Brazil, Indiana comes instantly to mind.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Florida, NY
Rome, NY
Italy, NY
and Naples, NY
most of these are located in upstate-ish NY.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
London, KY
Posted by ambyr (Member # 7616) on :
Delaware, OH.
Which would be more amusing if I didn't have a strong suspicion that a letter I sent there two weeks ago actually ended up in Delaware :mumble:.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
There are so many cases like this it's usually no big deal, but the juxtaposition I'm picturing in "London, KY" makes me giggle.
--Enigmatic
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Ottawa, KS Now I know why I feel at home here, I'm oxymoronic
Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
Miami, OK
Though it's pronounced my-AH-muh here.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Paris, Athens, Italy, and Troy are all in Texas...
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Pittsburg KS (note the lack of a final H) Nevada MO (pronouced nuh-VAY-duh) Cairo IL (KAY-roh)
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
Sorry but Paris, Texas has to take the title here. Though I'm sure many here will be more than willing to vote for Happy, Texas as well (I'm not one of those of course.)
Posted by DavidGill (Member # 8166) on :
Rome, GA.
Posted by BunnV (Member # 6816) on :
Miami, OH
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Surprisingly enough, Amsterdam, Montana is in fact full of Dutch people.
Belgrade and Manhattan, however, are full of Cowboys.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Hell, MI Paradise, MI
Now if there was Purgatory, MI, that would be about right.
Ni!
[ August 03, 2005, 11:14 AM: Message edited by: kwsni ]
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Berlin, NH Heaven, TX Earth, NM Hell, Michagan
(I've been to Heaven, Hell and Earth)
Portland, Maine
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I was gong to post the Hell, MI one...
But how about Holland, MI?
They have a tulip festival there too, with windmills everywhere...it is really beautiful.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
There's also a California, MO. I've been to their waste water treatment plant. (It's a big tourist mecca.)
Posted by bunbun (Member # 6814) on :
There's a Philadelphia and a Paris in TN.
Also, a Memphis.
Posted by Chungwa (Member # 6421) on :
Berlin, IL Athens, IL Peru, IL Mexico, MO
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
quote:Originally posted by bunbun: Also, a Memphis.
All my exes used to live in Texas, but now one hangs her hat in (Memphis) Tennessee...
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
These aren't oxymoronic, but they're my favorite city names
Joe, MT Truth or Consequences, NM
The only towns named after a quarterback and a game show, respectively.
[ August 07, 2005, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: El JT de Spang ]
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Virginia, MN. (It's at the north end, where the weather is un-Virginia-like.) Social Circle, GA. (Too small to be accurate.) Rhine, GA. (It's not even on a river.) Metropolis, IL. (Population 6,482.) Towns, GA. (There's only one of it.)
Posted by Lurker-Girl (Member # 7802) on :
Uh T_Smith...Portland, Maine came first. We're the oxymoron over here in Oregon.
The killer for me is Versailles, KY. And they pronounce it "Ver-SALES." It's terrible!!!
Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :
I don't see how any of these are oxymorons. They're just places named after other places. Is "David Bowie" an oxymoron because he's not really the king of Israel?
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
in my opinion, they're oxymorons because of the type of place that they are. Like if you consider Italy, and then the place called Italy, NY it just seems so different. Or weather wise, Jamaica, NY and Jamaica: hurricanes vs. snow.
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
There ain't no monkeys
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Venice, CA
Or, as it was explained to me close to twenty years ago, "the one without the canals."
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
*tear* not true Venice
Posted by DavidGill (Member # 8166) on :
They're oxymorons (most of them) because the places are contradictions.
Manhattan=big buildings, millions of people, lots of culture
Kansas=short buildings, millions of farm animals, lots of wheat
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
North Pole, NY
Posted by Hmm216 (Member # 8403) on :
Hollywood, Fl??
Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :
Las Vegas, NM New Rome, OH. There are good stories about this village. It WAS run very poorly. NOW it doesn't exist.
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
Florida, MA Naples, FL Treasure Island, FL San Antonio, FL
Towns, GA. (There's only one of it.)
That made me smile.
Posted by Hmm216 (Member # 8403) on :
What about Greenland?? I heard it is freazing there most of time and not very green.
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
Beverly Hills, FL Avon Park, Palm Springs, and Christmas, FL
And, believe it or not, but this is a real place--Yeehaw Junction. I've driven through it; intersection of Fla's Turnpike and Hwy 60. Not much to shout about. *shrug*
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
quote:Originally posted by Hmm216: Hollywood, Fl??
I thought I read somewhere that Hollywood, Florida was the original. There also used to be a Hollywood, Illinois, but it merged with Grossdale and Brookfield to become a much larger Brookfield. That area of town is still known by the locals as Holllywood, just as areas of Chicago are called things like Bucktown and Streeterville and Jackson Park.
Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :
Nevada, Washington, California, and Mexico are all towns in Missouri. (Some of these were mentioned before.)
There's also a real small community near where I live called Dixie that doesn't look anything like the South.
Narnia: "The killer for me is Versailles, KY. And they pronounce it "Ver-SALES." It's terrible!!!" There's a Versailles, MO, too, and we say it Ver-SALES as well.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Upstate NY.
An oxymoron because it refers to EVERYTHING in the state of New York upstate of the George Washington Bridge, including the "Downstate Correctional Facility." But by the time you actually get far enough north to call it upstate, it's called "The North Country."
