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The Atlas of True Names
Inlander:
--- Quote from: yelley on 05 Dec 2008, 21:39 ---harry, you've heard of modesto?
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It's where Grandaddy came from.
Also I think I'd heard the name around the traps before then.
tragic_pizza:
My town is named for a town of the same name in Great Britain.
I think it translates "redneck idiots."
stereobreadstick:
--- Quote from: yelley on 05 Dec 2008, 02:34 ---yeah, so the town i live in was supposed to be named after william ralston, some railroad guy that financed a lot of projects in california, but he was too modest to have his name put on a town. so some spanish speaking guy said he was 'muy modesto' and so now i live in modesto.
COOL STORY, EH?
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Hey, someone else from the Central Valley. I'm originally from Fresno which I believe, though I'm by no means positive, means "Ash Tree" in Spanish. According to this atlas I'm currently in the Land of the High Serenity
Slick:
...I don't get why my home is Farmer's Land. That doesn't make sense. Did they see 'Markland' and think it was Scottish? I am offended. And marginalised.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: ruyi on 05 Dec 2008, 22:56 ---A Whale's Vagina
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what is this magical place?
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