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:.
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Pittsburg KS (note the lack of a final H) Nevada MO (pronouced nuh-VAY-duh) Cairo IL (KAY-roh)
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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.)
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There's also a California, MO. I've been to their waste water treatment plant. (It's a big tourist mecca.)
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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Las Vegas, NM New Rome, OH. There are good stories about this village. It WAS run very poorly. NOW it doesn't exist.
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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*
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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.
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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.
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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."
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~ 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.)
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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.
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There's also a Hurricane, WV, and I believe a Tornado, WV as well, though that one I'm not entirely sure of.
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