Pencilvania

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s the No. 2 state for school supplies.

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  • jonasw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whats No. 1? 🤭

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s no erasing your sharpened wit.

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• Kittywumpus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact - Pennsylvania is named that because it was owned by some white guy (Penn) who owned a literal state sized chunk of woods (Sylvan-ia)

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does the name have anything to do with transilvania?

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    • Kittywumpus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m no etymologist and that’s like a factoid I know, but Sylvan/silvan means woods I believe?

      Could be related 🤷‍♂️

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• Hope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can confirm, definitely thought the two words were connected growing up there.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hello Balloon Kid

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• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, on the East with Spooky by lake spooky.

  And uhhh… A bunch of places named like They were named by a 13-year-old boy too…

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It really is funny. Gobbler’s Knob is fun to visit, but much smaller than you’d expect. There’s Intercourse, Climax, and Beaver. Or if you want to get away from it all you could go to Moon or Mars.

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• rugburn@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does that mean that Pittsburgh would be a bunch of armpits?

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Close, different pit though.

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• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, we do know what kept those things nourished so they could grow so big.

  Clearly it was the pencil rain.

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Timmy’s dad went to a convention there

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There should be a Ticonderoga in Pencilvania.

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Transylvania looks similar, but with turks impaled into the “pencils”

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• thesocavault@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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