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中秋节 Moon Festival 2012!
Jace:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 30 Sep 2012, 18:35 ---A lot of town names repeat. I lived in NYS my whole live then moved to SE Michigan. Place names here that ring weird to me because they are in my mind as places in NY: Livonia, Utica, Brighton, York and Dundee.
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Apparently there's a Phoenix, NY. So I've had to clarify when talking to people in Central NY that no, I am from Phoenix, AZ, not Phoenix, NY.
Carl-E:
There are two small towns in Pennsylvania with state names - one is Indiana, PA and the other is California, PA. Each happens to have one of the state-run universities located there, leading to the head-scratching names, "Indiana University of Pennsylvania" and "California University of Pennsylvania".
Even more confusing is that they have nothing to do with Indiana University, the California University system, nor University of Pennsylvania (aka "Penn"), which is not Penn State, either.
Makes ya wanna slap sumbody...
ackblom12:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 01 Oct 2012, 04:01 ---Rochester was a small cathedral city in Kent in the UK long before any of those...
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I like to think Rochester, NY was named for the Earl of Rochester, Jon Wilmot.
Zingoleb:
Here's an odd coincidence: my partner that I live with in Seattle went to school in Rochester, not far from where I was living there (in the suburb of Greece).
celticgeek:
--- Quote from: Omega Entity on 01 Oct 2012, 00:50 ---I think we have moonpies up here, too, just not as prevalent. Can't say I've ever had one, though.
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Joke:
Redneck seven course meal: Moon Pie and a sixpack.
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