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Re:How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry by LightRailTycoon on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:08AM (#15028040)
Portland
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Re:How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry by saganus on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @08:59PM (#15032785)
I don't know the USA geography very well as I'm not a native, but isn't Portland in Oregon? Or are there more than one Portland cities?
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Re:How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry by tbihl on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @09:21PM (#15032908)
Oh boy, you're in for a surprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S....

Lots of states use the same names over and over. For example, Portland, OR being named after Portland, Maine. It gets worse, because some states have multiple towns of the same name. There are five different towns in Wisconsin all called Springfield!

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Re:How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry by saganus on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:29AM (#15034026)
Oh wow...dayum.

I knew that Springfield was used for the Simpsons town because there we so many that used that name, but I thought it was just an oddity or something.

I guess I was indeed in for a surprise!

Thanks for the link!

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