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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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| | | | | Re: Silly Town Names —Peter White
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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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| | | | | | Re: Silly Town Names —Erik Olson
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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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| | | | | | Re: Silly Town Names —Peter White
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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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| | | | | | Re: Silly Town Names —Erik Olson
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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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