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(Boston Globe) Obvious Let's agree that we'll refer to it herein as Lake C. After all, Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is a tad cumbersome   (boston.com) divider line 64
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rjd2 2002-12-07 02:30:58 PM  
Here in Mass. we usually call it Lake Webster.

 
Brandabar 2002-12-07 03:55:27 PM  
Ha ha ahaha. I'm from Mass too.

'Oly Craaap!!

 
Kremit [TotalFark] 2002-12-07 03:55:27 PM  
What in the hell?

 
jawaking 2002-12-07 03:56:40 PM  
It was renamed that so Ted Kennedy could go all Chappaquiddick on pregger chicks, and no one would be able to explain what happened.

 
ASSHAT! 2002-12-07 03:58:13 PM  
im back

 
deevo 2002-12-07 04:02:38 PM  
lol, lakese... it's like goa--
*gets punched in the face by a mod*

 
TiggaBob 2002-12-07 04:03:42 PM  
wow. after reading that tagline i thought the submitter just mashed on the keyboard with fat fingers. boy was i in for a surprise...

 
Nanookanano 2002-12-07 04:03:47 PM  
So, how many people knew immediately from the headline that this had to be a Yankee lake named by Native Americans?

(*Raises hand*)

 
ROCKSURFER 2002-12-07 04:06:06 PM  
Sounds like a stutterer originally named the lake and everyone just says it the same way he did so that they would not offend him.

 
Flignir 2002-12-07 04:09:29 PM  
I used to live on this lake and my parents still do, and anyone from Webster who isn't currently having a seizure calls it "Webstah Lake". Or, at least that's how they pronounce it.

 
deevo 2002-12-07 04:10:02 PM  
So how many people knew this was a New England lake named by Indians?
*raises hand*

 
Vorpal 2002-12-07 04:10:12 PM  
"I don't see what all the fuss is about," states town mayor Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-du ngle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-kn otty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-ba hnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-l uber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

 
HomerSamson113 [TotalFark] 2002-12-07 04:11:48 PM  
For some reason, I read this -

"Let's agree that we'll refer to it herein as Lake C."

as this -

"Let's agree that we'll refer to heroin as Lake C."

I suppose the actual title makes a bit more sense after reading the article.

 
KazamaSmokers 2002-12-07 04:12:45 PM  
Oooh. Webster Lake. There's a great bar there called "Waterfront Mary's". It's a biker bar with a bunch of Nichols College students thrown in for fun.

 
deevo 2002-12-07 04:13:17 PM  
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg

Charg ohg ah gohg man chaw ga gohg chaw boo na gun ga mawg?

 
Tribs 2002-12-07 04:14:10 PM  
Longest place name? What happened to

Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyayamahadiloponoparatanarajthan iburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit

aka Bangkok?

Not forgetting Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu in New Zealand

or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch in Wales.

 
BlueElysium 2002-12-07 04:15:55 PM  
It's got a nice ring to it.

 
wldncrzy14 2002-12-07 04:15:58 PM  
Vorpal, LMAO. Great sketch.

 
ElwoodCuse 2002-12-07 04:16:12 PM  
BOOOOO copy-and-paste headlines!

 
Bahamut 2002-12-07 04:17:00 PM  
i'm from iowa

 
Flignir 2002-12-07 04:18:25 PM  

But the far more interesting and notorious thing about Webster is our magic name-changing strip club! The once famed "Fuzzy Grape" is the now the former "Gold Club" and the current "Mario's Showplace II".

Even funnier still is that when I was a kid, I used to think that the "Fuzzy Grape" was just a small grocery store with no windows. Once, on the way to go shopping with my parents, I asked my father why we weren't stopping at the Fuzzy Grape and got the witty reply, "Because your mother's with us, son." How little he knew. (See yesterday's "Bring your woman to boobie-bars" discussion.)


 
KazamaSmokers 2002-12-07 04:19:48 PM  
I used to own a duplex on Webster.

 
doodievomit 2002-12-07 04:21:54 PM  
This town also launched an advertising campaign to get more tourists from Japan.



