Good afternoon, fellow MOABites, and welcome to another installment in the "Things We've Somehow Escaped Talking About in 1740+ Posts".

ICELAND!

When the Norse explorers discovered Iceland, it was bleak, barren and covered with ice so they named it "Iceland". It turned out to be a bit of a PR problem. Who the hell wants to live someplace called "Iceland"?

So, when they discovered Greenland, which was just as bleak, barren and covered with ice as Iceland they said, "Whoa! Waitaminitchere! Remember how bad we screwed up by naming Iceland 'Iceland'? Let's don't do that again. If we name this place 'Coldland' or 'Freeze-Yer-Ass-Offland' or somethin' like that won't nobody wanna live here. Let's give it a nice attractive sounding name like 'Warmland' or... Wait! I've got it! 'Greenland'! Yeah! We'll sell really cheap passage to beautiful balmy Greenland and tons of people will move here. We'll just have to make sure to only sell one-way tickets!"