# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 1)

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**Created:** [January 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-1/931945 "2021-01-31T21:25:31Z")\
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> [@digs](#):
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> When my kid was little, we passed a subdivision being built, named “Fox Grove”. He piped up from the back seat “That’s because they chased out all the foxes and bulldozed the grove.”
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> He tried his theory a few more times. Seemed pretty much like a rule: the name of a subdivision reflects what they don’t offer.

There’s a section of the Grand Canyon where all of the side canyons were optimistically named by prospectors who presumably thought it might bring them luck. Agate, Sapphire, Turquoise, Ruby, Emerald, Serpentine. None of these things were ever found by the miners, so I always thought they should have continued the tradition of naming the side canyons after things that are not there. Plum, Giraffe, Obama, Cyclotron, Mozzarella.

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