You can’t make fun of a person for their name – they didn’t have any input on whatever awkward combination of words their parents decided to give them. But we’re going to say that places are fair game. We’ve done this before with street names, and we’ve even looked at towns before. But the last …
Remember when the world lost its collective mind because Gwenyth Paltrow named her baby Apple? And then they made a big to-do about her “conscious uncoupling” from Chris Martin? She confirmed her status as the ultimate weird-rich girl back then. Now, Apple is pretty tame compared to some celebrity baby monikers. Elon Musk and Grimes …
Back when I was a naive suburban-dwelling teenager, I worked as a barista with a woman from Sandwich, Illinois. Having been nowhere and knowing nothing, I thought it must be the most whimsical place on Earth. Was every restaurant a sandwich shop? Did they have a town-wide sandwich holiday? Its Main Street has the requisite …
Animal groups have some traditionally weird names. For example, do you know what a shrewdness is? Or what the word is for a group of elk? Here are some of the weirdest names to categorize and name groups of animals. Business A business refers to a group of ferrets or flies. It’s a little weird …
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