Weird Place Names

[Pendragon]

The Only Rule is that this place must be a real town, village, or city, with something dreadfully funny about its name. OK!

To start: When I used to go to Arkansas on trips as a traveling Evangelist, I passed two town on the way that always made me laugh:

Bucksnort, Tenneessee What were they thinking? :rolleyes:

I had to turn on highway 64 in Arkansas, and I'd see the sign to:

Flippin', Arkansas The way I figured it, a wagon train left Saint Louis, about 100 miles NorthEast, took the wrong turn for the Oregon Trail and also missed the Santa Fe Trail. The people must have been of British stock, and finally lost it with the trailboss and guide. He must have said something like: " Ah figures ef we goes 'bout 'nuther forty mile thataway, we'll hit the Santy Fe." Some stalwart lad then gets up in his face and yells, "Yeah? Well, we've 'ad aboot enough o' your rot! We don't flippin' care where th' devil we are! There's water 'ere, and land to farm, and by Jove, we'll just flippin' stay 'ere!" :lol:

Keep 'em coming! ;) :nod:

[RobinHood3000]

There's a place I've heard of called Mars, Pennsylvania.

I'm guessing it went something like this:

"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet??"
"No..."
"Are we there yet???"
"NO!!! The next time you ask me that, I'm turning this car around and driving to MARS!!"
"..."
"<sigh of relief>"
"..."
"...?"
"...are we there yet?"
"GAAAAHHH!!!!"

[Stanislaw]

Vulcan, Alberta.
:D They have a startrek museum thing there (its pretty small) but you can buy computer mouses modelled after the ol mark 1 phaser. :D

(ps...I am not joking)

[papayahed]

Hell, Michigan

Brings new meaning to the phrase "See you in Hell"

or the T shirt

"My parents went to Hell and all I got was this losey T-Shirt"

[Virgil]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania always sticks in my mind as a humorous name of a town. It's in the heart of Amish country.

[Riesa]

I just found this, strange names of towns (http://www.accuracyproject.org/towns.html) I have to say, I'm happy not to be from
Ding Dong, Texas. :lol:

[Xamonas Chegwe]

There is a Rottenegg in Austria.

And there is always the innocuous S****horpe, which gets censored through no fault of it's own. Learn more about this incredibly ordinary place right here (http://www.thisiss****horpe.co.uk/). I wouldn't spend too long though, there's not a lot to see. :lol:

[Pendragon]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania always sticks in my mind as a humorous name of a town. It's in the heart of Amish country.I've actually been up that way, and the Amish don't find it a bit funny, I assure you! But then you can get the stuffing beat out of you for getting caught snapping a picture among some of the more radical types! And they grow some big men!

Just South of me here, near Abingdon is a little place called Lodi, blink and you miss it! Near it is Backbone Rock.

[Virgil]

I just found this, strange names of towns (http://www.accuracyproject.org/towns.html) I have to say, I'm happy not to be from
Ding Dong, Texas. :lol:
It just goes to show they have a web site for everything. Here's one from that list where I just can't believe the town doesn't do something about it: Pee Pee, Ohio! I don't ever think it will ever grow to be a metropolis.

[SleepyWitch]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania always sticks in my mind as a humorous name of a town. It's in the heart of Amish country.

there's a place called F*cking in Bavaria :)
it's pronounced with a short oo thing though... like in foot or "up" in Northern English
we've also got Odelshausen which means something Dung-ham (ham as in ending of place name, not what you put on a sandwich)

there's a place in Cornwall that's called Mousehole but it's pronounced like "Mouzel"

XC there's also Rottendorf in Germany.. dorf= village
i used to live in a place called Boxdorf

There's a hill in Baden-Wuertemberg (the state west of Bavaria) that's called "Roter Torkel" which roughly translates as "Red Drunken Stagger".. the hill is conveniently situated in between two inns in a winegrowing area..... :p also Roter Torkel reminds me of the name of a young wine they grow in this area .. it's called "Roter Sausser" (Red Runner)... can all of this be coincidence???

[Pendragon]

As I have often said, I am a hick, a backwoods person, not a city type. There is a small town, not even on the map, some forty miles away, tucked into the mountains, which I have yet to find. My younger brother and older sister have been there, and a colorful character named Deacon Paul Riley of the Mount Pleasant Church is on a local radio station daily live from this town known as Mulehell, VA.

