Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!pierce!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!druxo!knf From: knf@druxo.UUCP (FricklasK) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <966@druxo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 13:35:45 EDT Article-I.D.: druxo.966 Posted: Mon Aug 26 13:35:45 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 06:30:40 EDT References: <209@pyuxii.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 9 My favorite local place-name story is the one about two Colorado small towns, Fertile and Climax. A woman from the former had a fatal car accident in the latter town. The resulting town paper headline read, "FERTILE WOMAN DIES IN CLIMAX." Really. I've got a copy of the paper. '`'`'` Ken '`'`'