Amusing Town Names
#13
Originally Posted by Loretta
How about this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax,_Minnesota
Judee, thanks for the book recommend. It's just the sort of thing I'd love to read.
I enjoyed seeing the posts on other oddball town names, too. If I ever pass through Weed, I'd buy a t-shirt.
I don't remember the shooting by Intercourse, PA. (And intercourse is a perfectly respectable word, btw. My mother used to give "business intercourse" as an example.) There have sadly been so many of them. I mean, you age jogging loose a memory now that I think about it... that town and Bird-in-hand, which is right by it, are definitely in Amish country.
#14
Lisanne, I might be wrong, but it seems like news announcers were using Intercourse as a reference to the location of the small town closest to the schoolhouse. I'm trying to remember when it happened; I think it was about four years ago. I know my husband was driving Amish then and they wouldn't talk about it.
I didn't mean to hijack the thread with this, it just popped into my head when I saw the name.
Judee, I'm going to look for that book. It sounds like something my DH would love. Me, too!
Edit: I just googled the book. It's "Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway." The author, Gary Gladstone, also wrote another book called "Reaching Climax: And Other Towns Along the American Highway." They're both on Amazon. They both received excellent ratings.
I learn so much on this board! :D
I didn't mean to hijack the thread with this, it just popped into my head when I saw the name.
Judee, I'm going to look for that book. It sounds like something my DH would love. Me, too!
Edit: I just googled the book. It's "Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway." The author, Gary Gladstone, also wrote another book called "Reaching Climax: And Other Towns Along the American Highway." They're both on Amazon. They both received excellent ratings.
I learn so much on this board! :D
#16
Funny! I know the first place very well, it's near where my family are from and it had never occurred to me that it was funny before now! :oops:
There's a village near us here in France called 'Ars'. :mrgreen:
There's a village near us here in France called 'Ars'. :mrgreen:
#17
Intercourse was in the opposite direction from Blue Balls, Pennsylvania.
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Did anyone notice the divorce cakes at the same site? http://www.oddee.com/item_96863.aspx
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