Don't blame me for the small size -- PictureStage sucks. Just be glad I bothered spelling that lake name in katakana.

 
knucklebreather 2002-12-07 04:23:04 PM  

Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski agrees with that logic.

 
wydok 2002-12-07 04:23:25 PM  
Deevo: named by Indians

People from India came all the way to New England to name a lake?

Or, do you mean Native Americans?

/PC asshat

 
SilverDraghyeon 2002-12-07 04:29:41 PM  
I hate you wydok.

 
xsarien 2002-12-07 04:33:30 PM  



Susan?

 
Warchild [TotalFark] 2002-12-07 04:38:19 PM  
Did he have something to do with it?


 
cali4nication7 2002-12-07 04:49:37 PM  
LMAO studdering john
nice one!

 
MsPentyuth 2002-12-07 04:54:23 PM  
Yeah, well, that's easy for you to say!

 
Rounder 2002-12-07 05:02:40 PM  
Let's all agree herein that we'll refer to it as Lake Webster.

 
jonesey_11 2002-12-07 05:13:18 PM  
Am I the only one who sees the connection between Webster the city, Webster the dictionary, and this long word?

 
Flignir 2002-12-07 05:18:01 PM  
Rounder: Let's all agree herein that we'll refer to it as Lake Webster.

I told you, biatch, it's Webster Lake.


 
Flignir 2002-12-07 05:22:20 PM  
Jonesey_11: Am I the only one who sees the connection between Webster the city, Webster the dictionary, and this long word?

If you see a connection, you should be the only one. Webster exists thanks to Samuel Slater building a cottin mill there in 1811, and was later named for Lawyer Daniel Webster, a famous early American ass-kicking orator, not a dictionary author. For more boring info, look here.


 
InternetSecurityGuard 2002-12-07 05:23:53 PM  
I've always been partial to the name Lake Titicaca. But that one is already taken.

 
Flignir 2002-12-07 05:24:31 PM  
Here, have some more [yawn] lake info

 
eraser8 2002-12-07 05:43:31 PM  

 
Vorpal 2002-12-07 05:53:50 PM  
The lake got its name from the Nipmuck Indian chief, whose last recorded words were, "Help! I am drowning in Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg..."

 
nexusheli 2002-12-07 05:56:29 PM  
Tribs,
Longest place name in the US. One of the longest in the world.

 
Halpas 2002-12-07 05:59:36 PM  
I first heard of this lake from a National Geographic made childrens books on America & it's states back in the 70's & if I am correct, without reading the article, the translation is "You fish on your side. I fish on my side. Nobody fishes in the middle".
/obscure trivia

 
doodievomit 2002-12-07 06:00:50 PM  
ahahahahahahahahahahaha

 
keylock71 2002-12-07 06:01:48 PM  
Massachusetts rocks.

but not as hard as Rhode Island.

Free Buddy!

 
WereWoman 2002-12-07 06:04:57 PM  
The name throws off the length of the headline column and makes me have to scroll to see everything. I do not like this.

I try to have things set to what I like but internet standards and conformity bite me on my tukus everytime.

 
ExPatBadger 2002-12-07 06:05:35 PM  
I heard about this lake from a friend about 10 years ago. I hadn't seen any reference to it until now. My understanding is that the lake means "I'll fish on my side, you'll fish your side, and nobody shall fish in the middle."

 
nexusheli 2002-12-07 06:06:51 PM  
Halpas That was a story made up by a writer for the local paper in Webster back in the 20's. Read about it here

 
keylock71 2002-12-07 06:09:32 PM  
I think the indian translation is "I'll turn without signaling, and flip ya the bird while doing it, you R pronouncing interlopers"

 
Asmor 2002-12-07 06:10:15 PM  
And I thought my full name (Asmoranamarcadaistinaculdcar, not to be confused with Asmoranamardicadaistinaculdacar)

 
ExPatBadger 2002-12-07 06:13:49 PM  
Seriously, I thought that the R in Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg wasn't in the word I learned. I suppose the word I heard was Chagoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. And that makes all the difference.

 
Autodidactic 2002-12-07 06:18:57 PM  

(Sniff')

Feels homesick....


 
Rounder 2002-12-07 06:50:31 PM  
No, you didn't tell me that it's Webster Lake, so f*ck off!

 
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