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

Subject: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:00 PM

The town of Fallis, Alberta, got me thinking of this. Just so's you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bill D
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:03 PM

Intercourse, Pennsylvania
Climax, Colorado..(their road signs used to be stolen)
Truth or Consequences, N. Mexico

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bainbo
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:09 PM

You've pobably heard of this town in Austria, but just in case you haven't ...

Warning, if you're easily offended, it's a very naughty word

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:12 PM

Biggar, Saskatchewan. Their town sign reads, "New York is big, but this is Biggar".

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:16 PM

Purgatory, Minnesota.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:26 PM

I used to live near Shitterton.

There was also Piddlehinton but it got a bit rattley.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:29 PM

Lower Wallop
Middle Wallop
Upper Wallop

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Schantieman
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:33 PM

Upper, Middle & Nether Wallop (Hampshire)
Lower Peover (Cheshire)
Piddletrenthide (no idea)

and lots of similar ones.

Less risqué but still moderately unusual...

Ashby de la Zouche (Leicestershire)   (It's Norman, you know)
...and just about anywhere in Dorset

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From:
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:35 PM

Kinmount,Ont and French Lick, Ind.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bill D
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:38 PM

Dr. Phillips, Florida

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:47 PM

Dildo Newfoundland

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bill D
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:52 PM

Oshkosh, Walla Walla, Kennebunk, Cucamonga, Tallahassee, Topeka are ALL a little odd if you aren't from there.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:57 PM

Wagontire, Oregon Population: 3 (or maybe two now. One of them died recently)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,smiler
Date: 23 May 05 - 02:58 PM

Pervy Shag, which is in Omsk.

Its on my holiday destination list.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:07 PM

Maggie's Nipples, Wyoming

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: bobad
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:13 PM

St.Louis de Ha!Ha!, Quebec

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:15 PM

Cut and Shoot, Texas

Peculiar, Missouri

Tightsqueeze, Virginia

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: bobad
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:19 PM

Great big list here

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Schantieman
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:26 PM

Ah, but they're all American. What about Westward Ho!?

(The exclamation mark's part of the name, and woe betide you if you forget it. The question mark's mine).

S

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: frogprince
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:46 PM

The list bobad linked had most of my favorites, but they missed Red Neck Arkansas. I've always gotten a kick out of Bunlevel, N.C.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Chris Green
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:53 PM

There's a tiny place in Leicestershire ( I think!) called Willey. The local pub sells T-shirts with the legend "Willey - Small and Very Hard to Find" on!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 May 05 - 03:58 PM

London, England

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:23 PM

Moosejaw, Saskatchewan

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:33 PM

Mousehole, Cornwall

Braintree, Essex

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:35 PM

Hornitos, CA.
Santa Claus, CA.


Fun thread, brucie!

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: bobad
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:38 PM

Come By Chance
Blow Me Down
Both are in Newfoundland.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:42 PM

Santa Claus, Indiana
Blue Ball, Pennsylvania
Big Neck, Illinois (probably deserted now)
Fishhook, Illinois
Las Putas, California
Dingle, Idaho (yes, I know about the one in Kerry -- my wife's folks still have a place there)
North Pole, Alaska
Destruction Bay, Yukon
French Lick, Indiana
Big Lick, Kentucky
Rabbithash, Kentucky
Condom, France

(Hmmm..I just realized that I've been to all of these places.)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: bobad
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:46 PM

You should know this one brucie;

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump - Alberta

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: sixtieschick
Date: 23 May 05 - 05:46 PM

Hot Coffee, Mississippi

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Once Famous
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:00 PM

Fuck you, Alabama

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:02 PM

Theres a Bing Bong in the Northern Territories in Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,wildlone
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:13 PM

Dorset
Ryme Intrinseca

Shiterton
Piddlehinton
Tincleton
Tolpuddle
Puddletown
Piddletrenthide
Affpudle
Tolpuddle

Piddletrenthide has a pub called the Piddle Inn, when I was small the outflow from the urinal in the gents used to go into the river so you could piddle in the Piddle.

dave

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:16 PM

Martin, get yer ass over to the BNP thread. Need some help. More assholes there than in a herd of wildebeest.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bainbo
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:22 PM

Martin, South Dakota
Gibson, Georgia

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: greg stephens
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:34 PM

Reddish Knob, Virginia (OK it's a hill, not a town, but it's quite funny, to someone from England at least).

