Strange Town Names

[Lucias_Clay]

In the weekly magazine in our local paper there was an article about towns with strange names. Some were 'Truth or Consequences N.M.','Toad Suck AR.'
and 'Smut Eye AL.' we here in Mississippi have 'Whynot' and 'Hot Coffee'
What ones are close to you?
Also I started a new job today after being off since Oct. 25. It is with a company that fills vending machines in offices and factories. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif it promises to be a good job even though I have to drive 50 miles to get to work I am okay with that. I'll be driving when I work anyway. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[pentachris]

I used to get a weekly email from www.uselessknowledge.com. (http://www.uselessknowledge.com.) Lots of interesting and, er, useless stuff. I remember a few weeks in a row they listed a few interesting US (http://www.uselessknowledge.com/trivia/town.shtml) and unusual Canadian (http://www.uselessknowledge.com/canada/town.shtml) town names.

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[YODA74]

Climax-North Carolina
HornyTown- N.C.
Kill Devel Hills- N.C.



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[mjc]

Paradise PA
Bird-in-Hand PA

Big Mud WV
Gad WV
Big Chimney WV

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[hiredgoonz]

Intercourse, PA (Amish country, ironic, eh?)

Mundy's Corner and Nanty Glo (both PA)

Of course, there's a road here in Columbia named "Licking Beaver" not gonna say anything else about that...

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[mjc]

I forgot that one...all three of them are in the Lancaster PA area...and are near each other.......can't get a good map of the area but go to mapquest and look them up........

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[fixrupr]

Where are all of our Limey buddies to brag about these Gems?


Lickey End (West Midlands, UK)

Twatt (Orkney, UK)

Lord Berkeley's Knob (Sutherland, Scotland)

Dildo (Newfoundland, Canada)

Brown Willy (Cornwall,UK)

[bassman]

http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif LOL,
probably one of the stupidest names I have seen in a long time is "Dumpwater Idaho." Home of the dumbest fastfood manager in the world http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[YODA74]

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[KidGenius]

We have the highest combined IQ of any city in Dumpwater, mainly because I reside there.

[BigDaddyJ]

There's a town named Cut N Shoot near Houston.

[scroatbagg]

fixrupr, you beat me to the UK ones, I actuall have a customer in Lickey End!!!

[kfh]

Hi All,
Here's couple more.
Butttocks booth.
Balls cross.

There's loads but we would translate them for you.

Scrotbag.
You must have a few good ones north of the boarder.
That our american pals could try to get there tongs around.
LOL.
kfh.

[kfh]

Hi All,
Here's couple more.
Butttocks booth.
Balls cross.

There's loads but we would translate them for you.

Scroatbagg.
You must have a few good ones north of the boarder.
That our american pals could try to get there tongues around.
LOL.
kfh.

[mjc]

Shamokin PA
Pottsville PA
Maquanaqua PA
Shickshinney PA
Mauch Chunk PA

The first two need to be said (without pronouncing the a) like they appear on the intestate exit sign:

Shamokin-Pottsville

Real road sign here:

Coalton 4 mi
Mabee 5 mi

and of course

Big Ugly WV

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[BigBlue66]

KidGenius slays me. hehehehe



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[diurnal]

Well i live in Wetumpka, AL . so thats pretty weird name but its not funny.
I saw on Leno the other night that there was a Hooker ,OK or it could have been TX, but any way they had a pagent, beauty pagent and the winner was name Miss Hooker of the yr.
Also there baseball team was called the Hooker Hornytoads.

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[Paleo Pete]

According to the Rand McNally map here in Texas we have:
Antelope, Bald Prarie, Beaver Dam, Bee Cave, Bee House, Ben Hur, Bigfoot, Black Jack, Blue, Bogata, Bonanza, Bon Weir (not far from me), Cap Rock, Cee Vee, Cestohowa, Chalk, China Grove (Doobie Brothers' song), Circle, Circle Back (30 miles apart), Dobrowolski, Electric City, Flo, Gay Hill...and I'm not unfolding it to get at the rest of the index...

Want to see some strange town names, get a map of Luoisiana and look in the very southern portion of the state. I've lived there, and the creole or cajun residents, (who call themselves coon-asses on occasion) are great people, but some of the town names are definitely out of the ordinary.

Thibideaux, La Place (pronounced la-ploss), Grosse Tete (pr. gross-tet), Opelousas...and then there's Waterproof...Log Cabin...Belcher...Tickfaw...I've been through most of these, by the way...and have relatives who live in Log Cabin.

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[BigBlue66]

Hey Pete, Wisconsin has a Beaver Dam as well!

We also have Pardeeville, location of national watermelon seed spitting contest and at one time the drug capital of the state.

