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To: Pyro7480
We should just refer to them as Gregg Easterbrook at ESPN.com does...the "Potomac Drainage Basin Indiginous Persons"
34 posted on 10/01/2003 10:47:59 AM PDT by TheBigB ("Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats." --P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: TheBigB
We should just refer to them as Gregg Easterbrook at ESPN.com does...the "Potomac Drainage Basin Indiginous Persons"

For some unknown reason I read Easterbrook's column. One problem with his moniker, which is typical of so many smug, pseudo-intellectual leftists such as he is: the term 'indiginous person' refers to a person who is native to an area. Indians are not native to the D.C. region any more. For the past three hundred years the indiginous people have been white and black, and more recently Asian and Hispanic.

Also, if he won't refer to them as 'Washington' because they actually play in Maryland, then why doesn't he rename Dallas as Irving, Buffalo as Orchard Park, etc., as he has with the Giants and Jets (Jersey/A and Jersey/B, respectively)? But I will accept his re-naming of the Rams as Les Mouflons and the Titans as the Flaming Thumbtacks.

47 posted on 10/01/2003 11:00:35 AM PDT by HenryLeeII
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