Because I'm the mother, that's why.

I have decided to be more public service oriented. This change is coming about due to my recent road trip. You see, there are lots of towns with fairly odd names. I think people need to be aware of why the names of the towns are what they are. As a result, I plan to give you a brief history of several town names I came across. Why? Because you need to know.

One thing I noticed is that in Pennsylvania, many of the towns end in boro, ville, ton, town, etc. I think this is because the people naming the towns lacked a certain creativity. Or, they were lazy. Some of the names of towns, in more states than Pennsylvania, defy logic.

Today, we will be discussing two towns.

1) Doolittle, MO. This town is named Doolittle because someone is a fan of Eddie Murphy. That someone is has been declared incompetent. But they had already printed the highway signs and some fancy city letterhead, and the name stuck.

2) Krumville, PA. Here is one of the "ville" towns. Which plainly tells you that KRUM is all someone came up with for the town name. Krum was a sargeant in the war. Maybe the war on drugs. I'm not sure. Anyway, he got in a fight with the City Council of some other town, Something-ton, because they would not allow him to park in handicapped parking without a permit. So he huffed and he puffed and with the large acreage he inherited, he created his own little town. He named it Krumville because if he just left it Krum, it would be too easy to say Krummy. The "ville" kind of puts a stop to that kind of nonsense.