What in the hell is a Kanook?!?

[nevnut]

<p>OK, I'm just a little beside myself. I finally made my third call-in today after being hung-up on about 1/2 dozen times over the last few monthes.</p><p>Yes, I realize I can be a real DORK and my previous call-ins weren't &quot;air worthy&quot;, &nbsp;I was just kind of excited I finally came up with something that was even half funny.<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/rolleyes.gif" border="0" /></p><p>Ron mis-pronounced my name again for the third time, but hey, no one else can pronounce it either.&nbsp; Guess I should've used my screen name instead of my real name.</p><p>Oh, I was the caller that asked whether or not Earl had a pregnancy test or not during his exam last week.<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/thumbup.gif" border="0" /></p>

[FezPaul]

<p><strong><font color="#ffffff" size="1"><font color="#0000ff">What in the hell is a Kanook?!?</font> </font></strong></p><p><strong><font face="courier new,courier,monospace" color="#000000" size="2">A Filthy Newfie.</font></strong></p>

[MilkmanDann]

<p>How Dare you sir !</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It's Canook.</p>

[Applefish]

Don't you mean &quot;Canuck&quot;? <img border="0" src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/happy.gif" /><br />

[Don Stugots]

a kanook is my left testicle.&nbsp;

[El Mudo]

Wikipedia is your friend...

The use of "Canuck" by Canadians themselves is usually affectionate or patriotic.

The history and use of the term include:

* The Vancouver Canucks hockey team
* The Crazy Canucks, a group of Canadian alpine ski racers who dominated 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.
* 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 K‚bec 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.
* One of the first uses of "Canuck" - in the form of "Kanuk" - specifically referred to Dutch Canadians as well as the French.[citation needed]
* "Canuck" also has the derived meanings of a Canadian pony (rare) and a French-Canadian patois2 (very rare).
* Team Canuck is a small-sized team at RoboCup.

The use of "Canuck" parallels that of some other potentially offensive nicknames, that is, when used by the people it names - Canadians in this case - it is usually acceptable. But when used by an outsider - in this case particularly American strangers - it can be easily misinterpreted and deemed as insulting one's heritage. Although it is not as severe as most ethnic slurs, some consider it one

[ChimneyFish]

<p><strong><em><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" size="2">I thought this was going to be one of those crazy &quot;what do they call a hoagie where you're at&quot; threads????</font></em></strong></p><p><img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/hoagie_tiny.jpg" border="0" /></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by ChimneyFish on 9-24-06 @ 4:46 PM</span>

[lleeder]

<strong>ChimneyFish</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><em><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" size="2">I thought this was going to be one of those cray &quot;what do they call a hoagie where you're at&quot; threads????</font></em></strong></p><p><img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/hoagie_tiny.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>No here is a cray <img alt="yabbies-1" src="http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/4475/yabbies-1.jpg" border="0" /></p>

[ChimneyFish]

<strong>lleeder</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>ChimneyFish</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><em><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" size="2">I thought this was going to be one of those cray &quot;what do they call a hoagie where you're at&quot; threads????</font></em></strong></p><p><img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/hoagie_tiny.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>No here is a cray <img alt="yabbies-1" src="http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/image/4475/yabbies-1.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/tongue.gif" border="0" /></p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p><strong><font size="1">What in the hell is a Kanook?!?</font></strong> </p><p>i thought it was like a cranny?</p>

[mendoman]

<p>Unlike a &quot;Canuck&quot;,&nbsp; a &quot;Kanook&quot; is a &quot;reverse-shocker&quot;, where the index finger goes pink, the middle finger is bent back, and the ring and pinky fingers go stink.</p><p>I'm suprised you didn't know that.</p>

[dereckfishboy]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>mendoman</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Unlike a &quot;Canuck&quot;, a &quot;Kanook&quot; is a &quot;reverse-shocker&quot;, where the index finger goes pink, the middle finger is bent back, and the ring and pinky fingers go stink.</p><p>I'm suprised you didn't know that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br />Just let me right that down......</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you, sir! I'll have to had that to the ever-growing list of words in my vocabulary that keep me away from self-respecting women!&nbsp;</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<strong>mendoman</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Unlike a &quot;Canuck&quot;,&nbsp; a &quot;Kanook&quot; is a &quot;reverse-shocker&quot;, where the index finger goes pink, the middle finger is bent back, and the ring and pinky fingers go stink.</p><p>I'm suprised you didn't know that.</p><p>down these parts we call it a &quot;six-pack&quot;... just a different finger combo</p><p>copycats</p><p><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smile.gif" border="0" /></p>

[torker]

Fezident.