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From: waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
Message-ID: <5668@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 20:17:36 EDT
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> In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes:
> >=> Wankers Corner, Oregon
> >
> >'Fraid I gotta call you on the Wankers Corner one, Mark.  How about a pointer
> >to a map with this place on it?  (After bragging to SO about it at home last
> >night, I wasn't able to find it on the AAA map of Oregon, much to my chagrin
> >and embarassment.)
> 
> Dear Not:
> 
>      What a straight line!  You even specifically invite me to use the
> AAA map.  OK, on your AAA Portland map, look just east of Tualatin and
> south of Lake Oswego, at the intersection of SW Borland Rd and Stafford Rd.
> It's at O8 on my map.
> 
> If your collection is so bare you only have the Oregon/Washington map,
> you'll have to look at the "Portland and Vicinity" inset in the same
> place (I know it's boring for it to be in the same place on both maps,
> I guess AAA doesn't have a good enough imagination.)  This is at the
> bottom of the inset, just north of I-205.
> 
> What's bizarre is that I am convinced that Wankers Corner is an invention
> of AAA.  I have never seen a map printed by anyone else showing it.
> 

Hey!  I live in Tualatin, about 3 miles from Wankers Corner.  Yes, it is
real.  It consists of a school, tavern, and fruit stand.  Been to the 
tavern many times.
 
                              -- Walt