I was doing a project the other day and I came across some strange names of towns.


Hell, Michigan
Poop Creek, Idaho
Pinhead Buttes, Oregon
Stupid, Oregon
Fudgearound, Tennessee

;D Some weird names indeed. How did they come up, exactly?

What about Hot Coffee? That's in Missouri, I think.

;D Some weird names indeed. How did they come up, exactly?

What about Hot Coffee? That's in Missouri, I think.


I was looking for a random name of a city for a project. I went to mapquest and looked at a bunch of different states. Those were some of the really strange ones I found.

Who'd wanna live in a town called Pinhead Butts? I'm sorry, that's Pinhead Buttes.  ;D

:DHow about Rich bar,Date City,and Peanut,all in California?

:DHow about Rich bar,Date City,and Peanut,all in California?


;D Sounds better then Poop Creek!

flin flon, manitoba. i think it's one of the few towns on the planet named after a fictional character.

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

If you're looking for towns with goofy names, check out a map of West Virginia.

Some examples:

Cucumber
Hurricane
Nitro
Mount Gay
Breeden
Peewee
Odd
Fraziers Bottom

I also read somewhere that there is supposedly a town in Wyoming called "Maggie's Nipples," but I have not been able to find it.

I also read somewhere that there is supposedly a town in Wyoming called "Maggie's Nipples," but I have not been able to find it.


Sliders fans might find that funny because of the whole issue with Maggie's huge chest in Season 4.

Nonesuch
Mousey
Stoops
Butcher Hollow (pronounced Holler)

You can visit these resorts ;D in Kentucky!

Santa Claus, Georgia

Although they are not strange names, they are rather unoriginal:

Rome
Dublin
Athens
Cairo

All cities in Georgia

How about Dildo and Come By Chance in Newfoundland

"So, where do ya hail from"
"I'm a Mount Gay Man!"
;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

Heard there was a Booger W. Va. :D

In North Carolina:

Lizard Lick

Climax

others here from around the world:  http://www.dribbleglass.com/Jokes/town-names.htm 

googling funny town names will give a ton of links...



Vayle

Titz,Germany ;D

or how about Mud Lick,Kentucky? ;D



Howard

There's also a Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky.  ;D ;D ;D

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Awww.  You stole mine. ;)

intercourse, pa

There is also Blue Ball, PA.

Also, French Lick, IN - Larry Bird is from there.

I'll bet no one can top this one: There actually is a small village in Austria called F*cking. If you don't believe me, check this link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp

intercourse, pa


I saw this shirt: Virginia is for lovers, but PA has Intercourse.

I'll bet no one can top this one: There actually is a small village in Austria called F*cking. If you don't believe me, check this link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp



WOW! :o

Howard

F***ing, eh? F***ing A!  ;D

My favourite is Coch Germany.. pronounced C-O-C-K.. LOL.. my Dad has a picture of him by the town sign when he was stationed in Germany

intercourse, pa
my parents went there

;D Sounds better then Poop Creek!
;DThere's also a Forks of Salmon in californiia----yuuummmmmm!!!

I'll bet no one can top this one: There actually is a small village in Austria called F*cking. If you don't believe me, check this link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/austria.asp
8)It's probably a real german word,and they probably don't care how it translates into other languages.Ikea has a product called a Fartstool.

Here are some weird ones that I found:

The Hole in the Wall in Dumfries
The Inn Next Door Burnt Down in Bedfordshire
The Druncken Duck in Ambleside
Bull & Bladder in Brierly Hill
The Duke without a Head in Wateringbury - Kent

Hazard,Nebraska
Boys Town,Nebraska


Howard

.Ikea has a product called a Fartstool.

Speaking of which, the other night on NBC they were airing "The Most Outrageous Live TV Moments 2", and in one scene, there was a horse race, and one of the horses was named "Hoof Hearted." So that horse was taking the lead, and the announcer yelled "Hoof Hearted out in front!" a few times. If you say it, it'll sound like... :-X

What about Bangkok, Thailand? That'll crack up a bunch of 4th graders in a jiffy.

Speaking of Jiffy, does anyone else besides me find "Jiffy Lube" funny?

"Quick Honey i want it in the Keyster"

"OK dear, lemme just Lube up..."

JIFFY LUBE - FOR WHEN YOU NEED LUBE.. IN A JIFFY!

