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To: Beagle8U

The early settlers named the town “Chicken” because they couldn’t spell “Ptarmigan”.


21 posted on 10/11/2013 9:38:04 AM PDT by Species8472 (Ordinary acts of everyday folks keep the darkness at bay)
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To: Species8472

Yeah, that’d drive me to drinking too....


23 posted on 10/11/2013 9:57:16 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (It's hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.)
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To: Species8472

There must have been other easy to spell animals in the area, Dog, Rat, Cat come to mind.


26 posted on 10/11/2013 10:08:43 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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