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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
Message-ID: <1514@shark.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 23:23:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 23:23:04 1985
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Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes:
><*munch*>
>
>=> My favorites include:
>=> 
>=> Rural, Wisconsin
>=> Wankers Corner, Oregon
>=> Beamer Knob, Virginia	(signalling to the space aliens?)
>=> George, Washington
>
>'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.)
>
>Helen Anne
>     {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun,nsc}!dual!hav 

Well, even if Wanker's Corner isn't there, we DO have the lovely Boring, OR.
We also have charming downtown Drain, OR.  There is even rumored to be a
town called Antelope, OR.  but certain imported religious fanatics seem to
have taken issue with that fact.

Hutch