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:37 PM

Medicine Hat (Saskatchewan?)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: mandoleer
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:49 PM

In Shropshire, there's Knockin - and there IS a shop there.....
A bit further south, more of a village and sounding like a disease of sheep, is Wyre Piddle. Nearish to which is Ab Lench.
A cousin of mine (and former duo partner) moved from Penge to Crawley to Kleindottingen to Manalappan to Snohomish. Seems settled there, fortunately. Never believed in Penge or Crawley until I visited her there.
There's an English town whose name doesn't seem unusual until you try typing it on certain very well protected chat rooms. A chap got booted three times before a friend of mine (who told me this tale) suggested that he spell it with a k. So he typed in Skunthorpe, and all was well....

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bainbo
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:49 PM

You have to wonder about the naming of Longbenton and Newbiggin, in North East England. Or you doo if you like puerile humour.

The region also has the oft-cited Pity Me, No Place, Co-operative Villas and Quaking Houses.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:50 PM

I do know HSIBJ, Bobad.

Medicine Hat is in southeast Alberta, Ebbie, but you were close. The name was mentioned once on the TV sitcom, "Barney Miller". My old memory recalls it as

Wojohowitz: "He's going to Medicine Hat, Alberta".

Deiter: "I don't get it."

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 May 05 - 06:56 PM

Chicken, Alaska
Seehorn, Illinois

and, of course, there are the rivers, such as the Yellow River in Indiana -- which also has the Red, White, and Blue Rivers. Or the Youghagani (probably misspelled), pronouced "Yuck a gainie" in Pennsylvania. Or, in northern Idaho, there's a brook labeled on the maps as "Sh. Creek" -- not to be confused with Ship Creek, which flows through Anchorage, Alaska.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: John O'L
Date: 23 May 05 - 07:51 PM

Ward's Mistake - NSW, Australia (Not really a town, just an area)
Tumble-Down-Dick Hill - Sydney (Not really a town, just a hill)
Bergen-op-Zoom - NSW (Also in Holland. No idea what it means)

A song by Ted Egan:
(These are all genuine place names)
Ya don't call Kurri Kurri 'Kurri'
and ya don't call Gin Gin 'Gin'
ya don't call Mooney Mooney 'Mooney'
and ya don't call Kin Kin 'Kin'
ya never call Pindi Pindi 'Pindi'
and ya don't call Grong Grong 'Grong'
and ya don't call Wagga Wagga 'Wagga' no sir
callin' Wagga Wagga 'Wagga' is wrong

It's Lang Lang and it's Ki Ki, Wangi Wangi and Woy Woy
and if ya call Tumbi Umbi 'Tumbi', well that proves your a silly boy
Cocklebiddy isn't Cockle, Duckinwilla isn't Duck
Burpengary isn't Burpen, Muckadilla isn't Muck
Uranquinty isn't Uran, and Petrie isn't Pee
you'd look pretty silly callin' Liili Pilli Lilli and Wee Waa isn't Wee,
and

Ya don't call Walla Walla 'Walla'
and ya don't call Curl Curl 'Curl'
ya don't call Mitta Mitta 'Mitta'
and ya don't call Wool Wool 'Wool'
ya never call Pura Pura 'Pura'
and ya don't call Bong Bong 'Bong'
and ya don't call Wagga Wagga 'Wagga' no sir
callin' Wagga Wagga 'Wagga' is wrong

It's Terrigal not Terry, and Stanthorpe isn't Stan
Peterborough isn't Peter, Dandaragan isn't Dan
Kenebri's not Kenny, Jackadgery isn't Jack
never ever call Jimboomba Jim and Macksville isn't Mack
so now you'll all remember Ted Egan's good advice
some words are so fair dinkum that you have to use 'em twice, and


