tewok@gymble.UUCP (Wayne Morrison) (01/01/70)
>In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes: > >What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention >of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it. It very well could be an invention of AAA. Map makers often invent streets and put them on their maps at random. By doing this, they can tell if someone is copying their maps. They can then take this person to court and sue the bananas out of their slugs. Make sense, eh? (Maybe I shouldn't have posted it in net.bizarre, then :-) -- "I love the feel of plastic. It makes me hot!" - T.J. Tarou Wayne Morrison (301)454-7690 tewok@gymble.ARPA seismo!umcp-cs!tewok
bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price) (01/01/70)
In article <1442@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes: > >What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention >of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it. > There really is such a place, sort of. The place is at the intersection you named (thanks for supplying the name of Borland Road--I had forgotten it), and consists of the Wankers Corner Tavern, on the NW corner. On the SW corner, there used to be the Wankers Corner Service Station, but it shut down in (about) 1979. -- --Bill Price uucp: {Most Anybody}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc
allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) (01/01/70)
> > A friend of mine and her hubby-to-be went on a road trip > thru Michigan. While tripping down the interstate, they > saw a sign, with an arrow pointing to an exit that > read: > Hell > 3 miles > -- > --- Rob DeMillo > Madison Academic Computer Center > ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR BIZARRE ROAD SIGN *** I was told a few years back by a Washington state resident (if I remember correctly) that somewhere in the state there is a sign that points to Othello in one direction and Basin City in another. However, someone had obliterated a few letters somehow so that, standing by the sign, a person could say that they were between "hell" and "sin City"... -- Back on the freeway, which is already in progress, Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)
dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) (08/09/85)
In article <333@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >You yanks think YOU have some funny names. How about "Grong Grong", a small >town in New South Wales, Australia? Beltsville, Md. Bois D'arc, Mo. (pronounced BO-dark) Bum Fuck, Iowa (a friend of mine claims to have been born near there) Cabin John, Md. Cuba, Mo. (local businesses include the People's Bank of Cuba and the Cuba Free Press) Devil's Elbow, Mo. Fuquay-Varina, N.C. Half Way, Mo. (half way between Buffalo, Mo. and Boliver, Mo.) Ho-ho-cus (or is it Ho-ho-kus?), N.J. Houston, Mo. (county seat of Texas county) Method, N.C. (which is *completely* surrounded by Raleigh, N.C.) Metropolis, Ill. (I have heard that the local newspaper is the Daily Planet, and that there is an annual Superman festival) No Tie (in one of the Western states, I forget which one. Supposedly the name has to do with someone forgetting to tie his horse to a hitching post) Oswego, N.Y. (not to be confused with Owego, N.Y. I once ended up in the wrong town, by mistake!) Shickshinny, Pa. Rolla, Mo. (my home town. One story is that the intended name was Raleigh but that they couldn't remember how to spell it) -- Dana S. Nau, Comp Sci Dept, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 dsn@maryland seismo!umcp-cs!dsn (301) 454-7932
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/10/85)
From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: bizarre place names
Message-ID: <314@tove.UUCP>
Beltsville, Md.
Cabin John, Md.
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You forgot Accident, Md., out in Garrett County.
Up in Pennsylvania there's ``Bird in Hand'' and ``Intercourse''. I've
been to both of them. Bird in Hand is boring, except for the antique
car dealer, and Intercourse is a tourist trap.
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harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fredslb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) (08/11/85)
My favorites:
Surprise, Nebraska
and Hygiene, Colorado
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~davida@umd5.UUCP (08/12/85)
> Beltsville, Md.
Hey, what's so funny about that??? I live (if you can call it that)
in Beltsville!!! It's a wonderful ... it's very ... well, it's cheap!
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davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (08/12/85)
There is also the sign somewhere around Baltimore MD for:
North East
Rising Sun
Two distinct towns, I believe...
David C. Kovar
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"I felt like a punk who'd gone out for a switchblade and come back
with a tactical nuke.
