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From: "ScottGee1" <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: naughtily named
>
> Or Climax, Michigan.
>
> We also have a major street in the Detroit area named Gratiot. It's
> pronounced "Gra-shit". When I was in sales and driving with out of
> towners I always enjoyed it when the name was mentioned on the radio.
There used to be a brewery in St. Louis called Griesedieck. Pronounced
greasy dick. Red Schendienst (St Louis Cardinals baseball) had a younger
brother that drove truck for them. I knew him when I lived in Germantown,
IL for a short time. That was Red's hometown.
Paul in Portland OR
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