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Accident, Maryland[^] 
What other odd place names have you guys (and gals) seen?
List on wiki[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
modified 26-May-15 19:38pm.
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There are a lot of odd place names in Germany.. a small selection:
"Sommerloch" - summer slump / silly season
"Drogen" - drugs
"Oberkaka" - major poop 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Not just places. Person names are even worse.
I got very intrigued when I realized there existed people with the surnames Knoblauch and Rindfleich, which translates to Garlic and Beef respectively.
And there really exists people with the surnames Titte, Fickbaum, Feuchtenbeiner, Muschi, Breitscheid or Luderfinger.
(use a translation program, it probably just turns into a load of stars if I write it out)
But it doesn't stop there, some parents are really mean. If your surname is Schweiss, a fairly common surname, you don't name your kid Axel. (Arm pit sweat)
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Axel Schweiss LOL
I used to work with a Knoblauch in Denmark several decades ago... Luckily he didn't smell of garlic... 
I could wish for a female colleague named Titte or Feuchtenbeiner (are you serious, is somebody actually called that?) - just think of the fun you could have with that...
In Denmark, as well as Sweden, Pitt is a slang word for penis, and Stiv means "stiff", so I have a long standing joke (no pun intended) about Brad Pitt having an unknown brother called Steve. Normally, it takes people a short while to connect Steve with Pitt and realise what it could also mean. But then they normally break out laughing...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: are you serious, is somebody actually called that?)
Yes seriously, check the phone directory.
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LOL, I didn't even notice it was you I replied to Jörgen... 
So you obviously know the Steve Pitt joke?!?!? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Classic fifth grade joke.
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I knew a guy whose given name was Charles. He went by "Chuck". His older brother, Robert, went by "Bob". Last name? Bobinchuck.
cat fud heer
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USA seems to be the home a odd names.
Hell,_Michigan[^]
Intercourse,_Pennsylvania[^]
And I'm sure there plenty of others..
Locally we we have Eureka Waikato NZ and
Near Porangahau in Hawke’s Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater’, played his flute to his loved one." Locals simply call it Taumata Hill.
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I was going to put Hell. Always wanted to do the bike ride to Hell and Back. I do not know if they are still doing it as that was forty years ago.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Newfoundland. Everywhere there (or at least enough that it's their main advertising campaign):
Happy Valley, Heart's Desire, Come By Chance, Mistaken Point, Jerrys Nose (no apostrophe), and of course, Dildo. And many others I'm probably forgetting.
Oh, not Newfoundland, but there is a Climax, Saskatchewan[^].
TTFN - Kent
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I live about an hour and half from Hell[^].
Yes, every year, Hell does freeze over.
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but it's hard to get this one past the CP filters: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F***ing,_Austria[^] 
[edit]Looks like the swear word filter breaks the URL[/edit]
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Nowhere, Oklahoma[^]
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Ramsbottom, but its in Lancashire so that would explain it
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Leveland, Texas- one of if not the flattest place I have ever been.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - was originally Hot Springs but changed it's name to that of the TV program.
Opp, Alabama
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There is a place called Bitsch[^] (pronounced like in English without the "s")
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For me, it averages about 1 to 2 times a month when I'm working on projects where everyone is branch and merge happy insane.
Marc
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Branching is evil and should be avoided. In thirty years as a developer, I have never branched. (Nor have I ever used Git, so take that into account.)
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Branching is evil and should be avoided. In thirty years as a developer, I have never branched.
Exactly! And now, all of a sudden, it's branch, do work, commit, do a pull request, merge into "develop", delete branch.
WAF-PITA.
Marc
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We recently upgraded from CVS to Mercurial, I did quite some research before choosing Mercurial over of Git, despite Git having much more inertia.
Major reason being how branches are handled.
Such a kludge as rebase should have been a major alarm bell going off afaic.
Note though that branching are different concepts in Git and Mercurial, something many people are missing out.
Git branches are more equivalent to bookmarks in Mercurial.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Branching is evil and should be avoided. In thirty years as a developer, I have never branched. (Nor have I ever used Git, so take that into account.)
Interesting.
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