'Shit', I thought. 'Screwed again. What good's a tactical nuke in a
street fight?'"
"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
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"I felt like a punk who'd gone out for a switchblade and come back
with a tactical nuke.
'Shit', I thought. 'Screwed again. What good's a tactical nuke in a
street fight?'"
"Burning Chrome" by William Gibsonchris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison) (08/13/85)
In article <314@tove.UUCP> dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: > >Bum Fuck, Iowa (a friend of mine claims to have been born near there) I've heard of this place, too. I've also heard of the town it was named after, a small town near one of our USAF bases in Turkey. It seems most of my friends that did a remote tour there seemed to lose a grasp on their sanity before they could return stateside. "Where've ya been, John?" "Oh, I got stuck in Bum Fuck, Turkey, where the women are men and the toilet paper's non-existent! Man, even the cooks in the best eateries use their hand to wipe. Thank God for JD's, it was the only way to keep my guts clean!" "Man, that's sick!" "No, that's Bum Fuck, Turkey!" -- Chris
andy@lasspvax.UUCP (Andy Pfiffer) (08/13/85)
In article <314@tove.UUCP> dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) writes: >In article <333@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >>You yanks think YOU have some funny names. How about "Grong Grong", a small >>town in New South Wales, Australia? >... >Oswego, N.Y. (not to be confused with Owego, N.Y. I once ended up in the > /\ wrong town, by mistake!) || || BIZARRE! I spent four years worth of college in that snow-bound town. Two weekends ago a 2 friends of mine from college got married in Nichols, New York, just a few miles from Owego, New York. WHO ARE YOU? AND WHY DO YOU KNOW SUCH THINGS? GO AWAY! TEAR UP MY VEGETABLE GARDEN IF YOU HAVE TO, but STOP FOLLOWING ME! ...it isn't easy being paranoid when the world smells of conspiracy and everyone is out to get you... -- ========================================================= USENET: {decvax,ihnp4,cmcl2,vax135}!cornell!devvax!andy ARPA: andy%devvax@Cornell.arpa MAIL: Theory Center/265 Olin Hall "What do you mean Cornell University I watch too much Ithaca, NY 14853 TV?" PHONE: (607) 256-8686 =========================================================
scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper ) (08/13/85)
> Subject: bizarre place names > > Beltsville, Md. > Cabin John, Md. > . > . > . > >You forgot Accident, Md., out in Garrett County. > >Up in Pennsylvania there's ``Bird in Hand'' and ``Intercourse''. I've >been to both of them. Bird in Hand is boring, except for the antique >car dealer, and Intercourse is a tourist trap. There is also a place called 'Paradise' and 'Blue Ball' These four all happen to be in the same relative area....(hmmm...)
djw@lanl.ARPA (08/13/85)
How about Mooselookmyguntick, Maine? Dave
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/14/85)
> From: davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: bizarre place names > Message-ID: <3468@dartvax.UUCP> > > There is also the sign somewhere around Baltimore MD for: > > North East > Rising Sun > > Two distinct towns, I believe... ``Rising Sun'' is indeed a town in Maryland. It is, if newspaper accounts are to be believed, a hotbed of Klu Klux Klan activity. I don't know of any town in Maryland called ``North East'', but ``Rising Sun'' is north-east of Baltimore, which may explain the sign. Also near Baltimore, in the Golden Ring area (how's that for strange) there's ``Yellow Brick Road''. About ten miles east-northeast of Baltimore is ``Aero Acres'', a residential area where all the streets have names like: ``Right Wing'', ``Left Aileron'', ``Fuselage'', ``Altimiter Court'', etc. It was built during WWII by the Glenn L. Martin plant, to house their employees who were furiously building planes for the war effort. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
olson@rochester.UUCP (Thomas J. Olson) (08/14/85)
