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If you think your town name sounds weird, take a look at these.
I think, therefore, I get bananas.
When in doubt, think about time travel conundrums. You'll confuse yourself so you can forget what you were in doubt about.
What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care one way or the other.
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Ha! Woody, my town is on there. Sugar Land, TX. My address is in Richmond but I'm right on the Sugar Land border and I grew up in Sugar Land. It's a pretty nice town. It was voted in the top 10 best places to live by some magazine. And it's the 3rd fastest growing city in the U.S.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always
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hehehe! Very funny indeed! Here are some from north of the border... Moose Jaw, Cow Head, Yellowknife, Whitehorse, Carrot River and Rabbit Lake, Lion's Head (lions? in Canada? LOL), Medicine Hat, Seven Persons, Heart's Content and Heart's Desire, Snag, Dawson Creek (sorry, but ROFL!), Great Village (no kidding, huh?), Starbuck, Eyebrow, Snowflake, Sandwich, Welcome, and this one, which is just about unbelievable !! Now, we don't have Metropolis here, but I thought I might mention that we have a Clark's Harbour and a Kentville. But you guys probably do, too. Oh! And lest I forget, my personal favorites... Enterprise (we've got a few of those, even) and, yes, Vulcan. 
Superman: Why is it that good villains never die?
Batman: Clark, what the hell are good villains?
=> Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
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I do not live in these towns but I have traveled through all three of them in my life (and they are on the list). <g> Toad Suck, Arkansas Bucksnort, Tennessee and Peculiar, Missouri 
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What kills me about this list is there are two towns called Intercourse!  Irene
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
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What kills me about this list is there are two towns called Intercourse! and I've seen one called Climax, too... hehehe
Superman: Why is it that good villains never die?
Batman: Clark, what the hell are good villains?
=> Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
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Heh, the Intercourse name doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is that one is right in the heart of Amish country. I see they mentioned Beaver and New Beaver PA (which seem quite normal to me), but not Beaver Falls, which is where my aunt lives. I do love the comment about Moon, PA.
"You need me. You wouldn't be much of a hero without a villain. And you do love being the hero, don't you. The cheering children, the swooning women, you love it so much, it's made you my most reliable accomplice." -- Lex Luthor to Superman, Question Authority, Justice League Unlimited
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Some of those are great. My uncle lives in Boring, Oregon, and believe me, it deserves its name! Up here in Alaska we also have Tatitlik. Which, if pronounced correctly... well...
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That one in Canada that you didn't mention, Lara, I wonder when the town was founded and what the word meant then.
Thankfully, their names are preventing them from ever becoming metropolises.
I think, therefore, I get bananas.
When in doubt, think about time travel conundrums. You'll confuse yourself so you can forget what you were in doubt about.
What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care one way or the other.
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These are Spanish named town from CA with translations. Chula Vista (Translation = Insolent View) Concepcion (Translation = Conception) and Climax is in Colorado, which I can understand with all their "peaks". Hygiene, Colorado (wonder if it's a "clean" town.) Okahumpka, FL (I don't know, but that sounds wrong) Climax is also in Georgia (multiple Climaxes?) C*mming, Georgia Hopeulikit, Georgia (I hope so too) Beer Bottle Crossing, Idaho (Do they have a sign painted for that?) Grand Detour, IL (The town that is on *every* scenic route) Normal, IL Iowa's towns Diagonal Gravity (The gravity of their situation must have hit them) Manly What Cheer (What Cheer-we made America's Funniest town names list) Steam Corner, IN (Sue's hometown) French Lick, IN (Is this a new way to neck?) Kansas names: Denmark Cuba Rome Holland Zurich but of course, Plainville, KA (Where Clark would live in our universe) Do Stop, KY (please do) Monkey's Eyebrow, KY (Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. Yeah, well I live in Monkey's Eyebrow, so there.) Ogle, KY Typo, KY (It's a typo, it was supposed to be Tapo) Belcher, LA Eros, LA (Sue's other hometown) Waterproof, LA (I'd almost laugh if it got hit by Katrina) All in MI: Christmas Climax (again?) Eden Gay Hell (now you know where to head when someone says, "Go to...") Jugville (Yeah...no comment) Kalamazoo Olive Branch Paradise All in MN: Blue Earth Climax (again?!) Embarass (must be near Typo) Fertile Conception, MO (I'm beginning to think we could plan a road trip in the US to mirror the path from gleam in father's eye to baby) The next one's perfect: Enough, MO Fairdealing, MO Fidelity, MO Square Butt, MT (Do I WANT to know?!) Sandwich Landing, NH Little Egg Harbor, NJ (there's the gestation fluids) Elephant Butte, NM (I'm glad this one wasn't near Typo) Climax, NY (again?!!!) Bat Cave, NC (so that's where it is) Climax, NC (oh my) Horneytown, NC Climax, Ohio (good night) Knockemstiff, OH Three Legs Town, OH (that's where the race must have started) Half.com, OR (What on Earth?!!) Idiotville, OR (where the half.com people moved from) Climax, PA Forty Fort, PA Fear Not, PA (too late) King of Prussia, PA Loyalsockville, PA Home, PA (Where "James" has to go all the time) Beaver, Big Beaver, and New Beaver, PA Pottstown, PA (Yay, Mary's home) Virginville, PA (Uh huh) Quonochontaug, RI (Even Quahog is easier to pronounce.) Townville, SC (The other SC are great too) Oral, SD Canadian, TX  Perfect one to end it. Okay, Arkansas (Emphasis on the kay)
I think, therefore, I get bananas.
When in doubt, think about time travel conundrums. You'll confuse yourself so you can forget what you were in doubt about.
What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care one way or the other.
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This isn't entirely funny except to me, but when I moved to this crappy blue state I found out there's a town up north called "Effie", not extremely hilarious, but my younger sister's name is Effie and one of the adverts for this town is "Have a good time in Effie!" Maybe her husband might?
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Yeah, I see why it's funny.
I think, therefore, I get bananas.
When in doubt, think about time travel conundrums. You'll confuse yourself so you can forget what you were in doubt about.
What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?
I don't know and I don't care one way or the other.
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"I have no regrets. If you regret things, then you're sort of stepping backwards.
I'm a believer in going forwards." ~Kate Winslet
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Bat Cave, NC (so that's where it is) OMG, I just about died... ETA: I am SO using that in a story, you know. There's no way I could ever afford NOT to. ...in fact, there should be a challenge revolving around this thing - use as many of these silly names as you can. I can just *see* this: "So where are we supposed to be meeting this source, Lois?" Clark asked, as he climbed into her Jeep. "Idiotville," she said, trying to keep a straight face. "No, seriously, Clark! I mean it. Idiotville!" Oh... btw... From Wikipedia: As an advertising gimmick, the company paid the town of Halfway, Oregon US$100,000 and donated 20 new computers to change its name to Half.com, Oregon. ...and that is proof positive that money rules the world.
Superman: Why is it that good villains never die?
Batman: Clark, what the hell are good villains?
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Chris Mulder and I used some of these when writing our "stuck in traffic" fic together... all town names were for real. Honest. "Let's see, we're coming up on "Gum Spring" I think, since I remember that we passed "Squirrel Level" a little while back ...." "There's a crossroad up ahead, Lois. County road, but it should take us to Oilville, and from there to Goochland and then we--"
"You are making those up, Clark."
"No, I'm not. Look!" PJ
"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."
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