Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario

28 Jul 00 - 08:26 AM (#266481)
Subject: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Lyndon Larouche

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.

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28 Jul 00 - 08:41 AM (#266486)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter T.

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.

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28 Jul 00 - 09:54 AM (#266538)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: MandolinPaul

Lucky elk.

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28 Jul 00 - 09:59 AM (#266542)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Gervase

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

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28 Jul 00 - 10:01 AM (#266544)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: wysiwyg

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~

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28 Jul 00 - 10:04 AM (#266546)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: wysiwyg

(And of course the elk is Kendall.)

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28 Jul 00 - 10:05 AM (#266547)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: reggie miles

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

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28 Jul 00 - 11:25 AM (#266597)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Steve Latimer

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

Did you perform Ontari-ari-ario?

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28 Jul 00 - 11:29 AM (#266600)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: kendall

Get a hobby

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28 Jul 00 - 12:25 PM (#266644)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

Get a better address!!

LTS ROTFLMAO.....

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28 Jul 00 - 01:45 PM (#266719)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,John Leeder

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

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28 Jul 00 - 01:52 PM (#266728)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Rick Fielding

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

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28 Jul 00 - 06:04 PM (#266894)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Irish sergeant

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

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28 Jul 00 - 08:15 PM (#266952)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin

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

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28 Jul 00 - 08:22 PM (#266958)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Pene Azul

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

PA

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28 Jul 00 - 11:49 PM (#267056)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: bob jr

elks crotch is right near ingersoll isnt it?

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29 Jul 00 - 12:01 AM (#267069)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

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.

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29 Jul 00 - 01:03 AM (#267104)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton

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)

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29 Jul 00 - 01:11 AM (#267111)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: DougR

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

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29 Jul 00 - 05:10 AM (#267162)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

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

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29 Jul 00 - 05:16 AM (#267167)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin

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

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29 Jul 00 - 10:45 AM (#267273)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

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29 Jul 00 - 12:23 PM (#267310)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton

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

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29 Jul 00 - 12:27 PM (#267313)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

Dead grass? Lite Blue Grass?

Spaw

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29 Jul 00 - 11:25 PM (#267647)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Duane D.

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

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29 Jul 00 - 11:37 PM (#267654)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton

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

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29 Jul 00 - 11:38 PM (#267655)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Mbo

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

--Matt

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30 Jul 00 - 02:27 AM (#267744)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

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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30 Jul 00 - 03:01 AM (#267752)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

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

Spaw

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30 Jul 00 - 03:50 AM (#267759)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

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.

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30 Jul 00 - 05:45 AM (#267771)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Amergin

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

Amergin

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30 Jul 00 - 01:21 PM (#267918)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Big Mick

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

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30 Jul 00 - 02:27 PM (#267964)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

Spaw

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30 Jul 00 - 02:31 PM (#267967)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

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

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30 Jul 00 - 02:42 PM (#267972)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Dave Swan

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

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30 Jul 00 - 02:49 PM (#267973)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

Spaw

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31 Jul 00 - 06:52 AM (#268405)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler

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

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31 Jul 00 - 07:00 AM (#268406)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Willie-O

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

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31 Jul 00 - 11:55 AM (#268576)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: canoer

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......

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31 Jul 00 - 12:12 PM (#268583)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Micca

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.

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31 Jul 00 - 01:06 PM (#268637)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

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31 Jul 00 - 04:10 PM (#268804)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Wesley S

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.

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31 Jul 00 - 05:56 PM (#268891)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

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

(note carefully placed puntuation.....)

LTS

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31 Jul 00 - 08:16 PM (#269009)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Homeless

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

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31 Jul 00 - 08:26 PM (#269017)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

....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?

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01 Aug 00 - 01:04 AM (#269211)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

Does French Lick lead to Climax?

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01 Aug 00 - 01:12 AM (#269214)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: rangeroger

Also in North Idaho is the town of Athol.

rr

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01 Aug 00 - 01:32 AM (#269218)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sorcha

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)

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01 Aug 00 - 01:32 AM (#269219)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: CarolC

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.)

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01 Aug 00 - 06:57 AM (#269294)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Bud Savoie

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

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01 Aug 00 - 11:18 AM (#269472)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Big Mick

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

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01 Aug 00 - 11:45 AM (#269492)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: alison

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

slainte

alison

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01 Aug 00 - 11:49 AM (#269496)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: alison

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

slainte

alison

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01 Aug 00 - 12:03 PM (#269504)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

Spaw

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01 Aug 00 - 12:13 PM (#269509)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Bill D

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'....

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01 Aug 00 - 12:21 PM (#269514)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Sandy Paton

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

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01 Aug 00 - 12:43 PM (#269526)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: catspaw49

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

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01 Aug 00 - 01:35 PM (#269570)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: paddymac

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.

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01 Aug 00 - 05:55 PM (#269761)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

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

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01 Aug 00 - 06:16 PM (#269773)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: GUEST,John Leeder

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

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01 Aug 00 - 11:44 PM (#270022)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: paddymac

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?

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01 Aug 00 - 11:47 PM (#270026)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Brendy

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

B.

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02 Aug 00 - 12:58 AM (#270070)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

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...."

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02 Aug 00 - 02:21 AM (#270093)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Liz the Squeak

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

LTS

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02 Aug 00 - 02:46 AM (#270107)
Subject: RE: Rick Appearing in Elk's Crotch Ontario
From: Peter Kasin

Now THAT's an obscene name! *BG*

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