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Mon Jun-20-05 02:39 PM
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| Strange names for bodies of water |
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Purgatory Creek (a creek in the SW Twin Cities suburbs)
Lake Fourteen (a lake in the Iron Range of Minnesota)
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| Cooley Hurd
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:40 PM
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| 1. Gummerson Lake in Canada... |
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Who the hell would name their lake "Gummerson?" Sheesh!:puke:;)
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| stellanoir
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:44 PM
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| 2. there is a body of water |
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near my sleepy seaside berg called "Sin and Flesh Pond" probably due to some colonial inappropriate fornication or something. I'm fairly sure the Natives didn't call it that.
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| izzie
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:50 PM
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| 5. Maine has some wild names. Just look at York County map. |
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I am guessing the rest of the state is the same.
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| lenidog
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:45 PM
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| 3. Twelve Young Maidens creek in Northern PA |
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:52 PM
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| 9. PA is the KING of weird-ass names... |
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Edited on Mon Jun-20-05 02:55 PM by Cooley Hurd
Jim Thorpe, PA
Blue Balls, PA
Intercourse, PA
Do I need to elaborate?:D
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Mon Jun-20-05 03:00 PM
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| 10. Bird in Hand and Blue Ball |
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The names in PA are damn strange.
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| Lin
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:50 PM
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| 4. buzzards bay -buttermilk bay-both massachusetts(eom) |
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:51 PM
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| 6. There's that Shit Creek everyone's always talking about being up. |
| Gildor Inglorion
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:51 PM
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| 7. Tearbritches Creek in north Georgia |
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also Buzzard's Roost Creek...and inexplicably, the lovely Toccoa River, when it crosses into Tennessee, becomes the much less attractive "Ocoee." Go figure.
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Mon Jun-20-05 02:52 PM
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| 8. Woman Hollering Creek ...that would be in Texas. |
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Mon Jun-20-05 03:03 PM
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Would Bull Run (in Virginia) qualify?
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