Speaking of which, the other night on NBC they were airing "The Most Outrageous Live TV Moments 2", and in one scene, there was a horse race, and one of the horses was named "Hoof Hearted." So that horse was taking the lead, and the announcer yelled "Hoof Hearted out in front!" a few times. If you say it, it'll sound like... :-X

Like "Who Farted"? ;D

"Quick Honey i want it in the Keyster"

"OK dear, lemme just Lube up..."

JIFFY LUBE - FOR WHEN YOU NEED LUBE.. IN A JIFFY!


ROTFLMAO!

Nice to know i have a niche in Corporate America

Pleasurville, PA
Paradise, PA
Erie, PA
Mount Joy, PA

Tam

Mount Joy, PA


'Mount' Joy... think about it... think about it.. there we go

'Mount' Joy... think about it... think about it.. there we go


;D :D

Sugart*t, Arkansas
Dildo, Newfoundland
Gnaw Bone, Indiana
King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Congratulations, man. Two posts onto the board and you get a very hot post.

Congratulations, man. Two posts onto the board and you get a very hot post.


Thank you  :)

Virginville, PA
Baldknob, AR
Weiner, AR
Hardup, UT

I really wonder why some of these towns are named this way... Seriously, Hardup?

Hey you live out in the sticks like that your gonna want some entertainment in your little life.

Hazard,Nebraska
Boys Town,Nebraska


Howard
Boys Town is the same shelter that was made famous in a movie in the 1940's. There's also a town in Nebraska called "Surprise."

What Cheer, IA
Santa Claus, IN
Eighty Eight, KY
Eighty Four, PA
Jim Thorpe, PA
Knockemstiff, OH

Queer Island, Alaska
Mexican Hat, Utah
Atomic City, Idaho
Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
Gaylord, Michigan
Kissimmee, Florida

Queer Island? Can't imagine getting many dates coming from Queer Island.  ;D

Hardup, UT


This town does not exist, but we do have a town called Virgin.  Utah is full of weirdly named cities.

http://www.50states.com/city/utah.htm

There is a mountain a few miles from me called Grampa's Knob





Cat

Fu qing, China :)

Here are a few I picked up in the course of using a mapping system in my job in the UK, couldn't be bothered to list which county they are in, but you can find them all on Microsoft Autoroute Express GB 98...

Fingringhoe
Little Hormead
Shaftenhoe End
Letchworth
Fishpond Bottom
Hanging Dangford
Hoegate
Cockshutt
Ulceby
Foulsham
Chittering
Mankinholes
Cockfield
Twatt
Cockwood
Clap Gate
Pishill
Bottacks
Bollach
Penistone
Tosside
Bent
Foul Mile
Foulridge
Fattahead
Fatfield
Titson
Titley
Lickey End
Lickfold
Burpham
Wormit
Butt of Lewis
Gay Street
Gay Hill
Bitchfield
Hardhorn
Blubberhouses
Pratts Bottom
Wetwang

And a road sign that resides in my house, "liberated" after the Castlemorton festival in 1992: "Druggers End"  ;D

Christ Pieces
Clapton Inferior
Dogend (in england a dog end is a slag term for a cigarette butt)

not exactly strange names, but in maryland we have, pasadena, oakland, and even california. Maybe one day we can trick em into bringin the Rose Bowl out here. actually we've also got hollywood and compton.

theres also nottingham, and sherwood forest.
then the stuff like
accident
boring
issue
childs
chevy chase
street
fairplay
secretary
pinto
fork

and these 2 towns...delmar and marydel (delaware-maryland, maryland-delaware)

I've always wanted to move to a remote area, like Montana or Wyoming (or even western Nebraska), start up my own little town, and call it Bum F*ck Egypt.  ;D

This is a TRUE story: A few decades ago, the mayor of Poughkeepie, NY moved from Hooker Ave (named after Thomas Hooker-not because of the "night life" that happens there  ;)) because he thought the name was not becoming for the mayor. So, he moved to Seman Ave.  ::)



Cat

This is a TRUE story: A few decades ago, the mayor of Poughkeepie, NY moved from Hooker Ave (named after Thomas Hooker-not because of the "night life" that happens there  ;)) because he thought the name was not becoming for the mayor. So, he moved to Seman Ave.  ::)



Cat


Are you serious? That's hilarious

Are you serious? That's hilarious



Yup-it did happen but I can't remember the dude's name. I guess he is probably glad that I can't remember. lol



Cat

I am laughing so hard that i can hardly see the screen anymore.

heres one

Blow Me Down, Newfoundland

When Apricot and I were working on a project, we stubled across "Falmouth, KY"



I'm not sure I understand why you think this is funny.

