TOC Oregon parish seeks help to retire a mortgage

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Oregon really does have a town named Boring. I do not know how we get some of our town names. :wink:

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Luke wrote:

Oregon really does have a town named Boring. I do not know how we get some of our town names. :wink:

It's named after William Harrison Boring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring,_Oregon

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I was drove through that town and it was Boring. :wink:

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Ha ha. Maybe the parish could start a campaign to appeal to local potential converts :
"Don't languish in a boring Boring life : come to the Russian Church to discover a new world of which you had never dreamt"

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Barbara wrote:

Ha ha. Maybe the parish could start a campaign to appeal to local potential converts :
"Don't languish in a boring Boring life : come to the Russian Church to discover a new world of which you had never dreamt"

Well, at least this town is not called Hell or Boring Hell.

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There is a tiny town named Hell outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Imagine all the jokes made about that !

ABC News wrote about Boring :

"For instance, Boring, Oregon -- named after resident W.H. Boring -- might not offer tons. It has a great bike trail and the only blacksmith in the U.S. specializing in hand-forged garden tools.

But it is also just 30 minutes from Portland and near Mount Hood, making it a perfect day trip.

Other towns [with unusual names] include Cool, California; Truth or Consequences, New Mexico; Normal, Illinois..., and Last Chance, Idaho. Then there is Uncertain, Texas, rumored to have gotten its name when the state of Texas took too literally the word "uncertain" in the name box of the town's application to become a city back in the early 1960s."

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wackiest- ... d=10490371

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