BB 66



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[Randy_tx]

Back in my Dun & Bradstreet days I went to Boulder Colorado to update all of the businesses in town......I couldn't wait to reach the doors of "Magnolia Thunderpussy" on 3rd St.........no one was in....never found em either.

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[fixrupr]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, Wales

Ai, Ohio

[Whyzman]

fixrupr, are you perchance running one of those fishtank screensavers? Also, do you have a cat?

Or, you might want to give your keyboard a good blast of Pressurized Air Duster...appears you have some keys sticking or something! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[fixrupr]

Whyzman,
You pickin on me?


BTW, always figured your name was due to an affinity for this (http://www.kraftfoods.com/cheezwhiz/cw_index.html)
It is a urine based product isn't it? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Whyzman]

Fixrupr,

Heavens no! Just trying to be helpful! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

I thought maybe that your city/town in Wales was an inadvertent keyboard error. Nothing personal!

Thanks for the link! That stuff is fantastic on a fried Spam sandwich!

One use they failed to mention was for insulating. In a pinch, if a body is short on the foam product, this stuff works well and doesn't expand at all and therefore causes no distress to structural components. I personally see a liability issue as the miasma could definitely attract rodents. Doraphobics would then initiate a class action suit. The foreseeable legal conundrum and defense costs that could result would preclude any admission by Kraft that they are even aware of any alternate usage of their product. I digress....

I saw no scatological inferences in the naming of their product. Anything of a uric nature would more than likely be naturally present. And, existing in such a miniscule amount that it is not required by law to disclose. To promulgate such a link would be pure dribble when so much depends on the imagination of the consumer. Any association with my choice of moniker would be purely coincidental...other than the fact that it is an excellent and apparently "multifaceted" product!

Did I say that? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif Pure Genius! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Whyzman

[pentachris]

I've seen a lot of fellow Alabamians on these boards. Diurnal, I was just in Wetumpka this past Sunday - both my parents grew up there, and I went to wish my grandmother a happy birthday, and to see some relatives from Sac City, Iowa who were there paying a visit. Small world, heh? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

I'm suprised you didn't mention an unusually named town very close to us:

Slapout, AL

Interesting fact: Midway, AL was so named because it is midway between Miami, FL and Chicago, IL.

Here's some more in Alabama. A few of these are unincorporated communities...

Allgood, Blues Old Stand, Bobo, Butts Mill, Crudup, Equality, Fishtrap Ford, Fleahop, Possum Trot, Pineapple & Pumpkin Center.

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-Chris

[Bossa]

Best i can do in Ireland is Nutt's Corner, Balls Bridge, Moneynick and killmor.

Keep it up bosseanna http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[fixrupr]

Whyzman,
UNCLE! UNCLE! UNCLE!
I’m lost for words, cause you used all the good ones.
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[Supa Dupa]

There's not only Dildo in Nfld, there's South Dildo and Dildo Run. And did you know that the community of Joe Bat's Arm is halfway up Hibb's Hole?

Cheers,

Supa.

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fixrupr



Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch, Wales

I've been there, can you tell everyone what it means?

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[Jimbo3]

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[Paul Komski]

Whyzman wrote"...on a fried Spam sandwich..." In Kent, England there are two towns called Ham and Sandwich and half way between them is a signpost reading......... http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

In NewZealand a Cul de Sac is called a "No Exit" and in Auckland's Public Hospital there is one of these signs on the road to the mortuary. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif



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[Whyzman]

Paul,

Sounds like a "Kodak Moment"....say "Cheese!" http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[snakebites]

Climax.GA>inlaws from there ,Beanstation,Tn,

[BLAHness90]

...of weird names.

towns:

Shamokin & Pottsville (I have actually seen the signs-lol.)

Buttzville (tehehe) :D

Flatbrookville

Beltzville

Schnecksville

Haysville

(they sure love the world "ville" a whole lot-lol)


Lititz :eek:

Intercourse :eek:

Leacock :eek:

Gap


Counties:

Forest

Butler

...I could go on & on...
but i won't.

[PrntRhd]

Blahness90,
Usually we let old posts alone for archive, but since you got this one started again and it is After Hours, try this name:

Rabbit Hash, KY

[hockey man]

Bechtelsville PA
Seisholtzville PA
Schwenksville Pa

[vicki lynne]

wapanuka, Ok
gotebo, Ok
just to name a couple

[jcnoernberg]

I live in Chardon, ohio... once is a while someone will remove/paint over the "C" and it becomes HARDON OHIO, woohoo!

[pave_spectre]

Humpty-Doo, Northern Territory.


If you want some strange place names then you should pick up "The Meaning of Liff" (or "The Deeper Meaning of Liff") by Douglas Adams. It uses unusual place names in a comical dictionary and gives them strange definitions.