> You forgot: > > No Name, Co. > Halfway, Va. > ... My favorite : Condom, France. Curiously enough, just outside Condom we stopped to picnic at a ruined country church. It had old stone walls but had lacked a roof for at least a century, judging by the bushes and weeds growing through the floor. In the center of the sanctuary stood a rough stone altar, shining in the hot sun. In the center of the altar top lay an empty package of birth control pills. Tom Olson
smc@mit-vax.UUCP (Stewart M. Clamen) (08/14/85)
St. Jean de Ha-Ha, Quebec. -- ---------------------------------------------------- ARPA: SMC%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA USENET: ...!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!smc%mit-oz
lhl@lanl.ARPA (08/14/85)
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Place names are sometimes made bizarre in context, as the two western
Minnesota towns referenced in the following headline (describing a fatal
auto accident:)
FERTILE WOMAN DIES IN CLIMAX
Lewis H. Lowe@The New Mexico Institute for the Incurably Different
YOUR PET MAY BE AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
Wierd Al Yankovicknf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) (08/14/85)
And then there's my favorite sign: /====================\ | Welcome to | | Steamboat Springs | | Founded 1887 | | Population 13500 | | Elevation 9500 ft| | --------------- | | Total 24887 | \====================/
vollum@rtp47.UUCP (Rob Vollum) (08/14/85)
Sue Brezden writes: >My favorites: > > Surprise, Nebraska > >and Hygiene, Colorado Since I just started reading net.bizzare, I don't know if anyone has mentioned these as their favorite weird place names: Intercourse, Pennsylvania Blue Ball, Pennsylvania and the neighboring town of Paradise, Pennsylvania -- Rob Vollum Data General Corp. Research Triangle Park, NC <the world>!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!vollum
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/15/85)
> From: olson@rochester.UUCP (Thomas J. Olson) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: bizarre place names > Message-ID: <11038@rochester.UUCP> > > My favorite : > Condom, France. I'm sure there's an interesting story there. ;-) Anyway, if we're going to start talking dirty, I nominate Fucking (pronounced FOO-king) Austria. > . . . In the center of the altar top lay an empty package of > birth control pills. If it was empty, it wasn't a package of anything. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
bill@persci.UUCP (08/15/85)
My Favorite (as a former player of a certain bass brass):
Tuba City (NM? AZ? They took away my maps!! :-( )
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"Have you hugged your bagpipe today?" jackg@tekchips.UUCP (Jack Gjovaag) (08/15/85)
> You forgot: > > No Name, Co. > Halfway, Va. > > -------------------------------------------- > > Brian Millham > AT & T Information Systems > Denver, Co. > > ...!inhp4!drutx!review Also, remember HUMPTULIPS, WASHINGTON.
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (08/18/85)
My favorites include: Rural, Wisconsin Wankers Corner, Oregon Beamer Knob, Virginia (signalling to the space aliens?) George, Washington
jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) (08/19/85)
In Saskatchewan, Canada, we have some dandies, including: Elbow, Eyebrow, Indian Head, Climax, and, of course, the famous Moose Jaw. (I have actually been to Indian Head, Elbow and Moose Jaw.) (My hometown is Wolseley. Not very funny at all.) Jim Tubman Saskatchewanite in Exile University of Waterloo
pdbain@wateng.UUCP (Peter Bain) (08/19/85)
In article <785@water.UUCP> jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) writes: > >In Saskatchewan, Canada, we have some dandies, including: > > Elbow, > Eyebrow, > Indian Head, > Climax, > Moose Jaw. What about Head-Smashed-In, in Alberta? -- - peter bain ...!{allegra|decvax|clyde|ihnp4 }!watmath!wateng!pdbain hard mail: CCNG, CPH-2369A, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2M 5G4 telephone: (519) 885-1211 x2810
ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) (08/20/85)
