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| (...) How about Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky... -Jeremiah- (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| You Australians have some of the silliest town names I've ever heard. Wagga- wagga is my favorite. I like Happy, Texas. (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Intercourse Pennsylvania is one of my favorites. Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Toadsuck, Arkansas Steve (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) I don't know for sure if this exists, but I believe there is a small town in Michigan called Hell. -dead (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Strangely, yes. It's only about fifty miles from home. There's actually a big sign that says 'Welcome to HELL' in big flaming letters, and it's always a laugh to see it covered in icicles in the winter :c) -Jeremiah- (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) There used to be a Norwegian Hell as well. I have some postcards from Hell. James P (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Careful, Wagga Wagga is from one of the native Australian (Aboriginal) languages, people tend to get a bit serious about these things. Town names in Australia are either replicas of English towns, eg. Brighton or Aboriginal names like (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| I've never been through Intercourse, but I see it on the map everytime we drive through Virginville. It gets less funny after you drive through Virgin Creek, Maiden Lake, and one other I forget. I'm learning some Australia geography by playing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| OK, but it's a good clean kind of funny, Wagga-wagga. America has terrific native American place names too. I was visiting a cousin on Kinnickinnick St recently. You just have to drive over a bump in the road and it says its own name! Then there's (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Erik Olson writes: Most Australian state names are boring apart from Tasmania, named after the explorer Abel Tasman. Before the English came sniffing around, when the Dutch and Portuguese made the mistake of landing on the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) drive (...) Doesn't even come close. Here, the local Navy Reserve unit (HMCS Cabot) used to have a varity of boats/ships that were used for weekend trips/training. One famous occasion was a phonecall to RCC (Rescue Co-ordination Center) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Yup. Michigan also has towns named Paradise, Christmas, Climax, Bad Axe (which at least some locals pronounce "b'dax", which is sort of weird all on its own), and Gaylord. There's about 10 miles between Alaska and Wyoming. Alaska's just north (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) If the show were short on publicity, it could be arranged. There was a town that renamed itself to launch a web site, what was that? In California, there is Tarzana, which changed its name (and claim to fame) in order to get Edgar Rice (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| Why (AZ) </alan> (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) There still is! Cities are seldom renamed over here... There used to be funny sign at the Hell rail station: "Hell -- Gods expedition" This was written in old style Norwegian, and means something like "goods handeling". The sign has since been (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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