BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities

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From: The PA
Date: 17 Aug 07 - 06:56 AM

Next village to our's - Lickey End !! Sorry, but I swear its true.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: TheSnail
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 12:06 PM

Marsh Gibbon (Buckinghamshire)
Widley (Hampshire)
Cowplain (Hampshire)
Toller Porcorum (Dorset)
Littleworth (all over the place)

And visible from my window, two high points on the eastern end of the Sussex Downs - Pea Down and Crapham Down. There is also a Crapham Bottom.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 11:54 AM

Booger Hole WV

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mr Happy
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 09:10 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_Island

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:08 PM

PS, during the Prohibition era, rum runners often used the island as a bivouac area. And during the 1940s, the U.S. military used the island as a bombing range. This use was discontinued during the 1950s. West Sister Island is the site of one of the oldest lighthouses on the Great Lakes. The current light was constructed in 1847, although the first light on the island was created in 1821.

http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/3146/BSBO_and_Vomit_Island_to_be_featured_on_Discovery_Channels_Dirty_Jobs_show

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Aug 07 - 05:07 PM

Amissville, VA.

Vomit Island (nickname West Sister Island) is HQ for for The Black Swamp Bird Observatory at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, which is off Rt 2 and about a 30 minute drive east of Toledo, OH.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Highlandman
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 09:14 AM

Sugar Tit, SC
unincorporated, just a crossroads with a country store about 3 miles from where I sit, but well known to the locals.
The folklore behind it:
In times past, a "sugar tit" was a cotton sock with a lump of butter and sugar tied into the end, given to a small child to suck on as they toddled around, to keep it happy. The men of the community would habitually gather at the store to play checkers and b.s. each other, which activity the women disparaged as "goin' down to get their sugar tit."
Honest.
As far as I know no one has immortalized Sugar Tit in song. Yet. :-)
-HM

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:28 AM

This was an inspirational song I penned with a friend while we were touring "The Thumb" of Michigan. Seems to fit right in. It became quite popular for a period of time, and contrary to popular rumor was not the primary reason I moved back to Maine:

Written by Charlie Ipcar & Maxine Parshall © 1975

Shafted in Shaftsburg

G
I've been shafted in Shaftsburg,
-----C--------------------G
Been lynched in Lynchburg town;
---------------------------
I've been sharpened in Flint,
----A-----------------D
And Highland's got me down;
---G
I'm all washed up in Bath,
C----------------G
Impaled in Lansing too;
------------------------E
Yes, I've been shafted in Shaftsburg,
-----A----------D-----G
Come on and get shafted too!
------------------------E
Yes, I've been shafted in Shaftsburg,
-----A----------D-----G
Come on and get shafted too!


I got fed up in Eaton Rapids,
In Custer I made my stand;
I got crocked in Potterville,
In Mason I was canned;
Reformed in Westphalia,
Benton Harbor straightened me out,
But the shafting I got in Shaftsburg
'Twas dreadful there can be no doubt!
But the shafting I got in Shaftsburg
'Twas dreadful there can be no doubt!

I lost my bearings in Wheeler,
Hamburg ground me down;
I was given the bird in Pigeon
And Fowlerville's a chickenshit town;
I got riled up in South Riley,
Ran amok in Menominee, Menominee, Menominee,
But when you come to Shaftsburg,
You'll be shafted I guarantee!
But when you come to Shaftsburg,
You'll be shafted I guarantee!

I got mixed up in Cement City,
Muskegon raised a stink;
You can't get high in Lowell,
Hart's got no soul I think;
I've been glum in Lum,
Taken for a ride in Cadillac;
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know you're never coming back!
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know you're never coming back!

I lost my head in Bad Ax,
And Hell it wasn't so hot;
I got fucked over in Climax,
And Hillsdale left me flat;
I've been socked in Argyle,
Swamped in Grand Marais,
But when you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know you're gonna stay that way!
But when you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know you're gonna stay that way!

I put up my dukes in Ellington,
Got locked in the Kalamazoo;
I got the trots in Flushing
And see-sawed at the Sault;
I got stoned in Petoskey,
Balmed in East Gilead;
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
Nothing else is quite as bad!
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
Nothing else is quite as bad!

I was polished off in Brighton,
In Lyons I lost my pride;
I was fleeced in Shepard,
In Frankenmuth I got fried;
I was blown away in Galesburg,
And Howeled all the way home;
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know it's time to roam!
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know it's time to roam!

I was cast out of Eden,
In Paradise I was lost;
I was damned in Holland,
In Thunder Bay, tempest tossed;
Tehquamenon was my downfall
But, Eureka, I saw the light;
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know it's time for flight!
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You know it's time for flight!

I got plastered in Paris,
In Rosebush I got ripped;
I got tanked in Sherman,
In Beacon I was lit;
Fell off the wagon in Temperance,
In Brunswick I got stewed;
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
Nothing else is quite as crude!
When you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
Nothing else is quite as crude!

