RangerJoe
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ORIGINAL: geofflambert Well, that's religion for you. Oops, we can't talk about that either. Humor helps keep the depression away. From Purgatory to Hell: America's oddest town names https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030401&slug=gas010 quote:
Purgatory, Maine . . . In Intercourse, Ala., named for the crossroads where the general store sits, Gladstone heard that after a series of car crashes outside the town's meeting hall, the local sewing instruction group was asked to take down its sign, "Intercourse Lessons Wednesday Night." He did not learn the origin of the names of Rough and Ready and Fearnot, neighboring towns in Pennsylvania, but he did hear about a newspaper headline from the 1930s: "Fearnot Man Marries Rough and Ready Woman." Another headline, this time from Nice, Calif., made Jay Leno's headline segment on "The Tonight Show": "Nice man arrested for beating wife."
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