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| Posted: Sun Jan 29th, 2012 06:59 pm | 61st Post |
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I grew up in Ornebjerg = Boarmountain (50 people or so )
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| Posted: Sun Jan 29th, 2012 09:35 pm | 62nd Post |
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This thread has gotten a lot more interest that I thought it would. There are some amazing town names out there. Here's another couple I live in that I had forgotten about: Riddle, OR. Port Hueneme, CA. (pronounced WY-Knee-Me) One in CA I traveled through and a friend of ours named their son after it. Zzyzx, CA. (prounounced zeyezicks) Keep the names coming!! Henry
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| Posted: Mon Jan 30th, 2012 02:48 am | 63rd Post |
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Used to play a game with the kids when we were hauling the camper across the bald Canadian Prairies. It was called "What do you call a person who lives in ....?" and then we'd try to guess what you 'd call a person who lives in Regina, Moose Jaw, etc. The kids favorite was UREN, Sask. As far as the kids were concerned, anyone living there was a URENATOR. 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31st, 2012 01:19 am | 64th Post |
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My wife is from a speck on the map, a wide spot in the road really. About twenty miles north of Chillicothe Ohio. A place called Yellow Bud. There are about a hundred people there now. Used to be about twenty or so when we first met some thirty eight years ago. We live in Oregon Ohio now. A suburb of Toledo. My brother and his wife live near the town of Shickshinny Pennsylvania. I believe that’s how it’s spelled.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 1st, 2012 09:48 am | 65th Post |
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FeButter wrote: rottie wrote:Greenacres. FL I hear its nothing like Manhatten............. 
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| Posted: Wed Feb 1st, 2012 12:35 pm | 66th Post |
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I grew up in Big Ugly WV and went to Big Ugly Elementary School.
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| Posted: Wed Feb 1st, 2012 08:12 pm | 67th Post |
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Hanko wrote: Zzyzx, CA. (prounounced zeyezicks) There's a band out there that has a song named Zzyzx rd. I wonder if they got the name from the same place.  I went to highschool in Waldron IN which is a small town (had a gas station and a single stop light/sign) a few miles outside of Shelbyville IN. Last edited on Wed Feb 1st, 2012 08:15 pm by pcfix_3 ____________________ I just got my bike back from the DR. All is well.  I got my cookies at the First Eastern M&G!! (Darksider) Total Miles: 43,000+ and counting. Current rides: 04 GL1800 (my baby), 08 Suzuki SX4, 86 Toyota Pickup Custom Cab Turbo 4X4 (My other baby). Previous Rides: 1980 Suzuki GS1000, USS Louisiana Gold (SSBN 743) |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 2nd, 2012 01:24 am | 68th Post |
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Bobcat89 wrote:Grew up in Mahnomen, MN....but not too far away were the towns of Fertile, MN and Climax, MN.... There is a town in Iowa named Manly. Saw a Headline in the wedding announcements:"Manly Man Marries Fertile Woman" I live in Anderson, MO, a close town is Noel. Gets a lot of mail around Christmas. Speaking of Which, I once lived in Christmas, MI. It is on Lake Superior east of Marquette, MI. Someone mentioned Hell, MI. There is also a Paradise in that state. When we travel to see family up north we usually get gas just south of Kansas City in a town named Peculiar.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 2nd, 2012 01:55 am | 69th Post |
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I've stayed in Beaverdam WI with a few friends that live there.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 2nd, 2012 08:00 pm | 70th Post |
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And the all time topper of strange named towns in my mind anyway. Has to be "TIGHTWAD" MO. !!! nobody even mentioned this one.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 3rd, 2012 12:47 am | 71st Post |
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peterbilt wrote: i grew up in a small town of 20 people calledPerterbilt, I knew there was something about you... I am from Woodston/Stockton, Ks. Pretty sure that is close to Long Island.. Right? Also, in case it has not been mentioned, one of my fav towns in US is "Humansville, Missouri...
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 03:34 am | 72nd Post |
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Mojave, California. I was born and raised there and to this day I still ask my mom what tumbleweed was I born under. LOL Last edited on Mon Feb 6th, 2012 03:36 am by Goodolboy1 ____________________ Roger 1984 GL1200 Aspencade |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 04:18 am | 73rd Post |
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"****ing" is a small hamlet in Austria, Europe. I kid you not, Google it in Google maps. I understand that they are continually having to replace the outskirts town name sign after being stolen by tourists.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 01:19 pm | 74th Post |
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Flyone wrote: My favorite is Climax, GA Don't forget... Cuming, GA There's also... Gay, GA White, GA Christmas, GA In Oregon my favorite was Boring.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 04:30 pm | 75th Post |
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I went to High School in Anaconda, Mt. and I thought about some of the places I had visited there. Couldn't find some of the names so I looked up some of the odder places at the Montana History web site. Here is a list of some of the places I found with unusual names. Their county is listed in parenthesis. Bloody Dick Creek (Beaverhead) - creek named for an Englishman living there in the 1860s Fishtrap (Deer Lodge) - named after Lee Marsh's fish traps on the creek; he sold fish to the mining camps Flathead (Flathead) - lake, county & river, named after an Indian Tribe Hellgate (Granite) - station, canyon & river named by French traders "porte de Renfer" ("gate of hell") Sleeping Child Creek (Ravalli) - creek named by the Indians, said to have been Weeping Child originally Spotted Robe (Glacier) - station formerly called Kilroy, a translated Indian name of a Blackfoot chief Tin Cup Lake (Ravalli) - lake named by an early French-Canadian who lived here in early days Two Dot (Wheatland) - town named after the ranch of H. J. ("Two Dot") Wilson, owner of the town site Henry
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 04:45 pm | 76th Post |
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guardian wrote: And the all time topper of strange named towns in my mind anyway. Has to be "TIGHTWAD" MO. !!! nobody even mentioned this one. they owned a bank where i live in Reading kansas. do you think you would want to bank there? not me, never did anyway,small town banks dont offer anything
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| Posted: Mon Feb 6th, 2012 08:10 pm | 77th Post |
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Rode through Bug Tussle, OKlahoma one time. It's quite a Metropolis Larry
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