[Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names

[Judy Fleener]

Not a town name, but I have a grandson whose parents never figured until he
was 11 years old that WTF were very difficult initials to live with.  I
intend to tell him that in Michigan we say that stands for "Where's the
fudge?"


On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, Lynn, I didn't know about the made up ones!  I do know there are
> some mighty strange town names: Bad Axe, Hell, Paradise,  Grawn (I think
> that's in MI.)
>
> On June 1, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> in re Ontonagon... Grace, you may or may not know that MI is filled with
> both real and made up Indian named towns... ; (
>
> Lynn
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a
> single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>  "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 12:55 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Speaking of unfortunate names
>
> > I'm guessing a Native American tribe?
> >
> >> On Jun 1, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> >> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> In a message dated 6/1/2016 11:51:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
> >>
> >> And  speaking of high schools with weird names, there is, or was, a
> rural
> >> high  school "up nort" somewhere in Wisconsin called Ondossagon. There
> >> isn't
> >> a  town by that name, so I'm not quite sure where it is. One year back
> >> before  they divided the state high school basketball tournament into
> >> classes by  size, the "cinderella" team happened to be the one from
> >> Ondossagon, leading  one of the sportswriters in Madison to quip, "Just
> >> what
> >> kind of geometric  figure is
> >> There is Ontonagon, Michigan, on Lake Superior not far from the
> >> Wisconsin line.
> >>
> >> I understand the school song for Ontonagon High School is "Ontonagon"
> >> inserted in "On Wisconsin" for those words, and using the On  Wisconsin
> >> tune and the rest of the Wisconsin text.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> David Strang..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan