# Cities on borders part II

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-on-borders-part-ii/491444>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 31, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-on-borders-part-ii/491444 "2009-03-31T15:33:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-on-borders-part-ii/491444/21 "2009-04-02T17:04:36Z")

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Driving back to my folks from Denver one year I passed the Ore-Ida plant. It’s the first time I realilzed that that stood for Oregon/Idaho.

Learn something new every day!

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**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-on-borders-part-ii/491444/22 "2009-04-02T17:35:02Z")

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I don’t know of any around here, but Tennessee borders eight states (the only other state to border so many is Missouri) and most of the states combine into interesting names:

**Good:**

Tennessouri  
Tenntucky  
Tennabama  
Tennessippi

**Okay:**

Tennolina

**Bad:**

Tengina  
Tenngia  
Tennansas

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cities-on-borders-part-ii/491444/23 "2009-04-02T18:04:08Z")

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> [@wouldn\_t\_you\_like\_to\_know](#):
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> apparently the only other over-road restaurants are the Oasis restaurants in the Chicago area

Yeah, we passed under [this one](http://www.interstate-guide.com/images251/i-294_il_st_43.jpg) whenver we went up to the Indiana Dunes. It was also a Howard Johnson’s at the time.

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