ASTOUND your friends!! CONFOUND your enemies!!!

Ask your friend (or enemy, not that you have any) the following question. You'll have the answer and will astound or confound, depending on your target.

Q. Who misspelled Poulsbo's original name, when, and where? (If you haven't visited Poulsbo, Kitsap County's third largest city, you should.)


In 1886 I. B. Moe, one of the early Norwegian settlers, suggested that the community should have a post office. Moe suggested the town be named Paulsbo (which translates as "Paul's place"), after the Norwegian village where Moe spent his early years. The community's petition for a post office was granted, and Moe became the first Post Master General, but the authorities in Washington D.C. misspelled the town's name, due to illegible handwriting on the part of the post master, and the community became known as Poulsbo thereafter.