Gilligan From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2971 times:
There is a town not far from where I live called "Cut and Shoot" Texas. There used to be a town in Indinana(?) named "Chink". They called their ice rink the "Chink Rink".
RobertNL070 From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 4506 posts, RR: 10 Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2953 times:
A village called Amen in the Netherlands, and another called Tiengeboden (Ten Commandments), while Belgium has the irreverently named Oude God (Old God). There is a place called Batman in Turkey. There are two places called Boos in France - in Dutch, Boos = Angry. There is a Brabant in West Virginia - Brabant is a Dutch province.There is a Frankrijk in the Netherlands - in Dutch, Frankrijk = France, also an Engeland = England in Dutch, and remarkably a village called America. On a culinary note, Ham in Kent (UK) is not far from Sandwich. Kirky might like a tot of Rum - Inner Hebrides and Austria. Michigan (USA) has a place called Gay while Belgium has a Groot Homo (Large Homosexual), Klein Homo (Small Homosexual) and Nieuw Homo (New Homosexual). Hopefully all use France's Condom, while Canada has it's Dildo for them to play with.
DeltaDC9 From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 2844 posts, RR: 4 Reply 10, posted (7 years 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 2930 times:
Monkey's Eyebrow Kentucky
Frog Suck, Wyoming
Joe, Montana
Ding Dong, Texas and Looneyville Texas for you Bush haters
Assawoman, Virginia
Blueballs, Pennsylvania
Spread Eagle, Wisconsin
Hornytown, North Carolina
Actually, a lot of towns are named Whatever Lick like Deer Lick Kentucky, Lizard Lick NC, .
They are names for salt lick locations for animals on major trails that evolved into towns.
Here is BY FAR the best with a picture to proove it is real.
Dont take life too seriously because you will never get out of it alive - Bugs Bunny
There is also a place here in AK, called Kakhonak, Alaska. Pronounced Cock-A-knock. Which goes along with the childish game that gets played, of hey...where is the prettiest place in Alaska? other guy says, I dont know. Then you smack him in the balls and say Kakhonak! Same premise for the the capital of Thailand...Bangkok.
Pyrex From Portugal, joined Aug 2005, 3537 posts, RR: 28 Reply 16, posted (7 years 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2879 times:
There is a place in France called Pyla which has the largest sand dune in Europe. Pila in Portuguese means dick. It has a lot of stores with that name on it, like "Pyla off-road" (for the adventurous ones) but by far my favourite is a sign I saw for a supermarket on a main road, pointing to another road and saying "Super Pyla"
Read this very carefully, I shall write this only once!
Seb146 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9808 posts, RR: 17 Reply 20, posted (7 years 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2843 times:
Every September, I try to go to the Gilliam County fair in Eastern Oregon. The fair takes place in the county seat: Condon. One letter away....
That picture of Virgin: Is that Virgin Arizona/Nevada? I won $60 and bought a shot glass at the Virgin River Casino. Also, there is the Virgin River Canyon on the NV/AZ boarder and it is beautiful!
LTBEWR From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 12330 posts, RR: 12 Reply 21, posted (7 years 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2841 times:
Here in New Jersey, we have some strange town names, most derived form old native indian names like Ho-Ho-kus. Some other unique names include:
Beaver Run
Buttzville
Egg Harbor
I work there and I've no clue how this place got it's name:
There are 5 people (permanent), 5000 oil workers (transient), 1000 caribou, 20 grizzlies, a dozen polar bears, hundred of thousands of birds . . . and not one gawddamn horse . . . dead or alive
Tok, Alaska.
Legend says, at the outbreak of WW2, the resident shortened the name form Tokyo, Alaska to Tok - the apparent reasons are obvious.
Skagway, Alaska. In Tlingit Indian it apparently means Home of the North Wind. Now, having grown up there I can attest to the wind. And having visited since adulthood, I can vouch for the Skags as well . . .
Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33 Reply 24, posted (7 years 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 2805 times:
My grandma tells me when she was learning US states as a kid in Finland, they always laughed at the name Colorado, because it sounded something like animal hole, or something like that, in Finnish.
Harry
Why grab a Heine when you can grab a Busch?
25 Confuscius: Rancho Cucamonga, CA Larry Bird's (The hick from French Lick) hometown...
26 IAH777: Dorking, Surrey, UK (Hope I got that right. I am a Yank, after all) Possum Kingdom, TX Gunbarrel City, TX Uncertain, TX Waterproof, LA Licking County,
27 Brendan03: I don't know if It's a town name but there's an Airport named "Truth or Consequences" in New Mexico (TCS)
28 IAH777: I forgot Crested Butte, TX. And yes, there is a Truth or Consequences, NM. [Edited 2006-05-19 07:48:07]
29 Oldman55: It.s actually Crested Butte Co. At least that is the more famous one. Ski Resort, over the mtns from Aspen but i think over 100 miles by car.
