Oppo help me clarify

"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj)
06/11/2015 at 00:43 • Filed to: None

Is this hilarious? I seem to think so but 45% of the people I’ve sent it to don’t get it.

DISCUSSION (23)

TheHondaBro > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 00:45

Nipple.

AM > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 00:46

Hahaha!

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 00:46

Well Massachusetts is a joke..

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 00:48

The names of most towns in the northeast seem ridiculous to me. Taunton, Acushnet, Barnstable, Mashpee, Woonsocket, Uxbridge, Scituate....it’s all insane!

GhostZ > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback
06/11/2015 at 00:50

Then it must be the worst joke in history.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > GhostZ
06/11/2015 at 00:51

That it is, that. it. is.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
06/11/2015 at 00:54

A great many of the town names here have origins in the languages of the various Native American tribes that lived here.

AM > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 01:03

I like that one of the cities is called Sandwich.

Svend > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 01:06

I get it fella. Lol.

The one word that gets me laughing every time is ‘artisanal’, I mean come on art-is-anal!

Also so many southern English place names while the northern English place names seem to centre in Pennsylvania.

Carlisle, PA

Kinja'd!!!

Of course there is a Carlisle, MA but Carlisle, PA has a sign saying it was named after my city.

tromoly > AM
06/11/2015 at 01:20

I live in the Midwest and the next town over is named Sandwich. That town also hosts the second largest fair in my state, the Sandwich Fair. Contrary to the fair’s name the best food is the Elephant Ears, oh my lord are they delicious.

v8corvairpickup > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 01:22

There is always my hometown of Belchertown, Massachusetts. A friend used to tell of her father’s 2 favorite towns in Massachusetts, “Athol and Marblehead.”

facw > AM
06/11/2015 at 01:41

Because it named after Sandwich, England. Sandwiches are named after the Earl of Sandwich who was the feudal lord of Sandwich, England. Wich, is an Old-English word for market, so the town is basically Sand-Market (as you’d expect it’s on the coast).

This concludes today’s episode of random sandwich stuff.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
06/11/2015 at 01:52

So it’s not merely following in the British tradition of wacky names? They’re cool with me, then!

Dunnik > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
06/11/2015 at 02:18

A mix of aboriginal and English names. Native place names tend to be descriptive or almost like directions - “Place where you cross the river” or “Really Big Hill”. The rest are almost entirely unoriginal, taken from villages, towns, cities, counties and regions in the Old Country.

Settler 1 - “What should we call this place?”

Settler 2 - “Dunno. We did come from Bumblefuck in England. Maybe we should just call it that?”

Settler 3 - “But what if they confuse our place with the one in England?”

Settler 2 - “We can just add ‘New’ in front of it.”

Settler 1 - “New Bumblefuck it is!”

Leon711 > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
06/11/2015 at 03:52

Uxbridge, Taunton, Sudbury, Marlborough, Boston, Weymouth, Plymouth, Wareham, Warwick, Somerset, Truro, Chatham, Milford, Greenwich,Lincoln and many more in that picture are places in England that predate the US settlers.

pip bip - choose Corrour > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 04:45

try some in Western Australia.

they’re just plain weird.

Useless Loop , Kalgoorlie , Coolgardie , Cooloongup.

i could go on.

davedave1111 > facw
06/11/2015 at 05:17

“who was the feudal lord of Sandwich, England”

Technically, no. Feudalism died out before the title was ever created.

Under the English feudal system, the person of the king (asserting his allodial right ) was the only absolute “owner” of land. All nobles, knights and other tenants, termed vassals , merely “held” land from the king, who was thus at the top of the “feudal pyramid”. [snip]

Below the king in the feudal pyramid was a tenant-in-chief (generally in the form of a baron or knight) who was a vassal of the king, and holding from him in turn was a mesne tenant (generally a knight, sometimes a baron, including tenants-in-chief in their capacity as holders of other fiefs) who held when sub-enfeoffed by the tenant-in-chief. [snip]

Before a lord could grant land (a fief) to a tenant, he had to make that person a vassal . This was done at a formal and symbolic ceremony called a commendation ceremony composed of the two-part act of homage and oath of fealty . During homage, the lord and vassal entered a contract in which the vassal promised to fight for the lord at his command, whilst the lord agreed to protect the vassal from external forces, a valuable right in a society without police and with only a rudimentary justice system.

My bold . Emphasised because that was the important part of feudalism. By the time the Earldom of Sandwich was created in 1660ish, the system had become defunct, replaced by things like the rule of law.

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 06:58

Well, there’s Intercourse and Surprise. Colour me impressed if you do find a town called Surprise Intercourse.

64Mali > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 08:35

I have a coworker who just moved here from down south and she still doesn’t get how Massachusetts got its names. Granted this kind of explains it

Kinja'd!!!

Jonathan Harper > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 08:40

Theres a town called Coxsackie in NY.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Leon711
06/11/2015 at 09:32

I didn’t say that all town names were native, just many, such as the one in the picture in this post.

Rainbow > facw
06/11/2015 at 10:02

Random fact: the sandwich was invented by some guy at a casino who wanted to eat his meal with just one hand so he could keep playing.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
06/11/2015 at 16:36

Plainville and Woonsocket are pretty good. There are also a surprising amount of ordinary people names: Dennis, Lynn, Beverly.