home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!uvaarpa!concert!samba!usenet
- From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
- Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.131500.3094@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lambada.oit.unc.edu
- Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
- References: <1992Dec22.214520.22380@midway.uchicago.edu> <ljhfnvINN54l@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:15:00 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- In article <ljhfnvINN54l@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- >Speaking of flans, I had some really good ones while in Manitoba. It
- >was at the Flin Flon Fen Flan Fun Fling, an annual bake-off/party held
-
- This is an urban legend only in the sense that it's a legend about the origin
- of the name of a town, but.... According to a brochure published (I think)
- by the Flin Flon tourist bureau, and reprinted in issue 37 of the "DX
- Listening Digest" (a radio hobbyist magazine), the town of Flin Flon,
- Manitoba, was named by prospector Tom Creighton in 1914.
- He had been reading a dime novel, "The Sunless City," about a submarine
- captain, Josiah Flintabbety Flonatin, who discovered gold under the
- surface of the earth. When he and his partners discovered an ore body
- (today a base-metal mine) they named it "Flin Flon" after the mythical
- hero of the book. There is a cartoonish statue of Josiah F. F. across
- the street from the tourist bureau in Flin Flon today.
-
- Most of the town is in Manitoba, but the accompanying map shows a small
- corner of it slopping over into Saskatchewan.
-
- --
- The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
-