30 Stlgph: "Virginia is for lovers but Pennsylvania has Intercourse"
31 IAH777: Quite correct, sir. Give yourself and extra point, Oldman56! I was thinking of Study Butte, which is slightly more amusing.
32 Go3Team: Intercourse, PA Blue Ball, PA There is a Climax somewhere, and I do think that is in Amish country as well.
33 Skidmarks: Actually, Robert, that's "Rhum", but we know what you mean! Here on the Island we have a Little London, the rest of the interesting places being unpr
34 RobertNL070: Thanks Andy, I stand corrected Robert
36 DTManiac: This is so hilarious. This thread already made my day. Havent laughed like that for a couple of days. Thanks for that. Frederik P.S.: Have seen a sho
37 BananaBoY: Check out this thread.... http://www.airliners.net/discussions/non_aviation/read.main/693835 Unfortunately, the website it refers to doesn't seem to w
38 Frontiercpt: My 6th grade teacher was from there. Her hubby was a baker there. And now her son (freshman in college) is gunna "babysit" me for three days while my
42 Carmenlu15: Gesundheit! Actually it's mouse (rat is rata)... still funny though.
43 Go3Team: Wow. What about Punta Gorda, FL. For the longest time I thought Punta was Puta. I guess I heard it wrong when it was told to me. So it was Fat Bitch,
44 Georgetown: Dogtown, CA. Just north of San Francisco.
45 DeltaDC9: I have a cabin on the Ohio River in Dogtown, Indiana. I also have had many dogs from there because the name fits.
47 FutureSDPDcop: I have my passport stamped from the gift shop there back in 1996 or 97
48 KaiGywer: Yeah, that's about an hour from me. Norwood/Young America
49 ME AVN FAN: There is MOSKAU near Schaffhausen, and POODLETOWN east of Brighton. Came through Poodletown once but did NOT see any poodle. Came through Moskau once
51 Canuckpaxguy: There's a bus station near my house (in Toronto) called "OLD CUMMER". There's a place in Alberta called "Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump". In Canada, we'
52 CurtisMan: In Newfoundland - a province in Canada there are some places with great names as follows: Dildo Come-by-Chance Blow-me-down Lushes Bight Bumble Bee Bi
53 N670UW: There are a few in western Pennsylvania. Eighty-Four (where 84 Lumber got its name -- the original store is still there) Ohiopyle (always thought it s
54 Go3Team: I've been there, imagine your dispatcher telling you that you have to go to Mars to get this load.
55 Glydrflyr: Ongs Hat, New Jersey (No, I don't know how it got its name.)
56 Hawaiian717: As some of you no doubt suspected, Hell is, in fact, in California, among other places. The last place in the US is Zzyzx, California.
57 SJUboeingGirl: This is not a town , it is an island but it's kind of weird Isla de Caja de Muertos "Coffin Island" since it looks like a dead person laying on the wa
58 Andaman: Some foreigners are amused to learn there is a small town called Nokia in SW Finland, the original home of the company, not any huge tourist trap...
59 EWRCabincrew: How about Hell, Michigan (zip code 48169)? South of Detroit and here in Arizona we have Bagdad.
60 ZRH: There is a little village called "Paradise" at the river Rhine near Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Must be heaven there
61 SW733: Climax, Colorado What Cheer, Iowa EWRCabinCrew already beat me to Hell, MI
62 Senorcarnival: There's always Dime Box and Old Dime Box, TX. http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralT...nsSouth/DimeBoxTexas/DimeBoxTx.htm
63 TriStar500: For those who know a little German: Pissen, Saxonia-Anhalt Tuntenhausen, Bavaria Hodenhagen, Lower Saxony ... :D
65 Flyjetstar: Here in NZ we have the longest place name in the world - 85 letters - It's in Maori - the language of the Maori poeple of Aotearoa Taumata whakatangi
66 NZ747: In New Zealand, there are also two places called rapeaho and whakamaori (pronounced: rape-a-hoe & fuk a maori)
67 BigOrange: Brick, NJ Wall, NJ Brick Wall, NJ nowhere near Brick or Wall!
68 Christeljs: Beauty, KY Best, TX Bountiful, UT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- smile in Smileyberg, KS Carefree, A
69 CastleIsland: It's in Connecticut, off I-95 southwest of Greenwich. Strangely, there doesn't seem to be an "Entering Mianus" sign along the highway.
70 RobertNL070: Having read something revolting on another thread, I wouldn't want to live in Felch Township, Michigan
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