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* An old joke about Canada goes that when trying to decide on a name for their country, the locals decided to let a few volunteers each pick a letter to spell it out. The choices were [[CanadaEh "C, eh?", "N, eh?" and "D, eh?"]]

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* An old joke about Canada goes that when trying to decide on a name for their country, the locals decided to let a few volunteers each pick a letter to spell it out. The choices were [[CanadaEh [[MooseAndMapleSyrup "C, eh?", "N, eh?" and "D, eh?"]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'': [[https://xkcd.com/1253/ "Exoplanet Names"]] is about the International Astronomical Union accepting suggestions from the public for the names of astronomical objects, only to regret doing so after receiving an absurd amount of suggestions that aren't suitable names for various reasons, such as [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Eternia Prime]], How Do I Join the IAU, Unicode Snowman, and e'); DROP TABLE PLANETS;--.
-->''[Ponytail {{facepalm}}s]''\\
'''Cueball:''' Can't you filter out the worst ones?\\
'''Hairbun:''' This is '''''after''''' the filter!

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