Strange Place Names Indeed

 Blog # 1632--- Day 1032 ( One Thousand and Thirty Two ) of the Current  ( Second ) Russian Invasion of                                                                                       Ukraine   

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Howdy folks. I imagine most of you are busy with Christmas preparations, at least those of you who celebrate .  If Christmas is not your thing , well Happy Today to you. 

I have two cards from two places with strange place names to begin. First is Intercourse, Penn, U.S.A. The card shows an Amish carriage tied to a hitching post. Horse and buggy traffic sometimes outnumber motor vehicles in the town.  There are a number of theories  as to how the town ended up called Intercourse and I leave that to you to check out .

Two nice stamps arrived on this card. The left stamp was issued in 2018 showing a Statue of Freedom stamp. The other stamp from 2019 celebrated 50 Years of the First Moon Landing. 

The other strange named town today is Dildo, in Newfoundland, Canada. Here we see the Dildo Marina. Dildo has become quite popular with tourists since 2019 when American Talk Show Host Jimmy Kimmel did live broadcasts with members of the community. 

The Dildo Post Office used a 2020 stamp featuring Canadian War Hero Leo Major, the one eyed ghost. On April 13, 1945, Major and his friend Corporal Welly Arsenault volunteered for a night patrol of German-occupied Zwolle, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Arsenault was killed early in the mission. Major, enraged at the loss, took up his comrade’s weapon and charged the town alone. To make the occupying German soldiers believe they were under full attack, Major fired his machine gun through the streets, tossed grenades, and set fire to the local Gestapo headquarters. With the help of local resistance fighters, he took dozens of German prisoners, while the rest fled. For his bravery in liberating Zwolle, Major received the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

That's the two strange place names for this time, but there are many more out there. Blow Me Down, Jerry's Nose, Cow Head, Climax, Big Beaver, and Finger just to name a few. All I know is that I'd love to have a postcard from all of them. 

So ends another update of The Blog. Thanks to the Intercourse Post Office and the Dildo Post Office for these cards.