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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: KvP on 04 Dec 2008, 16:44
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Behold, an atlas that reflects the etymological origins of names! (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3548315/Bizarre-new-atlas-comes-to-the-Great-Land-of-the-Tattooed.html) Sadly, it costs money :( but it's still pretty cool.
Greetings from the Land of the Red Ones!
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Wow, this. is. awesome.
I think this needs to go in the geeky desires thread, too.
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oh man i would love to know what all the names from my area (Washington State, USA) mean because they are mostly just indecipherable, Native-American gibberish to me.
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ah man it's not available on Amazon, I'd order it at the same time as a couple other things I've had my eye on.
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Apparently I live in "Remote Corner, where Rough Grass Grows"
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sounds nice.
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I am right between the "Land of Friends" and "Pastures."
This atlas is shocking accurate.
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This looks pretty awesome. I, apparently, live in the Home of the Thunder God.
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I already know that the name of my suburb means "Den of Leeches" in the local Aboriginal language
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my name means "grey home", and my last name is a town in norway.
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I got all excited until I remembered Bournemouth means 'mouth of a stream that flows from a spring'.
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Yeah my city means "rear of the lake" in french
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I live quite close to Stink Onion.
That explains a lot.
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So how are you guys finding this out? I can't see a search option, and my city isn't on any of the maps they showed...
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i'm thinking the same thing, how are you guys finding these out? and yeah, this seems cool, i wish i could get one for christmas.
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Click the samples. I also live between Pastures and Land of Friends, not too far from Mudwater.
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My dad lives near St. Littlefrank. And it doesn't appear on the map, but I live in the Land of Eagles.
(fuck you, Internet, I wanted to find an etymological origin for Tirana)
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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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My town is boring. Sumter. It was named after Thomas Sumter. And Fort Sumter. How boring.
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Well. I apparently live right between Sibling Love and Marshton. That finally explains all the soggy morons around here!
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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.
Huh. I'd always wondered why Modesto was called that.
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Portland <--- laaaaaame
I want to know how Drain, OR and Boring, OR were named. I mean really, who picks something like those?
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There's a town called Emo. I wonder where that came from but don't really feel like looking it up.
I think it's in Minnesota.
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harry, you've heard of modesto?
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A Whale's Vagina
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harry, you've heard of modesto?
It's where Grandaddy came from.
Also I think I'd heard the name around the traps before then.
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My town is named for a town of the same name in Great Britain.
I think it translates "redneck idiots."
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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?
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
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...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.
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A Whale's Vagina
what is this magical place?
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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
You only count as being 'from' the Central Valley if you have eaten at Luna Pizzeria in Old Town Clovis though.
/born in Fresno
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Sometimes I want to move to Modesto (which would only be an hour away right now from Merced, or the City of Mercy) to start a band called Modesto Mouse. I would hire two Modesto musicians and cover Modest Mouse songs.
(God, that's such a stupid joke. Plus I don't even like Modest Mouse.)
Central Valleycon, anyone?
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what the hell. where did all these central valley people come from all of a sudden? who are you and why are you not at my house playing rock band with me?
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I'm actually from Saint Joseph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_jose), Wide Bay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_California), but I came to Merced to study at the new UWB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Merced). Partly because the others I applied to rejected me.
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Yelley I will fuck you up at Rock Band, I'm showing up at SFO on the 12th and I have the whole day of the 13th free. I got dibs on guitar and FUCK YEAH I DO NOT NEED TO REST AFTER MY FLIGHT BECAUSE THERE IS MOUNTAIN DEW IN AMERICA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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If it's in Modesto, I am down to join in a Rock Band Modestocon. PM me if this is at all a possibility.
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Yelley I will fuck you up at Rock Band, I'm showing up at SFO on the 12th and I have the whole day of the 13th free. I got dibs on guitar and FUCK YEAH I DO NOT NEED TO REST AFTER MY FLIGHT BECAUSE THERE IS MOUNTAIN DEW IN AMERICA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
the guitar is all yours, i call mic. by the way, how would you be getting to my place? do i have to come pick you up? :P
trouble is i don't actually own rock band yet... it was a planned christmas purchase though, so we'll see...
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You probably would, heh. Soon as I get my paycheck deposited (and gifts for the woman bought) I can help with gas. I just hope you can sing on expert, because I feel like getting lots of moneys for each performance so my character won't have to play with a lame-looking guitar. I do not know how to play guitar on anything but expert anymore, I seriously start to fail out on easy because I get bored and lose focus.
(let me warm up on some of the easy songs first though 'cause I haven't played at all since October)
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My town is named for a town of the same name in Great Britain.
I think it translates "redneck idiots."
Birmingham, right?
It actually translates as "land of Black Sabbath"
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You probably would, heh. Soon as I get my paycheck deposited (and gifts for the woman bought) I can help with gas. I just hope you can sing on expert, because I feel like getting lots of moneys for each performance so my character won't have to play with a lame-looking guitar. I do not know how to play guitar on anything but expert anymore, I seriously start to fail out on easy because I get bored and lose focus.
(let me warm up on some of the easy songs first though 'cause I haven't played at all since October)
i can most likely sing on expert for some songs, but my range is tight so i'd probably have to drop to hard for songs that go above or below what i can hit comfortably. but i can't say the same about whoever ends up on drums... even medium trips me up once that orange bar thing starts up...
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My town is named for a town of the same name in Great Britain.
I think thats pretty much every single town and city in the US.
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i can most likely sing on expert for some songs, but my range is tight so i'd probably have to drop to hard for songs that go above or below what i can hit comfortably. but i can't say the same about whoever ends up on drums... even medium trips me up once that orange bar thing starts up...
If it's just the three of us, could Jason do bass? Bass is all kinds of fun assuming you have a song that doesn't suck 30 shits.
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well i acquired rock band 2 today. surprisingly i found it at the first store i tried. but we only have one guitar... i guess i'd need to find another one. also christophe might join us...
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I think thats pretty much every single town and city in the US.
I do not think you will find Santa Fe, Albuquerque, or Socorro in the UK.
This is just a guess.
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My town is named for a town of the same name in Great Britain.
I think thats pretty much every single town and city in the US.
That's basically just the East Coast. Yelley I will fuck you up at Rock Band, I'm showing up at SFO on the 12th and I have the whole day of the 13th free. I got dibs on guitar and FUCK YEAH I DO NOT NEED TO REST AFTER MY FLIGHT BECAUSE THERE IS MOUNTAIN DEW IN AMERICA YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Shit, I'm jealous. I grew up in the bay area, but I'm stuck out here in fucky Ct with not enough money to return!
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CT isnt too shitty if you know where to go.
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The best thing about CT is going to New York.
EDIT: For the record, this happens to be true of NJ too.
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CT isnt too shitty if you know where to go.
It probably is if you're not a criminally underpaid grad student with no car living in Vernon/Rockville
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Hey I live in shitty CT too.
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Someone is clearly a UConn student. The greater Storrs area is wildly uninteresting unless you have a solid group of friends that do exciting things.
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Back to the vague subject of maps,
Springfield Interactive Map! (http://adn.blam.be/springfield/)