I remember Swindell Motors somewhere down south, same town or near where a
request for ice cubes was met with  " We's got cubes , but they's big uns."
They had block ice. ctb
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Spurious Familial Allusions.


>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Molly Van Meter wrote:
>
>> Dare I mention the law firm from my dad's hometown in Indiana?
>> Holder, Heiney & Raper
>
>I'm skeptical.  However, I also assumed that "Dewey, Cheetham & Howe" (the
>law firm mentioned at the end of every episode of "Car Talk" on public
>radio) was a joke.
>
>Then I saw their offices in Cambridge, Mass. last summer.
>
>Other unfortunate firm names include the law firm "Harness, Dickey &
>Pierce" (they advertise heavily on public radio here by sponsoring all the
>news programs) and the merged accounting firm "Deloitte & Touche"
>(proonounced "de-LOYT and toosh", or, if you don't like them, "TOY-let and
>doosh").
>
>The folks over at alt.folklore.urban long ago documented the real
>historical existence of a prominent Indianapolis attorney who was named
>"Donald Duck"; his law firm was the friendly-sounding Duck & Neighbors.
>Mr. Duck was born under that name around 1900 and died around 20 years
>ago; from his standpoint, the creation of the cartoon character must have
>been a horrible accident of fate.
>
>Branching out a bit into street names, a particular interest of mine --
>see my brief history of street naming at potifos.com/streetname.html --
>the prize for the weirdest street name goes to a street in Birmingham,
>Alabama, named "Booger Hollow".  It disappeared from the zip code
>directory about 15 years ago, so it was probably changed to something
>innocuous.
>
>This is the example I use to prove that street names are not irrelevant.
>Given a choice between two otherwise identical houses for sale, one of
>which was priced 10% less but entailed an address on "Booger Hollow",
>which would you choose?
>
>Some thrifty folk will still primly insist that they would go for the best
>deal regardless of the street name.  But most will admit that they'd pay
>tens of thousands of dollars more for a house rather than live on "Booger
>Hollow."  Of course, a few say: "Are you kidding?  I'd pay MORE for a
>great address like that!"
>
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>Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
>The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com
>