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I thought I knew, but I was wrong. Turns out it's Miller, not Michelob (meaning it's horse piss, rather than goat piss, IMHO). In looking into it I ended up at the Budweiser (i.e. watered-down horse piss) web site, which requires that visitors be at least 21 to enter. They verify this by asking when you were born (which, obviously, is impossible to lie about on the web...). Specifically, the question they ask is "What is your born on date?" Pathetic.
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Well, in this case a gentlemn named Robert? Canada is said to have first identified this goose, so it's named after the naturalist...and so it is always Canada goose or Canada geese...Canadian, in this case, is just lazy incorrectness. I've searched the web for the citation but can't come up with it, perhaps I have the name wrong. The info is contained in many naturalist and birding literature I've seen, though. Boby?...praps you have a clue here?
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I fully agree with and support AnnaStrophe's above comment:
"Meanwhile, chulm, to address your question: I have no idea why".
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"are there vienna sausages in vienna? or danish pastries in Denmark?"
Do the Germans order "hamburgers" in Hamburg? or "frankfurters" in Frankfurt?
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or German chocolate cake?
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Dear WO'N: I found a UK site about Canada geese that said they were brought to England in the 1600's, and now in some places are nuisances. I think this suggests they were not named for somebody named Canada.
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Dear Dr. Bill, They are nuisances in some places in Canada, too. A short walk through Stanley Park in Vancouver would make that obvious to anyone who's tried it. Goose poo everywhere! Yucky. 
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Dear Beam: Canada geese are nuisances in many places in US, but are still protected. Smithsonian magazine had article about company with very large lawn surrounding a pond getting specially trained Border Collie to keep herding them off the grass into the pond. Since there was nothing in the pond they wanted, they stopped oming.
I also marvel that Dulles Airport has a large pond with many geese crossing landing strips to get to the pond. One goose in jet intake = one horrible crash. But the bleeding hearts won't allow the geese to be harassed in any way.
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Dear Dr. Bill, I think they have ways of dealing with them at airports. You might, in the meantime, get some amusement out of this website by the people you call "bleeding hearts": http://www.icu.com/geese/coalition.htmlHere's one about how to keep the populations under control: http://www.fw.umn.edu/research/goose/html/airport/inter1.htmlThere's actually lots and lots and lots of info on this (I googled "Canada geese airports" if you want to try it yourself). I don't have time to look through them all just yet. But you're right, they do seem to be somewhat of a problem at airports.
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geese hate (become sickened by!) the acid that gives "grapes" there grapey flavor --(the name begins with an a--- but well, i can't possible remember everything)
okay back to my point.. this acid can be, and is used to make things like "grape flavor" kool aid, and other "grape flavor" stuff (candy, icepops, etc.)
but you can take unsweetened grape kool aid mix, mix it with water, and use it to "water" your grass. (get close to the grass, and it will smell grapey!)
it only last a day or two, but unsweetened kool aid is only about 10cents a envelope, so its cheap enough to do it repeatedly.
and if you do, geese will learn not to land, on your property. no geese, no geese droppings..
there are commercially available products that are basiclly the same thing.. (no purple food color!) and they are somewhat effective. but the good news is, cheap, biodegradable, non toxic to plants and animals.. and effective.
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