Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario

Subject: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Lyndon Larouche
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:26 AM

I know that all the Mudcatters in Elks Crotch will not want to miss it and that all other Mudcatters are looking forward to the photos posted at www.rickinelkscrotch.com.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter T.
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:41 AM

Damn, I missed that one. And I checked the Web site, and there is nothing there! What's wrong? Fans of Elk's Crotch know that it is a sylvan spot, with extraordinary fans, some of whom appear to have been born in modal tunings, if I can put it that way. Rick's appearances there have always prompted the city fathers to close the city for the day. What a pity.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 09:54 AM

Lucky elk.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Gervase
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 09:59 AM

So surely it's the elk that's got piles now, not kendall.
Dammit, this place is confusing enough at the best of times...

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 10:01 AM

Rick went to the Elk's Crotch to provide musical therapy for its piles, and he is using the delicate D Chord technique he learned from Big Mick.

Mick would have gone to help the elk himself but he was too big for the crotch.

I thought everyone who is anyone knew that.

~S~

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 10:04 AM

(And of course the elk is Kendall.)

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: reggie miles
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 10:05 AM

And I thought that living in a town called Snake Butt (spelled just like it sounds) was rough.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:25 AM

Rick, congratulations, you've finally hit the big time.

Did you perform Ontari-ari-ario?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: kendall
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:29 AM

Get a hobby

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 12:25 PM

Get a better address!!

LTS ROTFLMAO.....

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,John Leeder
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 01:45 PM

There are no elk in Ontario any more. Maybe it's just wishful thinking...

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 01:52 PM

Whoops, Kendall warned me that using humourous unlikely thread titles, to illustrate why trad threads go into the dumpster so quickly these days would backfire. (see "Mudcat clique" thread)

In truth, though, I have to give credit to the origins of the "Elk's Crotch" line.

Many years ago when Tony Quarrington and I were touring this fair land, we would while away the long drives by writing "comedy routines". We'd look at the map and laugh histerically at some of the "real" Canadian place names, and try to "one-up" them. After all it's hard to improve on places like "Moose Jaw Sask." or "Dildo" Newfoundland. "Balls Falls" Ontario, is right up there as well.

After a while, these phony places would start cropping up in our resumes. ie: "last year Rick participated at the annual Beaverburg Dew Worm Festival". We were silly people in those days.

Rick

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 06:04 PM

Elk's Crotch? That really does sound bogus. But then, there is an Intercourse Pennsylvania. Still, It sounds suspicious to me. Neil

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:15 PM

Uh, Rick, I never figured you to be into that.....

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Pene Azul
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 08:22 PM

Hey Irish sergent, Intercourse is just a stone's throw away from Blue Ball, Bird-In-Hand, Middlesex, Paradise and Lickdale.

PA

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: bob jr
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:49 PM

elks crotch is right near ingersoll isnt it?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 12:01 AM

Rick, we'll have to get you out to the California town of "Hornitos."

By the way, I wonder if the guest who initiated this thread is related to that Irish guy who emigrated to the U.S. and started a bizarre political organization, the infamous Barry Lyndon LaRouche.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 01:03 AM

Kindred in spirit, at least. Caroline and I once had lunch in Buck Snort, Tennessee, on our way to the Dulcimer Festival in Memphis. William Least Heat Moon told me he'd never heard of it. Imagine! Flush, Kansas, always seemed like a good idea to me, too. Whenever we travel we take along George Stewart's Dictionary of American Place Names. He also wrote Names on the Land. Good books, both!

Gordon Bok often praises West Overshoe, Maine, and I'm fond of East Apron Strings, Nebraska. Do you suppose we both are too shy for scatology?

Have fun with it, Rick.

Sandy (who normally avoids threads that begin as this one did)

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: DougR
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 01:11 AM

Rick: I have a cousin (distant) in Arm Pit, which is only a stone's throw from Elk Crotch. If you have a moment, would you telephone him? His name is Elroy P. Fudd. He's a bit hard of hearing, but I'll email him you might be calling so he'll be prepared in the event you do. He is in the manufacturing business in Arm Pit. Makes fly swatters out of bumble bee wings.

DougR

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 05:10 AM

There really is a village called Piddlehinton, honestly!! In the Piddle Valley.....

And I've been through Upper Dicker. We bypassed Little Dicker.

I've also been through Aunt Mary's Bottom and the Wallops.