How it got that name is anybody's guess! :lol:

[SleepyWitch]

hehe, I've got a whole list of weird German place names... my boyfriend knows all the place names in Germany so I asked him to help me and between the two of us we came up with quite a lot:

places in Germany:

German | translation
Waldfenster: forest-window
Schwarze Pfütze: black puddle (and this is spelled as two words! so it's not just some folk etymology :confused: )
Poppenlauer: sh*gging-loiter or sh*gging-prowl ---> a colony of rapists???
Maßbach: a litre of beer-brook
Leer: empty --> pop. 0 ?
Freilassing: freeset-ing ??? the colony of rapists escaped from prison and resettled here?
Dorfen: village-en... er the winner of the annual creativity award...what a refreshing idea for a place name...
Hof: (court)yard.. this came in second in the creativity contest
Hammelburg: mutton/ram-castle
Annaberg-Buchholz: Anna-mountain-beech-wood
Feuchtwangen: wet cheeks
Suhl: eh... 'suhlen' is what a pig does when it rolls in the mud..
Strullendorf: pee-village


some boroughs of Vienna (Austria):

Favoriten: favourites
Landstrasse: countryside road (this is n o t the name of a street, it's the name of the whole place)
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus: Rudolf's- home/ham - five hous
Neubau: new building/ construction site

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off-topic: some funny German last names:
Kackvogel: cr*pbird
Hundgeburt: dog-birth, or something that is born to a dog.. doesn't sound like a cute little puppy though...
Krautwurst: ok, this is obvious.. kraut and wurst are the two German words English and American people know... for those who don't kraut is the same as sauerkraut (a German white cabbage dish) and wurst is sausage (another German specialty).... i swear Krautwurst is a real name....

ok, this should do for a start :lol:

[Taliesin]

There was some few years ago a project finding a mark or something for Estonia. It failed. we came up with a silly and noninventve "Welcome to Estonia"
However, we heard that a young lady making a T-Shirt with the writing "Welcome to Litsmetsa"

Litsmetsa literally means whore-forest.

There is also a small town named Tapa in Estonia which means "Kill!"

In the Soviet times, some newspapers had names like Kommunist (Communist)or Edasi (Forward or Continue) So at first there was a newspapers in the town called "Tapa kommunist" ("Communist of Tapa" or "Kill the communist") It seemed strange and so they changed it to "Tapa Edasi" (ought to mean :""Forward" of Tapa") but which means "Continue killing"

[adilyoussef]

In my country, there are many strange names to espacially villages, Like:

lmsawar rasso: "the man who takes himself in picture"
l'silat: "honeies"
lbir jjdid: "the new well"

and of some streets, like:

derb ddaya: "the lack street"
derb lahouna: "street of thouse being thrown"

Always seems to me strange as names.

[Nightshade]

Ohh well in egypt they have "Zifta" literrally "of tar"
Rus Sydr =literally "head chest" oh but Rus also means Cape so its Cape sydr

[Koa]

In Italy there's a village called Sesso, which means Sex...
;)

[beer good]

Hell, Michigan
There's a Hell in Norway, too. Which means that they have one of the coolest URL's ever (which apparently has been taken over by some joke site): http://www.hell.no They offer e-mail addresses as well.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Hell,%20Norway has a picture of an interesting building in Hell. Whodathunk HE would have an office there...

[Pendragon]

I found two villages in England named Upper & Lower Peeover Did you miss the loo, mate? :lol:

Also one called Piddling where town officials are not amused by tourists who pause to have a picture taken by the welcome sign, usually while, uh, piddling...

There is a town over here called Bumpass if that gets through without problems. I don't think it's pronounced how it looks, at least I hope not! I asume it was a pass in the mountains where a lot of people went by and so bums and beggers set up camp to sponge off them.

OH. You can find a lot of strange facts at http://www.bathroomreader.com It isn't dirty jokes, it's odd and unusual facts compiled by people with too much time on their hands and attributed to Uncle John (In other countries he might have been Uncle Loo). :lol:

[RJbibliophil]

This one might be famous, but there's this town in Minnesota named Sleepy Eye(after a Dakota indian cheif with some sort of eye problem).
There's this town in Arizona or somewhere, I don't remember, that recently renamed itself to DISH, so that it could get free cable, etc.... from DISH network. One person attended the town meeting and the motion passed with one vote. :lol: Seriously!

[Virgil]

:lol: RJ - You are a fine addition to lit net.

[Pendragon]

Wouldn't you just love to live in a town with the unfortunate name of Blunt Stump? Accident with a chain saw, maybe? Or Skipwith, VA? Good place to elope, I suppose. :lol:

[beer good]

There's at least two places in the world called, simply, Y. One in Alaska and one in France.

[IrishCanadian]

Theres a smalle town in Ontario called Dorking. As I am "Irish" are those people "Dorkish"?

[Xamonas Chegwe]

There's a Dorking in England too - just down the road from Leatherhead.

[Pendragon]

If I am not mistaken, Purgatory is located in both Texas and California. Seems logical.

[RJbibliophil]

There's a village in Norway called Å which besides being a vowel can be used as "oh"