Towns with oddball names

[gingerhobbit]

Thought we might get a few giggles sharing towns we've lived in or visited that have really offbeat names.

Mine are these:

When I was a kid, my first girlfriend lived in Hog Eye, Arkansas. (There's also a Toad Suck, Arkansas, though I've never been.) And, I've been to a town in Florida called Two Egg.

 

[ThunderWeasel]

Bug Tussle, Texas.

 

[Doc_Mercy]

Here in the UK there are plenty of weird and wonderful places all with equally weird and wonderful names.

Here is just a few.....

Cockermouth, Cumbria

Cockshot, Northumberland, UK

Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK

Fanny Barks, Durham, UK (FYI for Americans, 'fanny' in the UK is a saying for a ladies front bottom)

Great Tosson, Northumberland

Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK

Splatt, Cornwall, UK


Some of these I've visited, others I've just passed through while driving.

 

[Nordling]

Boring, Oregon
Drain, Oregon
Remote, Oregon
Riddle, Oregon

 

[gingerhobbit]

Here in the UK there are plenty of weird and wonderful places all with equally weird and wonderful names.

Here is just a few.....

Cockermouth, Cumbria

Cockshot, Northumberland, UK

Crackpot, North Yorkshire, UK

Fanny Barks, Durham, UK (FYI for Americans, 'fanny' in the UK is a saying for a ladies front bottom)

Great Tosson, Northumberland

Lickar Moor, Northumberland, UK

Splatt, Cornwall, UK


Some of these I've visited, others I've just passed through while driving.

I'd love to live in a town called Crackpot.

 

[bakersman]

Much as I love US place names like 'Intercourse, PA' and "Mahwah, NJ" I think the UK wins:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/11240843/Britains-silliest-place-names.html

Just west of "Pound Bottom" is "Sandy Balls"

an almost infinite list of silliness

Tangley Bottom
Nether Wallop
Firth Muir of Boysack
Maidens Paps
Merkins Avenue

HAHAHAHA

"Wookey Hole" is a very nice town, actually.

 

[yummybrownfox]

Years ago, I laughed when I first learned that there really is a town in New York called Hicksville (it's in Nassau County, Long Island). I thought it was funny since people used to always joke/complain about how their town is total Hicksville, and they probably didn't even realize that there actually is a town by that name.

 

[fandango]

Never been there but there is town in Northern Ireland called Muff, I saw this pic years ago in a similar joke page somewhere and have remembered it ever since and it makes me chuckle.



Edit to say I have no idea if Americans use the word muff so it might be a little lost but in England it means like giant pubes

 

[gingerhobbit]

Edit to say I have no idea if Americans use the word muff so it might be a little lost but in England it means like giant pubes

Same here, but was more common in the 70s and 80s.

 

[Molison]

Boring, Oregon

Which is twinned/paired with Dull, Perthshire, Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-28691197


ETA: There are loads of weird and funny place names in The U.K.
http://www.anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-names/

 

[dilligaf0]

Edit to say I have no idea if Americans use the word muff so it might be a little lost but in England it means like giant pubes

In the 70's & 80's, it was commonly used as a term for the vagina.

French Lick, Indiana (in the late 60's through the early 90's there was a huge nudist colony there).

 

[SaffronBurke]

Iowa features the following:

Cumming
What Cheer (pronounced "watch ear" because reasons?)
Dyke
And, if you're driving across the state in the right direction, you have Manly followed by Forest, so the mile indicators to those towns reads "Manly Forest".

 

[mynameisbob84]

 

[marchards]

It's a town in Austria.