LTS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 05:16 AM

You know, Liz, I have an Aunt Mary and she'll be most upset if she finds out you've been through her bottom.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 10:45 AM

O never know what's funnier, the joke things or the real ones. Kentucky is blessed with some interesting ones. Jean Ritchie is from Viper (and they got 'em), which isn't far from Fisty, Mousie, Dwarf, and Thousand Sticks.

Sandy, there used to be a Post Office in a little place on the Tennessee River called Suck Creek. Not far from another tiny place up over around Monteagle named Firey Gizzard.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 12:23 PM

Allie Long Parker, one of Max Hunter's best ballad singing friends, was from Hog Scald Holler, Arkansas. I visited her there and recorded a few of her old songs.

More when I have more time. Right now, I have to dash over to the Winter Hawk Festival - "Bluegrass and Beyond" -- whatever that means.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 12:27 PM

Dead grass? Lite Blue Grass?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Duane D.
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 11:25 PM

Sandy, is it true Flush, Kansas' largest industry is the American Standard factory? Or is Flush, Kansas just a good start?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 11:37 PM

Five cards, all the same suit, probably, although I thought they ought to be the American Standard home office. Ever been to Weed, California? Wonder what they smoke up there? I once had a heck of a time locating Vici, Oklahoma, until I learned that they pronounced it Vye-Cye.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Mbo
Date: 29 Jul 00 - 11:38 PM

Ah, we got a place right here in near Kinston, NC (I drive by it every weekend) called Tickbite. Ouch.

--Matt

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:27 AM

Aunt Mary's Bottom is a small copse of trees on a blind, right angled bend, which was notorious for vehicles coming off it at high speed and ending up in the front yard of the farm next to it. One Saturday night the farmer left his tractor out across the gateway, and found two cars and a motorcyclist under it the next day..... Never did find the motorcycle..... The bend is called the Monkey's Jump, although I suspect it was something else before that.......

I bet the guy who named Firey Gizzard had either a) an ulcer or b) a grade II listed hangover with rumble bum, throat burn and bile breath..... Could be worse though, it could have been called Flaming Ring.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 03:01 AM

So if you drive off into the trees, can you say,

"I gave Aunt Mary's ass a real Humber."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 03:50 AM

Sandy, didn't George and Lennie in Of Mice And Men talk about getting chased out of Weed, CA? Sounds like an inhospitable place for a town of stoners.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 05:45 AM

Up by where I'm from in North Idaho, not too far south of BC there is a little town called Good Grief...

Amergin

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 01:21 PM

And then, of course, there is the exit off I-94 between Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan. It is called Climax. One of my favorite towns.

Mick

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:27 PM

But Mick..........I hear you always arrive there early!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:31 PM

The older you get, the longer the distance to Climax.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Dave Swan
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:42 PM

I passed that exit about a dozen times last month, but I never got off.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Jul 00 - 02:49 PM

Well El Swanno, you were probably having a problem in exiting to the LEFT.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 06:52 AM

Liz the Squeak may decline to share the time of day with me (it's 11.50 am here actually!) but I'll not go off in a huff (it needs a new engine)but add that there is a Trotter's Bottom in Hertfordshire... and it's not near Staines.
That's all, folks,
RtS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Willie-O
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 07:00 AM

Used to know a guy who was a township councillor in that proud old Ontario community Bastard Township.

Now they're amalgamated I think...don't know if they got rid of the name at that time, I think maybe its "Bastard & Burgess" Township now. Don't mess with tradition in that area.

Willie-O
Just down the road from Elphin

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: canoer
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 11:55 AM

Close to Minckney, MI is a general store posing as the little hamlet of Hell, MI.

As it is on a nice little stream, I have been to Hell and back several times......

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Micca
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 12:12 PM

There is a place in Norway, near Trondeheim, called Hell and you can buy buy a return ticket on the train (or you could), they always have trouble with tourists not wanting to give up their tickets, there is no truth in the story that the train consists of a set of replica handbaskets on wheels.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 01:06 PM

Told this before, but there is an excellent crafts/street fair in the little town of Gay, Georgia. Now of course, saying you're going to the "Gay Crafts Fair" requires some explanation.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Wesley S
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 04:10 PM

Has anyone other than me been to Gun Barrel or Cut and Shoot Texas?? And when you talk about Climax Michigan I think it's the journey that's important - not the destination.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 05:56 PM

Roger, me darling, it is 22.59pm and time we was all in bed.....

(note carefully placed puntuation.....)