Ya don't call Kurri Kurri 'Kurri'...etc

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 24 May 05 - 01:14 AM

WC Fields found the name Titicaca very amusing. It's a lake, not a town, but ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 24 May 05 - 01:40 AM

In central Pennsylvania, you can travel from Bird-in-Hand through Intercourse and then on to Paradise. But if you make a wrong turn, you end up in Blue Ball

Bill D said: Oshkosh, Walla Walla, Kennebunk, Cucamonga, Tallahassee, Topeka are ALL a little odd if you aren't from there.

The same might be said of L.A.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 24 May 05 - 03:22 AM

Pennsylvania is famous for having some oddly named towns and villages. I always liked:

Bird-in-Hand, PA
King of Prussia, PA - there are so many more, But I may be the only one that finds such names amusing.



Then there's East New York which is in....New Jersey!

New York has some funny Indian place names such as:

Ronkonkoma (on Long Island)
Horsegatchou
Oswegatchie ............ and then New York has that odd habit of naming towns after place names from Greek & Roman History such as Utica, Rome, Troy etc.



Right here in California there are a few funny ones too. I like:
*Hells Kitchen, CA (Which isn't filled with Irish bars or Westies)
*Needles, CA always sounded funny to me for some reason
*The Chocolate Mountains also seems kinda odd, but there they are and they do sort of look like Chocolate!
*Tarzana is indeed named after Tarzan because the area is where the writer's estate used to be before it as subdivided. It has lots of streets named after characters and such.

Bunnahabhain - There is also a Braintree in Massachusetts

I'll find some more in time.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Schantieman
Date: 24 May 05 - 05:01 AM

Braintree in Essex too - the original one, I suspect.

Presumably *most* of these strange-sounding N American names ore of Indian origin?

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Splott Man
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:26 AM

For various reasons...

Christmas Pie, Surrey
Bethlehem, Carms
Cross Hands, Carms
Bugle, Cornwall
Trumpet, Herefs
Splott, Cardiff (others nr Cowbridge, and nr Cheddar)
Nempnett Thrubwell, nr Bristol
Indian Queens, Cornwall
Wyllie, nr Caerphilly

and my village, Beddau, means Gravestones in English

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:31 AM

While driving along a highway here in New Brunswick, Canada, one of my relatives from the US remarked that Sortie must be a very large city because its name is on all of the exit signs.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:37 AM

Dildo must be Asian Indian.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Bainbo
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:39 AM

In an exactly similar vein, we couldn't understand why we couldn't find Utara on maps of Malaysia, as it was the biggest destination on every road direction sign. It was probably half a day before we realised it means North.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: bobad
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:46 AM

My immigrant grandfather thought that the Mercier Bridge, which we lived in sight of, was called the Pont Bridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:48 AM

Pratt's Bottom, Kent

Essex is full of them
Chignal Smeally,
Matching Tye,
Green Tye,
Good Easter,
Ugley (home of the Ugley Women's Institute) and loads more see
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=557101&y=211351&z=3&sv=abbess+roding&st=3&tl=Abbess+Roding,+Essex+[Town]&searchp=newsear

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: robomatic
Date: 24 May 05 - 08:28 AM

Entering Marion

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:03 AM

Hmmm, I'd forgotton about those Essex ones, having grown up within a few miles of there.

Coldstream, Scotland- very accurate!

Some Kiwi mountains; I think the mapping party was fed up with the weather.

Mt. Aweful, Mt. Dreadful, Mt. Dispute and Mt. Doris
All around 44.10 S, 169.00 E.

