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Sun 12 Oct, 2003 09:23 am
In 1994, following the trial of Lorena Bobbit for cutting off the penis of her husband, John, I started collecting oddball place names. I will start the search for funny sounding towns:
Lorena Bobbit seemed to turn into a Nags Head (North Carolina).
John Bobbit should stay away from Cutt Off (Louisiana) where Lorena suspect he continues to Ogle (Illinois) girls and also on Pleasure Beach (Conneticut).
Poor John's bed must have looked like Dripping Springs (Texas).
John must have later felt like Flippin (Arizona).
John spent 5 days betting well in Fort Recovery (Ohio).
If Lorena had a Coxsackie (New York) for storage, the doctors wouldn't have had to substitute a Classcock(Texas).
John needs to learn how to live in Harmony in his cloice of (Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania or Rhode Island).
But that Romeo (Michigan) John never learns. He's so Horry (South Carolina) he's involved with a Hooker (Texas and South Dakota) even after being released from Institute (West Virginia).
I'm sure you can come up with even funnier place names from throughout the world.
Ho-Ho-Kus
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
By the Canadian Province....
In Alberta
-Westward Ho
-Head-smashed-in buffalo jump
-Moose Jaw
-Dog Pound
-Hairy Hill
In Saskatchewan
-Climax
In Newfoundland
-Come-by-Chance
-Blow-me-down
-Dildo
Ceili
Ceili:
I have quite a collection of
Toponymy; the collecting of oddball place names in the U.S.
Thanks for giving us some of the goofy names from Canada.
BBB
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Muleshoe, Texas
Newcomerstown, Ohio
Otter Tail, Minnesota
Pass Christian, Mississippi
Peculiar, Missouri
The UK abounds in interesting names.
Heres a few .
Netherthong
Oswaldtwistle
Ramsbottom
Knotty Ash
Barnoldswick
Glodwick
Cold Christmas
Leighton Buzzard
Chipping Sodbury
Steeple Bumpstead.
Brit's odd place names
Fresco, the Brits can't be beat in oddball names - thanks.
One of my favorite oddball named towns is Rough and Ready in Northern California, where good friends of mine once lived.
BBB
PA has a ton of odd ones:
Intercourse,
Blue Ball,
Boiling Springs,
Fryburg,
Big and Little Beaver,
Slippery Rock,
Port Matilda.
In Oklahoma:
Braman
Gene Autry
Hoot Owl
Medicine Park
Slaughterville
LibertyD
LibertyD, I love "Hoot Owl". It's a hoot!
BBB
Truth or Consequences, NM
As an aside, when I was in service, I had a friend who received his weekly edition of BBB's entry "Muleshoe Journal" so that he would not lose track of what was going on back home.
"Blubberhouses" - North Yorkshire
"Spittle in the street" - derbyshire
Shitterton -Dorset
Loggerheads - Staffordshire (My wife and I often have a weeks holiday at Loggerheads)
Llanfairpwyllgwyngyllgogerichwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Anybody wanna learn to speak welsh?
N Yorkshire also has:
Wet Wang
Earswick
New Earswick
Osbaldwick
Appletreewick
Potto
Wig Wig
Kev
Kev, love your place names. Do you know how "Spittle in the street" - Derbyshire got it's name? It sounds like it should be a place in China instead of Derbyshire.
BBB
Alberta
- Medicine Hat
- Vulcan - They have built the worlds only alien landing pad here
- Whiskey Gap
Yukon
- Snag
Saskatchewan
- Smuts
- Fertile
- Adanac - Canada spelled backwards
British Columbia
- Bella Bella
- Spuzum
- Skookumchuk
- Blubber Bay
- Baldy Hughes
Manitoba
- Flin Flon
Ontario
- Swastika
- Wawa
- Scugog
- Bummers Roost
- Buzwah
- Cheapside
- Hoards
Praze and Beeble in Cornwall
Mousehole - again in Cornwall but pronounced with the local accent as Mouzel.
A few from Australia;
Chinaman's Knob
Middle Intercourse Island
Tittybong
Wet Beaver Creek
Watanobbi
Arid
Bigge
Avoid
Bland
Disaster
And what of that UK town council that ended up unable to use its own email server because filtering software had been installed to stop people getting/sending porn?
Just imagine:
[email protected]
Really? Scunthorpe? What does it mean except, well, er, Scunthorpe?
I have friends in Duckhole, which could be unpleasant. Piddletrenthide in Dorset
Swynetoller was thought to be too crude by the Victorians and they changed it to Toller Porcorum.
Have found a couple of good ones while up here in Queensland.
A suburb of Brisbane called Burpengary.
A suburb of Rockhampton called Berserker.
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