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Reader: Las Vegas, NM
It's interesting to note that this is the older of the two towns with that name.
Posted by Nitasmile (Member # 8275) on :
~ Virginia, Idaho (don't know if that was the name of city but there was an area called VA).
~ Switzerland, FL (At the time, I was living in northern FL while attending grad school. I was in a car w/several people driving to Jacksonville, about 40 miles away. In making conversation, I asked one of the guys where he was from, he replied he had grown up in "Switzerland" and I said, "Oh wow!" All 3 of my passengers laughed at me and informed me Switzerland was a small area in FL...that was the Switzerland to which he had been referring.
~ That was surprising to read that there is a Hell, MI. Yikes! How awful it might be for someone giving directions to a lost visitor (ie go to Hell, then turn at the 2nd exit, etc.)
[ August 06, 2005, 11:56 AM: Message edited by: Nitasmile ]
Posted by Nitasmile (Member # 8275) on :
One more, it isn't an oxymoron but it's name totally describes the town. It is Nitro, WVa. Growing up, we lived in nearby Charleston, WV for a short time. This town of Nitro smells terribly! It reeks due to chemical manufacturing plants and their contributions to the atmosphere. Thee was a bridge that we would go over and at times we would see people holding their noses as they drove over the bridge.
Note- I am basing this on my childhood memory, as I haven't been there in nearly 25 years. Hopefully citizens have activated and the smell is gone.
[ August 06, 2005, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: Nitasmile ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Joe, MN
*ahem* ... MT
But Joe changed its name back to Ismay. I think it happened when the 49ers started sucking.
Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :
Paris Idaho
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
There's also a Hurricane, WV, and I believe a Tornado, WV as well, though that one I'm not entirely sure of.
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
Another reason that your country sucks! You're totally uncreative!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Blame the first settlers.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
Kiwi, I dunno if Holland really counts as an oximoron. It's very very Dutch.
Ni!
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Hazard, KY. It can't be that dangerous.
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
quote:Nitasmile: How awful it might be for someone giving directions to a lost visitor (ie go to Hell, then turn at the 2nd exit, etc.)
Too funny! You made me laugh so hard.
Happy Camper, I had an online friend that lived in Hurricane, WV. Never visited though--we get enough hurricanes in FL. *groan* bad pun, sorry.
Posted by Nitasmile (Member # 8275) on :
Thanks Starr- I usually don't use those words in jokes, I couldn't resist. But when I was out today doing errands, I sort of regretted since that's not my usual style. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
kwsni, How come you always end your posts in a Ni!?
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Because she is the Knights Who Say Ni.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I like having a sig, and Ni! is short enough to type everytime. I don't even notice anymore, unless i'm writing an email or something to someone i don't know through any fora.
heh, yeah, that too, fugu
Ni!
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
quote: I sort of regretted since that's not my usual style.
Don't regret. Hours later, my daughter & I were giggling again over the idea of giving "innocent" directions to Hell.
And...I can't believe I forgot this one:
Jupiter, FL
[ August 09, 2005, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: Starr R ]
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Mars, PA
Venus, PA
Moon Township, PA
Although they are not oxymoronic, I love the star-crossed-lover towns of Illinois:
Joliet and Romeoville...
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Biggar, Saskatchewan.
It has a sign at the city limits. "New York is big, but this is Biggar."
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Vulcan, Alberta. Nope, not joking. Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :
London, Ontario; Little New York, Tel-Aviv; Tel-Aviv, Israel; The Southern Alps, New Zealand; The Australian Alps, Australia; Birmingham, Alabama; New York; New Amsterdam; New Mexico; New Jersey; Trondheim (the planet from SftD);
quote:Originally posted by jebus202: Another reason that your country sucks! You're totally uncreative!
Londonderry, Northern Ireland (well, that's the protestant name, anyway);
Naples (Nea-Polis) / Carthage (Qarta-Khadhatha) / Novgorod (Nov-Gorod) / Villeneuve (sp?) / Neustadt - one copied from another! I think that Carthage was the first...
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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Alucard, I can't believe I never clued into that one before, especially since I have family that live in each town... [headbash]
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
There is a Normal, Illinois and an Oblong, Illinois. The wedding announcements in the local paper can read: "Normal Woman Weds Oblong Man"
Posted by Shigosei (Member # 3831) on :
There's a town in Oregon called Boring. I'm not sure it's an oxymoron, though.
Posted by The Reader (Member # 3636) on :
quote:There's also a Hurricane, WV, and I believe a Tornado, WV as well, though that one I'm not entirely sure of.
There was an article published in The Columbus (OH) Dispatch a while ago mentioning all kinds of strange town names in West Virginia. I wish I could find. It has to be in an archive somewhere.
Not to tease WV or anything of that sort, but there aren't names like that in such a quantity in any state anywhere else in the US.
Posted by not hansenj (Member # 8066) on :
Moscow, ID
Mormon Bar, CA
Buena Vista, CO. Not oxymoronic, but horrible nonetheless as it is pronounced BYOOna Vista.
No Name, CO. The state highway officials who saw this on the application for the town to build an on ramp onto I-70 thought it was so funny that they took it literally and printed No Name on the sign.
Posted by TheDisgruntledPostman (Member # 7200) on :
Jebus, its just another reason why America ROCKS! Cause our names are so cool, that we just have to go and use them again.
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(It's a big tourist mecca.)
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I think that Carthage was the first...