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From the porch
Timbukto seems like a long way to go but Booger Hollow doesn't sound very inviting. When people want to express that a place is an incredibly long way off, they put it in the same category as Timbukto. I won't elaborate on Booger Hollow. Ever wonder how businesses, towns or people get their names. I was searching the yellow pages for a particular convenience store the other day and I discovered some very interesting names. One was Booger Hollow Store in Blairsville. Another was Timbukto Food Store in Ellijay. Maybe one day I will have time to visit those stores and ask them who named them and why. I know a particular tree-lined road in Fannin County, GA that was previously named Mule (coarse name for manure) Lane. The name had been changed for about 10 years. An older gentleman explained to me that the road had a number of years ago, before everyone had cars, been a kind of farmer's market.. People rode their mules and mules and wagons to the road and left their trusty steeds tied up along the side of the road. You can easily see how the road got its colorful name. Other interesting convenience store names are Dollar Dawg (I often purchased gas at this store. I not only liked the name, but it was one of the cheapest places to buy gas in Blue Ridge and they also still had the ancient custom of filling the car up for you.) Locally, there is Fat Back's Citgo. I bet a lot of you know how that store got its name. Then, there are Four Mile Grocery in Mineral Bluff and 3 Mile Grocery in Blue Ridge. How do you decide between those digits? I don't know if I want to be seen hanging around Lackey's Corner in McCaysville. A lackey is a male servant of low rank or a servile follower or someone who is toady. Nate's Country Store in Murphy doesn't look country at all. It looks kind of modern and citified. Nate doesn't even go barefoot or wear overalls. In the yellow pages where I was searching, the first convenience store was Airport Landing in Ellijay. It seems good to be the first business listed but if you really wanted to do that you would be Aardvark Store. There is an Aardvark Satellite TV & Home Entertainment business in Cherokee County. But even better would be Aachen Store. That is the name of a city in West Germany with a population of 163,000.
If the Sentinel wants to be listed first, we should call ourselves A Sentinel newspaper.
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