Excited States of America
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of excited + United States of America. From perceived excitability of the American people.
Proper noun[edit]
- (Canada, derogatory) The United States.
- 2008 June 23, Douglas Bell, “Falling over ourselves to pay tribute to Tim Russert”, in Toronto Life[1], Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
- The longest serving host of the NBC political chat show Meet the Press passed to his eternal reward recently, and the Excited States of America lived up (or down) to its somewhat sardonic anglophilic nickname.
- 2015 February 25, Tony Wilson, “Conrad Black and that meddlesome Supreme Court”, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine[2], Canada:
- Over the past number of years, I’ve warmed to his writings in The National Post; a newspaper he started and once owned. The takedown of Diane Francis for her column suggesting that Canada be bribed to join the “Excited States of America” should be required reading for all Canadians.
- 2015 August, Tony Wilson, “Confederation Day”, in BarTalk[3], British Columbia, Canada: Canadian Bar Association in British Columbia:
- The fact that 148 years after Confederation, 10 provinces and three territories eventually married and stayed married without blowing up (literally and figuratively), is to be celebrated, especially when it would have been so easy (and yet so sad) to have packed it all in and joined the Excited States of America.
- 2017 July 5, John Edwards, “John Edwards writes on Canada”, in The Millstone[4], Mississippi Mills, Ontario, Canada:
- One in which English and French would work together and one which would leave pettiness and ‘small Canada thinkers’ behind. It would have been easy to be de-railed from the Big Picture of a Big Canada. Returning to the old-prejudices of the past would have been comforting to many, but then what? A set of small squabbling colonies slowly dropping one by one into the “Excited States of America”? If this were to be the case, there would have been no chance for a North American state where change would be peaceful and evolutionary; no chance for a state which cares for all its citizens.
- 2019 February 20, Claude McIntosh, “Do you think the weather man is fake news?”, in Seaway News[5], Cornwall, Ontario, Canada:
- The Excited States of America may have had the most trusted television news anchor in the universe, Walter Cronkite, but Canada had the most trusted weather prognosticator: Winnipeg-born Saltzman.
- 2020 November 6, Jon Snobelen, “Canada, let's resist the urge to watch down south with smugness”, in Toronto Sun[6], Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
- Comparing elections between Canada and the Excited States of America is a bit like comparing the halftime shows at the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup.
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See also: Thesaurus:United States of America