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Help me out - what does the "podunk town"-Vegas thing mean?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by poindexter, Sep 21, 2018.

  1. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    This isn't limited to the US. There's a band from Glasgow called Glasvegas.

     
  2. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    They still try to use it. Cannot imagine anything happening there or in Starkville that compares to Vegas.
     
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  3. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    I’ve heard my hometown referred to as Nashvegas for at least 30 years.

    Like was noted earlier, I think the city needs to be a -vile for proper flow.

    Also, Fontucky and Ventucky are slang for Fontana and Ventura here in SoCal.
     
  4. Hermes

    Hermes Well-Known Member

    I’ve seen a lot of lower income towns have -tucky added to the end.
     
  5. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Comparing Fontana to Kentucky seems awfully unfair to Kentucky.
     
  6. bumpy mcgee

    bumpy mcgee Well-Known Member

    I'm more of a Sioux Orleans guy.
     
  7. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Rantucky for Rantoul, Ill.

    That's the joke.
     
  8. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Here in Virginia, we have Farmvegas, home of Hampden-Sydney and Longwood.
     
  9. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    And Fredvegas.
     
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  10. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    I have heard that when you are traveling to Vegas you have pretty much nothingness on the highway then out of nowhere is this huge patch of life. This was probably in the 1960s and 1970s.

    Towns that have tons of shit off the highway when you have miles and miles of nothing on the highway is what I thought the -Vegas names come from.
     
  11. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    I’ve heard Fayetteville, Arkansas referred to as “Fayette-nam” before.
     
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  12. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    That's quality work.
     
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