With Chilly Creek and Taken-a-back Creek nearby

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: gnu
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:39 AM

In New Brunswick, Canada, we have the Christmas Mountains, which include all the reindeer.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: JennyO
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:06 AM

Here's another song about some Aussie places:

ON THE QUEENSLAND RAILWAY LINES

Matilda's Mob. Carl Evensen and Brian Dunnett - vocals

On the Queensland railway lines,
There are stations where one dines,
Private individuals
Also run refreshment stalls

Chorus
Bogan-Tungan, Rollingstone,
Mungar, Murgon, Marathon(e),
Garthanungra, Pinkenba,
Wanko, Yaamba; ha, ha, ha!

Males and females, high and dry
Hang around at Durikai;
Boora-Mugga, Djarawong,
Giligulgul, Wonglepong.

Pies and coffees, baths and showers,
Are supplied at Charters Towers;
At Mackay the rule prevails
Of restricting showers to males.

Iron rations come in handy,
On the way to Dirranbandi,
Passengers have died of hunger,
During halts at Garatdunga.

Let us toast before we part,
Those who travel stout at heart,
Drunk or sober rain or shine,
On the Queensland railway lines.

Chorus


This song was written by Brisbane Realist Writers' Group (1959). German Folk Tune. Printed in "Qld. Centenary Pocket Songbook"

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Schantieman
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:07 AM

The Meaning of Liff

...is a book by the redoubtable (and late) Douglas Adams, of Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy fame and John Lloyd. It contains definitions of many of those everyday words which do nothing but hang about on signposts pointing at places. They include several of the amusing names already mentioned, and...

Hastings (Sussex) - the things you say when you're caught somewhere you're not supposed to be
Woking (Surrey) - standing in the kitchen wondering what the hell you came in here for
Abilene (Texas, birthplace of a US President but I can't remember which one. Eisenhower?) - the coolness of the other side of the pillow
Lower Peover (Cheshire) - what a gentleman has to do when he needs to go for a pee in the middle of making love to someone

....and many more.

Sadly, I lent my copy to someone many years ago and didn't get it back.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:22 AM

Ted Egan left Goonoo Goonoo out of his song - maybe because it's pronounced Gunny G'noo.

Goosberry Hill is in West Oz, they also have an Abba River there, too

Friday Pocket is in Queenslnd, so too are Good Night, Golden Fleece & Pin Gin Hill

Fannie Bay & Humpty Doo are in Northern Territory. In Oz Fannie does not have the connotations it has in the US. This town was named after a woman.

We still have a few Happy Valley's scattered across Oz, but the best known one is long gone - it was a shantytown, the creation of desperate, homeless people in the Depression.

Tinpot is in NSW, so too is Muscle Creek and Manly (named in the early days of english settlement, after the manly bearing of the natives. The same natives were noticed cutting rushes in Rushcutters Bay).

There are also many places named after the settler's version of Aboriginal Austalian words.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:26 AM

Codpiece Green
Aughton

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bill D
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:46 AM

Puddleby-on-the-Marsh

I always wanted to go there when I was a kid.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:09 PM

As Dave(TAM) mentioned, there is a Dildo, Newfoundland and also an Upper Dildo, at least according to a sign there. When I decided to drive to Dildo and check it out one weekend, my Newfoundland buddies asked, "Why do you want to go to Dildo? There's nothing much there."

Elbow and also Eyebrow, Saskatchewan. Just sort of scattered about near Moosejaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:18 PM

It isn't a town, but there is a place in Alberta called Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump. I think the group Altan memorialized it a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:20 PM

correction The Albion Band

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 May 05 - 02:43 PM

A couple from the Midwest was vacationing in the Pacific Northwest. They were a bit befuddled when they got out here because the roads generally conform to the undulating topography rather than being laid out in fairly systematic grids, but they were learning to cope.

They spent some time in Portland, Oregon, and on their way to Seattle, they decided that, rather than just heading up Interstate 5, they'd follow the coast as far north as the Aberdeen/Hoquiam area, then swing east and go through Olympia and Tacoma on their way to Seattle. After leaving Portland and crossing the Columbia River, they followed I-405 for awhile, then started feeling a bit uneasy. A bit lost.

"I'm going to stop at that little store up ahead," said the man, "and try to find out exactly where we are."

