Unusual Place Names

DanaC · 03-03-2014, 01:00 AM

If I saw that name I'd think it a manufacturing term. It wouldn't occur to me that it might be a ref to violence.

Griff · 03-03-2014, 05:44 AM

Something people from elsewhere (and here for that matter) might find unusual is the number of Pigeon place names in the US. The passenger pigeon was that important to peoples survival/economy.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-03-2014, 04:39 PM

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One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.

says Wiki. Can you imagine how much seed laden shit that flock would drop in a day.

03-03-2014, 05:44 AM	#2
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Something people from elsewhere (and here for that matter) might find unusual is the number of Pigeon place names in the US. The passenger pigeon was that important to peoples survival/economy. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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