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Posted: 12/13/2005 10:10:08 AM EDT
I'm at a conference, and have met several people from PA. All the cities on their business cards have bizarre names, like "King of Prussia", "Spring House" and "Plymouth Meeting". Who on earth thinks up these placenames ? What's next... "Surreal Banana" ?
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Posted: 12/13/2005 10:34:50 AM EDT
[#1]
try 'Intercourse, PA' and 'Blue Ball Avenue'. |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 12:03:03 PM EDT
[#2]
Not sure on the names but it seems you're in the right area for a gun show this weekend at the Valley Forge Convention Center. Probably nothing like the ones you're used to in AZ but a good local one for sure. So if you're in town over the weekend and have nothing to occupy your time hit the convention center. |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 12:18:22 PM EDT
[#3]
Don't forget Accident, PA and Virgin, PA.
Many more, trust me. |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 1:55:06 PM EDT
[#4]
Actually, I'm in DC, and I'm flying up to Boston tomorrow. Definitely NOT the best places for anything "gun" (or indeed, anyone who wants to be warm). I don't get back to Phoenix until Saturday - not a moment too soon, I can tell you. 
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Posted: 12/13/2005 2:22:26 PM EDT
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Red Hot, PA ; Climax, PA ; Town Line, PA ; Rough and Ready, PA ; and let's not forget Beaver, PA and Big Beaver, PA
of course you can always add either of the words "Station" or "Corners" after any other word and we will probably have a town by that name also. 
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Posted: 12/13/2005 2:28:13 PM EDT
[#6]
Don't forget
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Posted: 12/13/2005 3:02:13 PM EDT
[#7]
Towns local to me:
Beaver Beaver Falls Big Beaver South Beaver Western Beaver |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 3:22:46 PM EDT
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I don't really think KOP and PM are that odd when you have names like Blue Ball , Intercourse , Bird In Hand . |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 4:48:40 PM EDT
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My mom was born in Climax(Been gone before I was born in 1960).
There is Huff(was intill the 77 flood), and Pinch Cut(or Robb) Looking at the MapQuest map of that area there a lot of towns listed that do not exist any more. Hooverville, Climax, Huff, India, Lockport, adn Conpitt Junction. |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 5:35:09 PM EDT
[#10]
and "Gee, Ward, weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?" |
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Posted: 12/13/2005 6:31:40 PM EDT
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If you live near Beaver then you have heard of Moon, PA and Mars, PA.
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Posted: 12/13/2005 11:49:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/14/2005 2:11:46 AM EDT
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Not a town name, but if you find yourself in Marienville, PA look for this little business...
 Oh, and there is also a Hooker, PA close to me. |
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Posted: 12/14/2005 4:13:37 AM EDT
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Don't know if you're looking for a real answer, but most names are colonial and have historic meaning.
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Posted: 12/14/2005 5:06:11 AM EDT
[#15]
Just about in the middle of PA is Jersey Shore.
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Posted: 12/14/2005 7:53:43 AM EDT
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I'm originally from the Mars area, but haven't been there in years. I used to love to tell everyone I was from Mars. Proving it was even better! LOL |
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Posted: 12/14/2005 9:00:25 AM EDT
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I was born in Neptune (NJ) 
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Posted: 12/14/2005 1:18:32 PM EDT
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You got me... I don't care, I just want to lampoon PA. |
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Posted: 12/14/2005 1:38:07 PM EDT
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[dorothy]There's no place like Wilmerding[/dorothy]
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Posted: 12/15/2005 2:13:34 AM EDT
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dont forget homer city
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Posted: 12/15/2005 4:00:54 AM EDT
[#21]
One time on my way out to Camp Perry I80 had some major accident and they detoured us thru a place called "Turkey City Pa" and who can forget the old town of "Mauchunk" now it is called Jim Thorpe. I do not think Jim Thorpe lived anywhere near Mauchunk.
There is also a town in Pa called....get this....Puseyville! hahahah Years ago I drove thru a town in NY called Myanis! |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 7:39:24 AM EDT
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Man, and this comes from someone who has a Chandler, Nogales, Show Low, Tempe, Yuma, and Tuba City in their State. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 10:26:54 AM EDT
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Do you have a "Beaver Diving" shirt from the school? We stomped Beaver every year in football when I was growing up. |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 2:25:27 PM EDT
[#24]
SNPJ, PA
Look it up - Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 5:42:51 PM EDT
[#25]
Actually Myanis is in Conneticut. Years ago they had a bridge collapse there. I lived in CT at the time, and this one friend of mine will always ask me if I "remember the time the bridge fell in Myanis". There is a town in NY called Coxsackie. www.coxsackie.org/ |
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Posted: 12/15/2005 6:51:48 PM EDT
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Yea you are right. I know on that trip we traveled thru NY, Conn, NH, and Ma. I was so young that I was not 100% sure of where it was, but I knew I was in Myanis at least once!
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Posted: 12/15/2005 8:30:18 PM EDT
[#27]
i guess enola,were i currently reside,is kinda boring-sounding.
ive had people ask,is that were the enola gay came from? how do you respond to that one?sorry,dunno any gays...
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Posted: 12/15/2005 9:07:52 PM EDT
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I think the airplane, Enola Gay , was named after the girlfriend of one of the crew, probably the pilot. A quick google search should clear this up. |
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Posted: 12/16/2005 1:14:00 PM EDT
[#29]
think ya missed me point
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Posted: 12/16/2005 4:01:35 PM EDT
[#30]
Paint, PA
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Posted: 12/18/2005 7:02:41 AM EDT
[#31]
It was the mother of the aircraft's captain. |
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Posted: 12/18/2005 5:56:16 PM EDT
[#32]
Lower Shaft
Upper Shaft |
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