K-days

[Stanislaw]

Write now instead of preping for my class I am looking out my office windo ready to watch the k-days parade, anyone know what I am talking about?

[verybaddmom]

Klondike Days...you are in Edmonton? sweet!
gold rush here we come

[Kiwi Shelf]

A parade in essence dedicated to money. haha, kind of funny.

[Stanislaw]

It is over now, and i have had a very enjoyable morning, none of my students have showed up and will probably come only after lunch, And yup Im in the big E.

[verybaddmom]

oh dear. i am now in the big C. does that mean that we are rivals? i have seen that there is a great divide between the two cities (was made especially apparent by the comedian who performed at stampede. he made a comment that his wife was from Edmonton, and the whole crowd Boooooed him. so he said, "she was born there, people, she didnt build it". it was funny, but enlightening at the same time)

EDIT: i was in sylvan lake yesterday (the other side of red deer, to where i am). how far is that (in driving time) to Edmonton? sorry, but i am geographically challenged, and new to the province!

[emily655321]

I just looked at a map to see where you guys are at. No fair! Alberta has freakishly great city names. I want to live somewhere called Medicine Hat! :p "Slave Lake"? "Faust"?? That's ****ing awesome!

[verybaddmom]

right. did you happen to notice the town of "head smashed in buffalo jump"? i kid you not.

[emily655321]

You *must* be kidding me. That's hilarious!! :D :D

[Kiwi Shelf]

If you want funny city names, check out Newfoundland.
For a start, there is a town called "Comebychance" (not sure if that is one word or many)

My mother and brother are in Alberta right now, the big E as you guys are saying. lol My uncle lives out that way, yesterday was spent at the Edmonton mall. They get to shop and I work. :mad: :p

[simon]

There is a town in Oregon called Boring. Not exactly the first place to go for some action.

[verybaddmom]

oooohhh simon...out there looking for action? a side to you i havent seen before ;)

[Koa]

LOL... I know many towns in Italy with funny names... There's one called Sesso, which as you might imagine means Sex... :D

[emily655321]

:lol: "Sesso"? That's just great.

Massachusetts does not have interesting town names. Most of them are either named after towns in England, or Native American words. .... I don't know, Belchertown kind of makes me giggle. Braintree is odd, if you think about it. Berkshire County has Otis, Florida, and -- get this: -- Peru. Okay, then. :p Needham is funny if you read it, but it's pronounced "Need-em," so that kind of spoils the ham joke right there.

Sort of off the off-topic I started (sorry :rolleyes:), but I think the prettiest town name in MA is Rockport. My parents lived there around the time they got married.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Rockport is a nice name.

I am trying to think of a strange name of a place in NS... They are all pretty normal. There's Yarmouth, but that is named after a place in England I believe. There's Cumberland, that's sort of strange. Or, Pictou. I don't know, I grew up with these names, so they are all normal to me.

[nome1486]

Perth Amboy (New Jersey) is a funny name. I read a short story--or essay, I guess--by James Thurber about how he woke up his father once in the middle of the night because he was trying to remember the name of Perth Amboy but couldn't get his mind around it, and it was driving him crazy. So he woke up his dad and told him to name towns in New Jersey with two names, and his father thought he really had gone crazy. When I think of that story, it always takes me a minute to remember the name, too, because it's so weird.

[emily655321]

There's a Perth in Australia, and Scotland too.

[Koa]

Sometimes with friends we translated in English some funny names of towns around here... Let me mention places that literally translated sound as Beautifulflower, Throwstone and Lackofwater :D Oh, and one whose name is in the local dialect but put into English sounds more or less as GnawIron :D

Oh as for 'double' names, I remember having spent once probably 1 hour with a schoolmate on a map of the USA counting how many Austin, Springfield and Jackson there are... :D Plus all the towns named after European cities, I know there are some London, and at least a Florence, a Venice and a Verona :D

[nome1486]

There's a Versailles in Missouri, but it's pronounced "Ver-SALES" (!)

[verybaddmom]

if it makes you feel any better, Koa, my son's last name literally means "new town" in french (his dad is quebecois) and my maiden name, which i use now means field of rocks in german, i think...cant remember! lol