[Ads-l] "Funniest" U.S. town names

[Laurence Horn]

Hmm.  I don’t find either Intercourse, PA or Climax, MI on the list. Those cracked us up when we were undergrads.

LH

> On May 12, 2025, at 9:58 AM, George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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> The learned compiler of this lists"Truth or Consequences" N. M. as simply
> "Consequences".  And he/she/they miss "Cut and Shoot" Texas.
> 
> Folks in Maine think Meddybemps is funny, too.  When I lived there
> (Portland, not Meddybemps) 60 years ago, there was a local singing group
> called the Meddybempsters.
> 
> GAT
> 
> On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> JL
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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> 
> -- 
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998.
> 
> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> your lowly tomb. . .
> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
> 
> The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> picture of his great-grandfather.)
> 
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