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    dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago

    Zzyzx, California

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    dantheclamman@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 days ago
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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      23 days ago

      well now I know where the band Low Hums got an album name

      https://lowhums.bandcamp.com/album/zzyzx

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        23 days ago

        Stone Sour also has a song named after this road.

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      I drive past this road whenever I drive to Vegas. After a few times I decided to Google it up and read all the stuff on the Wiki. I’m assuming OP did the same?

      • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOPM
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        Not driving to Vegas! I don’t remember when I first heard of it, but I was reminded of it talking to someone who worked at the Desert Studies Center

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      I like the commitment with the shortened version of ‘road’

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Awful pronunciation.

      “Zisk” sounds much cooler than “ZY-ziks”

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      23 days ago

      played this as a word for hangman once

      also zzyzx road is a movie that only sold like 6 tickets. director felt so bad he just refunded them

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      It was the name given to the shady organisation in the series Kyke XY. Somehow missing in the pop culture references

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      Well at least I’ll know where any landmines are.

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      When they couldn’t remember of any names they hadn’t used a dozen times already…

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