These boots are made for walkin'

Sometimes, you feel down, and there's just one way to cure it: going out shoe shopping! Nothing like a brand new pair of steel toe work boots to make a boy feel pretty. Not only that, but they also withstand impacts of 93 foot-pounds and have a puncture-resistant steel sole!

Well, crap. I guess I've now lost any credibility for my heterosexuality with this post, especially with the Nancy Sinatra reference.

Incidentally, the brand name of these boots are Dakota--yeah, like my name with a Duh on the front. That's the line I've been typically used to let people know how to pronounce my name ("Like North Dakota without the North Duh.") However, I wonder if that would cause more confusion than edification among Canadians, considering it's not, um, in their country (but it does border it). Then again, I'm guessing Canadian knowledge of US states is a lot greater than US knowledge of Canadian provinces. I wonder if anyone has done studies on what fraction of the US population can locate Canada on a world map?