There's also a Pumpkin Center, NC, Duck, NC, Amsterdam, VA, Snowflake, WV. Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Treena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:01 PM Subject: Re: OT:Weird place names-was: GFM Attendees (updated) > Hi, > > Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 11:12:13 PM, you wrote: > > > Here's one for ya - Toad Suck, Ark. (pronounced as written). Home of the > > Toad Suck Daze festival. I have no idea if that has anything to do with > > licking toads. There's also Possum Grape. > > here in sunny Britain we had a Victorian period when a lot of the fun > went out of town and street names. To avoid embarassing the Queen they > changed harmless place names like Piddletown to Puddletown. The > village name of Felching is one that survived. > > Your mention of the word 'Grape' reminds me that a lot of streets with > names like Grape Lane and Grub Lane used to be where gentlemen went to > swive whores (as the poet Rochester would put it). Until we became so > ashamed these places were generally called Gropec*nt Lane. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