How about: Dildo, Newfoundland (named in the late 1700s, apparently referring to a long spit of land nearby). Horsefly, British Columbia (the name says it all). Spuzzum, British Columbia (on Highway 1, just a little beyond Hope). -- ludemann%ubc-vision@ubc-cs.uucp (ubc-cs!ludemann@ubc-vision.uucp) ludemann@cs.ubc.cdn ludemann@ubc-cs.csnet Peter_Ludemann@UBC.mailnet
jb@rti-sel.UUCP (Jeff Bartlett) (08/20/85)
> In article <333@baylor.UUCP> peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > > >You yanks think YOU have some funny names. How about "Grong Grong", a small > >town in New South Wales, Australia? > > Bum Fuck, Iowa (a friend of mine claims to have been born near there) > Fuquay-Varina, N.C. > Half Way, Mo. (half way between Buffalo, Mo. and Boliver, Mo.) > Ho-ho-cus (or is it Ho-ho-kus?), N.J. > Method, N.C. (which is *completely* surrounded by Raleigh, N.C.) > Shickshinny, Pa. > Rolla, Mo. (my home town. One story is that the intended name was > Raleigh but that they couldn't remember how to spell it) > Dana S. Nau, Comp Sci Dept, U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 > dsn@maryland seismo!umcp-cs!dsn (301) 454-7932 My hometown is: High Point, N.C (the highest point on the southern railroad line) closely nearby are the townships of Climax and Hornytown. (BTW growing up in High Point gave me a remarkable sense of balance) -- in keeping with the spirt of net.bizzare package Jeff_Bartlett is new Bartlett( email_addr => "mcnc!rti-sel!jb", employer => "Research Triangle Institute" ); procedure Disclaimer is new Canonical_Disclaimer( others => true ); BTW, look at the syntax charts for Ada Lang. Ref. for 'package_specification' it is BIZZARE that header is 'identifer' but the closing designator (footer name) can be a more complex 'simple_name'
bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) (08/20/85)
Eau Gallie, Fla (sound it out)
Lizard Lick, NC
Plain Dealing, La
Why, Arizona
Likely, California
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...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bchjerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs) (08/21/85)
I`ve been through Wankers Corners several times. But have you been through HUMPTULIPS, WASHINGTON? J. Marrs Tektronix (Blush, Beaverton)
gmv@cbuxc.UUCP (Mike Vrbanac) (08/21/85)
One of my favorites is "Seventeen, Ohio." For those of you who might not know where Seventeen is, it is about three miles due east of Gnadenhutten. -- +--------------+------------------------+-----------------+ | Mike Vrbanac | AT&T Bell Laboratories | Columbus, Ahiya | +--------------+------------------+-----------------------+ | Unix: {cbosgd|ihnp4}!cbuxc!gmv | CompuServ: 76054,113 | +---------------------------------+-----------------------+
jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman [LPAIG]) (08/21/85)
In article <1225@ubc-cs.UUCP> ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) writes: >How about: > >Dildo, Newfoundland (named in the late 1700s, apparently referring > to a long spit of land nearby). And how far is Dildo from Come-By-Chance? John Crosbie (Canada's Justice Minister) once gave a speech in Parliament mentioning many of Newfoundland's settlements with sexually suggestive names. I wish I could remember more of them. (The speech sent the whole House of Commons into gales of laughter.) Jim Tubman University of Waterloo
haas@utah-gr.UUCP (Walt Haas) (08/22/85)
Dutch John, Utah
Cheers -- Walt Haas ...{decvax ihnp4 seismo}!utah-cs!haasreview@drutx.UUCP (MillhamBD) (08/22/85)
And: ZYZYZ, Nevada (Don't ask. This info. is from an incompitent.) -------------------------------------------- Brian Millham AT & T Information Systems Denver, Co. ...!inhp4!drutx!review
hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) (08/23/85)
<*munch*>
=> My favorites include:
=>
=> Rural, Wisconsin
=> Wankers Corner, Oregon
=> Beamer Knob, Virginia (signalling to the space aliens?)
=> George, Washington
'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark. How about a pointer
to a map with this place on it? (After bragging to SO about it at home last
night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin
and embarassment.)
Helen Anne
{ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav
"J. Frank Parnell."
"Ott . . . Otto."