Two Egg, Florida

Check out this site.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/Cities.html

Crazy Cow Creek-Washington  :o

Get it? Foul mouth? :-\\
I'm not sure I understand why you think this is funny.

Now say it in an english accent.. LOL.. sounds nothing like Foul

Economy, Indiana
Big Log, Georgia
Big Cabin, Oklahoma
Pulleyap (SIC), Washington
Limon, Colorado (As in the Lymon in Sprite)
Land o' Lakes, Florida
And of course,
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico the only city named after a game show. ;D (I know it's been mentioned twice, but I had to get out the game show trivia.) ;)

Gayville,New York? :o

I wouldn't want to go there.^ ;D


Howard

Hoosick, NY




Cat

Jersey Shore,PA

And why do some people seem to think ALL of New Jersey is like

1)Newark
2)Camden
or
3)Atlantic City?

We ARE not all CITY......this IS the GARDEN State,and one of our big moneymaking things is the PRODUCE(corn,tomatoes,blueberries,cranberries)we grow here,which some of it is probably in your kitchen...!

and the Mob/Tony Soprano jokes about NJ really p*ss me off. We are not all mobsters here.

    It's not the name of a place,  but when I was born my dad wanted to name me Ameity, and my brother Ceciel Earl,  thank god for good ol' mom. ;)

Get it? Foul mouth? :-\\


I thought that must be the reason.


Now say it in an english accent.. LOL.. sounds nothing like Foul




I would pronounce it fal-muth

I guess it also depends on how you say foul

It's all to do with the way that verbs are often streeeeeeeched out in the states.

Poughkeepie, NY

How d'you pronounce this place name? Is it POOkeepie, POWkeepie, or PUFFkeepie? Or something else?

Actually, it's spelled Poughkeepsie,  pronounced POO-kip-see

Actually, it's spelled Poughkeepsie,  pronounced POO-kip-see

Thanks for that!

It's all to do with the way that verbs are often streeeeeeeched out in the states.


Let's not start the which is the better language argument again!

Actually, we get the same problem with Portsmouth, Ohio. People want to pronounce it port's mouth or Port Smith, but the correct word is ports-muth.

Are you confused, Karen? :D ;)

I thought that must be the reason.

I would pronounce it fal-muth

I guess it also depends on how you say foul

No, I've read Bill Bryson!!  He was talking (in one book) about living near Norwich.  It used to be pronounced the English way (i.e. Norritch) but outsiders moved in and changed it to the way it looks.


Actually, we get the same problem with Portsmouth, Ohio. People want to pronounce it port's mouth or Port Smith, but the correct word is ports-muth.

Are you confused, Karen? :D ;)


I can see the port's mouth version (undoubtedly where the English name comes from) but not port smith

Actually, it's spelled Poughkeepsie,  pronounced POO-kip-see



Yeah, I forgot the "s". Thanks for correcting me. That was where I was born-not saying that is anything to brag about.  :-\\




Cat

These are all real places although some aren't towns, they are all within 50 miles of me.

Wiley
Butthole Lane
Cottagers
Foul End
Bishops Itchington
Titty Ho
Hole in the Wall
Lickey End
Butt Mound
Bell End ;D

I shall continue to search

There's a hill on Bodmin Moor called Brown Willy.

All of the Butt places are old names from when the archery practice grounds were there.  They're are known as the butts

So Butthole Lane would have once housed an archery practise ground.. in a hole?

Must have been a big hole

Fishkill, NY (kind of approprate for IBM to be there who has been polluting the Hudson River all these years  ::))




Cat

So Butthole Lane would have once housed an archery practise ground.. in a hole?

Must have been a big hole


After a not very extensive search I'll admit I don't know the reason for the 'hole' part of that street name (in Shepshed btw) but I have just thought of the term I intended to search with.  ANyway its home time now so I'll get back to you on this.

Okey dokey.. i shall look n all

That would go together with Fishers, Indiana, which is close to the Delaware River and Deer Creek where fishing is a pasttime.
Fishkill, NY (kind of approprate for IBM to be there who has been polluting the Hudson River all these years  ::))




Cat

These are all real places although some aren't towns, they are all within 50 miles of me.

