U.S.A.O.K.

Calexico. They are one of my most favouritist bands. It’s something about big horns (brass instruments I mean) playing in that wicked mariachi style that really gives me the chills.
Then those deserty, tumbleweedy lyrics that really make me wanna go jump on horseback and ride a long, long way off into the sunset or something.
No actually, that’s bullshit – it makes me wanna shake my booty and howl like a hyena.

Besides this, Calexico is in fact a super, super conjoinulation – apart from being a well cool band, it is the name of a town Southern US of A that borders on California and Mexico, hence the Cal-exico. Hooray for America (don’t hear me saying that too often)…

BUT, and here’s where it gets just totally awesome, it seems that the USA has a whole plethora of geographically conjoinulated gems…Yep there are dozens of these border towns that have some very silly names, the result of conjoinulating the two states on the border of which they sit, and I'm very excited about it.

Here are 5 of my favourites:

Florala, Alabama (Florida and Alabama) – Sounds kinda girly, like flowers – 'tho I’m guessing that it’s anything but, being in the deep south.

Kenova, West Virginia (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia) – Triple smooshy goodness.

Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas (Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana) – I’m not sure whether Texarkana and Texarkana are the same place or not. (actually I could do a whole section on Texas ones, there's loads.)

Ucolo, Utah (Utah and Colorado) – sounds a bit like some sort of nasty stomach bug, as in “I’ll be back at work and in top form just as soon as I get over this wretched Ucolo and can stop running to the loo every 5 minutes.” (no offense to my Ucolan readers, of which I’m sure I have many... ah, no, actually… let me see, no, apparently I have none, so, up yours UCOLO!)

Kanorado, Kansas (Kansas and Colorado) - I dunno, I just like the way this one flows.

And a nice Canadian one:
Alsask, Saskatchewan, (Alberta and Saskatchewan) – sounds like something an Inuit would call their kid “Alsask! Quick! Lace up your mukluks it’s time for you to perform your fighting-a-polar-bear-to-the-death rite of passage.”

Speaking of placenames - let’s not forget England’s very own ‘Oxbridge’ Universities (Oxford and Cambridge are posh enough to smoosh together into one steaming great pile of poshness apparently.)