"Do you ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?"knipfer@drutx.UUCP (KnipferRP) (08/23/85)
...and another...... Euren, Wisconsin. Bob Knipfer ihnp4!drutx!knipfer
dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) (08/23/85)
In article <1271@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes: > >How about wierd street names? ... Here in Saskatoon, we have a wonderful street corner. It's at the intersection of Rusholme Road and Avenue P. | | | | ------------+ +---------- < RUSHOLME | | P > ------------+ +---------- | | | | | | | | | | | | D.Katz
mcb@ihlpm.UUCP (m. baker) (08/24/85)
> Eau Gallie, Fla (sound it out) > -- > > Byron C. Howes > ...!{decvax,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bch Eau Gallie is actaully pronounced as \oh galley\. It doesn't exist as a town any more. In 1969 it merged with the town of Melbourne. Among the names to pick from for the new city name was Eau Gallie, Melbourne, and Holopaw Beach. (Now that would be a weird name beacuse Holopaw is 25 miles from the ocean and in the middle of the swamps. -- -- Mark
sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) (08/24/85)
References: Chicago comes from an Indian word meaning "cesspool". Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (08/26/85)
In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes: >=> Wankers Corner, Oregon > >'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark. How about a pointer >to a map with this place on it? (After bragging to SO about it at home last >night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin >and embarassment.) Dear Not: What a straight line! You even specifically invite me to use the AAA map. OK, on your AAA Portland map, look just east of Tualatin and south of Lake Oswego, at the intersection of SW Borland Rd and Stafford Rd. It's at O8 on my map. If your collection is so bare you only have the Oregon/Washington map, you'll have to look at the "Portland and Vicinity" inset in the same place (I know it's boring for it to be in the same place on both maps, I guess AAA doesn't have a good enough imagination.) This is at the bottom of the inset, just north of I-205. What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it. Not Not Sid Vicious (Oh, My God! Now I have to change jobs!)
hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (08/26/85)
In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes: ><*munch*> > >=> My favorites include: >=> >=> Rural, Wisconsin >=> Wankers Corner, Oregon >=> Beamer Knob, Virginia (signalling to the space aliens?) >=> George, Washington > >'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark. How about a pointer >to a map with this place on it? (After bragging to SO about it at home last >night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin >and embarassment.) > >Helen Anne > {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav Well, even if Wanker's Corner isn't there, we DO have the lovely Boring, OR. We also have charming downtown Drain, OR. There is even rumored to be a town called Antelope, OR. but certain imported religious fanatics seem to have taken issue with that fact. Hutch
review@drutx.UUCP (MillhamBD) (08/27/85)
> What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention > of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it. There is a town(?) in Vermont that shows up on all maps that I have found. The town is Pleasant Valley. I lived 4 miles from Pleasant Valley, and have yet to find it! There is an intersection of 2 roads, and 1 house, one of the roads is Pleasant Valley Road. I this enough to be on a map? Why is it that this town is on almost any map that I have seen? Is this bizarre enough for this new group? Am I bizarre enough? Are you bizarre enough to read this? Are MUNCH aieeeeeeeeee More brains! MUNCH MUNCH GROSS SOUNDS OF EATING. SLURP. -------------------------------------------- Brian Millham AT & T Information Systems Denver, Co. ...!inhp4!drutx!review
knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) (08/27/85)
->Place names are sometimes made bizarre in context, as the two western ->Minnesota towns referenced in the following headline (describing a fatal ->auto accident:) -> FERTILE WOMAN DIES IN CLIMAX Okay, but they're Western slope Colorado towns. Ken
bprice@bmcg.UUCP (Bill Price) (08/28/85)
>=> Wankers Corner, Oregon > >'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark. How about a pointer >to a map with this place on it? (After bragging to SO about it at home last >night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin >and embarassment.) >Helen Anne Look just south of Portland, north of I205 (about 1/4 mile). Wanker's Corner is the intersection of Stafford Road--from Lake Oswego to Stafford, thence to Wilsonville--and OR 212, which runs from Tualatin to, of all places, Boring! Last time I was there, though, OR 212 had been decommissioned. Or maybe it's 213? But anyway, it's the section that runs from Tualatin to West Linn. West Linn is another bizarrity--there is no Linn that it is west of! I only lived there for four years, though, driving to Beaverton via Wankers Corner, many times. Speaking of bizarrities: East Point, GA is well to the north of West Point, GA. -- --Bill Price uucp: {Most Anybody}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc
fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) (08/28/85)
> Path: gymble!tewok > From: tewok@gymble.UUCP (Wayne Morrison) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > > > In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes: > > > > What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an > > invention of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else > > showing it. > It very well could be an invention of AAA. Map makers often > invent streets and put them on their maps at random. By doing > this, they can tell if someone is copying their maps. They can > then take this person to court and sue . . . Around here, the local government makes it a practice to actually build streets, just to see if anyone has been making maps of them. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) (08/28/85)
In article <735@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes: > >Why, Arizona It's been several years since I've been there but I thought it was spelled Wye, as in a fork in the road, which it is. Also near Wye is a town named Ajo which is a somewhat bizarre name if you speak spanish (it means garlic). In another part of the Arizona is a town named Show Low.
