# Walker Eyes Canadian Border Wall

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 30, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424 "2015-08-30T20:03:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/61 "2015-09-09T04:00:57Z")

</div>

Maybe, maybe not. But it’s still a good move, on his part. I’m cynical enough to think that’s his motive.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/62 "2015-09-09T13:03:32Z")

</div>

Gee, why stop there? Surely we need a wall along the Eastern and Western coasts – after all, there are other countries out there with submarines and ships and all…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/63 "2015-09-09T17:52:42Z")

</div>

> [@StarvingButStrong](#):
>
> Gee, why stop there? Surely we need a wall along the Eastern and Western coasts – after all, there are other countries out there with submarines and ships and all…

I’m waiting for the first candidate (I’m picking Perry) to declare his support of states rights by calling for walls to be build around the borders of each state.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/64 "2015-09-09T18:14:04Z")

</div>

Well the movie showed us that the Kaiju will just blow through it like it’s not there.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/65 "2015-09-09T18:14:37Z")

</div>

> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
>
> I’m waiting for the first candidate (I’m picking Perry) to declare his support of states rights by calling for walls to be build around the borders of each state.

Can the country chip in to wall off Florida?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/66 "2015-09-09T19:12:19Z")

</div>

> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
>
> I’m waiting for the first candidate (I’m picking Perry) to declare his support of states rights by calling for walls to be build around the borders of each state.

I want to see the cute little wall around the Kentucky Bend.

> **[Kentucky Bend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Bend)**
>
> The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, or Bubbleland, is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky that is encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. The exclave is a portion of a peninsula defined by an oxbow loop meander of the Mississippi River, and its inclusion in the state of Kentucky stems from uncertainties of the course of the Mississippi River when the boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky was established.
> As of the 2020 census, the...

By the time you put in all the checkpoints at the access points on both side of the border, it won’t be worth building the wall at all.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424/67 "2015-09-09T21:21:22Z")

</div>

Works for me.

Gotta keep those sneaky little snowbacks out. Jamming up our vending machines with their fake money.  
\<stolen unabashedly from a comedy routine by James P. Connolly\>

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walker-eyes-canadian-border-wall/729424.md?page=3)
