Know Your Pocomoke: Answers Revealed

1. The name "Pocomoke" is derived from a southern Maryland Algonquin Indian word meaning "pierced ground," most likely a reference to the slash-and-burn seasonal horticultural practices of the local Algonquin-speaking natives. More specifically, our street is named after the Pocomoke River, which flows across Eastern Shore of Maryland (although it apparently rises in Delaware, so Lydia was technically right). The name also refers to river's head of navigation at Pocomoke City, Maryland, and its mouth on the Chesapeake Bay at Pocomoke Sound. There have been whispers of a house pilgrimage to our ancestral home some weekend...don't worry, we'll hock-n-blog the whole thing.

2. The correct answer is Walker, Texas Ranger. We used to record WTR, but had to stop when Tom got too excited while watching it and Matt ended up with a vicious roundhouse kick to the face. Just kidding. Seriously though, I'm not sure what it says about our house that we record The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, and Mythbusters.

3. There are two correct responses to this question: 1) in Tom's fantasies. 2) Donald Sutherland, Sam Elliott, and Dale Earnhardt are all nicknames we have for regulars at the Forest Inn, our local dive bar. "Leatherface" is the self-explanatory name for the type of ladies one might encounter at said establishment on a Friday evening. I love that place.