Mike,

One of my favorites came from Jason Lucas, the fishing columnist for SPORTS AFIELD for 24 years after WWII. Back then some tourism departments in were trying to improve the image of northern pike, because they wanted to attract more anglers, so started calling the fish "the great northern pike."

In a column on pike fishing, Lucas commented: "The Great Northern is a railroad, not a fish."

“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck