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Mountain Covers Its'Nipple'
Associated Press ^
| 3/13/2003
| Associated Press
Posted on 03/13/2003 12:32:19 PM PST by Freakazoid
ALTA, Wyo. (AP) -- Pressure from uncomfortable skiers and other tourists has prompted the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort to cover the second half of the name of one of its mountains.
Mary's Nipple is now just Mary's, and signs with the word "nipple" have been covered with tape. New signs were to arrive in about two weeks.
But the covered signs have rankled some local skiers, who feel a bit of their history has been lost.
"If the name changed, it wouldn't be the same," said Mark Franklin of Driggs, Idaho, who has skied the mountain for 26 years without feeling offended. "It's always been Mary's Nipple to me, and probably 99.9 percent of the people around here will agree with me."
The name dates back three decades to a story about a waitress named Mary, who was working at Targhee's Trap Bar and streaked through it and the resort one night. The U.S. Forest Service has never acknowledged it officially.
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Couldn't they have just manufactured an enormous bra?
To: Freakazoid
It's a bit nipply around here?
To: Freakazoid
Back in the Eighties, the USGS decided to bowdlerize the names of certain items in the Oregon Cascades. Whorehouse Meadows became Naughty Girl Meadows, and Bullshit Springs became Bullshirt Springs.
They never learn.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:35:28 PM PST
by
Publius
To: Freakazoid
Ridiculous.
To: swarthyguy
This political correctness is idiotic. How niggardly of them.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:37:43 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Sorry if I can't answer everyone right away on Japan/Korea freepmail questions. I'm swamped! :-)
To: Freakazoid
Maybe they should consider naming it Mary's Areola instead, but it doesn't quite have the same elevation or ring to it.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:39:49 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: Freakazoid
The west is full of landmarks named nipple and sh*thouse and whorehouse and such.
One of my personal favorites is Mollie's Nipple, in southwestern Utah. Great scenery there!
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:41:22 PM PST
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Freakazoid
What's next? Renaming the parts of a baby bottle?
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:41:31 PM PST
by
NEWwoman
To: Freakazoid
If it had been named Militant Lesbian Mary's Nipple everything would've been okay.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:41:54 PM PST
by
freedomson
(Baruch habba b'shem Adonai!)
To: Freakazoid
"Mary's" is an odd name. Perhaps a better choice might have been "Mary's Mosquito Bite".
To: Freakazoid
Does it grow in the winter?
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:43:22 PM PST
by
moyden
To: Publius
Howdy, Pub'! They did the same thing in Idaho - "Squaw T!t Mountain" became "Squaw Mountain," now itself politically incorrect, and "Pissant Butte" became "Ant Butte." Of course, the locals still use the old names. Dad was working for the BLM trying to navigate fire crews through old terrain with new maps. He was less than amused...
To: Publius
They changed "Chinks Peak" to "Chinese Peak" around Pocatello.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:46:02 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: Myrddin
I agree with that change. Chinks Peak is hard to pronounce. LOL!
To: Freakazoid
I guess that Jackson Hole at the Grand Tetons is next.
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
"Jackson Hole". Isn't that the thing in the middle of Michael Jackson's face?
To: Myrddin
To the east of Targhee are the Grand Tetons. Shall we just call them the Grand now? As I recall they were named by French fur trappers who saw them as they trekked across the plains from the east (and no doubt homesick for some female companionship!)
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:50:28 PM PST
by
geopyg
To: geopyg
Sorry - the range is the Tetons, there's only one GRAND.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:51:29 PM PST
by
geopyg
To: Diddle E. Squat
Lemon Mountain??? Cantaloupe Mountain??
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:51:37 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(Hillary: Constitutional Scholar! NOT)
To: geopyg
Sorry - the range is the Tetons, there's only one GRAND.
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posted on
03/13/2003 12:51:54 PM PST
by
geopyg
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