What's in a 指名する? Ask the folks in Two Egg, Florida
TWO EGG, Fla. (AP) ― What （機の）カム first, the Chicken or the Egg ― or make that the Two Egg?
The answer is the Alaska town of Chicken （機の）カム before the Florida town of Two Egg, by about 30 or so years.
But they are neither first nor last in the country's long 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 半端物-指名するd places. In Pennsylvania you'll find Intercourse, Virginville and Blue Ball. In Louisiana, if you've had too much of Moonshine, you can always visit 削減（する） Off.
In this April 18, 2016 photo, a 調印する welcomes 運転者s to the town of Two Egg, Fla. 位置を示すd about 70 miles northwest of Tallahasee, Fl a., Two Egg is a small farming community where people used to 貿易（する） eggs for goods. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
The 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） goes on: 少しのd, California; Uncertain, Texas; Eek, Alaska; Butts 郡, Georgia and oh so many more.
For some, like Santa Claus, Indiana, the 指名する has created a major tourist 産業. Others, like Two Egg, are dots on the 地図／計画する that get the 時折の 訪問者 curious about the 指名する, but 申し込む／申し出 little besides a road 調印する ― and even the 調印する often went 行方不明の until it was riveted in place.
"It used to be one of the most stolen 調印するs in the 明言する／公表する of Florida," said Marcus Pender, whose grandfather owned a gas 駅／配置する and general 蓄える／店 where 貿易（する）ing eggs for goods led to the town 指名する. "I even got a couple myself in the day."
Here's background on a few peculiarly 指名するd places in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs:
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TWO EGG, FLORIDA
位置を示すd about 70 miles northwest of Florida's 資本／首都, Tallahassee, Two Egg is a small farming community where people used to 貿易（する） eggs for goods at the general 蓄える／店. "People would come in and 貿易（する） two eggs for meat and cheese," said Pender. The 蓄える／店 is no longer open, but people can still buy Two Egg 茎 syrup at a farm 負かす／撃墜する the road. 詳細（に述べる）s: http://www.twoeggfla.com .
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CHICKEN, ALASKA
Doug Devore runs a website 充てるd to this small 採掘 town 近づく the Canadian 国境. He says in 1902, 地元のs planned to call the town Ptarmigan after a chicken-like bird they often ate. But they worried people would （一定の）期間 ptarmigan wrong, so they 指名するd it chicken instead. Most 訪問者s stop here on 小旅行する buses 長，率いるd どこかよそで, but some people make a special trip. "There are some people who are just obsessed with weird town 指名するs," Devore said. 詳細（に述べる）s: http://www.chickenalaska.com .
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SANTA CLAUS, INDIANA
Melissa Brockman, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of the Spencer 郡 訪問者s Bureau, says Santa Claus was supposed to be 指名するd Santa Fe, but another Indiana town already had that 指名する. The story goes that in the 1850s, families gathered to come up another 指名する on a 雪の降る，雪の多い Christmas Eve. Sleigh bells were heard outside and children shouted, "Santa Claus!" And so the town was 指名するd. Santa Claus has より小数の than 2,500 people and no fully operating traffic signal, but 1 million people visit each summer and hundreds of thousands of requests arrive in December from people who want their Christmas cards postmarked "Santa Claus." 詳細（に述べる）s: http://www.santaclausind.org .
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UNCERTAIN, TEXAS
Stories 変化させる about how this Louisiana 国境 town got its 指名する, says Randie Canup, owner of the Hoot 'n Holler guest cottage. One is that when the city 適用するd for 合併／会社設立, it hadn't 選ぶd a 指名する, so "uncertain" was written on the form and it stuck. But Canup thinks the true story dates to the 1800s, when a steamship 配達するd goods to Caddo Lake ports. Shipping labels often peeled off in the 湿度, and those boxes were 示すd "uncertain" and left at the final stop ― which became known as Uncertain. With a 全住民 of about 100, tourists far より数が多い 居住（者）s. 独房 phone ニュース報道 and Internet 接近 are spotty but there's fishing, birding and scenery. "When people come here, some of what they do is nothing. They just want the 静かな," Canup said. 詳細（に述べる）s: http://www.cityofuncertain.com/索引.shtml .
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BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA
The town is 指名するd for Capt. Samuel Butts, who died in 1814 during the Creek War. A 無線で通信する 駅／配置する owner tired of people 割れ目ing jokes about the 郡 示唆するd a 指名する change at some point but 地元の 商売／仕事 owner Henry Kitchen started a "Save Our Butts" （選挙などの）運動をする with T-shirts and bumper stickers. With the 指名する now 安全な, a popular bumper sticker reads "Keep Our Butts Clean." The water tower welcoming 訪問者s 運動ing in from I-75 布告するs "BEAUTIFUL BUTTS." 詳細（に述べる）s: https://buttscountyga.com .
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WEED, CALIFORNIA
Abner 少しのd ran a 板材 mill at the base of 開始する Shasta in 1897, and thus the city's 指名する. That doesn't make it 免疫の to マリファナ jokes ― there are トンs of "I Love 少しのd" souvenirs to be 設立する around town. Even the 地元の brewery, Mt. Shasta Brewing Company, plays it up ― and got in trouble when the 連邦の 政府 反対するd to 瓶／封じ込める caps that read "A Friend in 少しのd is a Friend Indeed. Try LEGAL 少しのd." 詳細（に述べる）s: http://weedca.govoffice3.com .
This undated photo made 利用できる by the Spencer 郡 訪問者s Bureau, Ind., shows a Santa Claus 人物／姿／数字 in 前線 of the 地位，任命する Office in Santa Claus, Ind. The 指名する of the town created a major tourist 産業. (Spencer 郡 訪問者s Bureau 経由で AP)
In this April 11, 2016 photo a water tower is seen in Butts 郡, GA. 指名するd for Capt. Samuel Butts, who died in 1814 during the Creek War, 居住（者）s at one point 示唆するd a 指名する change. But a 地元の 商売／仕事 owner started a "Save Our Butts " （選挙などの）運動をする and saved the 指名する. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
