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Finland,Minnesota, USA
« on: Feb 20th, 2005, 7:51am » |
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Last night I was looking at usacitylink.com and found lots of interesting city names. But my fave was Finland! Yep, it's in Minnesota... 
This discovery reminds me of one conversation me, my best friend and one american fellow had back in 1997 in Brighton, UK. He asked us where we were from. And we said, from Finland. His next question seemed so stupid to us at the time: What state that is?
But that doesn't seem that stupid right now....
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #1 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 7:52am » |
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http://finlandmn.usl.myareaguide.com/
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #2 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 8:07am » |
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There is a radio show here from Minnesota (Prairie Home Companion) that features regular jokes about the Norwegians and Swedes.
Different regions of the US were opened to immigration at different times, and were settled by large groups from various European countries. Boston and Chicago had lots of Irish, Minnesota and central Canada had lots of Scandinavians, St. Louis and Milwaukee had lots of Germans, Louisiana had the Cajuns (French/Quebecois) etc etc. Today, the patterns are often more subtle and dispersed, but they are still there in the landscape.
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I once captured this bug...I'll bet it was 15 years old or something like that and I went over to that other place and then I came back and then it was like I felt good about something that my mother said the day before when we were in church where the preacher went like this and all the people listened and now look at what I'm wearing. Do you believe that?
Wow finland. That's cool.
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Re: yea and
« Reply #4 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 11:24am » |
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on Feb 20th, 2005, 11:17am, rumplestiltskin wrote:I once captured this bug...I'll bet it was 15 years old or something like that and I went over to that other place and then I came back and then it was like I felt good about something that my mother said the day before when we were in church where the preacher went like this and all the people listened and now look at what I'm wearing. Do you believe that?
Wow finland. That's cool.
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You just blew my mind....ow.
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Re: yea and
« Reply #5 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 11:29am » |
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on Feb 20th, 2005, 11:17am, rumplestiltskin wrote:I once captured this bug...I'll bet it was 15 years old or something like that and I went over to that other place and then I came back and then it was like I felt good about something that my mother said the day before when we were in church where the preacher went like this and all the people listened and now look at what I'm wearing. Do you believe that?
Wow finland. That's cool.
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oofda is all i can say about that.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #6 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 11:34am » |
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Minnesota is nice.
Yeah, and what Den said.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #7 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 12:16pm » |
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Haha well Philadelphia started off with sections for the Irish, the Italians, and the Germans. However...don't forget that Philadelphia was also the original capital of the United States...so I think we had your mix. My grandma was born in December of 1922 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA. It was still German back then, apparently. I wasn't around to know! But now...you won't be finding Germans in Germantown any longer! That's not a racist comment in any way...that's just the way things have changed.
Chinatowns popped up in US cities as Chinese began to immigrate here.
All of the "New" city names were after European names. They added the "New" because it was in the New World. New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire..ya follow? 
In PA though...not far from here, we sure have some *interesting* names brought to us by the Pennsylvania Dutch (of German descent)... Intercourse, PA; Blue Ball, PA; and I know there are a whole lot more, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank at the moment!
I love the history of names.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #8 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 12:18pm » |
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My favorite town in minnesota is called Nimrod! It's pretty close to Oink Joint Road.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #9 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 1:09pm » |
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In Pennsylvania (besides what Lizzie mentioned) ya got:
Beaverdale. Pa
Scalp Level, Pa
Stalker, Pa
Bird-in-Hand, Pa
Jugtown, Pa. &
Squirrel Hill, Pa.
But my favorite place is
Buttzville, NJ
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #10 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 3:13pm » |
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And there were 2 cities called Horton and one Hortonville...
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #11 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 3:36pm » |
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Jimmy, you forgot Intercourse, PA. First time I saw it I thought I was reading it wrong...lol
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #12 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 6:02pm » |
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Oh people, you are forgetting the best named Minnesota cities....
Climax and Embarrass.
(Hey, they should hook up with Intercourse!)
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #13 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 6:33pm » |
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How about Fertile Mn.?
Fertile girl dies in climax. Supposedly this was printed in a paper up here. Before my time though.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #14 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 8:26pm » |
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In Tennessee, some of the more colorful names:
Lebanon
Shiloh
Antioch
And then there's:
Buck Snort and last but not least:
Crackers Neck
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #15 on: Feb 20th, 2005, 11:16pm » |
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there was a town here named Onoville .....now under water since they built the dam. Not much of a loss really.
My town is 35,000 and 15,000 of us are Swedes and Norwegians.
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #16 on: Feb 21st, 2005, 1:18am » |
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wow... you must know your scandinavians then, Charlie... Now you'd need just few finns, danes and folkes from Iceland that there'd be the whole scandinavia!
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #17 on: Feb 21st, 2005, 9:59am » |
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Re: Finland,Minnesota, USA
« Reply #18 on: Feb 21st, 2005, 4:31pm » |
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My favorite government agency, the U.S. Geologic Survey, has a searchable web site listing every place name shown on any topographic map anywhere in the US and its territorities, plus some foreigh countries.
Go to: http://geonames.usgs.gov/ and search for your name - dollars to donuts, there's some village or town or river or stream or hill or swamp or bog or ditch or some damned thing somewhere that's named after you. And there's a link to a topogrphic map image so you can see just where whatever it is that's named after you is.
It's a really cook map geek sort of a thing.
By the way, we have not one but two small villages called "Climax" here in PA, but they're a ways off from Intercourse.
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