generalizing a bad joke

[jwgh]

Last year, I learned a new joke:

Q: If you're an American in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?

A: Eur o pean!

Last night as I was half-asleep it occurred to me that this could be a representative of an entire family of jokes about placenames with similar properties. It turns out to be a little tricky, though; the only place I could think of that seemed to have any possibilities is Ukraine, and even there I couldn't come up with a joke that made any kind of sense. Can any of you do better?

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Which raises the question of how Idaho was named. The Wikipedia page on Idaho says that the name was made up by a hoaxer as a potential name for Colorado (which seems to be true), but also claims that it was derived from "I the ho" (which strikes me as pretty unlikely, given that I think "ho" for "whore" is 20th-century slang, though I've been wrong about these things before and it's obvious enough that it could have arisen previously).

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...the Oxford American Dictionary claims that "ho" came into general use in the 1960s.