douglas@bcsaic.UUCP (douglas schuler) (08/29/85)
My favorite: Dildo, Newfoundland
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uw-june!bcsaic!douglas@washington.arpachabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) (08/29/85)
> There is even rumored to be a town called Antelope, OR. but certain > imported religious fanatics seem to have taken issue with that fact. HEY!! There is nothing bizarre about "Antelope" for a town name! I'm from the Antelope Valley, in which you can find Antelope Acres. Also a Quartz Hill, a Palmdale (named for its joshua trees (which aren't palms)), a Lancaster (named for Hannibal Missouri), and a Pearblossom (as in _The_Crows_of_...)(ever read much Aldous Huxley?). Ever see "The Right Stuff"? (Now, Pismo Beach and Lompoc and Weedpatch and Yreka: those are bizarre names.) L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot
sutin@astrovax.UUCP (Brian M. Sutin) (08/29/85)
Long ago there was a TV show called 'Truth or Consequences,' and some poor guy got the consequence of haning to go all over the country and find a town that would change its name to Truth or Consequences. He found some boring little town on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico (the name escapes me, something like Silver Water, Spring Water, Salty Spring, whatever) and they changed the name. It is now usually called TorC. Brian Sutin -- Local Yokel from New Mex, just out of the Wild West. Princeton University Astrophysics
nose@nbires.UUCP (Steve Dunn) (08/30/85)
The United States Geological Survey has contributed to the bizzarrography
of Arizona by nameing one of its topo maps the Ka-Ka quadrangle.
Related is the fact that a common nickname for Carlesbad Caverns, NM is
Ca-Ca.
Not only that there is a paradox quadrangle in Colo.
So there.
--Steve "Brain? Sorry, Wrong Planet!" Dunnsra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) (09/03/85)
In article <200@laidbak.UUCP> jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist) writes: >In article <142@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >>> >>> Chicago comes from an Indian word meaning "cesspool". >>> >>> Scott Anderson >> >>According to "Trivial Pursuit, Genus II" (I know, a really authoritative >>source) Chicago comes from "Garlic Field". > >Actually it's "Onion Field". The near north side (just north of >the Loop) was a swamp before the river was reversed. >An indigenous plant (don't know what type) that was around >before the buildings went up gave off a smell like onions. Hence my somewhat liberal translation. I wasn't going to let Chicago be outdone by Wanker's Corners! Scott Anderson ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra
westling@cvl.UUCP (Mark Westling) (09/04/85)
>>> >>> Chicago comes from an Indian word meaning "cesspool". >>> >> >>According to "Trivial Pursuit, Genus II" (I know, a really authoritative >>source) Chicago comes from "Garlic Field". > >Actually it's "Onion Field". The near north side (just north of >the Loop) was a swamp before the river was reversed. >An indigenous plant (don't know what type) that was around >before the buildings went up gave off a smell like onions. > The way I heard it, "Chicago" is an Indian word meaning "This place? We don't call it anything." -- Mark Westling ARPA: westling@cvl CSNET: westling@cvl UUCP: ...!{seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!cvl!westling
fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) (09/05/85)
Show Low, Arizona, is just about my favorite vacation spot in the state.
