Michigan has a "thumb" (between Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron), and
> Virginia has a "toe" (roughly, the portion between Kentucky and
> Tennessee -- or roughly the area included in NPA 276, to include at
> least a nominal telecom reference).
> And the portion of Pennsylvania that borders Lake Erie is sometimes
> referred to as the "chimney corner".
> There are undoubtedly other colorfully named territorial divisions.
One them is the "boot heel" or "bootheel" of Missouri, a more common name for what somebody said was called Missouri's panhandle.
Wes Leatherock snipped-for-privacy@aol.com