I have been to Duck. The last time was probably about 1994. I still have a few T-shirts from there. It always causes people to comment on them.
I think I once posted a link to a shot taken of me at a balloon festival wearing one of those shirts... César Panama City, Florida -- -----Original Message----- -- From: Bill Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:15 PM -- -- -- There's also a Pumpkin Center, NC, Duck, NC, Amsterdam, VA, -- Snowflake, WV. -- -- Bill -- -- ----- Original Message ----- -- From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 7:01 PM -- -- -- > Hi, -- > -- > Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 11:12:13 PM, you wrote: -- > -- > > Here's one for ya - Toad Suck, Ark. (pronounced as -- written). Home of the -- > > Toad Suck Daze festival. I have no idea if that has -- anything to do with -- > > licking toads. There's also Possum Grape. -- > -- > here in sunny Britain we had a Victorian period when a lot -- of the fun -- > went out of town and street names. To avoid embarassing -- the Queen they -- > changed harmless place names like Piddletown to Puddletown. The -- > village name of Felching is one that survived. -- > -- > Your mention of the word 'Grape' reminds me that a lot of -- streets with -- > names like Grape Lane and Grub Lane used to be where -- gentlemen went to -- > swive whores (as the poet Rochester would put it). Until -- we became so -- > ashamed these places were generally called Gropec*nt Lane. -- > -- > -- -- > Cheers, -- > Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
