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Article: HE'S FROM MOOSE JAW, AND THAT'S NO BULL ROBINSON: AT LEAST IT ISN'T FLIN FLON.(SPORTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2000
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Say this: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Smiled, didn't you? Maybe even giggled. Probably couldn't help yourself, like when you hear ``Louie Louie'' or picture Bill Murray as Carl the greenskeeper.
Yep, Derek Ernest's hometown is a punch line.
When people ask, the second-year Hampton Roads Admiral might as well say he's from Mars. They wouldn't look at him any funnier.
``Moose Jaw?'' Ernest says, repeating the question he's heard a hundred times if he's heard it once. ``What kind of name is that?''
A translation of an Indian name, actually, or so history speculates. Nobody's really sure. Either that or it's because the shape of ...