Friday, April 24, 2009
Iowa byways
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the well-meaning Iowans who named this road (intersecting Highway 1 between Solon and Iowa City) were unfamiliar with its slang meaning. Which is weird, because I'm fairly sure I knew the term when I was a kid growing up around here.
I'm going to submit this to the Fail Blog and see it makes the cut.
4 Comments:
By 
GreenmanTim, at
Fri Apr 24, 03:00:00 PM:
Well, with all those writers they have out thattaway, mayhap they knew that a Dingle is a little wet hollow and therefore a dingleberry could be a quaint and archaic reference to a cranberry or other fruit of the bog...
Could be.
By 
, at
Fri Apr 24, 04:46:00 PM:
My bet is that in 1875, a family named Dingleberry owned most of the farm land hereabouts.
By , at
Fri Apr 24, 09:18:00 PM:
Well, as long as we are on the subject of slang meanings, I have an old Beaver City school bus. It would be great for hauling the girls softball team around, don't you think?
By Dawnfire82, at
Fri Apr 24, 09:22:00 PM:
On 290 between Austin and Houston lies Kickapoo Rd.
