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    Could we please add NCC to the list of automatically changed terms?

    The Voyageurs Cup was created by us and yet we have allowed the corporate branding of the competition to overshadow our contribution and the spirit in which it was created. The FA Cup and the US Open Cup have not allowed branding to usurp their proud names. Why should we?

    I move that "NCC" be automatically changed to "V-Cup". I don't know if a phrase can be set up but I would also like to propose "Nutrilite Canadian Championship" be changed to "Voyageurs Cup".

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    Ahmen to that revren"

    I try to refere to 'The V' whenever I can, although Living in South Australia for 12 months, anything with 'V' in the title tends to bring on a bout of pavlovian nausea.
    For some reason the NCC translates in the back of my head as the National Canadian Championship. I imagine it's something to do with the way "they" manipulate the Microwaves.

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    I'm just saying, we need to talk about the great "sponson" that created that trophy. Wait it's people from this board.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackdude View Post
    I'm just saying, we need to talk about the great "sponson" that created that trophy. Wait it's people from this board.
    Yes, it is we who are the nepotistic towrads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackdude View Post
    I'm just saying, we need to talk about the great "sponson" that created that trophy. Wait it's people from this board.
    Main article: History of the tank

    The Mark I was a development of Little Willie, the experimental tank built for the Landships Committee by Lieutenant Walter Wilson and William Tritton in the summer of 1915. Working on problems discovered with Willie, the Mark I was designed by Wilson. A gun turret above the hull would have made the centre of gravity too high, so the guns were put in sponsons.

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    ^ Stick two pencils up your nose and wear you underpants on your head.

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    Wake up and smelll the roses. It's companies like Nutrilite that pay the sponsorship bills and buy air-time so pinkos like you can watch the games on the tube. When it was first played here in Edmonton last spring, I don't recall one single media outlet referring to it as the Voyageurs Cup, it is the Nutrilite Canadian Championship and it will be until the Voyageurs pony up the money it takes to sponsor the series.
    What's next, "Voyageurs Field"? I'm sure BMO will find other places to put its money after the Voyageurs re-brand it.

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    Yes but...Nutralite Canadian Championship... well ...meh ..you know...

    Sounds Like a Power-bar Eating Competition.

    On that basis, Who's for the Rickman's White Canadian Championship..?..(hic)

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    Quote Originally Posted by italk2u View Post
    Wake up and smelll the roses. It's companies like Nutrilite that pay the sponsorship bills and buy air-time so pinkos like you can watch the games on the tube. When it was first played here in Edmonton last spring, I don't recall one single media outlet referring to it as the Voyageurs Cup, it is the Nutrilite Canadian Championship and it will be until the Voyageurs pony up the money it takes to sponsor the series.
    What's next, "Voyageurs Field"? I'm sure BMO will find other places to put its money after the Voyageurs re-brand it.
    Easy there McCarthy. No one's trying to put the pornographies on your radio set, they're just trying to preserve the true history of this event.
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