Friday: Hili dialogue

20 thoughts on “Friday: Hili dialogue”

1. Pretty sure I met a man from Puke…

   1. Brain needle like you!

2. I hear ‘brain needle’. Very pithy…

3. Indiana has ‘Floyds Knobs’. This is a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky (across the Ohio River), as well as a geological feature (part of the Knobstone Escarpment of southern Indiana).

   1. There’s the town of Knob Noster in Missouri, and Knob Hill apartments in Kansas City, and in the Ozarks, there’s the geological/botanical wonder known as “bald knobs”, named after the grassy, treeless tops of hills/mountains in the area (can also be found in Appalachia) and groups of pro-North Civil War vigilantes in the Ozarks were known as “bald knobbers”.

   2. Gobblers knob…

   3. The map clearly shows that New Zealand does rude names better than Australia if you correct for land area.

      1. I note most of those are in South Island.

         But if you follow the link to the Twitter thread, you can see that Tassie outdoes NZ, and the rest of Oz, quite comfortably:

         https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dddp0PyUQAA1j4w.jpg

         cr

         1. I’d say so. Tasmania wins. I’m not a spring chicken by a long shot, but I confess that until I read this post, I had no idea that the word “knob” carried a salacious connotation. Now I see it has several. And I thought I knew all about salacious meanings.

      2. Seem to have a knob fixation there. Herr Doktor woulda had a field day had he ever taken a voyage to the antipodes.

   4. There’s a probably very Southern and religious community on the Eastern Shore of Virginia named Onancock.

      I always laugh when I see that on the map. 🙂

      1. Especially considering the story of Onan in the Bible.

4. The giant cat thing has been done before: Kitten Kong

   The show is The Goodies and the reporter is Michael Aspel who was quite a famous personality in Britain in the 70’s.

5. Grania, you should replace Jerry full time. You are the best!

   1. No, you can’t actually, fully, replace Jerry, since he’s a unique inter-webs presence. I do agree with the appreciation for Grania’s fine contributions. A wonderful post Grania. Thanks.

6. Aside from the he rude stuff, I recently found my little jar of ash from Mt. St. Helens that I got from some relatives’s rooftop all those years ago. As a kid I thought it pretty neat to hold something as exotic (to a Missouri kid) as volcanic ash!

7. The video of the lava is jaw-dropping. I’m mesmerized.

8. Some rude place names are deliberate- others are a matter of accident.

   “Intercourse” was not a euphemism for sex until the middle of the 19th century, and the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania was
   so-named long before this became the case. (I’m told someone made a 15 minute film of a clothed couple walking through the streets thereof entitled “John and Mary in Intercourse”.)

   Likewise, the usage of “beaver” to refer to the female pudenda dates from the late 1920s and started in England, so Arizona’s “wet beaver creek” is probably off the hook, although the fact that an especially deep part of that creek at a major bend is known as “the crack at Wet Beaver Creek” is amusing, and may be deliberate.

   Here’s a comparable map of the United States.
   https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1843796/size/tl-horizontal_main.jpg

9. I used to live near Pratts Bottom. Just down the road was Badgers Mount. A nearby village had (still has) a pub called The Cock Inn.

10. The lava flow in Hawaii may be what Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama was referring to when he said that falling rocks were responsible for the sea level rise. Snicker. Snicker.

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