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Old 02-14-2007, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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I always thought the town Analomink, PA had a disgusting name. Majoun - "Lord Hereford's Knob" ?!?!?!?!! That's hysterical!
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Old 02-14-2007, 04:31 PM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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These aren't really that weird. There just unique Texas town names.

Happy, TX (that town really exists)
Krum, TX
Hurst, TX
Temple, TX
Bruceville-Eddy, TX
Washington-on-the-Brazos, TX

These are Texas towns that take names from other towns/countires:

Buffalo, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Pasadena, San Diego, Paris, Italy, Athens, Arlington (Virginia), New York, Orange, and Rhome counts because it sounds like Rome.
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Old 02-14-2007, 04:32 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Myfask, Ypsilanti is 30 miles west of Detroit Michigan. It's also next to the city of Ann Arbor.

John
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Old 02-14-2007, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Topeka, KS
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Prosperity, SC use to be called Frogbottom.
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Old 02-14-2007, 05:30 PM
 
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Yeehaw Junction, Florida--Better, though, than the old name--Jacka s s Crossing
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Old 02-14-2007, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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Thermopolis, Wyoming
Wapati, Wyoming (Means Elk)
Recluse, Wyoming
Veteran, Wyoming
Devils Washtub, Wyoming
Wyoming, Wyoming
Antelopw, Wyoming
Wolf, Wyoming
Saddlestring, Wyoming,

And that's just a few. haha
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Old 02-14-2007, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Originally Posted by JJG View Post
These aren't really that weird. There just unique Texas town names.

Happy, TX (that town really exists)
Krum, TX
Hurst, TX
Temple, TX
Bruceville-Eddy, TX
Washington-on-the-Brazos, TX

These are Texas towns that take names from other towns/countires:

Buffalo, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Pasadena, San Diego, Paris, Italy, Athens, Arlington (Virginia), New York, Orange, and Rhome counts because it sounds like Rome.
There's also Palestine, Odessa, and Iran.
Pasadena, TX might predate Pasadena, CA for all I know.
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Old 02-14-2007, 06:45 PM
 
Location: Sherman Oaks, CA
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How about Rancho Cucamonga? I love the word "Cucamonga"!

With apologies to anyone living there, how about Boring, Oregon? Or Pahrump, Nevada?
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Old 02-14-2007, 07:59 PM
 
Location: Danbury CT covering all of Fairfield County
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Railroad,PA
Red Lion,PA
Yoe, PA (pronounced Yo!)
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Old 02-14-2007, 08:16 PM
 
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I've always been fond of:

Puyallup, Washington
Pflugerville,Texas
and
Gnaw Bone, Indiana

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