I drifted through Grand Rapids,
At Big Rock I was sunk;
Coldwater was a chilling experience,
Hemlock had a lot of punch;
Saginaw was a big letdown,
And Paw Paw's a fruity place,
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You've known real disgrace!
But once you're shafted in Shaftsburg,
You've known real disgrace!


Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 08:15 AM

Penistone - much funnier than Scunthorpe

The lass who gave me a photo of the town sign offered to photograph the village sign of Williemore, and when she is in Cumbria.........

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Tír Eoghain
Date: 27 Jul 05 - 12:25 AM

I think these are just gorgeous..

Drumshanbo (Co Leitrim, Ireland) = The small hill of the old cow
Knocknamuckley (Co Armagh, Ireland) = The hill of the grey pigs

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Barrie Roberts
Date: 26 Jul 05 - 02:27 AM

What about:

Cold Slad, Gloucestershire, UK

Doesn't 'cold slad' sound absolutely disgusting?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Isis
Date: 25 Jul 05 - 10:21 PM

I am going to move to Dildo, Newfoundsland. Reasoning I don't think needs to be clarified.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 09:02 AM

Fucking,Bezirk Braunau, Österreich is cited above, and now some more German obscenities:

Petting, Nähe Waging am See (Oberbayern)
Fickmühlen (Fuck Mills, near Cuxhaven)
Hymendorf (Hymen Village, near Cuxhaven)
Busenbach (Boob Creek), Gemeinde Waldbronn
Busendorf (Boobsville)
Sexau bei Freiburg
Großdingharting (Greater Hard Thing) and Kleindingharting (Little Hard Thing), south of Munich
Wixhausen (Wankers' Hall) bei Darmstadt
Wichsenstein (Wankerstone), zu 91327 Gößweinstein
Hodenhagen (Balls Wood)
Geilberg (Horny Hill), zu 24376 Hasselberg

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: UncleToad
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 08:03 AM

In North Carolina

Another town named "Climax" has a road named "Horney Street"...

Laugh a little, Uncle(LifeIsGood)Toad

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Betsy
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 06:19 AM

Cockermouth in Cumbria always struck me as being as strange

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Doktor Doktor
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 06:10 AM

next on the bill, that lovely old trad duo
Burton Agnes Hall

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 04:25 AM

In this message:

Effin near Kilmallock (co. Limerick) is called after St. Eimhín. It is recorded that some pious pilgrims to Knock Shrine were upset to hear the Parish Priest announce after the ceremonies : "Will the Effin Children of Mary return to their buses immediately".

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mr Happy
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 07:35 AM

Was just looking at map for whereabouts of Hardraw Gathering, & came across place in North Yorkshire called Crackpot!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: mandoleer
Date: 27 May 05 - 06:49 PM

I thought Lickey End was one of the things Gaspode suffered from. No idea what this one means, but I've got an old Austrian stamp with the postmark Gloggnitz. I understand it's Austria's equivalent of Widnes - one of those places where you can tell where the wind's coming from by the smell from different factories...

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 05 - 05:36 PM

Or Zigzag.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 05 - 05:35 PM

Thanks for the laugh, Don Firth. Washington state has a lot of Indian names I haven't seen elsewhere.

Oregon has both a Happy Valley and a Christmas Valley. Not to mention, Boring.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 May 05 - 03:37 PM

Speonk, N.Y.
Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky
Joe, Montana (Joe Montana was a famous Americna football player)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Chris Green
Date: 26 May 05 - 06:37 PM

Has anyone mentioned Lickey End yet? It's in the Black Country. There's also Wyre Piddle in Worcestershire.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,AArk
Date: 26 May 05 - 06:34 PM

Twatt
Upper Dicker
Upper End
Upperthong

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 May 05 - 12:11 PM

The capital of Minnesota is St. Paul. Nothing so strange/funny/odd there, you say. But before that it was named Pig's Eye.

And in Indiana there's a town called Needmore. Wait, amend that!
In Indiana there are THREE towns called Needmore!

I guess somebody said, "We need more Needmores."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mappa Mundi
Date: 26 May 05 - 11:57 AM

There's a Twatt on the Shetland isles!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 May 05 - 11:04 AM

I've been to Damp in Germany too

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Scotus
Date: 26 May 05 - 09:40 AM

Don't know what happened to my previous - here it is again:

Dull in Perthshire and Puddledub in Fife. Dub, of course is the Scots for a puddle - so that presumably should translate as Puddlepuddle or Dubdub!

Jack Beck

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 26 May 05 - 08:04 AM

Doesn't Martin Gibson live somewhere about there?

