How was your weekend?
It was fantastic!
What’d you do? A trip or something?
Yeah, I rented a car and set off for the wilds of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania has wilds?
Of course it does!
I don’t mean a forest or something, I’m sure of that, but wilds? Truth’s?
Oh yeah! But I just kind of drove through a bunch of small towns.
And this was a wild exciting time?
Ever visited the Amish?
I can not say that I have, no.
They’re awesome. Not much of a night scene…
I would not think so, with the no electricity and all.
Well I didn’t stay in an Amish farm, but the towns do shut down early.
During the day though?
Oh just nice people, simple living, fun walks through real Amish towns… you know how it is.
No, I really do not. I have no good idea how it is. I can imagine how it is, at best.
Well I’m sure it’s close.
I imagine crippling boredom.
All right, not close.
Enlighten me.
Well, they have working farms, so you can watch them churn butter and work just like they did hundreds of years ago. There’s a sense of tradition to it all that amazes.
Not so much, no. What do you do in hour two?
Oh come on, it’s fascinating!
It really isn’t. I promise.
Well there are also the three towns.
What three towns?
There are three towns you pass through as you go. Blue Ball, Intercourse and Paradise.
No!
Yup! In that order, even.
Are they named for…
Not at all! That’s the best part. The names are not sexual at all, in origin.
So you speed through Blue Ball and rush right to Intercourse, don’t you?
Of course!
Men. No sense of taking their time at all.
Unfair! I just meant there’s nothing to see in Blue Ball.
Mmm-hmmm, just something to rush through. Did you stop and explore? I bet you explored Intercourse.
It has the American Military Edged Weapon Museum!
Intercourse does.
It does!
Well that figures.
I admit that’s slightly damning.
You think?
Great, isn’t it?
Can we go this weekend?
Sure!
Hooray! We’re going to Intercourse!
Uhm, ‘Tashi, maybe yelling that out in a bar isn’t the best of ideas.
Oh, right. Also, we won’t be… I mean I didn’t mean…
No worries, I know what you meant and what you didn’t. But we can take pictures of you next to Intercourse.
Too many of those already.
… I … that…
Poor thing, did I break your head?
We’re going to watch butter churn for hours.
Daniel. At this point anything you say will sound like innuendo and not a threat. We should drop it.
Good point.
December 29th, 2009 on 12:16 pm
How do you possibly come up with “Intercourse” as a town name?
December 29th, 2009 on 4:08 pm
http://www.amishnews.com/towns/intercoursehistory.htm
tells how the name came about
December 29th, 2009 on 4:09 pm
Or at least a few theories. There are more than one.
December 30th, 2009 on 11:19 am
Town names are a strange sort… In Denmark we have “Slukefter” which best translates as “Turn off (the lights) when you leave”
December 30th, 2009 on 11:20 am
HAHAHAH! That’s awesome!
December 30th, 2009 on 11:21 am
I always wondered how the heck someone thinks to call a town something like that:P
January 2nd, 2010 on 1:20 am
Well Arizona has a town named Phoenix with sounds cool until you think about it phoenixes die a hirable agonizing flaming death and then get reborn form there former body’s ashes only to have that happen again in the near future. Not pleasant not pleasant at all.
January 9th, 2010 on 3:41 am
Tongue twister. India has a town called Thiruvananthapuram. And another town called Hyderabad.
January 10th, 2010 on 11:56 pm
After trying to sing along with a Russian song nothing is a tongue twister. My tongue is twist free! =D
January 13th, 2010 on 8:11 pm
I’m originally from Phoenix, and that is not one of the oddest towns we had in AZ. Some cool names were Why, Valentine, Christmas, Tuba City, Nowhere and Surprise.
January 14th, 2010 on 11:34 am
We also have “Jordløse” & “Vanløse” wich means “Earthless” & “Waterless”. Then we have “Tønder”, wich is “Barrels” and finally “Tarm” wich is literally “Intestine”