What's in a town name?
Aug. 28th, 2004 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1This week's "Idiot of the Week" goes to the administration of Grayson High School in Gwinnett County, Georgia, for yanking a student out of class for wearing a shirt that said "Hempstead, NY 516". The administrators thought it was a drug reference. Here's the article on cnn.com. Guess they don't teach New York State geography in Georgia. Or what George Washington used to grow.
Meanwhile, in older, somewhat related news, some of the more radical animal rights activists (i.e. PETA) have been persuading -- and offering money to -- the council of the town of Hamburg, New York to change the name of their town to "Veggieburg". (Online article here.) It appears that they are trying to do the same in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and in Hamburg, Germany. (Here's PETA's press release.)
So, what other funny town names are out there? There's Bevis, OH, northwest of Cincinnati. (Butthead, OH can't be too far away.) Fishkill, NY. Intercourse, PA (of course I have to mention this one). Blue Ball, OH (a one-intersection hamlet between Middletown and Monroe). Deposit, NY. Truth or Consequences, NM (yep, named after the old TV game show). North East, PA (which is actually in the northwest corner of the state -- go figure). And that's all I can think of. Good night.
Meanwhile, in older, somewhat related news, some of the more radical animal rights activists (i.e. PETA) have been persuading -- and offering money to -- the council of the town of Hamburg, New York to change the name of their town to "Veggieburg". (Online article here.) It appears that they are trying to do the same in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, and in Hamburg, Germany. (Here's PETA's press release.)
So, what other funny town names are out there? There's Bevis, OH, northwest of Cincinnati. (Butthead, OH can't be too far away.) Fishkill, NY. Intercourse, PA (of course I have to mention this one). Blue Ball, OH (a one-intersection hamlet between Middletown and Monroe). Deposit, NY. Truth or Consequences, NM (yep, named after the old TV game show). North East, PA (which is actually in the northwest corner of the state -- go figure). And that's all I can think of. Good night.
