Wendigo
It’s an Algonquin cryptid / monster with an insatiable hunger for human flesh and a love of murder. Generally greedy and evil. Also known to smell bad.
Honors our native heritage and says something about our beloved country’s strength of character.
The more I read about it and learned about these stories as a kid from my parents and Elders … the more I realize that it is also a metaphor or life lesson about who we are as people and humanity as a whole.
Wendigo in many legends was originally just a man or woman like you or me or anyone. They are infected or affected by a mysterious force and changed to become a hunter of people. Many of the legends talk about how Wendigo is basically just out hunting, doing things like a hunter does, tracking, following, hiding, creeping towards their prey … but the prey are humans, people, families, children, etc. They are intelligent, speak, understand, communicate, can trick people but they can also be tricked, they can also be dumb, silly, wise or completely wild.
The metaphor is that we are all capable or prone to becoming infected with dark forces if we allow them and change us into beings that will take from others and even kill them to enrich ourselves or prolong our lives.
Many believe that Wendigos still live and prey on people all over the world … but instead of hunting and preying on people in the forests and wilderness … they live and work in corporations and governments.
“It’s just a prank, Han!”
Formally: Jeb!
Informally: Jebland
Dialectical variant of English: Jeblish
Collective name for the people of Jebland: JebaneseI’m kidding of course. We all know the process to rename the U.S. would be taken over by the wealthy and we’d wind up named HCH (Human Capital Holdings), LLC, a shell corporation/nation that is jointly owned by Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street.
The United States of Whatever
Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.
What’s the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt? They’re too big to fit in the British museum.
Too big to fit English ships you mean ;)
The United States Inc. since that’s all we are anyway…
United Corp.
I’m not even sure United applies anymore. I change my answer to The States Corp.
Wackoland
Rename it to Mexico. Then the whole gulf of mexico situation is fixed.
TwatWaffle McDunceland
United States of Native America
United Tribes of America
OK hear me out: It should be named after the first European explorer to discover it and popularize the European expansion: Christopher Columbus.
- Like its namesake, the nation too is racist, cruel and genocidal. Even the Spanish Inquisition era Catholics were like, damn Christopher!
- Like the largest exporter of cocaíne in South America, it too is full of drugs, and its elections are the plaything of big money cartels and foreign powers.
- It was mostly settled by white people from England.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you your new nation: British Columbia.
Muskland. Quickly so we can start a fight.
As Amerigo is the Italianized version of the German ‘Emmerich’, i’d call it like that.
Bonus is that there is a very unassuming German border town called thusly.
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Hank D. Hamburgers Electric Freedom Gun-Republic
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Eagleland
I played far too much Earthbound.
Stolidus
- It sounds strong and powerful
- It’s Latin, and therefore properly awesome.
- It’s definition is: foolish, absurd, dumb, forceless, powerless
Your first it’s is correct. It is Latin.
Your second it’s should be its. The definition belongs to the word. But to be fair, I typed it correctly, and then just now had to go back and fix the autoincorrection. So that probably happened to you as well.
I’ve read that many people with actual OCD don’t appreciate the condition being bandied about as a catch all for others having hangups over trivial things.
Or sometimes we taught elementary school for too long. It’s only worth doing when the rest of the post is correct and erudite, when an error creates confusion, or when I have a helpful mnemonic to offer. No shaming, especially English learners. Sadly, no OCD excuse for me. Undiagnosed ADD, probably.
You are the first person who didn’t blow up at this. I’m impressed.