He walked in and asked the old gent behind the counter, "Could you tell me what county we're in"

"Wahkiakum," said the man.

"What was that town back there that we passed through a while ago?"

"Cathlamet."

"What's the next town up the road?"

"Skamokowa," said the man.

When he got back into the car, his wife said, "Okay, where are we?"

"I have no idea," her husband said. "They don't speak English here."

###
It had to happen. There is a George, Washington. It's in the central part of the state, east-northeast of Ellensburg.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 05 - 02:56 PM

I went to school in Vestal. We did not have a Vestal Virgin Varsity.

Binghamton NY might not sound funny but I never met anyone there who knew who the town was named after. Hiram Bingham was from the area and as an amateir archeologist he was the first American to discover Machu Pichu. The only other notable home town son was Rod Serling.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:50 PM

I always thought Wapping, Barking, and Dorking were kinda funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:44 PM

Azusa, California. Named I think for A to Z, USA. Don't know why, though.

Anyone know the name of the river in the Mojave?

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: GUEST,MarkS
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:25 PM

Don't forget New Jersey:
Hohokus
Wortyndyke
Orange
East Orange
West Orange
Little Egg Harbor

Or West Virgina:
Cutlips

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:46 PM

Who could forget.

Hoboken.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: robomatic
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:18 PM

Needham

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

We have loads of weird town names in Alaska:

Koyuk
Koyukuk
Kipnuk
Kotzebue
Kwigillingok
Kobuk
Kaltag
Kiana
Kivalina
Kotlik
Kasaan
King Cove
Kuparuk
Kvichak
Ketchikan
Kaktovik
Kokwok
Katmai
Kodiak
Karluk
Kiska Island
Kenai

And that's just a partial list of the places beginning with "K"

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:11 AM

Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:18 AM

In BC, if you're headed north, once you get past the town Hope, you'll come to Hell's Gate and depending on what direction you take, you could end up in Desolation Sound, Despair Pass or Bummer Flats.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Peace
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:21 AM

The Nunavut capital, Iqaluit. I heard an Inuit gal pronounce that. Came out as eee-KAL-ooo-eet, but said fairly quickly.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 05 - 12:21 AM

and then there's Smackover, Arkansas

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: HuwG
Date: 25 May 05 - 02:17 AM

Upper Ramsbottom   (Lancashire, UK)

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 05 - 02:41 AM

LOL. There is a community called Upper Halfway in BC.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 May 05 - 03:37 AM

Oh, well, I'll see your Alaska and raise you a Hawai'i.

Laupahoehoe
Kealakekua
Honaunau
Napuuonaelemakule
Kauahaao
Kukuihaele
Waikahalulu
Waiokanalopaka
Onekahakaha
Mokuaweoweo
And my favorite, Napoopoo. (It's actually Napo'opo'o, with the o's pronounced separately, but I won't tell if you won't)

And those are just on the Big Island. Granted, some of them are geographical landmarks and not towns, but you get the idea.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Matt_R
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:15 AM

There's a town up hear near Kinston, NC called Tickbite.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:19 AM

How about a BC straight

Ah-we-cha-ol-to
Ahpokem
Ahwichaolto
Ahahswinis
Ahaminaquus
Ahmacinnit
Ahousat

and a whole pile more Ah ones, but I'm to tired to list them

Kakalotsa.

Subject: RE: BS: Strange/funny/odd names of towns/cities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:40 AM

Foulness- Place name and description...

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...

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: 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: 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: *Laura*
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:01 AM

Odcombe - somerset

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,Scotus (lurking)
Date: 25 May 05 - 09:57 PM

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: 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: 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 - 12:21 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: 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: GUEST,Leadfingers
Date: 26 May 05 - 06:02 AM

Cold Slad in Gloucestershire?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Ebbie
Date: 27 May 05 - 05:36 PM

Or Zigzag.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: GUEST,Russ
Date: 16 Aug 07 - 11:54 AM

Booger Hole WV

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

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