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Are there really any places called "The Dew Drop Inn" or is that a fictitious construct?
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Some people just have no control of their sense of humor. Google dew-drop-inn and go to images.
For extra credit try the same with "curl up and dye" for the cutesy named beauty salons.
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>Some people just have no control of their sense of humo(u)r.
The Dew Drop Inn thang don't work so good up here, where we pronounce the word "Dyew", as in "Nyew". (RIP Fred Ebb)
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The Dew Drop Inn thang don't work so good up (sic) here
One of my googled Dew Drop Inns is in Ireland, btw. Din't see none in Zildia, but then I din't look all that hard, neither.
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Faux celtic is the preferred flavour of naff here - D(h)unroamin, D(h)unwand(h)rin, that sort of thing.
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If you're constantly exposed to these types of play-on-words names, I can see why you might get tired, but here in Québec, it's extremely rare. It's just not a French habit.
So for me, it's always fun seeing the store names when I go into the English provinces.
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When I was a kid growing up in Burke, Va, there was a Dew Drop Inn on Ox Road, between Clifton and Fairfax Station. More specifically, there was a sign which said that on an abandoned building. I don't remember its ever being opened, and that was just about half a century ago. Now that I think about it, it was an old Coca Cola sign, and it would probably be worth a mint today.
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A drive up Vancouver Island includes: the aformentioned Antiques and Junque; My-Chosen Cafe (in the hamlet of Metchosen); the unfortunately named pseudo-Spanish Costa Lotta Campground and worst of all the Northern Fourty hobby farm.  . For years there was also a sign on someone's acreage cut onto a big wooden slab. ........John & Norah ...........Smith Only when you looked a little closer Norah's name was carved into a piece of 2 by 4 and nailed overtop of the first wife's name. It's hard to get more sincere than that!!!
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That's a new one for me. The first time you read it, it's cute and brings a little smile. But see it again? It's immediately a very old joke. Wonder why?
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There's a diner in Tioga County, Pennsylvania called La Ponda Rosa. I like to think of it as the Pink Pound.
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