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Originally posted by Jason Abbadon:
..and thus, bad pun became the accepted name.
I'm thinking this is how the real Greenland got it's name.

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Not so much a bad pun as a ruthless piece of 10th century propaganda! The place was named by Eric the Red who started a colony there around 1000 A.D. When he went home to recruit more colonists, rather than call it Wasteland or Really Bloody Cold And Miserable Land, he thought the name of Greenland might be more enticing.

What a bastard

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Originally posted by Shik:
Greenland is gorgeous.

Also, to be fair, a smaller Norway would be a Denmark, yes?

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And hey, I'm the guy who named the Shelley class. Since the end of Unseen Frontier, it's my only real claim, so I'm running with it.

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...Except that your clam is usually being quoted as the Shelly class.

Timo Saloniemi