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The '''United States of America''' ('''USA'''), also known as the '''United States''' ('''U.S.''') or, confusingly, '''America''', is an unparalleled example of what happens when a joke gets carried on for too long despite hundreds of warnings that it may have been a bad idea the whole time. Beginning as a colonial project of fringe religious zealots who were so awful as to have been exiled from [[England]], the USA has since grown into one of the most rich, ambitious, influential, lethal, and annoying countries on the planet.

The '''United States of America''' ('''USA'''), also known as the '''United States''' ('''U.S.''') or, confusingly, '''America''', is an unparalleled example of [[pronounmail the wiki|what happens when a joke gets carried on for too long]] despite hundreds of warnings that it may have been a bad idea the whole time. Beginning as a colonial project of fringe religious zealots who were so awful as to have been exiled from [[England]], the USA has since grown into one of the most rich, ambitious, influential, lethal, and annoying countries on the planet.

== Etymology ==

The name "America" comes from Amerigo Vespucci who, like other Old World explorers of his age, thought that sailing across the Atlantic and bumping into some empty beach that nobody could recognize granted him license to stick a flag in the ground and call dibs on two entire continents (or one, depending on [[twats|who]] you ask). This has led to the unfortunate circumstance of the name of the country being shortened to America, a name which could in fact refer to the entire areas of North, Central, and South America.

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-The '''United States of America''' ('''USA'''), also known as the '''United States''' ('''U.S.''') or, confusingly, '''America''', is an unparalleled example of what happens when a joke gets carried on for too long despite hundreds of warnings that it may have been a bad idea the whole time. Beginning as a colonial project of fringe religious zealots who were so awful as to have been exiled from [[England]], the USA has since grown into one of the most rich, ambitious, influential, lethal, and annoying countries on the planet.
+The '''United States of America''' ('''USA'''), also known as the '''United States''' ('''U.S.''') or, confusingly, '''America''', is an unparalleled example of [[pronounmail the wiki|what happens when a joke gets carried on for too long]] despite hundreds of warnings that it may have been a bad idea the whole time. Beginning as a colonial project of fringe religious zealots who were so awful as to have been exiled from [[England]], the USA has since grown into one of the most rich, ambitious, influential, lethal, and annoying countries on the planet.
 == Etymology ==
 The name "America" comes from Amerigo Vespucci who, like other Old World explorers of his age, thought that sailing across the Atlantic and bumping into some empty beach that nobody could recognize granted him license to stick a flag in the ground and call dibs on two entire continents (or one, depending on [[twats|who]] you ask). This has led to the unfortunate circumstance of the name of the country being shortened to America, a name which could in fact refer to the entire areas of North, Central, and South America.