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Will B
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Hazard, KY. It can't be that dangerous.
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Starr R
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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.

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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. [Smile] [Smile]
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Tante Shvester
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kwsni,
How come you always end your posts in a Ni!?

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Because she is the Knights Who Say Ni.
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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!

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Starr R
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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 ]

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Mars, PA

Venus, PA

Moon Township, PA

Although they are not oxymoronic, I love the star-crossed-lover towns of Illinois:

Joliet and Romeoville...

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Will B
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Biggar, Saskatchewan.

It has a sign at the city limits. "New York is big, but this is Biggar."

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Vulcan, Alberta. Nope, not joking. [Big Grin]
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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! [Razz] I think that Carthage was the first...

[ August 07, 2005, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]

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Alucard, I can't believe I never clued into that one before, especially since I have family that live in each town... [headbash]
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Tante Shvester
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There is a Normal, Illinois and an Oblong, Illinois. The wedding announcements in the local paper can read: "Normal Woman Weds Oblong Man"
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There's a town in Oregon called Boring. I'm not sure it's an oxymoron, though.
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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.

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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.

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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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