Reaching Climax: More Than Just a Feeling MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My inspiration for this week’s MMP came from this post. There are several towns named Climax throughout the country; North Carolina and Georgia were briefly discussed.

Climax, Colorado is important in the history of mining and Colorado narrow gauge railroading. But I’m not here to discuss trains or history, because that will bore y’all even more than my ambulance tales. About a week before the MMP where this came up, VWife brought home a book entitled, “REACHING CLIMAX And Other Towns Along The American Highway”. On the cover is an amply endowed woman with a t-shirt that reads “Climax. More than just a feeling. Climax, Minnesota”

We are here, friends, to provide snerkage to some of the more strangely named settlements. Listed and discussed inside are such booming metropolises as:
[ul]
[li]Dickshooter, Idaho[/li][li]Cuckoo, Virginia[/li][li]Beaver Lick, Kentucky[/li][li]Lover, Pennsylvania (is it near Intercourse?)[/li][li]Limp, South Carolina[/li][li]Big Ugly, West Virginia[/li][li]Erect, North Carolina[/li][li]Bummerville, California[/li][li]Sugartit, Kentucky[/li][li]Manlove, California[/li][li]Superior Bottom, West Virginia[/li][li]Burnt Corn, Alabama[/li][li]Downer, Minnesota[/li][li]Funk, Ohio (Lady is pictured holding up a t-shirt that says “I’m going to Funk U. this fall”)[/li][li]Idiotville, Oregon[/li][li]Honey Hole, Pennsylvania[/li][li] Spasticville, Kansas.[/li][/ul]

I’m sure we can name other places. Off the top of my head are French Lick and Floyd’s Knobs, both in Indiana, and my personal all-time favorite, Bucksnort, Tennessee.

<Snerk> away, and please feel free to provide other notable places with funny names.

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Woot! First! Off to read now…

Funny OP, BBBobbio! Here in the UK we are blessed with plenty of oddly-names places:

Splat (Cornwall)
Pity Me (Co. Durham)
Pennycomequick (Devon)
Nob End (South Lancashire)
Great Snoring (Norfolk)
Thong (Kent)
Piddle River (Dorset)
Sandy Balls (New Forest)
Wideopen (Newcastle)
Great Cockup (Lake District)
Twatt (Orkney)
Crapstone (Devon)
Slack Bottom (West Yorkshire)
No Place (Co. Durham)
Lickey End (West Midlands)
Hackballscross (Co. Louth)
Horneyman (Kent)
Fryup (North Yorkshire)

One of my friends works at the golf club at Lickey Hills…he gets a giggle out of that every day.

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First! (and, given the past few weeks performance, unfortunately possibly my last showing here for the week… :o. I’ll try to do better, though!)
ETA: Well, the first one who actually read the OP! :stuck_out_tongue: (shakes fist at Boo)

Carry over from last week – Happy Belated to Sticky. Everything else is a blur and will have to get bundled into the generic hugs and gropes…

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:blows consolatory kiss to Lunch:

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::ducks so that kiss actually makes it to Lunch::

Heh. Great lists of place names, both Bobbio and BooFae. I suppose people who grow up in an oddly-named place are sort of immune to their oddness (or maybe proud of it), otherwise they’d have re-named them by now…

Am up. Semi-at 'em. Off to locate caffeine and make NOL.

Hugs.

GT

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienated. I want to do some yahd work soon but I’m bein’ nice for a while. However, I’m thinkin’ by seven a.m. on a Monday mornin’, most everyone around me is at least up so I may start in a few.

BBBobbio I’m sure places abound around here but at the moment nuttin’ is comin’ to mind. Give me a while and I’m sure to entertain though. :smiley:

Happy Monday Y’all!

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BBBobbio, you forgot Lizard Lick, N.C.(Lick Liz or Ard, I wonder?)
Dwarf, Kentucky

I’m up, caffeinated, and off to irk.

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on a less scintilating note - in the 80s I lived in Hicksville NY

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Hi! I"M ON VACATIONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Anyhoo, in central NY there are lots of towns that end in “kill”. Apparently, a ‘kill’ is some sort of body of water. So you get Fishkill, NY!

Funny, I just realized that the Catskills never seemed odd, but Fishkill is hysterical!

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Never heard of it.

While I’ve appropriated the name for a town in Cottonfield County, there is a part of rural Suffolk VA called Skeetertown, and appropriately enough, it borders The Dismal Swamp. It’s on the Google map.

I also want to point out that while it wasn’t intentional, I got great pleasure seeing that I listed Manlove CA just above Superior Bottom WV.

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Nothing to contribute in terms of place names, really.
Well, other than the whole passel of towns with those fru-fru “biblical names.”
Oh, wait… :smack:

The best I can do is “Petah Tiqwa”, which figuratively means “Ray of Hope” but literally could be construed as meaning “An opening to hope for…” :wink:

Ivory – I think the “Catskill” mountains should be renames the “Curiosity” mountains :smiley:

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Funny you should say that. Apparently I’m the only person the known universe that interprets “Curiosity killed the cat” as “Not satisfying the cat’s curiosity” is what killed him. Not whatever trouble he got into, but overwhelming, unsatisfied curiosity.

I’m weird.

But you all knew that already.

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I always thought “kill” was Dutch for hill or mound or some such that is smaller than a mountain. It was the Dutch that first settled this area
there’s Fishkill, Peakskill, Catskill, etc
eta:

that is a reasonable interpretation, and quite possibly what the author intended, but the rest of the world accepts it as “the trouble…” so yeah, you’re weird. :D;)

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I always thought “kill” was Dutch for hill or mound or some such that is smaller than a mountain. It was the Dutch that first settled this area
there’s Fishkill, Peakskill, Catskill, etc

I was curious to see if I remember correctly and I didn’t want the curiosity to “kill” me, so I looked up the definition of ‘kill’…

Body of water.

Phew, I feel so much better now.

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Lizard Lick, N.C.
rosy, a mound of cats?

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To go on a tangent, I’m pretty sure Schroedinger chose a cat for his gedankenexperiment just for the punchline… The cat is partially alive and partially dead until the experimenter “observes” it. So if the cat ends up dead, it’s the experimenter’s curiosity that kills it!

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Hah! Love it.

Really. Must. Shower. Now.

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Well, there’s Climax, Michigan, which is about 10 miles north of Colon, MI. There’s a fat ass joke in there, if you’re willing to go in after it, I guess.

About 85 miles east of Climax is Hell, MI. Now, when you tell someone to go to hell, you can give them actual directions!

And there’s Paradise, MI, and Christmas, MI, both on the shores of Lake Superior. The upper peninsula isn’t QUITE the north pole, but it can feel like it about February!

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the purr would be deafening

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I wanna know who the hell is Aviv, and what am I supposed to tell them? :dubious:

:wink:

I know the translation is really something like “Hill of Spring”. It’s a joke, son.