LTS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Homeless
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 08:16 PM

In Indiana, just south of Indianapolis, there is a little town called Gnaw Bone. It's not really all that far from French Lick.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jul 00 - 08:26 PM

....which I recall is the home of Larry da' Bird!!! Indiana is much like Ohio and Illinois.....You sure can tell where the glacier stopped can't you?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:04 AM

Does French Lick lead to Climax?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:12 AM

Also in North Idaho is the town of Athol.

rr

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:32 AM

It will never cease to amaze me just how what a trot line/troll on the Cat can catch............just more LOL's. Bring on them milk jugs, boys, and just add a line with 3/0 hook....(sorry, guys. I been behavin' myself, tryin to learn that "abc" stuff, and it is late here)

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:32 AM

Several years ago I saw a wedding announcement in an Illinois newspaper that said, "Normal man marries Oblong woman".

I've been told that in Texas, you have to go through Bowlegs to get to Maud.

I used to live in Accident, Maryland. (On purpose.)

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Bud Savoie
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:57 AM

Knew a guy in the Army from Possum Trot, Kentucky.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:18 AM

Just for a kick I had Mapquest tell me how to get from French Lick to Climax. It was just as I suspected. From French Lick, you make your way east to 69(That's I-69, 'Spaw, you dirty old man) and then North to get to Climax. Makes perfect sense to me........LOL

Big Mick

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:31 AM

I dunno' Mick....that does sound good, but maybe a southern detour would work out nicely. Down through Louisville and across to Cincy, then up. That way you could stop at Big Bone Lick just south of Cincinnati. Must be a popular spot because there is a State Park there......probably a REAL interesting nature walk!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: alison
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:45 AM

you two are very naughty.... and I need a nice cold shower.... hahahaha

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: alison
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:49 AM

to give you an Aussie one... I thought Mount Blue Cow was an odd one

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:03 PM

Oh well hell alison........I'm game for anything.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:13 PM

The Colorado highway dept. spent years replacing road signs that said "CLIMAX"..(kids would steal them for their dorm rooms)not sure what they finally came up with...we used to joke about having to get to Climax by way of 'Fairplay'....

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:21 PM

Caroline and I will be singing (and hawking our wares) at the Adirondack Folk Music Festival on Sunday, August 13 - along with a bunch of fine performers like Chris Shaw and Dan Berggren, John Kirk, etc. I mention this because the festival is held in Schroon Lake, NY (near Lake George). I assume that's past tense. Or perhaps it's somewhere near Peen Lake, a thing campers are told not to do.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:43 PM

Well Sandy, I think the Canadians are pretty straightforward on that subject.......I remember travelling through on vaction at about age 12 and getting a laugh out of Lake Nipissing. It was Still pretty cold in early June and I don't think I could have if I tried.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: paddymac
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:35 PM

There's also a Climax, Ga, just up the road from Commerce and Intercourse. My favorite, though, is the wide spot in the road called "Two Egg" in the FL panhandle. On a sadder note, the US Geological survey has an obscure office that concerns itself with place names. Officially, they seek to stamp out the great evil of duplication and resultant confusion, but they are also accused censorship and removal of risque place names.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:55 PM

HA - like to see them try THAT with Pratt's Bottom!! Or Turnham Green - a place name seen on many a London Bus.... usually the ones going to Turnham Green....

LTS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,John Leeder
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:16 PM

By coincidence, the other night I saw a TV documentary on efforts to reestablish an elk population in Ontario. Wonder why...

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: paddymac
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:44 PM

I was chatting with a young lad from the north at the pub earlier this evening, and was telling him about this thread. He chuckled and said he knew the place well, being as it was just a bit up the road from Moose Nuts. Don't suppose he was pulling me, er, leg?

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Brendy
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:47 PM

There's a Ballyfuckeen, close to Nicker, near Pallas Green in East County Limerick. Effin is about 15 miles away.

B.

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 12:58 AM

There's a Thai restaurant in San Francisco called "Phuket." Used to be a store in Oakland called "Linoleum Dicks." I always thought their slogan should have been "You just can't lick Linoleum Dicks."

Whattaya say we form a Mudcat band, go on tour, hit all those places mentioned so we can make a Mudcat 2000 Tour T-shirt with the place names on the back? "Mudcatters rock Aunt Mary's Bottom, Flush, Climax, Firey Gizzard...."

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 02:21 AM

Only if you promise to leave out Slough....

LTS

Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 02 Aug 00 - 02:46 AM

Now THAT's an obscene name! *BG*