Where is Podunk?

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• Good answer, but people in the US call any rural place Podunk. I was wondering where the original Podunk was. I'm 99% sure it was from the game since I think it was being used before NES came out. Like I said though, valid and good answer.

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  by Drublic on February 4th, 2007

• That is why I referenced the Wiki article: I'll post more here so that it become part of the AnswerBag collection of knowledge:
  
  An 1875 example of dismissive usage is:
  
  Sometimes the newest State, or the youngest county or town of a State is nicknamed "Old Podunk," or whatever it may be, by its affectionate inhabitants, as though their home was an ancient figure in national history.[1]
  
  A 1915 book gives a folk etymology:
  
  Among the places I passed through on this trip were Scrabbletown, Fog Hill, Larrywog, and Podunk. As to the last an Indian named Dunk once fell off a bridge there and drowned. The whites spoke of him as "poor Dunk," and the bridge as "poor Dunk's bridge," and so the vicinity in time came to be known as Podunk.[2]
  
  There appear to be at least six real places in the United States called Podunk:
  
  * Podunk, Ulysses, New York is a community in Ulysses in New York.
  

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  by canadianhelper on February 4th, 2007

• Wow, had a bit more history than I thought. Thanks for the info.

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  by Drublic on February 4th, 2007

• Just found this on the Ulysses NY website...they do INDEED have a community called Podunk!
  
  http://www.ulysses.ny.us/history.html

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  by canadianhelper on February 4th, 2007