Hi There Somebody

Thanks to a four way tie in my last poll, I started doing research for a post on unusual names. You may not be able to tell this from the polls themselves, but they are completely random. I just pick topics out of nowhere without much thought. This may be hard to believe, but its true. I don't have anything planned for the post topics which its likely also hard to believe. Stop shaking your head. I will put the curtain back soon.

So back to the research. I just googled "unusual names" and thousands of options appeared. I clicked on a link with unusual place names to start. There sure are some interesting towns out there... If you're interested, some guy from Michigan did an article about it. Can you believe there's a town in Michigan named Hell? You can if you spent any time there in January. "Where you from fella?"
"Hell."
In certain parts of the country that might not go over too well.

There's a bunch of places called Hurricane. Most are in the south where they actually have hurricanes. The least likely place to have hurricanes called Hurricane is in southern Utah. Apparently they've got something called Laverricanes there though because that's the name of the next town over from Hurricane. I'm not sure how to spell Laverricane, but am pretty sure no one from there checks my blog too regularly to care. Laverricanians let your voices be heard!

In Washington we have a bunch of stuff named after Indians. Puyallup made the guy from Michigan's list. I was just there today buying milk and string cheese in bulk at Costco. The Puyallup Indians, and other local tribes, have fishing rights for clams called Geoducks pronounced gooeyduck. They are huge things. The size of a man's arm sometimes. If you've ever had clam chowder, you've likely had gooeyduck. Now that's an unusual name...

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It's Eclectic! Boogie Woogie Woogie

I don't know the electric slide. I may have done it once or twice. When I was in college my roommates and I created a far superior dance that goes with about any disco song, but particularly well with KC and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight". That's a classic track. The dance involved several standard disco moves including some particularly effective walking/strutting. It was easy to do and the dance crowds usually followed easily. I could teach it to you if you want me to. Just ask.

Here's the song. Let me know if you want to know more.



Now for more serious matters. A couple of questions for you. Do you know the difference between string and twine? Is there one? I think there is, but I'm not sure that's definitive.

This is the largest ball of string (not twine):

It's located in Weston, MO. That's Missouri. I'm not a huge fan. Why do you always want me to show you? Show you what? This ball is string. DO NOT confuse this ball with twine. It's 19 feet around, by the way. That's 5.7912 meters for my Canadian friends. Eh?



I guess this ball of string (not twine) is a collection of old packaging string (not twine) that was collected over the years. Are you wondering why they collected that much string (not twine)? Me too.



So what's twine? Not sure. Apparently twine is a strong string or cord made of two or more threads twisted together. So twine is string, but string is not twine? Okay.



String is a cord usually made of fiber, used for fastening, tying, or lacing. I'm going to let you in on something. I think string and twine are pretty much the same thing. Here's the way I would describe them both from my experiences with each over the years: Twine is rough and unrefined, where string is typically softer and more suited for precise tying. Good enough?



I thought so.



You know that this topic won one of my polls in the past. It has been pending on the side of the blog for a while. Years maybe. I'm just here to serve after all.





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