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01/09/2005: Stuff That Does't Suck Stuff That Doesn't Suck

Hey, Beavis- I'm Like, A Lake Or Something
from Yahoo! News

From Bevis to Butthead: Joker bureaucrat honours MTV show by renaming U.S. lake

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. (AP) - Someone in the Census Bureau may be watching a little too much MTV.

Bevis Lake, a 2.3-hectare body of water in a forested area about 40 kilometres northeast of Seattle, is now appearing in the bureau's records with a different name: Butthead Lake.

Those two names - Bevis and Butthead - are almost identical to the 1990s MTV cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head, which featured a pair of slacker teenagers who watch music videos and make bad jokes. The pair also had their own 1996 movie: Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.

Someone at the bureau must have been bored and made a joke out of naming the lake, said Ken Brown, a land surveyor with the state Department of Natural Resources.

"It's got to be," he said.

It's not unusual for small lakes in out-of-the-way places to have different names because of variations in county, state or other official records, but there are no such indications in this case, Brown said.

"That means someone is playing a joke, I think," Brown said.

Uh, huh huh huh...lakes rule!