[78-L] Funny Town Names

[Bob Rice]

"84" is STILL in Penns-Slo-Mania!Near Pittsburgh.

    Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Funny Town Names


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>I can see nobody's ever looked at a map of Newfoundland, which has Dildo,
>>Come
>> By Chance and Black Tickle. Or globally..Hell (Norway, also Arizona and
>> Michigan), Condom (France), F*cking (Austria).
>>
> And German license plates from Fuerth included FU-CK #### (which US GI's
> liked to steal?!). BTW, the above "U" has an umlaut...!
>> Intercourse, Pennsylvania
>> Truth Or Consequences, New Mexico
>> DISH, Texas
>>
> I used to spend hours poring through Road Atlases looking for funny town
> names...and visited them if I ever got close. Went through Hot Coffee,
> Mississippi
> and Eighty-Four (forgot the state)! Worth mentioning is a tiny village 
> west
> of
> Hamilton, Ont'o., Canada...a sign gives its name as "Dogs Nest," Ontario!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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