LadyPictureShow posted:

I came across the name Ralph Alpher while proofreading a cosmology article the other day.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

There's an Anaconda in Montana, as well as an Opportunity. I once saw them on the same road sign and demanded that we visit the Anaconda Opportunity, but I was rejected

Fun fact: Lucille Ball used to say she was from Anaconda, but she only lived there for a little while. Just like me, she's originally from upstate NY and then lived in Montana for a year. And we both have fake red hair. And we both (I assume) find Desi Arnaz super hot

e: Oh, also, speaking of amazing place names:

Punkeydoodles Corners is an unincorporated hamlet in southwestern Ontario, in Canada, known for its strange name[1] and frequent sign theft. It shares a boundary with something called "East Zorra." Zorra is "bitch" in Spanish.

hyperhazard posted:

Actual question: How do you keep track of your relatives when you follow this naming scheme? I don't mean following family trees back generations, I mean like "I need to give this letter to my second cousin Bjorn who lives in the next town. I don't know his father's name or where he lives, so just ask around for a Bjorn who has a sister with the last name Helgadochter." Or "I owe Hans Heroldsen twenty guilders. No, not Hans Heroldsen son of Herold Jansen, Hans Herolden son of Herold Larsen. No, not that Herold Larsen, the one whose father was Lars..."

rodbeard posted:

rodbeard posted:

Jinger