Wiley
Butthole Lane
Cottagers
Foul End
Bishops Itchington
Titty Ho
Hole in the Wall
Lickey End
Butt Mound
Bell End ;D

I shall continue to search


Are you in the South Midlands then, Alc?

How about "Old Barns"?  It's in Truro, Nova Scotia :D

I found some more strange ones in Maryland and North Carolina

Crapo, MD
Folly Farms, MD
Boring, MD
Pretty Boy, MD
Kill Devil Hills, NC
Stumpy Point, NC
Bath, NC
Kornegay, NC

Flesherton, ON

Bunghole Liquors-Peabody, Massachusetts  :D
I don't know how they got that by the licensing commission

Are you in the South Midlands then, Alc?


I'll reply since he's not around.  We both live in Leicestershire

I'll reply since he's not around.  We both live in Leicestershire

Cool. Is that together? I live in Wiltshire myself, but don't know anyone else (in person) who posts on this board.

No we don't live together, haven't even met in fact.

I live in Loughborough and Andy lives in Leicester.  Taoist (who posts here occasionally) lives a bit further North in Nottinghamshire.

Cool. Is that together?


We aren't that cliquey are we?

We wouldn't have such long conversations on here if we lived together.  Then again....

Two computers would be a stretch.. however i often laugh when Cat & Carlos get in to a discussion  ;D

Two computers would be a stretch.. however i often laugh when Cat & Carlos get in to a discussion  ;D

Exactly, that was my line of thinking, there do seem to be a number of couples here...sorry to be starting rumours about you, Alc & Karen!  :D

I think the age gap would be the first stumbling block, the Polygamous element probably wouldn't be all too helpfull and i imagine many of my habits could put any woman off.

Two computers would be a stretch.. however i often laugh when Cat & Carlos get in to a discussion  ;D



You should hear some of the ones we have at home-but then again....  ;) ;D ;D




Cat

I think the age gap would be the first stumbling block, the Polygamous element probably wouldn't be all too helpfull and i imagine many of my habits could put any woman off.

Aah, a match made in heaven, then. Or in my imagination, which is probably the opposite of heaven!

I think the age gap would be the first stumbling block, the Polygamous element probably wouldn't be all too helpfull and i imagine many of my habits could put any woman off.


20 years isn't that big a difference!  my husband is a bit of an obstacle I suppose.  And you don't know all my habits either

20 years isn't that big a difference!  my husband is a bit of an obstacle I suppose.  And you don't know all my habits either


19 (and probably 18 and a half) years actually  :P

A dual to the death for the fair maiden.

If your's involve the release of gasses, Belching, heavy drinking and interesting scratching with a light sprinkle of funny noises.. then.. Bingo

19 (and probably 18 and a half) years actually  :P

A dual to the death for the fair maiden.

If your's involve the release of gasses, Belching, heavy drinking and interesting scratching with a light sprinkle of funny noises.. then.. Bingo


you clearly know me so well

I was doing a project the other day and I came across some strange names of towns.


Hell, Michigan
Poop Creek, Idaho
Pinhead Buttes, Oregon
Stupid, Oregon
Fudgearound, Tennessee


What's wrong with Hell, Michigan?  Ain't that strange.  There is a t-shirt there that says, "I been to Hell, Michigan and back."  I thought it was pretty cool.

I have heard tell of a Bald Knob Arkansas.......... ;D

What's wrong with Hell, Michigan?  Ain't that strange.  There is a t-shirt there that says, "I been to Hell, Michigan and back."  I thought it was pretty cool.


Its just not really a name you'd think someone would name a town. I mean who would want to be the mayor of Hell. Or if someone asks you where you go to school and you tell them Hell...well actually school can seem like Hell.

Its just not really a name you'd think someone would name a town. I mean who would want to be the mayor of Hell. Or if someone asks you where you go to school and you tell them Hell...well actually school can seem like Hell.

I agree totally.  I seems that way most of the time.

;D Some weird names indeed. How did they come up, exactly?

What about Hot Coffee? That's in Missouri, I think.


Naw, Mississippi

These are all real places although some aren't towns, they are all within 50 miles of me.

