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.....
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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
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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 |
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. |
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