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#1708203 - 06/07/12 08:15 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Pulling people out of the ditc...
ummm...i think you mean meh-hay-uh tey-hoss
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#1708212 - 06/07/12 08:31 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... raitchjay
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Originally Posted By: raitchjay
Originally Posted By: CRAatBOK
Oh and they have Adair, OK pronounced A (long A) dair. Drives me nuts.


How else are you supposed to say it?


fixed, I think the 'H' is silent
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#1708213 - 06/07/12 08:32 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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#1708281 - 06/08/12 06:27 AM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Drain, OR
Boring, OR
Halfway, OR

And then there are the woods west of Staunton, VA, where the Bull Pasture River and the Cow Pasture River come together, forming . . . yup, the Calf Pasture River.
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#1708287 - 06/08/12 12:02 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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We have a Halfway, KY too. It's halfway between Bowling Green and Scottsville.
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#1708585 - 06/08/12 06:29 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... raitchjay
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Further South than I wanna be.
Originally Posted By: raitchjay
Oh.....no one (that i know) says uh-dair. That would sound odd to my ears.


That's because you have odd Okie ears. In Missouri (not Mizurah) it is Ah dair.
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#1708590 - 06/08/12 06:31 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Further South than I wanna be.
There is a Halfway Missouri too but it isn't half way between anything important.
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#1708593 - 06/08/12 06:33 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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"ah dair" sounds even funnier than "uh dair" to my odd Okie ears. laugh

Oh.....but i do agree that "Mizurah" sounds weird too.
Last edited by raitchjay; 06/08/12 06:34 PM.
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#1708684 - 06/08/12 08:23 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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We have Sandwich, IL

And I hate when people say Illinoise instead of Illinois! smile
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#1708722 - 06/08/12 09:03 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... Aggs
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Originally Posted By: Aggs
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this one yet:

Elephant Butte, NM

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I'm catching up with TJ! I've been here many times. Named for a rock formation in the middle of the lake

Pic of the "elephant" here

It's also just down the road from Truth or Consequences! And we didn't call it Elephant Butte in college - we left just one little letter off the end...

How about No Agua, NM? It's a really dry heat!
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#1708748 - 06/08/12 10:10 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... Blade Scrapper
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Originally Posted By: Swimware
Weed, CA (Yes, I did.)


So bummed you got that one before me! I live just south of there.

There's a college out there & there's a sign that says "College/Weed" with arrows pointing in opposite directions.

Also the brewery's tag line is "Try Legal Weed" - went through quite the legal battle before he won.
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#1708749 - 06/08/12 10:11 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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I am a big fan of Faquier County in Virginia.

Took a picture by Faquier Bank last year wink
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#1708902 - 06/11/12 03:29 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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I have been to Muleshoe, TX for my wife's family reunion.

I live in Cumming, GA. Don't ask me what the residents are called, I don't know. The Chamber of Commerce was going to have a fund raiser where the local restaurants would set up booths and you buy tickets to sample the food. It was almost named Taste of Cumming before saner heads prevaled.

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#1708911 - 06/11/12 03:54 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Fifty Six, AR
Porcupine, SD (I bet their residents are little prickly)
Nemo, SD

(We're going to SD for vacay this year so I plan on taking a lot of "ironic" town sign photos! smile )

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#1708915 - 06/11/12 04:00 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Fifty Six, AR reminded me of Thousand Oaks, CA. Did someone count them? Are there still 1,000 Oaks?

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#1708944 - 06/11/12 04:50 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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There is also a Thousand Palms, CA a Twenty-Nine Palms, CA and of course Palm Springs. They like their palms in the desert! shocked
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#1708950 - 06/11/12 04:55 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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29 Palms, wasn't that a song?
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#1708977 - 06/11/12 05:37 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Yes, Robert Plant I think.
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#1708982 - 06/11/12 05:40 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Now, you see, the rotgut has not yet ate my brain. laugh
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#1711170 - 06/15/12 11:17 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... Retired DQ
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#1711174 - 06/16/12 12:31 AM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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Originally Posted By: Swimware
Weed, CA (Yes, I did.)

My husband used to have a dedicated haul with Coca-Cola and I would crack up everytime the dispatcher would call and say - "got a hot load of coke for weed". Thank god my phone line was not tapped !!

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#1711175 - 06/16/12 12:31 AM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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#1711208 - 06/18/12 12:01 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... buggs
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I have relatives in Cumming, GA.

How about Rio Grande, OH; which is obviously nowhere near the actual river. Better yet is how its pronounced. "Rye-oh" grand. Got an interesting story about that on my first day at college there.
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#1711308 - 06/18/12 04:22 PM Re: 10 Funny Real Town Names... waldensouth
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Originally Posted By: waldensouth
Two Egg, Alabama
Two Egg, Florida

Different...but the same!

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