Is there any names that sends shivers down your spine like "Dragons Jaw" bridge and so on?

Hi Jan:

Oh my. . . . YEH, there sure is!!!

My ex-wife's name does that to me!



Not only shivers. . . . but an empty wallet, too.

We must have been married to sisters!!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

Triplets!!!
:-) :-) :-)

This could go on and on

Have a pint me lads.....

Sure..."asteroid" and "comet" (end of us if it ever hit us), "earthquake" (slot-machine chance one can be homeless), "cancer" (who wants it?), and one of the worst names..."Food poisoning!" (we all had it...ooh, the agony!)

Does monday (brrrrrrrrrr) count

How about "ex-wife"?

Doug

I'll Second That!

Andy

I'm surprised nobody has mention "Mother in Law." Note, if this were Young Frankenstein I'm sure we would have all heard horses whining just then.

Back on the topic, history, some names that do it for me are any concentration camp, certain place names like Malmedy, Cold Harbor, Elsenborn Ridge, etc. I suppose if I could put myself into the mindset of WWII Allied tankers then Tiger or 88 would do the trick.

PS, yes, I'm back, hopefully for good.

Rodger

I got along wonderfully with my mother in law. She always though I was too good for her daughter. :-) :-)

LAAAAAAST CAAAALL FOR AAAALCOHOL!

Really sends shivers down my spine!

Seriously....names like Auschwitz, Dachau... Somalia, Porkchop Hill, Hamburger Hill, Hanoi Hilton somehow give me the willies.

Jeff

Oradour Sur Glane,does it for me all the time,something to bear in mind when drooling over the new Pegaso fig.
Arthur

ANy of the concentration camp names are just mood killers. I recently read about the killings in Katyn Forest. That's my new "somber word".... Katyn. Check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

Also, being a Yank... "Bastogne" and "Iwo."

OH my God!!! I never heard of Oradour Sur Glane until this. I looked it up and, Holy god that is horrible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane

That is definately a new addition to my "Spine Chilling Dictionary."

Hi Justin,glad you took the time.
Arthur

For me being a Jarhead any of the Pacifc island battles as well as "Chosin Resevoir" "Khe Sahn" "Fallujah" These are names you learn to lean on in times of hardship. eg; "Other Marines made it through ...... So I can make it through this!"
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Also, "Buchenwald"
My great uncle was one of the liberators of Buchenwald and being a translator had to help in taking statements etc... I was too young (8) before he died to ask about it but from what other family members recall it was something that affected him until the end of his life. (My grandmother remembers a definate change in the tone and subject of his letters home)
I do remember watching "The Sound Of Music " with him and him making it very clear to me in no uncertain terms that the Nazi's and Germans [of that time were] "evil in the worst way"

It is amazing what a few letters arrainged in a certain way evoke emotions in us all.

The concentration camps don't rattle me as much as the extermination camps...Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen. Also little niches I have visited here in the states that go by names such as Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard, Little Round Top, the Angle, the sunken road ,the wheatfield, Marye's Heights, Lookout Mountain. Walk that land and tell me you do't get chills up and down your spine And here on my turf....the Alamo

Oh my God!!! I never heard of Oradour Sur Glane before. That's just, I don't what to say.....