Some places are known just for being unknown. Take Flin Flon, Manitoba for example. It’s a mining town up North that probably wouldn’t be so well-known if not for its peculiar name. People like to use it to qualify stuff, with the implicit assumption that this town is in the middle of NOWHERE. Example:
Gord: Smoking is totally an urban thing.
Sally: Oh yeah, as if! You think people aren’t smoking in Flin Flon, Manitoba?!
Note that it’s impossible to just say Flin Flon. You have to add “Manitoba” at the end so that if, by chance, the other person hasn’t heard of Flin Flon, Manitoba, they won’t think you are talking about some invented community on the planet Mars. Another example:
“The city gets me down sometimes. I think I’ll pack up and move to Flin Flon, Manitoba”.
Saying the same about Mackenzie, BC or Donalda, Alberta just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?
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kerri
Wheezyrunner
Goodness, this cracked me up. Flin Flon FTW.
Funny! See even I’ve heard of Flin Flon, but that’s cos my uncle actually knows people up there, so he flies up sometimes…