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No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else
Grant Barrett
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2009/01/23 – 6:28am
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No Snickering: That Road Sign Means Something Else. How would you like to live on “Butt Hole Road”? Oh, that’s not the worst of them, either.

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2009/01/23 – 2:17pm
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Of that article in the NY Times is just wonderful. I’m guessing the folks from Intercourse, Pennsylvania can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that there are worse place names in the world.

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Martha Barnette
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2009/01/23 – 4:20pm
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Ah! I didn't realize there was an Intercourse, Pennsylvania. I knew there was one in Alabama.

Then there was Beaver College in Pennsylvania, which changed its name a few years ago to Arcadia University. And I used to have a T-shirt from a business school in Ohio called Dyke College, which eventually changed its name to Chancellor University.

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2009/01/26 – 11:40am
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Whenever I go to Zion National Park, I always pass through a small town called Virgin.  In Virgin, Utah there is a petting zoo and it's sign says “Virgin Petting Zoo”.  I've always snickered at this and wondered about the creators of the sign.    

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