Weird town names
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Douglas Adams (author of the great "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" saga) wrote a book titled "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" that give funny explanations to strange town names. And many names could sound silly in languages different to the one spoken by their inhabitants (for example "chicago" is used for many "unpolite" jokes in Italian...). -- Looking for a new screen-saver? Try FOYD: http://digilander.iol.it/FOYD
I keep that on my desk at work. Really catches people off guard. Here's a couple of goodies. Fulking - pretending not be in when the carol-singers come around. Dockery - Facetious behaviour adopted by an accused man in the mistaken belief that this will endear him to the judge. Tulsa - a slurp of beer which has accidentally gone down your shirt collar. :) Chris
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After hearing about some deadly storms hitting Happy, Texas I have to wonder what other towns are named "oddly". In Michigan we have: Hell, Christmas, and Kalamazoo*; those are the ones I can think of anyway. What are yours? James *I don't think Kalamazoo is a weird name, but others have called it that so I will to :) Simplicity Rules!
A small town southern of France has the funny name (for english-speaking people) of Condom Another town southern of France is fed-up to have to buy new town signs, because they are often stolen: its name is "Moncuq", which could phonetically be translated as "My Ass". :-O We're talking shit, 'cause life is a 'biz You know it is Everybody tryin' to get rich God damn! All I wanna do is live ! KoRn, Children of the Korn
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I keep that on my desk at work. Really catches people off guard. Here's a couple of goodies. Fulking - pretending not be in when the carol-singers come around. Dockery - Facetious behaviour adopted by an accused man in the mistaken belief that this will endear him to the judge. Tulsa - a slurp of beer which has accidentally gone down your shirt collar. :) Chris
I like Douglas Adams' humor. The hitch hickers guide to the Galaxy is one of my favourite books (together with a complete collection of Daniel Pennac's and Stefano Benni's books). Some of his ideas are wonderful (Marvin the paranoid android, the restaurant at the end of the universe, Slartibartfast, the dolphins as second most intelligent life form on earth :)). He was a genius. And the best reply to most of lounge's questions is still "42" ;) -- Looking for a new screen-saver? Try FOYD: http://digilander.iol.it/FOYD
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After hearing about some deadly storms hitting Happy, Texas I have to wonder what other towns are named "oddly". In Michigan we have: Hell, Christmas, and Kalamazoo*; those are the ones I can think of anyway. What are yours? James *I don't think Kalamazoo is a weird name, but others have called it that so I will to :) Simplicity Rules!
How about "Truth or Consequences" in New Mexico?? -- LuisR ────────────── Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein
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How about "Truth or Consequences" in New Mexico?? -- LuisR ────────────── Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com CPUA: 0xC0DE - No Sonork yet MiniPutt best: 20 "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater." -- Albert Einstein
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote: "Truth or Consequences" I once did a database program to manage a MLM company, and had to do address labels. After much searching (there was no Internet service here then) I found the hard way that this is the longest city name in the US. As a result, I've used 22 char for every 'city' field since (just in case there's one a bit longer):-D
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After hearing about some deadly storms hitting Happy, Texas I have to wonder what other towns are named "oddly". In Michigan we have: Hell, Christmas, and Kalamazoo*; those are the ones I can think of anyway. What are yours? James *I don't think Kalamazoo is a weird name, but others have called it that so I will to :) Simplicity Rules!
Texas is full of them. My brother in law was once a minister of a church in Happy. Valentine, Texas Gun Barrel City, Texas Shamrock, Texas Bugtussle, Texas Looneyville, Texas Chocolate Bayou, Texas Lick Skillet, Texas Ding Dong, Texas Richard If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!!!
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James T. Johnson wrote: I don't think Kalamazoo is a weird name, but others have called it that so I will to Ditto - I love that name! Wasn't it mentioned in a song? Anyway, from the CH4 repeats of Jackass, isn't their a place called meianus or somthing like that? ____________________ David Wulff hu·mour Pronunciation Key (hymr) n. & v. Chiefly British Dave's Code Project Screensaver and Wallpaper page.
David Wulff wrote: Ditto - I love that name! Wasn't it mentioned in a song? "I got a girl in Kalamazoo" - Glen Miller. We did a Miller tribute for the old fogies with the college band a while back. -- Andrew.
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Texas is full of them. My brother in law was once a minister of a church in Happy. Valentine, Texas Gun Barrel City, Texas Shamrock, Texas Bugtussle, Texas Looneyville, Texas Chocolate Bayou, Texas Lick Skillet, Texas Ding Dong, Texas Richard If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!!!
Richard Stringer wrote: Gun Barrel City, Texas Why does that not surprise me? :-D Richard Stringer wrote: Lick Skillet, Texas Scenes of drunken cowboys come to mind, trying to see who can burn their tounge without muttering a word ;P James Simplicity Rules!
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I once went past a little village in the UK called Peover. I used to pronounce it 'Pee-Over', but apparently it's pronounced 'Pover' :-O Paresh Solanki There is no substitute for genuine lack of preparation.
Most of the suburbs around my home town in the UK have either politically affiliated clubs, or what they called "Working Mens' Clubs" (without political affiliation). They are a bit like an extension of the "pub" concept, but incorporating a little more entertainment and activity (such as dancing, snooker, bingo, etc) while still maintaining the high standards of getting drunk out of your skull on a Saturday night. :) These clubs are inevitabley named for the suburb in which they stand. Ours, for example, was called the "Eccleshill Conservative Club" and had an unremarkable membership made up of local "conservatives". But a neigboring suburb sported a "Working Mens' Club" with a very distinguised membership - famous people came from all over the world (Michael Jackson was the last one I heard of to do so) for the priveledge of being a card-carrying member of the "Idle Working Mens' Club" :) Steve T.
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I once went past a little village in the UK called Peover. I used to pronounce it 'Pee-Over', but apparently it's pronounced 'Pover' :-O Paresh Solanki There is no substitute for genuine lack of preparation.
