Genres & Backgrounds

St Jon^3 said:
> * FYI, Six Mile Bottom is a real village not that far from here.....
;-)

My hometown (Dugspur, Virginia) sounds quaint enough, but there's a place in
Arkansas that has us beat: Toad Suck Ferry Lock and Dam.

> St Jon^3 said:

Then there's all the Pennsylvania ones that ECC attendees should be familiar
with....

Intercourse, Bird In Hand, Blueball

Somewhere around here (I think more towards State College) we have the Village
of Burnt Cabins. I always liked that name.

But I didn't get to tell everyone how Climax, Michigan is very close to Hell,
Michigan!!!

Oh, wait, I just did.

> Hudak, Michael Wrote:

> > >* FYI, Six Mile Bottom is a real village not that far from

Guess again.

Oregon has it's share of interesting place names. Whenever something
newsworthy happens in one town outside Portland, the headlines can read
"Boring man shot" or such. I grew up in Tenmile, which is not ten miles

from anywhere of significance - it's named after Tanmile creek, which is
not ten miles long. Pistol River is not far from Cannon Beach, which was named
after an old ships cannon that washed ashore there. And neither is too far
from the most appropriately named town in the whole state - Remote.

My favorite Non-Oregon town name is Rough and Ready, California.

And they're both close to Nirvana, Michigan

2B^2

> From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet72@yahoo.com>

> Hell, Michigan!!!

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:

> St Jon^3 said:
;-)
> My hometown (Dugspur, Virginia) sounds quaint enough, but there's a

There's a spot on the map in the interior of British Columbia called
Horsefly...

I think it's near the village of Likely.

Resisting urge to make Narn-summoning horrible puns...

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marked tree, in either arkansas, tennessee, or mississippi. cannot remember
which now.