why is a fleamarket named fleamarket?
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"The original flea market is likely to be the Marché aux puces of Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, a large, long-established outdoor bazaar, one of four in Paris, that earned their name from the flea-infested clothing and rags sold there. "
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Is the town name going to be included or a sponser? I might need a little more info...other wise mabey the little lightning or kidnergarten kickers?  LOL those both sound dumb but Ill come back
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It started in Japan. It refered to when people sold their own things (like their kimono, hair ornaments, and art) to make money during the depression of WWII. Not heavy illegal like the black market,
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I like the fact that you can walk from the old Flea Market, right up to New Street under a roof.  I don't like that fly's eye thing, though and what's going to happen to the Rotunda?
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LA_Kinda_Guy beat me to this one.\n\nBack in the day, operators used 'exchanges'.  Each exchange was generally named after the area it covered.  As an example, my Grandparents used to live on Linda Drive in Amarillo, TX.  This was designated the 'Fleetwood' exchange due to its proximity to Fleetwood Park.  Apparently, these aren't all that far gone (in use as recently as the early 1960s), as I remember my Grandmother giving the phone number to the school I went to as 'Fleetwood-54987'.\n\nWhen the switchboards became automated, people began dialing the first two letters of the exchange as well as the number.  In the case of my Grandparents, their number became 355-4987.  If you look at the letters on a phone dial, F is on the 3, and L is on the 5.\n\nOn a humorous side-note, my Grandmother often grumbled about wishing it would go back to the old system due to the flood of wrong numbers we'd get anytime one of the local radio stations would have a call-in contest.  Their number was 359-4987, which sounded the same as my Grandparents number when said quickly.
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some very good answers so far. People that live in your town will be more apt to do business with the town name mainly because it leads most newcomers that it has been there awhile and not a fly by night operation.Alot of people deal with town names in there business simply believing that the whole town is behind the business.Check the legalities before you have your sign made some town officials may not allow the town name in a private enterprise
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If it's numeric, then obviously the street is just following order. The rest is simply politics. A lot of times streets are named after the original land owner, as a deal to sell the land which provided the street to be built. The majority though is politics, part of town it's in, or simply a city choice.
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Point of Sale is basically a cash register.  I've always thought it was funny when they use the acronym POS, because most of them are....get it??  HAHA...uh...ha...heh?  :&#92;
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I have no idea, you can go to a market area and ask around.
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RE: Does your name have some sort of a story behind it? Care to tell?\n\nMike: The story behind the name Lincoln Park is actually a place in Santa Monica, and originally we wanted our name to be Hybrid Theory, but for legal reasons we had to change it. We came up with the name Lincoln Park, but because we had such a big internet fan base, and how much money it would have cost for us to buy lincolnpark.com, we decided to make it Linkin Park, we thought it looked a lot cooler anyway.
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maybe because its cheap and second hand  ie: flea ridden, dunno educated guess.
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I'm unable to find any business by that name.  Is the spelling correct?
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Hi, Care bear...these are a few ideas....but you can check the rest in the link....Good Luck!!!!\nNEIGHBORHOOD FLEA-MARKET \nCOSTUME BALL \nTALENT SHOW \nART SHOW \nCAR WASH \nCOMMUNITY AUCTION
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I never really asked myself why New York City is also called "The Big Apple". Today I found the answer... At least a possible one.\n\nI went to Harlem and walked around for a couple of hours. I happend to come across the "Uptown Saterday Nite" Festival which is part of the 2005 Harlem Week. Nothing sensational but on the corner of 135th Street and 7th Avenue I noticed this old red building with a sign showing an upside down apple saying "The Big Apple". I took a photograph and went on.\nAfter coming home I did a little research on the internet, looking for this particular sign in Harlem. That's how I found out about the history of this sign and New Yorks nickname.\n\nIn the 1920's Jazz musicians picked the term "Big Apple" up from horseracing people who considered New York races and gigs to be where the big money was. Since a horse, up for a big purse in New York City, can't get paid off in big money himself, the lingo promised him a big apple. At this time a night club opened in Harlem called "The Big Apple". Some historians think that New Yorks nickname may have come from this long forgotten club. The club is gone, the sign, with its upside down apple, is still there.\n\nFor another theory you may want to read this article from the Society for New York City History.
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It comes from the early 1800s in London.  The term "pig" for a contemptable person was around a long time before that.  Particularly, the name refers to a certain group of Police called the Bow Street Runners that criminals referred to as China Street Pigs.
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I agree with you. ANd it's because it was one of the first. People 'love' and use Google because of the name. Instead of saying, "do an internet search" people say, "Google it" everyone knows what you mean. The same with iPods, you buy the name. There are better MP3 players out there that cost a lot less, yet everyone gets an iPod because of the name.
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Q: Why is the foul pole called the foul pole when it is actually in fair territory?\n\nA: Good question. Contrary to common knowledge, the foul pole was named over something having nothing to do with the ball being in play or not. When the early designers of stadiums put these unnamed (at this point) poles up to help make calls on deep drives, they often became perches for area ducks and geese who found the lofty location a great way to spot food sources below. It wasn't long before these home run honkers started becoming a menace by leaving their calling cards on unprotected outfielders. Although stadium owners eventually hired sharpshooters to scatter the unwanted visitors, the nature of their specimen and the odor they left behind made "fowl" pole a perfect fit (The spelling was later changed to "foul").\n\nhttp://www.whitecaps-baseball.com/PRESSBOX/FEATURE2000/berkey2.html