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[aether8m]

I miss Florida place names. Ichetucknee Withlacoochee Chattahoochee Okeechobee, Tallahassee, Ocoee

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[myonlyanodyne]

Well, Washington D.C. is a very boring place, after all.

You coming down south for the holidays, blondie?

[aether8m]

Alas, no. I've been down three times this year already, and my budget is pretty well strained.

[azahree]

You do realize that Ocoee and Chattahoochee should REALLY be most associated with Tennessee and Georgia, right? Not to dismiss your childhood...

[aether8m]

Well I grew up in Ocoee FL (though I am aware of the existence of an imposter town, and river, and dam, and federal project management center, in Tennessee).

There's a Chattahoochee (though I can't speak of Tennessee in this case) in the Florida panhandle, near Appalichicola...

[azahree]

They are actually both rivers. The Ocoee is near MY hometown in Tennessee and is where the Olympic kayaking was held in '96. (Can your Ocoee claim the Olympics? That's what I thought.) As for the Chattahoochee, it is also a river, near the GA/TN border. It has been made famous by the country song of the same name.

FYI

[star]

There is a Chattahoochee river in Florida; it forms part of the Alabama/Georgia state line and flows south into Florida. Alan Jackson wrote the famous song about it. "Way down yonder" and "muddy water" describe this Chattahoochee river perfectly.

[lilmoe]

I <3 dialects. In Newfoundland they had all these sayings I fell in love with. My favorite was when they dislike something they say, "well I'm not too fussy over it." It's got to be like the politest, most passive way ever to not like something.

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[iang]

I miss the crazy names of some florida places to. You included a lot of good tubing spots on your list but missed out on to classic FLA names. Two Egg (the smallest incorporated town in FL so it was always held up as an example in Pub Admin classes) and Sopchoppy. Though florida still lacks englands panache for strange names it is good.

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[aether8m]

I wonder how Two Egg is faring nowadays, with the real estate boom. Alot of teensy towns got swalled up (the town of Gotha is now basically defunct, since it got swallowed up by, of all things, a subdivision thats larger than its city limits)

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[iang]

I wondered to, as it has been 3 years since I left Tallahassee and had heard no news of that rural hamlet (or maybe it should be called an omelet) since. You do occasionally hear of Sopchoppy as they have good HS sports teams with kids who get scholarships to schools I follow.

The answer on 2 Egg according to my google search is: fine. 2 Egg is 2 far from anything big to become a burb or get absorbed into Disney world. Nearest town is Marianna and it only qualifies as a town cause it has a Sonny's BBQ, a truck stop & the caves (ok the caves are worth a visit even if only to walk off a Sonny's all you can eat meal). I also found out about Jackson County where Two Eggs is (it has prisons, Faye Dunaway grew up there, and they need a better web designer) & some dumb stories about how it got the name. Ahh google ain’t it great.

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[iang]

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