Massachusetts

I will most certainly mangle Massachusettsan, Massachusettian, Massachusettianite...it just keeps getting harder

...mmmm....A Chowder Eater? I'm going with that one.

[sniffa]

9. gay marriage Lover?

[sniffa]

3. rhode isLand has the officiaL "cLaim"

to the Longest name.

[StopTheMorans]

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[yvr girl]

11. I thought you were my friend

:cry:

[StopTheMorans]

13. oh shit, i didn't think you were still here

:P

[Bill McBlueState]

8. Oh, yeah, British Columbia is *such* a great name.

It's not British, and Christopher Columbus never came within 3000 miles of it! So there.

[yvr girl]

19. The not "British" comment would get you pelted with scones

in Victoria.

[Lavender Brown]

10. It sounds like a sneeze

But I like it there.

[TyeDye75]

12. I think it sounds cool

[yewberry]

14. Don't forget, we're "The Commonwealth."

Not at all pretentious!

[sniffa]

15. we're aLso "great"

onLy 4 states can make that cLaim.

[yvr girl]

16. Oh, ya

Everyone who lives there thinks they're so cool

[StopTheMorans]

17. "thinks"?

:eyes:

[yvr girl]

18. I use the term lightly

I know it's a stretch for all you Chowder Eaters.

[Squeech]

20. Dissing our Native American forebears, are you?

They came up with all these peculiar unspellable place names.

Once upon a time, National Lampoon ran a list of (spurious) translations of the indigenous place names. Most of them were said to mean things like "Over here" or "That way," but one was "Call it? We don't call it anything!"

In real life, of course, most of them were named after geographical features. If I remember right (not likely), the name "Massachusetts" had something to do with the hills in what is now known as Boston.

My favorite indigenous place name is "Manhattan," which translates to "The place where we all got drunk."