Author: mike
Merging State Names
Saturday, January 27th, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Around the edges of Indiana there is an annoying marketing ploy where they merge Indiana with the name of the neigboring state. We have Illiana, Michiana, and Kentuckiana. Fortunately there isn’t a combination of Indiana and Ohio that doesn’t sound completely stupid. These commercials are usually foisted on us by car companies. Your Illiana Ford dealers. Your Michiana Chevy dealers. Your Kentuckiana Hay Wagon dealers. I started to wonder if other stated and industries do this. If not they should.
California/Arizona - Calizona for a sandwich shop
Vermont/Maine - Vermaine for exterminators
Nevada/Arizona - Nezona for rhinoplasty
Washington/Oregon - Washingon for appliance repair
Mississippi/Louisiana - Misiana…Missana… I’ll come back to this
Tennessee/Kentucky - Tennesucky ummm, let’s go with vacuum cleaners
Iowa/Minnesota - Iota it wouldn’t make a bit of difference who used this
Virginia/Maryland - Virginland feel free to make your own joke
OK, what did I miss?
January 28th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
GREAT post, but Vermont does not border Maine.
January 29th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Doh! That’s embarrassing. I totally forgot New Hampshire. Guess I should look at a map now and then.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Texarkana !
January 29th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
isn’t Texarkana, actually a town as well as confluence of the states names?
How about kansorado? Dakotasota? Wisconigan?
January 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I like the sound of Dakotasota. Except now my brain insists on trying to turn it into a Schoolhouse Rock jingle.
Dakotastoa what’s your quota…
Yeah, it doesn’t quite work, but it will be stuck in my head for days now.
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February 5th, 2007 at 8:07 am
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