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Hello Carol!

Feb 22 16:17 03, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> Who is supposed to authorize a city name? :)

 CS> Hehe well the USA is famous for grabbing ones from all over and using 
 CS> them here.  Even New York is a reuse of England's 'York'.

Yep, there is also a city called Berlin, somewhere, i not good at name and
area of the states in USA.

 CS> Texas has a city called 'Paris' too!

Yep, it would be easier to count cities in europe there doesn't have a
brother in the USA.

 CS> My favorites though relate to my home area.  I come from Clemson SC, 
 CS> so named after a fellow who's last name was Clemson, lost a wheel off 
 CS> his wagon onthe way to the Smokey Mountain pass. He was too lazy to 
 CS> go on further so made his farm there.  

Heh, there might a story of every city.

 CS> Clemson now is famous for a 
 CS> college with a decent football (American football) team, a good rugby 
 CS> team, and on occasion, a good basketball team.  They are also a 
 CS> premiere graduate program for physics.

If i pronoince the name in my native language, Danish, it sounds like
"glemsom", whitch mean mindless.

 CS> Anyways, Clemson has 2000 locals and 30,000 students and faculty.  
 CS> The place dries up and goes away in summer vacation.

Oh that mutch

 CS> To tell ya how small the area was, there is another town.  Ninty-Six. 
 CS>  It's 96 miles from Clemson....  Population is about 275  to be 265 til Hester-Sue got married to Joey Davis and started her 
 CS> factory>own little production .

LOL! :-)

Have a nice weekend.

Regards,
Bo

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