# CanaDopers: What would you give us for Alaska? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202 "2008-09-12T01:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/1 "2008-09-12T01:22:50Z")
Oilfields, pipelines, hockey moms, everything as-is. Mind you, we can only offer you a quitclaim deed, not a warranty deed. If the Russians want to make a claim, that’s between you and them. ---
**Author:** ![Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4af34b/32.png) [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zany_Zeolite_Zipper)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/2 "2008-09-12T01:24:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Oilfields, pipelines, hockey moms, everything as-is. Mind you, we can only offer you a quitclaim deed, not a warranty deed. If the Russians want to make a claim, that’s between you and them. How would you like Quebec? And to sweeten the deal (eh?) you can keep Shatner! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/3 "2008-09-12T01:25:35Z")
I would trade you New Brunswick. Sorry, New Brunswick, but I never notice you and haven’t been there. Alaska, on the other hand, I fell in love with and still remain so. What do you say? I will throw in Surrey, BC, too. Pleeeease can we have Alaska? ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/4 "2008-09-12T01:27:03Z")
I forgot to mention that I will add Celine Dion and Avril Levigne. Celine, Avril, New Brunswick, and Surrey. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/5 "2008-09-12T01:39:38Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I forgot to mention that I will add Celine Dion and Avril Levigne. > > Celine, Avril, New Brunswick, and Surrey. Nope. You have to keep Celine. That’s a deal-breaker! ---
**Author:** ![Pollux\_Oil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@Pollux\_Oil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pollux_Oil)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/6 "2008-09-12T02:10:03Z")
You have to keep Avril too. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/7 "2008-09-12T02:12:52Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I forgot to mention that I will add Celine Dion and Avril Levigne. > > Celine, Avril, New Brunswick, and Surrey. Throw in 15% of five years of your national production of peameal back-bacon and ya got a deal! (It’s good on pizza.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/8 "2008-09-12T02:19:41Z")
> [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#): > > How would you like Quebec? And to sweeten the deal (eh?) you can keep Shatner! Hey! No giving away Quebec! It’s the only thing that keeps Ontario from becoming Albertan! I’m beginning to think that you could lend them Toronto, though. All the wannabe New Yorkers can eat their words. I’d be worried about it being swamped by a tide of bad real-estate lending, though. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/9 "2008-09-12T03:03:33Z")
Could we maybe have Nova Scotia? I like Nova Scotia. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/10 "2008-09-12T03:26:48Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Could we maybe have Nova Scotia? I like Nova Scotia. Nope. Sorry, we’d have to change the design of the dime, and that just isn’t going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/11 "2008-09-12T03:27:29Z")
But, but Marijuana is _legal_ in Alaska under state law…☹ THAT aside, I’m sure a good deal can be made. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/12 "2008-09-12T03:56:02Z")
I might consider PEI and Nova Scotia. That includes the hill where the cars roll uphill when you put them in neutral, right? And the bay of fundy? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/13 "2008-09-12T04:11:39Z")
Course we’ll then need to make an existing state two to keep our count at 50. Okay, let’s circumcise Florida. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/14 "2008-09-12T05:54:12Z")
You do not want New Brunswick. It comes with my husband’s Mother and she will NOT leave. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/15 "2008-09-12T06:10:00Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Hey! No giving away Quebec! It’s the only thing that keeps Ontario from becoming Albertan! I was going to say that the US can have the Torontonians, but Canada will keep Ontario. Seems a fair trade–the US gets a bunch of wheeling-dealing wannabe-New Yorkers who can balance a half-caf double latte (with just a hint of cinnamon) while reading the _Wall Street Journal_ and e-mailing the office from their Blackberries while driving their BMWs to work, and Canada keeps Rainbow Country. 😉 The older Canadians who watched CBC on Sunday nights will know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Booker\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/71c47a/32.png) [@Happy\_Booker\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Booker_1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/16 "2008-09-12T10:26:18Z")
Do we have to take Palin? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/17 "2008-09-12T13:43:11Z")
> [@Happy\_Booker](#): > > Do we have to take Palin? “Alaska.” ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/18 "2008-09-12T13:53:12Z")
What, and spend our entire military budget defending ourselves against Kamchatka? No thanks, you can keep it. Good neighbours make good fences! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/19 "2008-09-12T15:03:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Course we’ll then need to make an existing state two to keep our count at 50. Okay, let’s circumcise Florida. I could get behind that! Put the border somewhere between Gainesville and Orlando. ---
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202/20 "2008-09-12T15:14:01Z")
The Florida Idea is not bad at all. And it would help Democrats too! 🆒 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadopers-what-would-you-give-us-for-alaska/463202.md?page=2)