Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls
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- @PJH]There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
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@bb36e There is a city in France called "Villeurbanne", which literally means "urban city". Even funnier, its website is titled "Ville de Villeurbanne" i.e. "city of urban city".
( actually the name derives from latin "villa urbana" where "villa" means "farm", even though this is where the modern French "ville" comes from, so it really was "the farm close to the city")
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There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
That's accurate.
@bb36e There is a city in France called "Villeurbanne", which literally means "urban city". Even funnier, its website is titled "Ville de Villeurbanne" i.e. "city of urban city".
( actually the name derives from latin "villa urbana" where "villa" means "farm", even though this is where the modern French "ville" comes from, so it really was "the farm close to the city")Somehow reminds me of the city of townsville (powerpuff girls). I'll show myself out.
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@remi
It's not that different from all those places called Villeneuve or Villefranche that are so common they all have a suffix to distinguish them.
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townsville (powerpuff girls)
You have just increased my knowledge of powerpuff girls by Inf%.
Thank you.
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@remi
It's not that different from all those places called Villeneuve or Villefranche that are so common they all have a suffix to distinguish them.Meh. Not quite, Villefranche/Villeneuve aren't redundant names. OK, if someone says "the city of Villefranche", it becomes so, but not the name itself. That you have to add a suffix to distinguish them is like saying "Springfield, SomeState" vs. "Springfield, SomeOtherState".
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There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
In addition to the other replies there've been so far, in the UK we have
Hill-hill-hill, hill.
Well almost. Torpenhow is real. There's no hill called that though.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
townsville (powerpuff girls)
You have just increased my knowledge of powerpuff girls by Inf%.
Thank you.I'll do you one better: there are three girls in the group.
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That you have to add a suffix to distinguish them is like saying "Springfield, SomeState" vs. "Springfield, SomeOtherState".
PORTLAND.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'll do you one better: there are three girls in the group.
Bubbles.
Buttercup. [?]
And... the other one. I think her name also starts with a B.
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@Zecc Blossom.
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@Zecc
Three GirlsOnPuff
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There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
I give you: Street Road in Pennsylvania:
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@boomzilla there's a North boulevard here in Tampa. The name isn't "North", that's the direction (since there's a South boulevard just where you'd expect it to be). And boulevard is just the street type, so...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla there's a North boulevard here in Tampa. The name isn't "North", that's the direction (since there's a South boulevard just where you'd expect it to be). And boulevard is just the street type, so...
A town I used to live in had an east/west road named South St, which was divided into West South Street and East South Street.
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@boomzilla Strange Canadian road names
In Iqaluit, Nunavut
Yellowknife, NWT
Nanimo, BC
and
suburb of Ottawa, Ontario
And Porters Lakes, NS just said "fuck this shit"
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@TimeBandit You know the story about Yreka California? Apparently while determining the name the local post master looked out his window and saw "bakery" reflected backwards on the glass.
I'm not looking up if that story is true, it'd ruin it.
EDIT: I lied and looked it up. Turns out that was Mark Twain's (fake) story, so it has literary cred even if it's fake.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'd guess that's literally true.
When you're in Nunavut, you're already nowhere
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'll do you one better: there are three girls in the group.
Bubbles.
Buttercup. [?]
And... the other one. I think her name also starts with a B.I said I'd do one thing, not three!
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I'm not looking up if that story is true, it'd ruin it.
That appears to be a variation on a Mark Twain story: > There was a bakeshop with a canvas sign which had not yet been put up but had been painted and stretched to dry in such a way that the word BAKERY, all but the B, showed through and was reversed. A stranger read it wrong end first, YREKA, and supposed that that was the name of the camp. The campers were satisfied with it and adopted it.The trouble with that story is that the letters R, E, and K would all be visibly reversed. Not such a problem if someone is making up a name, but unlikely to be misinterpreted by mistake.
The real origin, according to Wikipedia:
The name comes from the Shasta language /wáik'a/, for which Mount Shasta is named.[7] The word means "north mountain" or "white mountain".[8][9]
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That's (Warp Drive you s) the exit to the Orbital ATK offices.
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@TimeBandit There's also this fairly major road in Toronto:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I said I'd do one thing, not three!
I'd recommend against doing those girls, they're a tad young for it.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Street Road
There are a bunch of roads I know of which are so named in NL, including the 'Kennemer straatweg' and 'Amsterdamse straatweg'. I suspect the etymology there to be that 'straat' is a form of the adjective 'bestraat' which means 'paved'. And outside the built-up area, back when paving was intensive manual work, this would have been remarkable.
No saying if a similar reasoning applies here.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I said I'd do one thing, not three!
I'd recommend against doing those girls, they're a tad young for it.
If they can take being smashed by buildings in stride...
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FedEx Express = Federal Express Express
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I bought a house on Random Rd. Every time I come home it's in a different location.
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@El_Heffe How are your neighbors, Paul and Murray?
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The Los Angeles Angels.
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@Dragnslcr said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
The Los Angeles Angels.
Of Anaheim (yes, I know they've abandoned that now).
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@boomzilla But they're still in Anaheim. They haven't actually been in Los Angeles since 1966.
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@HardwareGeek yes. It's all so ridiculous. Just like their fans.
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@boomzilla said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
Just like their fans.
That doesn't include me. I've hated the Angels since they beat the Dodgers in a Freeway Series some time in the mid-'60s.
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@blakeyrat said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@El_Heffe How are your neighbors, Paul and Murray?
I'm a bit suspicious. Murray Hill runs through a neighborhood everyone calls "Little Italy". But Murray Hill doesn't sound very Italian to me.
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@el_heffe It's only a little Italian.
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My favourite road in York
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@Luhmann said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@Zecc
Three GirlsOnPuffOk, we get it, they vape! Jeez.
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Outside of town we got the villages of:
By (Village)
Dal (Valley)
Sjö (Lake)The last one is my fav. Because it's next to a lake, obviously. What is the lake called? Well, it's named after the village, so:
Sjösjön (Lake Lake)
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There's a Gordon Bennett street in Warsaw which always amuses me.
But in looking up the spelling it turns out it's from a real person and not just a minced oath.
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@HardwareGeek said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
@boomzilla said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
Just like their fans.
That doesn't include me.
I know.
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@bb36e said in Tautological tautologies. And PowerPuff Girls:
There appears to be a street in Amsterdam which, to the best of my ability, literally translates to 'New New Street':
I'd've gone with "New Street (2)".
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@boner Copy of New Street
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@Scarlet_Manuka New street FINAL DO NOT EDIT (2)
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Some context for those who, like me, have never heard of Gordon Bennett, minced oath or otherwise.