Monday, January 10, 2005

And in other news...

This one's for Kevvy -

A small lake southeast of Lake Stevens in Everett, Washington has two different names, Bevis and Butthead — almost identical to snickering characters in TV’s "Beavis and Butt-head" show. The Department of Natural Resources calls it Bevis Lake. The U.S. Geological Survey uses that name on its topographic map. But the U.S. Census Bureau calls it Butthead Lake in its records.

Apparently it's not unusual for a lake to have two names. In this case, the lake was originally named "Beaver Lake" *snicker* but was then changed to honor a man named William Beavis. No one knows how or why the change in the spelling of "Beavis" occurred. The spokesperson for the DNR thinks that someone over at the Census Bureau must have gotten bored and made a joke out of naming the lake "Butthead Lake" in the federal record.

As if this isn't funny enough to have a lake named both "Bevis" and "Butthead," two of my comic heroes, there is a Boy Scout camp nearby. They do not call the lake Beavis or Butthead. They call it Lake Brinkly.

Kevin, for purely Karmic reasons, I think you should definitely go to this place!