Many of the streets are named using card game-ese (better word, anyone?)
such as "Deuce of Clubs" or "Queen's High". Show Low came about as a name
because of the proverbial "this town ain't big enough for the two of us"
situation between heads of two families. Eventually they decided to solve
things via a card game, instead of fists or gun-fighting. I don't recall
what game it was, but whoever "showed low" got to stay.
--
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ARPA: oakhill!mot!fred@ut-sally.ARPA AT&T: 602-438-3472waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (09/05/85)
> In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes: > >=> Wankers Corner, Oregon > > > >'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark. How about a pointer > >to a map with this place on it? (After bragging to SO about it at home last > >night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin > >and embarassment.) > > Dear Not: > > What a straight line! You even specifically invite me to use the > AAA map. OK, on your AAA Portland map, look just east of Tualatin and > south of Lake Oswego, at the intersection of SW Borland Rd and Stafford Rd. > It's at O8 on my map. > > If your collection is so bare you only have the Oregon/Washington map, > you'll have to look at the "Portland and Vicinity" inset in the same > place (I know it's boring for it to be in the same place on both maps, > I guess AAA doesn't have a good enough imagination.) This is at the > bottom of the inset, just north of I-205. > > What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention > of AAA. I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it. > Hey! I live in Tualatin, about 3 miles from Wankers Corner. Yes, it is real. It consists of a school, tavern, and fruit stand. Been to the tavern many times. -- Walt
crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (09/06/85)
>Ever see "The Right Stuff"?
Not in THIS newsgroup.
--
Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandellputnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu) (09/10/85)
This may not be very bizarre, but the precedent has been set.
My favorite place names are three towns just north of the Catskills,
rather close to each other : Surprise, Result, and Climax.
This is a nice area (though hilly) to go bicycling in, and i always
wonder as i ride through it if the names are related, and if so, in
what order they should be taken in. Then of course, one tries to
imagine scenarios for each possible order. Surprise, Climax, Result
is easy, as is Climax, Result, Surprise; but Climax, Surprise, Result
is a little tougher.
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Anna Livia! I want to hear all.... -- ARPA: putnam@kbsvax.decnet@GE-CRDdemillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) (09/12/85)
A friend of mine and her hubby-to-be went on a road trip
thru Michigan. While tripping down the interstate, they
saw a sign, with an arrow pointing to an exit that
read:
Hell
3 miles
They, of course, immediately took the exit. They took lots
of pictures, and Kurt spent many LONG monthes saying things
like:
"Lori and I have gone through Hell together."
or
"I've been in Hell, and the population isn't
as big as you might think..."
or
etc etc etc
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Madison Academic Computer Center
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Television's takin' its toll.
Turn it off, turn it off!
Give me the remote control!
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In article <1271@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes: >> >>How about wierd street names? ... How about the intersection of Dale Road and Evans Drive in Rex, GA... (This is a fairly recent development - they moved part of Dale Rd. to form this particular intersection...) -- Mark A. Gravitt | "You, therefore, love one User Assistant | another and in patient Office of Computing Services | endurance conceal one Georgia Institute of Technology | another's shortcomings." Atlanta, GA | [Testament of Joseph 17:2] UUCP: ..!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}gatech!gitpyr!mag ..!{rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!mag BITNET: CCASTMG @ GITVM1
wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) (09/15/85)
<> Note: This is STella Calvert, a guest on ...decvax!frog!wjr. In Ann Arbor, Michigan, there intersect Nixon and Bluitt Roads. For some reason, the sign at the intersection is frequently missing. STella Calvert (guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr) Every man and every woman is a star.