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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: bizarre place names
Message-ID: <288@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 19:32:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 19:32:20 1985
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    > Path: gymble!tewok
    > From: tewok@gymble.UUCP (Wayne Morrison)
    > Newsgroups: net.bizarre
    > 
    > > In article <1083@dual.UUCP> hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious) writes:
    > >
    > > 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.

    > It very well could be an invention of AAA.  Map makers often
    > invent streets and put them on their maps at random.  By doing
    > this, they can tell if someone is copying their maps.  They can
    > then take this person to court and sue . . .

Around here, the local government makes it a practice to actually build
streets, just to see if anyone has been making maps of them.
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