mehoopany, conshohocken (my dad threatened my mom to name me after this town), hop bottom, choconut, zelienople, intercourse, blue ball, virginville, frugality, normal square, good intent, nanty glo, forty fort, scalp level, drain lick, drinker, stalker, fearnot, mechanicsburg (it's motto is "a good place to live"- it's spitting distance from 3 mile island), factoryville, laboratory, big beaver, jersey shore (almost at the geographic center of the state!), crumb, custards, hosensack, shunk, kunkle, waddle...
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Sun, September 28, 2003 - 4:32 PMI love nanty glo! when I saw it on the map I threatened to rename natty after it. my god though, that's such an impressive list! -
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Sun, September 28, 2003 - 6:07 PMi just saw nanty glo today! what the hell? i was looking up nanticoke, a town not too far away from where i grew up and i saw nanty glo. i think hop bottom is my fave. this list keeps growing, i keep finding towns of note. -
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Mon, September 29, 2003 - 3:57 PMhop bottom rocks. what the hell is nanticoke though? where does that come from? and moosic. that was another one I liked. moose sick? moose ick? moo sick?
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Tue, September 30, 2003 - 3:24 PMyeah, i love moosic. there used to be a really fun, supah cruddy amusement park there called rocky glen.
i saw the hooters there. and weird all yankovic.
i don't know about the nanti/nanty part, but coke is a biproduct of burning bituminous coal (softer coal than anthracite). it's used as fuel for heating. -
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Thu, October 2, 2003 - 5:46 PMaha. perhaps if I'd been to the anthracite museum I'd have know about the "coke". so naticoke might make sense, but nanty glo...? yay cruddy amusement parks in moosic, what a great place to see weird al!!
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