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Re: Silly Town Names
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lugnet.off-topic.pun
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Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:04:47 GMT
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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 driest/most uninhabitable bits, the continent
was known as New Holland, just the spot for a New Amsterdam.
Since there is the town Truth or Consequences in New Mexico named after a
TV show. Which American town could be renamed America's Most Wanted ?
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> OK, back on the funny track: Climax, Colorado, elevation 11,318 ft.
A town best approached slowly.
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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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| 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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