Oh No !!!!

longboard_ric · Post by **longboard_ric** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:49 pm

Howard, I was at the library the other day; you have to book in well ahead, and besides they don't stay open all night !!!

We moved to Mt Martha despite many people over the years telling me to go to buggery !!! Looking to buy a block in Mt Eliza and build a new house.

Gary, all the places Howard were options but the locals were a bit feral, look at the picture of Chinamans Hat !!!! Also, Safety Beach used to be known as Shark Bay but they changed the name so holidaymakers would not be put off staying in the area. And yes, we saw one last year while letting the dog have a swim. It looked like the dog was going to be dinner but it didn't stop him trying to chase the thing when it turned and swam away.

Paul, Howard is correct,there is no cable tv here only Foxtel. Either that or the neighbours are talking to their relatives in outer space.

John, our daughter has got all that wireless stuff, and she will be home for good ??? in about a month. Haven't met the neighbours yet, I think they heard the guitar and now try to avoid me !!!!

BTW the Fort, which is a series of gun enplacements at the entry to Port Phillip Bay, allegedly fired the first shots in anger in both World Wars. You can do tours through there and the old Quarantine Station and soak up some local history. Also it is noteworthy as the area in which a Prime Minister went for a swim and never came back. Despite forty years of conjecture a recent Coronial Inquest found he did not swim out to a Chinese submarine and defect, but actually drowned.

I don't want my MTV, just Broadband.......please.

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:33 am

I've got bigpond cable over 'ere. Love it, could never go back to dial up.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:50 am

My favorite name for a town is Humptulips. Pretty little town in Washington state...with a very strange name.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:43 pm

My favourite US town name once was Intercourse, Pennsylvania. Now, after just having our fifth bairn, it is Assawoman, Virginia

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:51 pm

I just got a private email asking me if these are really legitimate US town names.

They are! Really!

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:56 pm

I always like Kissimmee Florida. It is pronounced differently, but when The Astros moved their spring training camp there, they became the Kissimmee Astros!!!!!!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:30 pm

There's a suburb in Sydney called "Rooty Hill"..... no kidding - google it!

And a small town in southern New South Wales called "Blighty"..... great little pub there!

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:31 pm

Hell, MI

Paradise, MI

Kalamazoo is in between!

35012 · Post by **35012** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:38 am

Not in the US, but:

fracking, Austria

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:50 am

Thats real close to Blue Ball and Intercourse, Pa.!

headbanger · Post by **headbanger** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:39 am

Where do I start....
KOOLYANOBBING
INNALOO
UPPER SWAN
TOOLONGA
and finally I'll take your Intercourse, Pa. and raise you an EAST INTERCOURSE ISLAND.

rick_ovic · Post by **rick_ovic** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:01 pm

I have visited Pennsylvania on a number of occasions. During my first visit, Robyn and I stopped at the city limits, where there is a large sign reading "Welcome to Intercourse". We could not resist assuming an (in)appropriate position for our vacation happy-snap. I would love to post it here, but fear that I would fall foul of the Forum guidelines!

melibreits · Post by **melibreits** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:52 pm

The city of St. Paul, Minnesota, used to be called Pig's Eye.... Wonder why they changed it?

According to my husband, the city of Franksville, Wisconsin used to be called Skunk's Grove because they grew and processed cabbage there and it didn't smell very good--it is where Frank's brand sauerkraut is made.... the name of the town was changed when he was a kid.

A few miles up the road from my town there is a creek that all of the old-timers still call Diarrhea Creek, and the name of it was finally changed to Kadunce Creek by the county, because people kept stealing the highway sign by the bridge....

longboard_ric · Post by **longboard_ric** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:46 pm

During a series of The Amazing Race, all contestants stopped in the Queensland town of Mooloolaba.

It was funny listening to them trying to pronounce that one !!!

ozover50 · Post by **ozover50** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:08 pm

There's a place in North Western Victoria called "Tittybong". Not far away is a place called "Cokum". The road that runs between them is called the "Cokum-Tittybong Road".

Then over the border in New South Wales there's "Burrumbuttock"!!