Loch Lochy, Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 May 05 - 07:38 AM

When I was in Michigan I went to Hell and back.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 05 - 06:03 AM

100 th !!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Leadfingers
Date: 26 May 05 - 06:02 AM

Cold Slad in Gloucestershire?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Crystal
Date: 26 May 05 - 04:49 AM

there is Mold in Wales, and a place called Mugglemoss in Aberdeen.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 26 May 05 - 12:21 AM

but please don't ask meto pronounce it.... because I have no f*cking idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 26 May 05 - 12:17 AM

and some thought Hawaii had complicated names...we scoff at unpronounceable place names!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 26 May 05 - 12:08 AM

In BC there is a Anhluut'ukwsim Laxmihl Angwinga'asanskwhl Nisga'a Provincial Park. Fortunately it is also known as the Nisga'a Memorial Lava Beds.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 25 May 05 - 10:05 PM

One very funny sign in a town in Alberta reads:

We Love Our Children Drive Safely

Killem

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Scotus (lurking)
Date: 25 May 05 - 09:57 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:06 PM

DOO TOWN TASMANIA
1770 QUEENSLEND
BATMAN VICTORIA
URANA NEW SOUTH WALES
HUMPTY DOO NORTHERN TERITORY
BROOME WEST AUSTRALIA

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Scoville
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:03 PM

Tightwad, Missouri
Claycomo, Missouri (I assume this is for Clay County)
No Name, Texas
Reklaw, Texas ("Walker" was taken)
Dime Box & Old Dime Box, Texas
Telephone, Texas (cutting edge of technology, and proud of it)
Post Office, Texas
"Y" City, Arkansas (situated at a fork in the road)
Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Toad Suck, Arkansas
Pocahontas, Iowa (um, yeah--sure)
Grand Island, Nebraska (Island? What the Hell?)
Dinosaur, Colorado

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: AggieD
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:59 PM

The hill above our village is called Sharpenhoe Clappers.

Loose in Kent(UK), & guess what the female morris team based there is called?!!

All these form a relatively small area in Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire:
Herring's Green
Shortstown
Broom
Wrestlingworth
Eyeworth
Wendy
Cockayne Hatley
Trumpington


& lots of 'Bottoms' eg Six Mile Bottom(Cambs) Bottom of Hutton(Lancs)

Dickleburgh(Norfolk)

I could go on all night but I won't bore you

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Kim C
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:51 PM

Bumpass, VA

Soddy Daisy, TN

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: mandoleer
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:20 PM

There's a village near Hull called Swine, and a town called Crook in Durham.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:45 AM

Queensland has a Mount Marrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: *Laura*
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:12 AM

Has anyone mentioned Fishponds?

and Cornwall and Devon have some good ones -
Grampound
Sticker
Perranzabuloe
Relubbus
Praze-an-Beeble
Probus
Goonhavern
Gurnard's Head
Dobwalls
Pillaton
Pendoggett
Gittisham
Baggy Point

and Tintinhull (Tint'null) in Somerset.

along with Alton Pancreas and Mappower in Dorset.
And those Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton ones are in Dorset too.

The West Country had all the best names methinkst.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: *Laura*
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:01 AM

Odcombe - somerset

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST
Date: 25 May 05 - 07:31 AM

so how about if a guy from Fucking, Austria marries a woman from Dildo, Newfoundland.

Fucking man Marries Dildo woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bobert
Date: 25 May 05 - 07:27 AM

Well, Bob Martin sings a song about the toilet seat capital of the world called:

Frog Dick, South Dekota...

Now I ain't sayin' it exists 'er not but...

Ahhhhh, Gregster, "Reddish Knob" ain't like the name of a town but an old lookout post/ sightseein' area atop the Blue Ridge Mountain outside of Harrisonburg, Va... And it's up there... 'Bout 4400 feet...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Nessie
Date: 25 May 05 - 06:49 AM

Herts UK has
Cold Christmas
Nasty
Ugley
(the local press love to report people from the last 2 getting married, "Nasty man marries...")

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Dave'sWife
Date: 25 May 05 - 06:23 AM

Oh lord love Hohokus sometimes spelled on signs as Ho-Ho-Kus!
(Really cheap petrol there ya know. Best to stop and tank up before proceeding further south where the prices are higher)

In the late 1970s there was a huge rash of kangaroo sightings in Hohokus around the same time as Son of Sam was shooting couples parked in cars/kissing and.. Coinciding with Veronica Leuken's visions of the Virgin Mary in Bayside. I'm telling ya.. LSD in the water supply fer sure!

Apparently, outbreaks of Kangaroo sightings happen from time to time in communities with railroads nearby. The story is usually that a Ringling Brothers Circus train derailed and the 'Roos done escaped to go have some fun in people's backyards trying to convince pussycats they is just big mice. OK.. so I tacked on the Warner brothers cartoon scenario at the end there. Still - Kangaroo sightings do come in groups, kinda like the ABC sightings today.

Now if we could just get some ABK sightings again...