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Re: East Armpit, Nebraska

Posted by Abe on April 14, 2005

In Reply to: Re: East Armpit, Nebraska posted by Brian from Shawnee on April 14, 2005

: : I thought I'd contribute this as a search doesn't bring it up.

: : I'm curious what phrases exist for towns in the middle of nowhere. You know, when you want to stress something happening somewhere remote. The ones I have heard are the above and:

: : West Bumf*ck

: : Any others?

: President Reagan came up with "South Succotash" in the 1980's.

This "armpit" gets attached to places and placenames quit often. The Washington Post did a quite good article on Battle Mountain, NV the armpit of the nation and someone, perhaps the WSJ called Bethel, AK the armpit of Alaska. I have always been curious as to how this got started.