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02-18-2009, 11:08 PM
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Location: Nashville, TN
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Originally Posted by lets_hope_for_newbruns
Manville (sounds too sexist)Manalapan (sounds indian)Matawan (??)
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Manalapan is an American Indian Name, meaning Good Bread.
There are arrowheads found on property around town, meaning Indians were buried there.
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02-19-2009, 12:01 AM
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Manalapan is no better or worse a name than Manhattan, it's just not as famous, so people are less acclimated to it.
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02-19-2009, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Paramus, NJ
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Originally Posted by STrapani1105
3) Ventnor City (Kinda sounds like vendor, haha)
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Ever played Monopoly?  It grows on you after playing the board game many times.
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Originally Posted by STrapani1105
1) Paramus (Latin word, it means "we prepare")
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It's a Lenape Native American word for "land of wild turkey" even though, we don't have any turkeys here. (But there probably were years ago. Could make a joke that the malls made them extinct in town but nahhh..) So, nothing based on Latin.  That's interesting though. Didn't know it meant that in Latin.
As for majority of the towns you listed, I don't actually find them weird at all. Use to it. At least, they sound more like town names compared to other towns in the country.
Hoop and Holler, TX
Idiotville, Oregon
Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
Monkey's Elbow, KY
Just to name a few... >D |
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02-19-2009, 03:56 AM
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Location: Southern New Jersey
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We can't forget two of my favorites.
Love Ladies - People always smile and then ask why.
Cheesequake - With a name that good, we don't care where it came from. |
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02-19-2009, 05:42 AM
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Location: Cinnaminson NJ
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NJ has nuttin on pa! Intercourse, bird in hand and blue ball are my favs.  |
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02-19-2009, 05:55 AM
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Consumed by Darkness
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Here but I spend time There.
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Ummm....how can anyone forget Seacaucus?  |
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02-19-2009, 07:25 AM
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L.U.S.T. Girl
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Stewartsville, NJ
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Originally Posted by JG183
how can you overlook Succasunna
suck a son, ah ?
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The original name was succasunny! Isn't that a fish? |
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02-19-2009, 07:56 AM
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whose hat?
That would be Ong's Hat in south J.
..........and in the lake category we have Ghost Lake at the end of Shades of Death rd.
Now if you drift out of state, VT has a real doozy.....
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02-19-2009, 07:57 AM
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L.U.S.T. Girl
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Stewartsville, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kracer
That would be Ong's Hat in south J.
..........and in the lake category we have Ghost Lake at the end of Shades of Death rd.
Now if you drift out of state, VT has a real doozy.....
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It really is haunted byt the way... we used to drive down it with our headlights off at night  |
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02-19-2009, 08:30 AM
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Queen of Oxford
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Redneckville, NJ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wileynj
It really is haunted byt the way... we used to drive down it with our headlights off at night
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No it's not. It's about as haunted as my street. What did you see with your highlights out.....? |
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