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This article was published 09/02/2010 (6031 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CANADA’S history is being rewritten — online, at least — in terms so crude, it could make any Canuck blush with a patriotic tinge.
On his late-night TV show last week, satirist Stephen Colbert took aim at Winnipeg-based magazine The Beaver, which announced last month it was changing its moniker after 90 years because some search engines were weeding it out, believing it was pornography due to its name.
The publication is rebranding itself as the less suggestive Canada’s History, starting in April.
But what Canadians don’t know, the comedian joked Thursday on The Colbert Report, is in America "Canada’s history" is a euphemism "for a sex act so depraved," it can’t be described on television.
The unspeakable act, apparently, "involves moose antlers, a jug of maple syrup and the Stanley Cup."
The comedian then invited his audience to "redefine Canada’s history in the most jaw-dropping terms imaginable," on urbandictionary.com, a Wikipedia-like web page that allows users to submit definitions for words and slang.
"Just put everything in there," said Colbert, who portrays a conservative pundit on his show.
"Putting everything in there, by the way, is the hardest part of performing Canada’s history."
Thirty-six hours later, there were 521 listed entries — each with increasingly vulgar descriptions.
This isn’t the first time Colbert has taken a slapshot or two at Canada. He’s dubbed us "syrup suckers," "iceholes," and "Saskatche-whiners," after the U.S. speedskating team couldn’t get ice time for training at the Olympic Oval.
But Colbert and his fan base may not be the only ones getting their digs in with this most recent effort — one entry describes the U.S. version of the unspeakable deed as "a night with Sarah Palin."
— Canwest News Service
