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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Funny names, signs, etc.
Message-ID: <1636@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 16:05:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 16:05:50 1985
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> >.................  An unusual name for a beautiful place is Banff, British
> >Columbia, Canada.  B.C. also boasts Kamloops.

People who read Pogo in the 1950s know that the proper name for Banff is
"Bamf", named for an unfortunate accident when Howland Owl mistook a football
for a pumpking while giving lessons in his school on "how to pump a
pumpking".  This is also the origin of the aforementioned Killer Bees.
Howland is still running Kamloops all over the place trying to escape them.
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