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Re: Silly Town Names
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In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Peter White writes:
> 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 ?
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 Burroughs to locate his fiction factory's headquarters
there. Today it's a catchy mail-order address.
-Erik
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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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