Wiley
Butthole Lane
Cottagers
Foul End
Bishops Itchington
Titty Ho
Hole in the Wall
Lickey End
Butt Mound
Bell End ;D

I shall continue to search


Hey alcoholica, where do u live

Wahoo, Nebraska and Yazoo City, Mississippi

Walla Walla, Washington




Cat

Wahoo, Nebraska


I remember when The Late Show with David Letterman would do the Top 10 "from the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska" ;D

Kalamazoo, MI

I can't remember if this one was mentioned before. If it was, please forgive me.



Cat

Kissimee,Florida



Howard

Wahoo, Nebraska
Wahoo is about 20 miles north of Lincoln. Sometimes when I drove through there and I'd see someone walking down the street, I'd roll down my window and yell out "WA-HOOOOOOOOO!!!" They hate it when you do that.  :)

Kissimee,Florida



Howard


I live not far away from there.... :)

I live not far away from there.... :)


oh cool. :)



Howard

Kalamazoo, MI

I can't remember if this one was mentioned before. If it was, please forgive me.



Cat


It's pronouced K-Zoo

Apalachicola, GA
Tallapoosa, GA
Nacadocious, TX
Atchafalaya, LA
Flushing, NY
and the grande finale............
Assawoman, VA ;D

Wahoo is about 20 miles north of Lincoln. Sometimes when I drove through there and I'd see someone walking down the street, I'd roll down my window and yell out "WA-HOOOOOOOOO!!!" They hate it when you do that.  :)



LMAO. I can just picture it.




Cat

Why would anyone name their son Red?

Why would anyone name their son Red?
  haha

Why would anyone name their son Red?


The head coach for U of Michigan hockey team is named Red.  And that's what I call my nephew because of his bright red hair.  He's actually a junior.

The head coach for U of Michigan hockey team is named Red. And that's what I call my nephew because of his bright red hair. He's actually a junior.
Sorry. I just think it's kinda...well...strange

But look at the names Frank Zappa stuck his kids with...Moon Unit? Dweezil?

Fishkill, NY (kind of approprate for IBM to be there who has been polluting the Hudson River all these years  ::))




Cat


The big landfill off the coast of NYC is called Fresh Kills Landfill.

How about Bell Buckle, Tennessee?

And a few real last names I have run across:

Cobbledick
Shufflebottom
Fuket

And of course, if you go back to the 1800s in England there is someone in every parish who names their kid Mahalshalalhashbaz... ::)

The big landfill off the coast of NYC is called Fresh Kills Landfill.



Kill is Dutch for stream, or river.  The Dutch settled NY first and there are many places with Kill in it.  Last year
(or the year before) PETA tried to get the name Fishkill changed(for obvious PETA reasons). It didn't happen.  ;)

Fishkill, NY (kind of approprate for IBM to be there who has been polluting the Hudson River all these years  ::))


Cat
This reminds me of the song I'm listening to right now ::)

there was a guy
an under water guy who controlled the sea
got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
from new york and new jersey
This monkey's gone to heaven....

Bucksnort  I believe it's in Tennesse, possibly Arkansas.  I drive through it when I go home to Texas.

OK, by the time I got to this thread most of the obvious funny place names I know had been mentioned but here are a few--
Massachusetts:
Belchertown
(used to be Cold Spring before it was renamed in honor of a certain Mr. Belcher)
Gay Head
(on Martha's Vineyard--In the '90s they changed the name to Aquinnah citing historical heritage reasons. Oh sure.  Could it be one too many B & B guestbook entries of "D i c k Hertz from Gay Head"?)
Athol
(Nothing overtly humorous here, except that people insist on placing the accent on the second syllable.  Makes me wanna say, "Thtop thaying it that way, you athol!")

Let's see--
There is a Bitch Mountain in Vermont
and
There is a Blue Job Mountain in New Hampshire

There is a Maidenhead in England
and
There is a Maiden Gully in Australia

Don't forget Diksheesh, India
or
Pis Pis River, China

I can't believe Newfoundlanders still call that town Dildo, but what can you expect from a province with a town called "Peckers Point."

If you are in Intercourse, PA, where do you want to go from there?  Blue Ball or Yocumtown?

Heard of but unconfirmed:
Big Cockup and Little Cockup (England)

I always remembered the name Leighton Buzzard, UK, because that's where Kajagoogoo was from.  Most apt.

Don't forget Mianus, Connecticut.  Apparently, it is pronounced "my anus."

There is a b*tc* Mountain in Vermont



That's news to me. Never hear of it. I googled it and came up with nothing. Are you sure about that?



Cat

There is an interesting place name in Austria that has an initial letter of 'F'.