# Sometimes...\[Country/Place puns\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074 "2014-04-01T13:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/21 "2014-04-02T19:16:44Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > But after that, you are Finnish. Norway, man! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/22 "2014-04-02T19:34:39Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I don’t know. Alaska. > [@Spiderman](#): > > Idaho. Alaska. Shit! I live in Idaho and didn’t think of that! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/23 "2014-04-02T20:59:47Z")
> [@Melchior](#): > > I’m not Ghana eat there anymore. Just get it Togo. Too much Greece. If you Rwanda me Togo with you, I Congo, but I’ll have to call my Madagascar if it’s okay. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/24 "2014-04-02T21:07:36Z")
I’ve edited the title of the topic to be a bit more descriptive. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/25 "2014-04-02T22:07:51Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > I’ve edited the title of the topic to be a bit more descriptive. I think you’re in a state of de Nile. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/26 "2014-04-02T22:19:32Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think you’re in a state of de Nile. Oh Cayman. If that’s what you Belize. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/27 "2014-04-02T22:23:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think you’re in a state of de Nile. Peruve it! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/28 "2014-04-03T01:19:04Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Peruve it! As Ifni I could. (now _that’s_ obscure!) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/29 "2014-04-03T01:53:38Z")
The toe bone Schenectady foot bone … the foot bone Schenectady ankle bone … the ankle bone Schenectady leg bone … ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/30 "2014-04-03T07:13:50Z")
Why my friend said his wife went to Indonesia, I asked him “jakarta”. He said she went by plane. He then said she want to the Carribean .“Jamaica ?” I asked. He said she went of her own accord. Then he showed me his Indian shoes. "Mumbai ? ". His response, No I bought them myself. So he served lunch and it was a curry. “New Dehli ?”. No the same old one in the town. ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/31 "2014-04-04T02:50:08Z")
This is a good time to remember the early days of the cold war: Russia got Hungary, ate Turkey, slipped on Greece, and broke China. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/32 "2014-04-04T11:55:40Z")
Crimea! My Antarctica is having an affair with my Papua! mmm ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/33 "2014-04-04T13:50:45Z")
Phillipine his pants. ---
**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/34 "2014-04-04T13:57:16Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The toe bone Schenectady foot bone … the foot bone Schenectady ankle bone … the ankle bone Schenectady leg bone … when you are talking on the phone to someone in Schenectady and the line goes dead, you have been dis-Schenectadied! When you go to Pakistan, you have to take your luggage, but then when you get there, you have to un-Pakistan. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/35 "2014-04-04T17:08:41Z")
I threw Iraq and then Iran. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/36 "2014-04-04T19:25:23Z")
I’m thinking of Spain my pet. Will it make my Catalunya? ---
**Author:** ![Melchior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Melchior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melchior)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/37 "2014-04-04T19:28:46Z")
A: Hawaii? B: I’m fine, how are you? In the south, they have trouble with the circus elephants’ tusks. In Alabama, the Tuscaloosa. ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/38 "2014-04-04T19:48:25Z")
Oman, did Jamaica time with Chad’s wife? She has a nice Djibouti. No, but I saw Chad Indiana when I peeked through their bedroom window. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/39 "2014-04-05T04:16:51Z")
I wish you people would Havre de Grace to just let this thread die. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-country-place-puns/685074/40 "2014-04-05T06:36:13Z")
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